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Yup, a senior advisor who served as president of a conservative Tea Party activist group, and a “nonpartisan” polling guy who previously worked on President Trump's polling team.
And both are pitching third-party AI snake oil to “remake” politics.
Very “independent.”
(NPR, WTF are you doing?)
And both are pitching third-party AI snake oil to “remake” politics.
Very “independent.”
(NPR, WTF are you doing?)
@davekarpf.bsky.social , have you seen this fresh nonsense?
An independent effort says AI is the secret to topple 2-party power in Congress
Using artificial intelligence to identify congressional districts where independent candidates could win, an organization called the Independent Center is aiming to disrupt the two-party system.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yup, a senior advisor who served as president of a conservative Tea Party activist group, and a “nonpartisan” polling guy who previously worked on President Trump's polling team.
And both are pitching third-party AI snake oil to “remake” politics.
Very “independent.”
(NPR, WTF are you doing?)
And both are pitching third-party AI snake oil to “remake” politics.
Very “independent.”
(NPR, WTF are you doing?)
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new: government contractors are increasingly invoking trade secrets protections to shield products like gunshot detection, dna analysis, and facial recognition from public scrutiny.
via max blaisdell + matt chapman
via max blaisdell + matt chapman
Trade secrets protections shield information from public view
When a government contractor’s right to privacy outweighs the public’s right to know
chicagoreader.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
new: government contractors are increasingly invoking trade secrets protections to shield products like gunshot detection, dna analysis, and facial recognition from public scrutiny.
via max blaisdell + matt chapman
via max blaisdell + matt chapman
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ICYMI: cook county's 2026 fiscal year begins today!
the $10 billion budget approved by county commissioners last month includes an additional $300+ million, or about 30 percent, for law enforcement.
the $10 billion budget approved by county commissioners last month includes an additional $300+ million, or about 30 percent, for law enforcement.
Cook County law enforcement agencies get more money in 2026
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.
chicagoreader.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ICYMI: cook county's 2026 fiscal year begins today!
the $10 billion budget approved by county commissioners last month includes an additional $300+ million, or about 30 percent, for law enforcement.
the $10 billion budget approved by county commissioners last month includes an additional $300+ million, or about 30 percent, for law enforcement.
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Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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4/ Ed Martin is Trump’s pardon attorney. He is close with Roger Stone who—as shown above—previously recommended that Trump pardon Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez to facilitate Prospera, a “Tech Bro” colony & aspiring “network state” in Honduras.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
4/ Ed Martin is Trump’s pardon attorney. He is close with Roger Stone who—as shown above—previously recommended that Trump pardon Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez to facilitate Prospera, a “Tech Bro” colony & aspiring “network state” in Honduras.
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
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Arguing that shooting someone with a 357 Magnum is a failure of American assimilation is pretty funny.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Arguing that shooting someone with a 357 Magnum is a failure of American assimilation is pretty funny.
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I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine
The debate is over. A major new experiment show how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online
pdjukes.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
Except in Chicago, where we were wondering the same thing in real time.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Except in Chicago, where we were wondering the same thing in real time.
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It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It’s important to note that every single one of these Chicago ICE/ CBP stories DID receive massive coverage by our local media. It was local press together with vigilant residents that documented & then unraveled nearly every lie about the incidents as well.
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Evergreen.
If only there was some historic precedent for America being shocked by an act of violence and the Republican president using it as a pretext to attack someone who had nothing to do with it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Evergreen.
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Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.
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i'm just hung up on "the entire media let itself get dogwalked into stabbing Democracy to death by a lady who was just doing it because she was hung up on RFK Jr.'s piss and breeding kinks", it's genuinely unbelievable to me
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
i'm just hung up on "the entire media let itself get dogwalked into stabbing Democracy to death by a lady who was just doing it because she was hung up on RFK Jr.'s piss and breeding kinks", it's genuinely unbelievable to me
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
if she were an actual agent of an enemy polity i think i'd hate it less
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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No accident that half the protagonists in movies are 'journalists' it is shorthand for honesty in this daft culture
That's why the worst charlatans on earth wear this mask
That's why the worst charlatans on earth wear this mask
Something that strikes me in reading about this AND reading about other major figures in the news is that we have designed a system in America where the absolutely worst people are handed the largest, most powerful megaphones. It can’t be accidental. We built it on purpose.
So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this.
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either.
We're all agree on that, right?
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
No accident that half the protagonists in movies are 'journalists' it is shorthand for honesty in this daft culture
That's why the worst charlatans on earth wear this mask
That's why the worst charlatans on earth wear this mask
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
Trump take beer.
Trump did this.
Since 1872 famed Siebel Institute of Technology has taught generations of beer brewers the fine art and science of the craft in Chicago - now says it has chosen to relocate to Canada, pointing to policies enacted under the Trump.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Since 1872 famed Siebel Institute of Technology has taught generations of beer brewers the fine art and science of the craft in Chicago - now says it has chosen to relocate to Canada, pointing to policies enacted under the Trump.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada
A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Trump take beer.
Are you serious? Now there’s an IZZY?
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Are you serious? Now there’s an IZZY?
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I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
Baltimore Streets
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've shared on here before, why more cops do not and cannot reduce the murder rate in US cities.
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
I've shared that criminal justice reformers have known what does work, and has worked in dozens of US cities. It's now driving record low homicide in Chicago and Baltimore♥️🕊️
Now let's talk cop killings
Shades of the Great Parking Meter Fiasco right here.
The Divvy contract is structured so that once the City made $20MM from it, their profit share was reduced to 5% of revenue. That date was approximately September 23rd, 2022 (duration: ~9 years) and since then (through 2023) they have made $410k (79k in 2022, 321k in 2023.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Shades of the Great Parking Meter Fiasco right here.
It’s murder.
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It’s murder.
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Give Local 2025: Mutual aid groups and nonprofits where you can give — or receive — help over the holidays: blockclubchi.co/4iltzJ1
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Give Local 2025: Mutual aid groups and nonprofits where you can give — or receive — help over the holidays: blockclubchi.co/4iltzJ1
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Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![A 5-question exchange in which Greg Bovino is asked if he sees an older gentleman, "expressing his disagreement with [Bovino's] presence in Chicago [who] doesn't like the fact that you are instructing him to move down, right?"
Bovino responds, no, "That individual is failing to follow instructions to vacate the area."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibxlni2hq5i7mycqssosneb3ahdrtvw3ullnbi6y66dtomevhyhh4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Good for them, but from now on let’s be sure to blame the mess on “the grampas in Congress.”
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Good for them, but from now on let’s be sure to blame the mess on “the grampas in Congress.”