Mark G

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This one's ours, let's take another. Chicago. Came for the infrastructure and urban planning talk, staying for the other nonsense.

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If it wasn't for all the wrong people suffering for this, I'd say "who the fuck cares:"

FYI- the government is set to shut down on Friday.

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One former member of an active club told Vice News last year that the group would slowly introduce extremist ideology to new members by making racist jokes and talking about stories in the news in which ethnic minorities attacked white people. www.businessinsider.com/white-suprem...

White supremacist fitness clubs are fat-shaming Trump supporters and plotting a race warwww.businessinsider.com A network of white supremacist fitness clubs is spreading across the US, recruiting men to prepare for what they believe will be a race war.

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Coming soon to a GOP Regime near you.

Thousands of Belarusians convicted on politically-driven charges amid sweeping crackdown on dissent

Thousands of Belarusians convicted on politically-driven charges amid sweeping crackdown on dissentapnews.com Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent.

Switzerland, France, and now England eating our lunch

The Church of England aims to raise more than $1 billion to address its past links to slavery

The Church of England aims to raise more than $1 billion to address its past links to slaveryapnews.com An advisory panel says the Church of England should create a fund of 1 billion pounds, or $1.27 billion, to address its historic links to slavery.

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BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as Harvard Academic Workers and are seeking to join UAW. This is the largest union filing of the years so far.

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He tried to steal it, wasn't punished, and he's gonna try to steal it again. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/u...

Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Schemewww.nytimes.com Emails and texts unearthed in a lawsuit show how key figures intended their plan to create a “cloud of confusion” to help keep Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss.

Looking at other countries....

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This is really an extraordinary piece of work, not so much in that it proves Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd -- we already knew that, we saw it with our own eyes -- but a demonstration of how far dishonest people will go to confuse and deceive, and, sadly, how much effort it takes to undo that.

ICYMI, here are the links to my series about George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, and the deeply problematic documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis. Part 1: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon... Part 2: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon... Part 3: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The retconning of George Floyd, part three: the great flatteningradleybalko.substack.com The revisionist campaign to exonerate Derek Chauvin is about one thing: preserving police impunity

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this is so dystopian

Trump supporters target black voters with AI fakes

Trump supporters target black voters with AI fakeswww.bbc.co.uk Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.

Real or not, this is a weird ass article

Ok @parkermolloy.com this has to be AI generated. Ian Happ, “fringe player”. 🙄 www.si.com/mlb/cubs/new...

Cubs Outfielder Diagnosed With Concerning Injurywww.si.com The Chicago Cubs could be without one of their star outfielders for Opening Day after his concerning injury diagnosis.

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Happy 187th Birthday to Chicago.

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This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

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I'm growing increasingly concerned that this place is turning in Twitter, and not because the trolls/Nazis/etc are creeping in. It's because more and more of the posts I'm seeing are dunks and disses. What does dunking do to the dunkee? Do you think they'll feel shame, or change?

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Has there ever been a single greater contribution to human longevity—not to mention newborn survival—than mass vaccination? Like, literally nothing comes even close, right? This is death-cult behavior here. It’s going to leave a staggering pile of bodies in its wake.

Thank you to everyone for your responses and, in particular to @mizzelle.bsky.social for sending the Youtube link to the Richmond speech. The link below starts right when Trump promises that he will ban all federal funding to any school that has any vaccine mandates. Measles, anyone?

Watch Donald Trump rally in Richmond: 'We are going to make a big play for Virginia'youtu.be In Richmond, supporters started lining up Saturday morning for an evening rally at a downtown convention center. The entry lines stretched several blocks by ...

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I feel like we come up with all of these programs that are very cool in theory and then don't support them so they turn into a boondoggle.

Why a White House Plan to Fund Office-to-Housing Conversions Isn’t Working Yetwww.bloomberg.com Citing lengthy delays and red tape, developers have been slow to tap a Biden administration program designed to finance office conversions near transit.

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Any attempt to talk about ways in which Republicans are a uniquely dangerous strain of eliminationist fascism draws people rushing to tell me Dems are bad too, and 1) yes they are; 2) often this feels less like anti-fascism and more like deflection in defense of Republicans.

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I do not believe even 15% of American voters really want this. But a good majority will not believe it’s actually at stake unless we tell them … a lot. Voters on both sides just don’t believe the republican agenda unless you tell them and show them again and again.

Somehow it never occurred to me that a major campaign issue for one of the national parties of the United States in 2024 would be general opposition to a triumph of modern medicine that saves something like 4 million lives worldwide every year and dramatically reduces childhood mortality.

It's tough. All that sleeping outside is damn tiring.

Big boy enjoying the unseasonably warm weather in Chicago.

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A long shot but wtf. When I was photographing birds on the empty beach south of Barcelona's airport, this magnificent gentleman waved to me, pointed to himself, and immediately struck a pose. I fired off this frame, we shared a laugh from 50m, and went on our ways. I'd love to get it to him.

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i don’t know how to get it across to people, but, like, what trump’s proposing for a second term is genuinely much more radical than anything any credible presidential candidate has ever proposed in any of our lives. that’s not hyperbole, it’s a statement of fact.

This would have been enough on its own not too long ago to kill someone’s campaign. Fuck all of this.

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When Ilhan Omar said that this is their lobbying strategy people told her to go back to Africa

It’s a profound crisis of democracy when AIPAC can dictate the outcome of Democratic primaries at a time when 50% if Democrats think Israel is engaged in genocide.

AIPAC uncorks $100 million war chest to sink progressive candidateswww.politico.com Building on a successful playbook from 2022, AIPAC and other aligned groups are picking their targets — many more of them this time.

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This is your page one above-the-fold story. A party platform that chooses not only to ignore, but also punish, well-established and effective public health policy.

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Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#2631):

Sigh. Well damn.

This might as well be news from Narnia

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another necessary piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gazawww.lrb.co.uk Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...

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Cool cool cool

Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces science

Florida is swamped by disease outbreaks as quackery replaces sciencewww.theguardian.com The state is in the grip of a measles outbreak, yet Joseph Ladapo, the surgeon general, continues to ignore medical science to stop it