Jon Torok
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Republicans could be attacking specific building regulations that make housing unaffordable. Instead, they're promoting making bankers more wealthy.
Scott Turner: "More research needs to be done on a 50 year mortgage and the other ideas that are being put forth ... the 50 year mortgage and other ideas that have been circulated to the public are being discussed, are on the table."
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Republicans could be attacking specific building regulations that make housing unaffordable. Instead, they're promoting making bankers more wealthy.
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cecot-60mins : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
60 minutes segment on cecot
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December 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So many employees.
“Take a look at the company. Come join us.”
Eric Trump gives a tour of his Bitcoin mining facility in Texas while reports say the Trump family has lost roughly $1 billion in recent months as the cryptocurrency market plunged.
Eric Trump gives a tour of his Bitcoin mining facility in Texas while reports say the Trump family has lost roughly $1 billion in recent months as the cryptocurrency market plunged.
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So many employees.
Didn't look at all the comments, but this is about mamdani being a normal citizen sitting in coach. Not some rich fuck trying to decide how the plebes should be ruled.
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Didn't look at all the comments, but this is about mamdani being a normal citizen sitting in coach. Not some rich fuck trying to decide how the plebes should be ruled.
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Fun fact: there are 82 players on rosters right now that were born AFTER LeBron James made his NBA debut on Oct 29, 2003.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Fun fact: there are 82 players on rosters right now that were born AFTER LeBron James made his NBA debut on Oct 29, 2003.
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Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
I've been reading CBS's daily latest on the shutdown. The last couple weeks I feel it's really starting to slowly to Republicans. The Weiss effect? I'm back to cnn until I hit a paywall again.
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I've been reading CBS's daily latest on the shutdown. The last couple weeks I feel it's really starting to slowly to Republicans. The Weiss effect? I'm back to cnn until I hit a paywall again.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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I know #IU football is really fun (for the first time in my adult life) and it's really easy to feel good about IU. I am begging alumni to get involved and help make a difference in what is happening there.
#IU is now the worst-ranked public univesity in the nation for freedom of speech.
#IU is now the worst-ranked public univesity in the nation for freedom of speech.
Free speech foundation ranks IU as worst public college
Indiana University sank to near the bottom of The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression College Free Speech Rankings this year.
www.wfyi.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Love this push back against lies in the video after the quotes here.
KARL: Why is the Defense Secretary afraid to interact with journalists who cover him?
JOHNSON: I reject the premise
KARL: The guy has only had 2 briefings and he basically forced the press out
JOHNSON: I can't remember a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent and out in the open
JOHNSON: I reject the premise
KARL: The guy has only had 2 briefings and he basically forced the press out
JOHNSON: I can't remember a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent and out in the open
October 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Love this push back against lies in the video after the quotes here.
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One of the best signs so far and those huddled masses that we're fighting for.
No Kings
No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One of the best signs so far and those huddled masses that we're fighting for.
No Kings
No Kings
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Stories like this are why the IDS is important and why Pam Whitless is attacking them.
Source: Indiana Daily Student
search.app/EC7u9
Source: Indiana Daily Student
search.app/EC7u9
Jewish Studies director replacement ‘unprecedented,’ students and faculty say
Dean Rick Van Kooten later held a nomination process one faculty member called “symbolic.”
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October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Stories like this are why the IDS is important and why Pam Whitless is attacking them.
Source: Indiana Daily Student
search.app/EC7u9
Source: Indiana Daily Student
search.app/EC7u9
Great shaming from Purdue to their rival on homecoming weekend.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Great shaming from Purdue to their rival on homecoming weekend.
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...
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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)
October 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
No phones, no staff, nothing.
I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I want to know how many times a Democrat has been called a communist on Fox news and what percentage of Fox news stories were positive.
Mullin: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him & 99% about Pete Hegseth are negative, it is cheating, bc you're putting out a narrative that isn't true...there's a thin line between free speech & when it crosses a line and causes violence. And when you start calling someone fascist..."
September 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I want to know how many times a Democrat has been called a communist on Fox news and what percentage of Fox news stories were positive.
I needed some optimism.
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I needed some optimism.
Boycott Disney. Cancelled my Disney+ subscription.
September 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Boycott Disney. Cancelled my Disney+ subscription.
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For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diabetes. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months after being implanted, without the need for the recipient to take any immunosuppressive drugs.
Crispr Offers New Hope for Treating Diabetes
Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diabetes. In this experiment, edited cells produced insulin for months after being implanted, without the need for the recipient to take any immunosuppressive drugs.
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Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.