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@jmochicago

Multidisciplinary nerd. Use Qual+Quant data for sensemaking. Wrangle data & skip trace for fun. Business & organizational ethnographer. Tweets = my own. Will always be up for talking about public ed and nonfiction. Fueled by Ethiopian coffee.

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This was the goal of DOGE all along. You don't bring hackers to find waste and fraud, you bring forensic accountants. You bring hackers to steal data.

11.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Americans are going to need new Social Security numbers after we finally purge the Trump cancer.

11.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

BTW to be clear this data breach is bad for a zillion reasons, and the only sane answer is probably giving all of the living Americans new social security numbers. But I'm very adamant that your security questions should always be lies.

11.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Career Democrat operatives who have been resisting a shake up of candidates for the next Presidential run need to face that "same old, same old" political strategies will likely not get them the end result they are looking for.

10.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fire department turns down $250,000 Google donation amid data center fight An Oklahoma fire department turned down a significant donation from Google.

I follow the news around local data center resistance fairly closely. This one stands out.

10.03.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 1317 πŸ” 397 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 22

I feel like we're forgetting that ctrl+f still exists and works really well... simply because a bunch of shills want us to put money in their AI boondoggle.

10.03.2026 02:53 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.

If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.

If you didn't like it? They took you out.

10.03.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 1836 πŸ” 403 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 10

"I said, 'Why don't we just capture the ship? Why did we sink them?' He said, 'it's more fun to sink them.'"

Oh, no biggie. Just the president of the United States out there boasting about the commission of war crimes, to the uproarious laughter of his Nazi cohort.

10.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 712 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

"Helping hedge funds bet against corporate loans can be a sensitive business given that other parts of the bank compete to underwrite these types of loans for some of their most important clients: private equity groups."

Goldman: heads I win, tails you lose

10.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Guess What Moderate Democratic Voters Aren’t Anymore? Moderate. Two new polls suggest that moderate Democrats, too, want higher taxes on the rich and some measure of economic populism. Moderate isn’t what it was in 1992.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

09.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 3654 πŸ” 937 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 113

The law firm that challenged U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino in federal court last fall signals a forthcoming bid for a special prosecutor to "investigate crimes committed by federal agents under Operation Midway Blitz."

Press conference Thursday:

09.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 301 πŸ” 97 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

Unserious argument.

10.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Officers made an average of 732 traffic stops every day in 2025 that were not documented as required by CPD policy, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

09.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Being present and listening to the survivors, in a context where they choose to tell their story in their own way, is so important. So hard to hear. But so important.

09.03.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shouldn’t Brendan Carr be launching an FCC probe of Fox Broadcasting Co.?

The old footage of Trump at a dignified transfer ceremony didn't just air on Fox News -- it aired on local Fox affiliates that are regulated by the FCC. attn: Brendan Carr. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sho...

09.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 544 πŸ” 145 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

Also calling out the Trump White House for its despicable gamer-style war videos is the Archbishop of Chicago- Cardinal Blase Cupich.

"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it's a video game β€” it's sickening."

09.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's obvious, although never explicitly acknowledged and rarely explained in plain, direct language, that in the mind of many politicians and media pundits, the "harm" is not being cisgender.

09.03.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

The trump regime is too busy fighting disastrous wars, blowing billions of dollars, to help Americans fix their problems. The money is there, somewhere in this regime’s pockets, but the part about doing what’s right for our citizens was omitted from Project 2025.

09.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

New video footage geolocated by Bellingcat shows a US Tomahawk missile striking an IRGC facility next to the girls’ school in Minab, Iran, where dozens of children were killed on Feb 28. The video also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the school.

08.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.

This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.

aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

08.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 1139 πŸ” 524 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 20

I am not sure if it’s understood how much the US is losing this war and how terrifying that is because of what the US might do.

08.03.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 392 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: β€œTHIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

11.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 3277 πŸ” 1508 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 344

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25271 πŸ” 8096 πŸ’¬ 781 πŸ“Œ 329

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

07.03.2026 03:12 πŸ‘ 4163 πŸ” 1025 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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The US military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel’s almost week-long war with Iran, according to CNN and expert analysis of evidence. https://cnn.it/4rjSsbc

07.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 27
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Bodycam video contradicts ICE claims in fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas Video of last year's fatal shooting of Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over" another agent.

Video of the March 2025 fatal shooting of American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez obtained by CBS News appears to contradict claims by federal officials that Martinez was shot by an ICE agent because he "accelerated" and "intentionally ran over" another agent with his car.

07.03.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 19

Hey, suprise! The big foundation model providers are not complying to the @ec.europa.eu AI act.

06.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.

Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.

Whew.

All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El NiΓ±o event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.

05.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 419 πŸ” 192 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 31

When your speechwriter hates you

05.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes.

05.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0