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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 9h

You used to have to pay $100 for it, now they pay you $750 to take it. This isn’t hard Shauna

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10h

Number 3 is peak “wish I’d come up with that.” It’s a reference to something our camera-thirsty pal Greg Bovino said to Broadview Illinois PD.

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 10h

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10h

Have they activated the Frog Suit Deflation Task Force

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10h

“Sorry if this crashes the economy,” my nerdy post said this morning.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 16h

"The Nobel Prize died years ago"… well, so did social media, but here we are.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 18h

In this week's @wola-org.bsky.social Border Update:

Migrant apprehensions hit a 55-year low in 2025, but have been inching up. Tensions are high amid mass deportation operations and abuses in Chicago. Apple is removing ICE-tracking apps. Law enforcement personnel are being made to work immigration.

Weekly U.S.-Mexico Border Update: 2025 apprehensions, Chicago tensions, federal law enforcement diverted - WOLA

Border Patrol migrant apprehensions hit a 55-year low in 2025, but have been inching up. Tensions are very high amid mass deportation operations and abuses in Chicago. Apple is removing ICE-tracking a...

www.wola.org

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 19h

I keep thinking of human rights groups that kept archives and databases during armed conflicts and dirty wars in Latin America. Projects like nocheyniebla.org and others in Colombia formed the core of what tribunals and truth commissions would later work with. US philanthropy needs to back it here.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20h

Ironically, if you want to learn how to set this up on your computer, a great place to start is "ask Claude or ChatGPT how to do it."

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20h

Things that a 14-billion-parameter LLM, which runs fine on this laptop, usually does well include writing code and scripts, website improvements, database design and queries, translations, transcriptions, managing archives, and OCR. My battery drains faster, but nothing like hitting a data center.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20h

After a few days of tinkering, I've found that about 80% of what I was using OpenAI and Anthropic platforms for can be done on my own computer, unconnected to the Internet, using free models. (My computer is a 4-year-old M1 MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM.)

Sorry if this crashes the economy.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21h

gonna need a power washer

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21h

Viewed from the United States in 2025, I see what they did there and 👍 💪

The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize on Twitter

In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people.

When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21h

Has the president heard about the Nobel prize yet?

Screenshot of the infamous November 5, 2020 "STOP THE COUNT!" tweet

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 21h

Norway probably has less of a reaction to "brace for," as they awarded someone who is close to Rubio and says nice things about Trump on the regular.

Norway also worked hard to promote Venezuela's July 2024 elections, which the Maduro regime then stole, so this was a deft move from Oslo.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

Recent Republican breaks with MAGA orthodoxy:

- Ted Cruz re: Kimmel
- Oklahoma gov re: National Guard
- MTG re: Obamacare subsidies
- A few re: RFK kookiness
- Rand Paul re: a few things

Could be that some smell weakness in the White House, are seeing what they can get away with. Worth watching.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

Despite its current popularity, Nayib Bukele’s security “model” in El Salvador rests on brittle foundations, Stanford University's Beatriz Magaloni explained to me in the latest episode of @wola-org.bsky.social's Podcast. Listen here:

The Grim Side of El Salvador’s “Security Model” - WOLA

Human Rights Awards Month special: WOLA podcast investigates El Salvador's mass incarceration "security model," state terror, and human rights crisis with expert Beatriz Magaloni.

www.wola.org

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Reposted by Adam Isacson

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

No heroes here.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...