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Mo Torres
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sociologist: cities, political economy, race/racism

umich.edu/~motorres
“[Também] decorreu uma investigação financeira. Os detetives conseguiram ligar o suspeito não apenas ao aluguer do automóvel, mas também ao pagamento de quartos de hotel em Boston e de um armazém em Salem, NH, arrendado ainda em novembro -- que seria o mesmo no qual o suspeito se viria a suicidar.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Linking the Brown shooting with the MIT homicide: “A peça central da investigação foi um Nissan Sentra cinzento, com matrícula da Florida, alugado em Boston no dia 1 de dezembro. A localização do suspeito nos dois locais foi confirmada através de uma análise minuciosa de imagens de videovigilância.”
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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“David Brooks is shown seated next to Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. In a statement, the New York Times said the event took place in 2011, three years after Epstein had pleaded guilty in Florida to charges of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18.“
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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And if we want to reduce it to slogans and semantics (see the whipped-up outrage vis a vis Mamdani and "globalize the intifida"), what does just "Israel has a right to defend itself" mean to millions of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Yemenis, etc?
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The UMich student newspaper, as per usual has better local coverage than Mlive our sorry excuse of a local news source. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...
Saline Township resident takes legal action to stop data center
Resident Kathryn Haushalter filed to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit between Saline Township and Related Digital over Stargate.
www.michigandaily.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.

He had this to say about the experience:
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM