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Daniel Nima Moattar
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the cook county sheriff's and state's attorney's offices will look to hire dozens of analysts in 2026.

new ccso and sao departments are tasked with using data to streamline internal operations, generate "predictive" analytics, and even steer the strategy for prosecuting gun crimes.

background:
Cook County’s web of surveillance for electronic monitoring
Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago’s Steven Levitt to create a program that could “match” people on EM to reported crimes.
chicagoreader.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"I've see agents dragging a U.S. citizen out of her car behind the Waukegan Town Hall," McDowell says. "I've seen agents standing around in the parking lot of Warren Township High School."
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Last month, Weber State University cancelled a conference *on censorship* after it became clear that all of the presenters (including me) would have to censor their material to comply with HB 261. I applaud your integrity and am here to commiserate—it’s a terrible law with terrible consequences.
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Grok gave me a side by side comparison of how Elon Musk would improve upon Jeffrey Epstein's private island logistics, including how he would avoid getting caught.

Not alt-txting that one bc Jesus Christ
November 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM