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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

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got bored

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

"There could be dozens if not hundreds we missed."

Mosaic of Byzantine Emperor Justinian from Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna

no sports result will change how much you pay in taxes

Downtown Chicago, today.

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Allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge - Wikipedia

China backed Pol Pot with US encouragement to weaken Vietnam and the Soviet Bloc en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegat...

I have exactly as much respect for the people crying about organizing being a setup as I do for racist hicks who are afraid of public transit in cities. It is exactly the same mentality.

im glad that the hyundai factory incident is getting some real coverage on how ICE treats detainees but man, it is not lost on me that we’ve been doing this to latinos for months

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Steam not sure this is what I want rn

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

good post re: "enshittification"

Being on social media is fine but if it’s getting in the way of you doing deep reading and deep thinking, then your balance of how you spend your time is off

Lots of interesting threads here and none of them are a substitute for reading a good book or essay

The University of Michigan Will End Gender Affirming Care for Minors Amid Trump Admin Legal Onslaught The Trump administration has strong-armed the University of Michigan’s statewide hospital system...

TPM EXCLUSIVE: The University of Michigan hospital system confirms it's discontinuing gender-affirming care for minors after receiving a subpoena from the Trump administration: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/univers...

There is a lot less news reporting coming out of Gaza since Israel killed the entire Al Jazeera team of journalists.

finally after 4 hours a fuel truck has refueled us and we are on the way

stuck on amtrak train because apparently they just didn’t refuel the locomotive in Chicago because it has a faulty fuel sensor and it was always reading full and no one bothered to check lol

I'm extremely bearish on LLMs being able to contribute much to art at present (and, to a good extent, human knowledge) but it seems a bit weird to me that left anti-AI people have negatively polarized themselves into being pro-copyright - something that ~none of them would have upheld 10 years ago

صورة لانس الششريف و اولاده

This is my last will and testament. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First of all, may the peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you. God knows that I have exerted all my effort and strength to be a support and voice for my people, ever since I openeo my eyes to life in the alleys and neighborhoods of Jabalia refugee camp. I had hoped that God would prolong my life so that I could return with my family and loved ones to our original hometown of occupied Ashkelon (al-Majdal). But God's will was greater, and His judgment is binding. I lived the pain in all its details, and I tasted the pain and loss repeatedly, and despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without falsification or distortion. May God be a witness against those who remained silent and those who accepted our killing, and those who held our breath and whose hearts were not moved by the remains of our children and women, and who did not stop the massacre that our people have been subjected to for more than a year and a half. I commend to you Palestine, the jewel in the crown of Muslims, and the heartbeat of every free person in this world.

I commend to you its people and its oppressed young children, who did not have time to dream and live in sa 2/3 and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed by thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, and their remains were scattered on the walls. I advise you not to be silenced by restrictions, nor to be held back by borders. Be bridges towards liberating the country and its people, so that the sun of dignity and freedom may shine on our usurped country. I recommend my family to you. I commend to you the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter Sham, whom I did not get to see grow up as I had dreamed. I commend to you my dear son Salah, for whom I wish to be a support and companion until he grows strong, takes away my burden, and completes the mission. I commend to you my beloved mother, through whose prayers I have reached this point, whose prayers have been my fortress and whose light has guided my path. I pray to God to comfort her heart and reward her on my behalf.

I also commend to you my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, whom the war separated from us for many days and months, but who remained faithful to the covenant, steadfast like an olive trunk that does not bend, patient and content, and who carried the trust in my absence with all strength and faith. I advise you to rally around them and support them after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast in my principles, and I call God to witness that I am satisfied with His judgment, believe in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and more lasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive me for my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for mercy for me, for l have kept my promise and have neither changed nor altered. Don't forget Gaza... Do not forget me in your prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025

🇵🇸Translation of Anas’s last testament:

Read every word and feel it

Anas was the voice and eye of Gaz@, Anas was a father, a journalist who did his job with pride, Anasa always risked his life to deliver the truth to everyone, Anasa did everything to deliver what is happening to his people,

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IIIb: Children and Childrearing This is the back half of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa) discussing the patterns of life for the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of humans who lived in the past. Last …

This week on the blog: Our look at the structures of life for peasant farmers continues with children and childrearing.

We model some plausible birth patterns for an ancient peasant farming society (Roman Egypt) and think through the implications for daily life.
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FT comment: "Using CRRC maglev technology it would be possible to construct a Confucius bridge linking Chinese cities with Taiwan. It’s important that this is a cultural, not a political gesture. It could incorporate academic exchange, cross-strait ecological research, joint Confucian cultural centers and neutral infrastructure with multilateral oversight, perhaps including ASEAN or international observers. It would succeed only if backed by Confucian ideals including respect, dialogue and mutual benefit. It would need to be a vision of connection without coercion, emphasizing peace, harmony and cultural values. An 180km Taiwan Strait crossing could cost about $100 bn including maglev and earthquake resistance. As an example, Beijing and Shanghai are 1,318 km apart by high speed rail. A new maglev service can reduce this journey time to 2.5 hours"

"Confucian maglev"

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they had a good selection of lefty electrics too which I tried pretty much all of them, and tbh the difference in playability was not that drastic across them—except for a PRS Strat

what do you mean acoustics aren’t meant to be actually physically hard to play

never really got to play one before because you never really see them in guitar stores but I went to the CME and they had a single J-45 and holy shit

played an actually nice left handed acoustic guitar in a store today and had a bit of an existential moment