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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁

@sameyler.bsky.social

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Founder/Lead Editor, Standard Error Research Editors (@standarderror.bsky.social, http://stderr-editors.com; opinions here are mine!) Ex American Journal Experts/Springer Nature, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE Lefty Mama 🇺🇸 > 🇬🇧 > 🇨🇴 > 🇺🇸 📍Chicago & Medellin

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Nov 13

New followers! I’m the founder and lead editor at the boutique social science editing startup @standarderror.bsky.social which you should also follow if you haven’t already! We’re growing fast and happy to have you along for the ride

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 10h

Now people with whistles are encircling her school every afternoon to protect it from knownothing racist bounty hunters

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 10h

Now people with whistles are encircling her school every afternoon to protect it from knownothing racist bounty hunters

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 10h

I just can’t

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 10h

I brought my kid here from South America to give her a better life. Can you believe that shit

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 17h

Still sitting here seething at a choice of Nobel Peace Prize that makes full-scale US military intervention, not to mention Trump's ongoing extrajudicial murders in the Caribbean, MORE likely. Great job all round everybody

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 21h

The poverty of liberal categories of analysis is glaring. A substitution of good intentions with the necessity of thinking or even knowing any particulars all the way down. They are not gonna lead us out of this mess

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 21h

Opposing authoritarianism generally does not involve giving laurels to reactionaries

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 12h

@nidhaan.bsky.social ANCHORMAN REFERENCE!! Drink!

a group of men in suits are dancing in front of a building with the number 4 on it .

ALT: a group of men in suits are dancing in front of a building with the number 4 on it .

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 13h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 14h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 16h

More street vendors taken by ICE today, according to rapid response team & neighborhood reports.

Masked men arrested one of Pilsen’s longtime tamal vendors near Damen and 21st Pl, by Chase.

Those ladies are very loved by the community. I bought tamales from her many times.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 13h

can all the things please take a pause from going on in such a deranged manner

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 13h

lord

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 14h

lot going on but wtf is going on with Macron

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 15h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 15h

hey sorry i have some news www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 15h

Just going about my workday while the president's civil war on my city is being prosecuted on the streets minutes away from where my small Latin American-born child is trying to learn her times tables in school

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 19h

Less than one mile from where I am sitting. Chicago is being terrorized by the US govt

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 15h

Looking scared when confronted by masked armed secret police is officially a reason why they can now detain you.

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 16h

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WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

Other people have suggested in the DMs they were trying to throw Trump a bone by giving the prize to his acolyte, though their public statements seem to imply the opposite. Given how the centrist types are running with this, I do think the committee didn’t know (or care?) about her actual politics

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

The committee really thought about this for 30 seconds and were like “let’s stick it to Trump by giving it to a Venezuelan opposed to a dictator” and didn’t bother to, like, Google her

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

My exact thought when I saw this news smh

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

The Vzla political situation is severe, but this was a bad award that will make it worse

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 17h

She supports the extrajudicial actions and wants the US to depose Maduro. It would appear the Nobel committee was a bit out of its depth with the particulars here

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