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This one's ours, let's take another. Chicago. Mostly nonsense about stuff. Always an idiot. Same handle on MSTDN

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Skokie woman held by Border Patrol at O’Hare - Evanston Now Sarah Naqvi, a U.S. citizen born in Evanston, was detained Thursday morning after a flight from Turkey, her sister says.

“A U.S. citizen from Skokie who was born in Evanston was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Chicago O’Hare International Airport Thursday, along with two other U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, after returning on a flight from Turkey.”

07.03.2026 05:14 👍 32 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 5

Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James Bond. Go!

07.03.2026 05:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hearing a rumor that Trader Joe's is opening, followed by a long wait, and then nothing transpiring is like a rite of passage around here.

07.03.2026 05:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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India Is Using AI to Police Identity and Expel Minorities The Indian state of Maharashtra is developing an AI tool that uses accent, tone, and word choices to identify and deport migrants, writes Suvradip Maitra.

India is building AI to use accent and word choice to identify and deport Bangladeshi Muslims and Rohingyas. It risks hardwiring discrimination into border policing, writes Suvradip Maitra.

07.03.2026 04:54 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 4

My nape of the neck. Enjoy!

07.03.2026 04:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kissinger nods in hell

07.03.2026 03:31 👍 71 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

I think mostly they wanted someone to complain to, at least the people in front of me. It wasn't long until they switched to "what about crime?!" My reaction was "lady, you're in the wrong place."
(Also, the classic "who's paying for this?")

07.03.2026 03:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

They were also switching to "what about potholes?"

07.03.2026 03:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Stop saying Iran will be like Vietnam or Iraq. Those were done by dumb people. Now we got a guy who uhh thinks you need ID to buy groceries

07.03.2026 02:59 👍 1386 🔁 128 💬 20 📌 5

It's been 24 hours though. I need more Bears moves.

07.03.2026 02:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"she couldn't put aside her far-left extremism, to honor our far-right extremism..."

07.03.2026 02:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe there's some sort of press to do this instead.

07.03.2026 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, ap...

The worst people in the country were given a badge and access to everyone's personal information. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

07.03.2026 01:14 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Of course

07.03.2026 01:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good luck with this group of shitheads.

07.03.2026 00:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not gonna lie. I'm in.

06.03.2026 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So Crosby is happening?

06.03.2026 23:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Pieter Bruegel, The Triumph of Death (Antwerp 1562) In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing the Earth. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads

06.03.2026 22:32 👍 23 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Those were still her dog killing years.

06.03.2026 22:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The presence of gambling equipment in a bar or restaurant is going to keep me out of any of those establishments.

06.03.2026 22:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"It's pissing people off": Older Dems are sick of hearing about "generational change" "I have no idea why this is the year to write this story, except that Joe Biden was old."

Die mad.

06.03.2026 21:54 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2

The Atlantic is already doing "McCarthyism to the Tenth Power." That's the functional purpose of its reactionary centrism.

06.03.2026 21:43 👍 32 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

Thinking about a mar-a-lago bathroom full of top secret documents.....

06.03.2026 21:57 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thinking about a mar-a-lago bathroom full of top secret documents.....

06.03.2026 21:57 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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06.03.2026 21:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Meanwhile Americans are making $1000 monthly car payments

06.03.2026 21:46 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

🤔🤔🤔

06.03.2026 21:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These companies are trash.

06.03.2026 21:50 👍 56 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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DOJ refuses to rule out immigration enforcement access to voter data “Your honor, I can honestly say I do not know the answer to that,” a DOJ attorney said.

NEW: The DOJ confirmed during a hearing that while the unredacted voter data it’s seeking from states wasn’t currently being used, it couldn’t rule out whether it’d be exploited for immigration enforcement purposes.

✍️ @nataliehausmann.bsky.social

06.03.2026 21:13 👍 180 🔁 83 💬 7 📌 5

We are kind of shitty, aren't we?

06.03.2026 21:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0