Peta Morton

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.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Sunday night bathtime listening to the Top 40, and dripping water all over the floor reaching for the cassette recorder.

It's still heavily Us-oriented though...

No way we could buy anything even vaguely comparable to what we own in France. Nor would we want to. Our lives are here, our friends, families, work, social networks. It was bad enough losing our freedom of movement post-Brexit, especially having family spread across multiple countries.

They're so busy being racist they forget that Brits will be impacted too.

We're British in Europe, in France for over two decades with a grown up daughter in Germany, living with her Italian boyfriend. Families are complex. We've already lost our freedom of movement, although we weren't allowed a vote. Presumably this would also be reciprocated. Bloody awful.

This too shall pass. Writes a girl with similarly grim transits, and few timeout options. You've got this.

The French: A good start. Now do it again tomorrow. And every day until he's gone.

And while you're at it throw in some regular strikes rthat grind the country to a halt

How do we know it was full of drug smugglers? We can't, because there has been no due process. This is a summary execution, totally illegal, and nobody in government has the gumption to call it out as such.

Another reciprocal Brexit bonus for British in EU to look forward to. The short-sightedness of these people is staggering.

Shouldn't other countries be issuing arrest warrants around now?

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🇧🇪 #BREAKING | Protestors are blocking Belgium's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to condemn the Israeli illegal interception of the Sumud Flotilla 👇

Excellent news. More of this please!

Thanks, but as a British citizen living and working in the EU our families have already been massively shafted by Brexit. Please don't make it even harder for us.

Brilliant!

But of course.

These people claim to be patriots, yet they constantly propagate foreign influence operations and propaganda

Amid all the gloom, one small thing to be grateful for.

Lots of women in our small business group here in France, whose main client base is in the US, wondering how they will be able to continue trading, and how to reorient their companies.

Slow?

Not sure Confucious would have referenced Moet, but I'll take it. 🍾🍾🍾

Well, if this isn't the most astrologically coherent headline I've seen in a while. The largest nuclear reactor in Europe was blocked by an invasion of jellyfish, just as the Moon joins the North Node and Saturn & Neptune conjunct in Pisces, opposing Mars and squaring Uranus at 1° Gemini.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to read that Trump was involved in kompromat/blackmail schemes in some way. Could that be why so many keep caving to him?

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

For anyone who thought the automated stuff was in anyway intelligent - it is not

It is a poor aggregator at best and dangerously misleading at worse

Gaza: BBC's Jeremy Bowen goes onboard a plane dropping aid The BBC's international editor was on a Jordanian flight as it dropped supplies into Gaza.

"The Israelis don't want us to film out of the window at the devastation inside Gaza. But I've spent 10 mins looking at it with my own eyes and I can tell you communities in the north of Gaza, that I knew well, are flat. There's nothing left of them."

Jeremy Bowen

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All the media energy focused on Trump and the only real value is to point and mock to break up the serious news.

He’s an attention sink for all the truly sinister people standing in the shadows behind him.

And he’s such a narcissistic goon he has no idea he’s being played.

Except he's not.

Cancer in human form