Loren.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Cats don’t need “training” to do this.

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

35 tonne truck? WE EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST!!
#WorldBollardAssociation

DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments “People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Good. I hope this dirtbag just keeps taking Ls for the rest of his twisted, misogynistic life.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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Headline from The Economist: Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire? Subhed: A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

Your faith says you can't eat dinner with Jewish people?

Will the Supreme Court, which hears arguments Wednesday in what has become one of the biggest cases of the term, care? The New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse is surely correct that if the Republican-appointed justices have an ounce of principle, this will be an easy case. These justices spent Joe Biden’s presidency demanding explicit congressional authorization for any major new policy; consistent application of that principle would compel them to strike down Trump’s tariffs. Consistency, however, is not the supermajority’s strong suit when it requires a ruling against Trump. So this conflict presents the GOP appointees with something of a hack test: If they find a way to uphold the tariffs, they will all but announce that the rules they enforced so zealously against a Democratic president are suspended the moment a Republican takes the White House.

Last night's elections are over. This morning's Supreme Court arguments in the tariffs case are about to begin at 10 a.m. IT NEVER ENDS!

There is simply no principled way for the Republican-appointed justices to uphold Trump's tariffs ... and yet, they still might! slate.com/news-and-pol...

Zohran Mamdani won. So why does it feel like he lost?

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Evolutionary psychologists have long believed that men prefer physical traits in women which are cues to high potential fertility. A new review concludes: “current evidence base is too weak to support the claim that women’s feminine morphological traits are associated with reproductive potential”

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

The Irish Republican Army:

What I Got Right About The Iraq War On the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s important for us as a nation to reflect on that conflict and its consequences. As the vice president of the United States in 2003, I was one ...

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: is.gd/mzdB9j

A Chicago woman shot by ICE agent has been released from custody because body cam confirmed the agent lied about why he shot her 5 times. He fled to Maine in the ICE vehicle. A Federal judge has ordered he be apprehended & sent back to Chicago-facing up to 20yrs in prison.
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Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Gorden closed her statement on Thursday with an apology. “I just want to say I am so, so sorry for anyone hurt by this, or anyone harmed by this,” she said. “Please know that I do speak for the team when I say we do support you. You don’t have to look like me, you don’t have to look like Ang, you don’t have to look like somebody from Orange County to be accepted and celebrated here. It’s really important that you know that that is the true message from this locker room and the team.”

Good to know the Angel City FC locker room is more open minded than that one player.
Capt. Sarah Gorden: “Please know that I do speak for the team when I say we do support you."
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers The Department of Homeland Security has been carrying out “Operation Midway Blitz” since early September. The Onion examines the key facts and figures behind the Chicago immigration raids.  $50,000: S...

Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers