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NFL News<p>Ranking Every Notre Dame Football Game of the Marcus Freeman Era <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/141456/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rawchili.com/nfl/141456/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CfbSg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CfbSg</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Dame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dame</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/down" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>down</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/era" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>era</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/every" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>every</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/foot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foot</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FootballSg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FootballSg</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Freeman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freeman</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontPage</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Game</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcus</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NCAA</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NCAAFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NCAAFootball</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Notre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Notre</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/NotreDameFightingIrishFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NotreDameFightingIrishFootball</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>of</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/one" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>one</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ranking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ranking</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/the" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>the</span></a></p>
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NFL News<p>Buffalo Bills add DT Marcus Harris to roster <a href="https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/110996/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rawchili.com/nfl/110996/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/add" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>add</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Bills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bills</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Buffalo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Buffalo</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BuffaloBillsDepthChart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuffaloBillsDepthChart</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BuffaloBillsNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuffaloBillsNews</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BuffaloBillsRoster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BuffaloBillsRoster</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/dt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dt</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Football</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/FrontPage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontPage</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harris</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcus</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/roster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roster</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/rumblings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rumblings</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/To" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>To</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Biden posthumously pardons civil rights leader Marcus Garvey</p><p>President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marcus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Garvey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garvey</span></a>, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. </p><p>Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.</p><p>Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride. <br>After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940.</p><p>The Rev Martin Luther King Jr said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny”.</p><p>It’s not clear whether Biden, who leaves office Monday, will pardon people who have been criticized or threatened by president-elect Donald Trump.<br>Issuing preemptive pardons – for actual or imagined offenses byTrump’s critics that could be investigated or prosecuted by the incoming administration – would stretch the powers of the presidency in untested ways.</p><p>Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued. <br>He announced on Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of <a href="https://c.im/tags/nonviolent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonviolent</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/drug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drug</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/offenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>offenses</span></a>. <br>He also gave a broad pardon for his son <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hunter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hunter</span></a>, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.</p><p>The president has announced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, <br>converting their punishments to life imprisonment just as Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. <br>In his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of executions, 13, in a protracted timeline during the coronavirus pandemic.<br>A pardon relieves a person of guilt and punishment. A commutation reduces or eliminates the punishment but doesn’t exonerate the wrongdoing.</p><p>Others pardoned on Sunday included <a href="https://c.im/tags/Don" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Don</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scott</span></a>, the speaker of the Virginia house of delegates, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and served eight years in prison. <br>He was elected to the Virginia legislature in 2019, and later became the first Black speaker.</p><p>Biden also pardoned immigrant rights activist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ravi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ravi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ragbir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ragbir</span></a>, who was convicted of a nonviolent offence in 2001 and was sentenced to two years in prison and was facing deportation to Trinidad and Tobago; <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Kemba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kemba</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smith</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pradia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pradia</span></a>, who was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and sentenced to 24 years behind bars, but has since become a prison reform activist; <br>and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Darryl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darryl</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chambers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chambers</span></a>, a gun violence prevention advocate who was convicted of a drug offense and sentenced to 17 years in prison, but who now studies and writes about gun violence prevention.</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/biden-pardons-marcus-garvey?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">an/19/biden-pardons-marcus-garvey?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carolina</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Figueiredo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Figueiredo</span></a><br> stumbled onto a massive coincidence. </p><p>She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic particles would all produce the same wreckage. </p><p>“They are very different [particle] theories. <br>There’s no reason for them to be connected,” Figueiredo said.</p><p>The coincidence soon revealed itself to be a conspiracy: </p><p>The theories describing the three types of particles were, <br>when viewed from the right perspective, <br>essentially one. </p><p>The conspiracy, Figueiredo and her colleagues realized, stems from the existence of a hidden structure, <br>one that could potentially simplify the complex business of understanding what’s going on at the base level of reality.</p><p>For nearly two decades, Figueiredo’s doctoral advisor, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nima</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arkani</span></a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Hamed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamed</span></a><br>has been leading a hunt for a new way of doing physics. </p><p>Many physicists believe they’ve reached the end of the road when it comes to conceptualizing reality in terms of quantum events that play out in space and time. </p><p>Such language can’t easily describe the beginning of the universe, for instance, <br>when the space-time fabric likely didn’t exist in its current form. </p><p>Arkani-Hamed therefore suspects that the usual notion of quantum particles moving and interacting in space-time is an approximation of deeper, more abstract concepts, <br>which, if found, could serve as a better language for talking about quantum gravity and the origin of the universe.</p><p>A major development came in 2013, when Arkani-Hamed and his student at the time, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jaroslav" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jaroslav</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trnka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trnka</span></a>, discovered a jewel-like geometric object that forecasts the outcome of certain particle interactions. </p><p>They called the object the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/amplituhedron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amplituhedron</span></a>.” </p><p>However, the object didn’t apply to the particles of the real world. <br>So Arkani-Hamed and his colleagues sought more such objects that would</p><p>Figueiredo’s conspiracy is another manifestation of abstract geometric structure that seems to underlie particle physics.</p><p>“The overall program is inching closer to Nima’s long-term dream of space-time and quantum mechanics emerging from a new set of principles,” <br>said Sebastian Mizera, a physicist who studies amplitudes at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, but was not involved in the recent work.</p><p>Like the amplituhedron, the new geometrical method, <br>known as “<a href="https://c.im/tags/surfaceology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surfaceology</span></a>,” streamlines quantum physics by sidestepping the traditional approach, <br>which is to track the countless ways particles can move through space-time using “Feynman diagrams.” </p><p>These depictions of particles’ possible collisions and trajectories translate into complicated equations. </p><p>With surfaceology, physicists can get the same result more directly.</p><p>“It provides a natural framework, or a bookkeeping mechanism, <br>to assemble very large numbers of Feynman diagrams,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marcus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Spradlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spradlin</span></a>, a physicist at Brown University who has been picking up the new tools of surfaceology. </p><p>“There’s an exponential compactification in information.”</p><p>Unlike the amplituhedron, <br>which required exotic particles to provide a balance known as supersymmetry, <br>surfaceology applies to more realistic, nonsupersymmetric particles. </p><p>“It’s completely agnostic. It couldn’t care less about supersymmetry,” Spradlin said. </p><p>“For some people, me included, I think that’s really been quite a surprise.”</p><p>The question now is whether this new, more primitive geometric approach to particle physics will allow theoretical physicists to slip the confines of space and time altogether.</p><p>“We needed to find some magic, and maybe this is it,” said <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jacob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jacob</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bourjaily" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bourjaily</span></a>, a physicist at Pennsylvania State University. </p><p>“Whether it’s going to get rid of space-time, I don’t know. <br>But it’s the first time I’ve seen a door.”</p><p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-reveal-a-quantum-geometry-that-exists-outside-of-space-and-time-20240925/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">quantamagazine.org/physicists-</span><span class="invisible">reveal-a-quantum-geometry-that-exists-outside-of-space-and-time-20240925/</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Bilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world – and return of Trump </p><p>Several of Bilderberg's 31-member steering committee have senior roles in the defence industry. <br>The billionaire former Google boss, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eric</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schmidt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schmidt</span></a>, chaired the recent National Security Commission on AI, <br>and is now busy launching a kamikaze drone company aimed at the lucrative Ukraine market. <br>Meanwhile, the hugely wealthy Swedish industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marcus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wallenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wallenberg</span></a> is chair of defense manufacturer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Saab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saab</span></a>, which enjoyed a 71% boost in orders in the first nine months of 2024, largely due to the war with Russia.<br>The tech luminary and Donald Trump insider <a href="https://c.im/tags/Peter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peter</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thiel</span></a> founded the fast-growing robotics company <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anduril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anduril</span></a> and the booming surveillance and AI giant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a>. <br>His loyal lieutenant <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alex</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Karp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Karp</span></a>, the CEO of Palantir, was voted on to the board of Bilderberg a few years ago. <br>Karp, who claims his company is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”, recently told the New York Times that the US will “very likely” soon be fighting a three-front war with China, Russia and Iran.<br>In some respects, the geopolitical mood today is not so different from how it was in the 1950s, when Bilderberg was born.</p><p>Top of the agenda at the first meeting in 1954 was “the attitude towards communism and the Soviet Union”, <br>with the “strictly confidential” conference report referring repeatedly to “the communist threat”. <br>Seventy years later, at the most recent summit in Madrid, the primary threat is “Russia”, <br>which sat grimly at the foot of the conference agenda underneath “Ukraine and the world”, and “the future of warfare”.</p><p>In 1954, the alliance was facing “the emergence ofcommunist imperialism”. <br>In 2024, it’s up against what Stoltenberg calls “the emerging axis of autocrats”, headed by Russia, China and North Korea.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Stoltenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stoltenberg</span></a> and his successor as secretary general, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rutte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rutte</span></a>, were both at this summer’s Madrid meeting. <br>Joining them in the conference hall were a clutch of high-up Pentagon officials and Nato’s second most senior military leader, <br>US general <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chris</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cavoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cavoli</span></a>, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. <br>It was Cavoli’s second conference, and he’s not the first Saceur to attend the talks: they’ve been coming along to strategise since the mid-60s.<br>Bilderberg has always had close links with the military: <br>its founders included senior members of British and American intelligence, <br>and a previous Nato leader, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lord</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carrington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carrington</span></a>, chaired the group from 1990 to 1998.</p><p>Even the shamefaced resignation of its founding chair, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prince</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernhard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bernhard</span></a> of the Netherlands, had a military twist: <br>he was caught up in the Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, the only year (pre-Covid) that the conference was cancelled. <br>And it’s telling that arguably the most dominant figure at Bilderberg in the last several decades was the grand strategist and warmonger, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Henry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Henry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kissinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kissinger</span></a>, who was lauded as a foreign policy genius by some and despised as a mass-murdering war criminal by others.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/dec</span><span class="invisible">/25/jens-stoltenberg-bilderberg-group-trump-presidency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Janet Logan (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️<p>JD Vance gets schooled by college student post-debate - YouTube</p><p>"After the VP debate, MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff talked with students at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. One student named Marcus, expressed frustration with a particular spin from Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance."</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBB70w8REcs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=MBB70w8REc</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VPDebate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPDebate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marcus</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CivicsLesson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivicsLesson</span></a></p>
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