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2 x 0 = 0 so technically correct

I did not have on my bingo card Ald. Ervin making a revolutionary argument against a pause on the One Fair Wage ordinance and comparing those trying to push it through to Marie Antoinette, but here we are!

Well, *that's* ominous.

I’m not in the business of giving gold medals. I’m in the business of thinking about the political economy of cultural phenomena. That includes thinking about people’s favorites.

hey graduates, good job on the four years you spent learning how to learn and think among a community of learners and thinkers. the most exciting news i can think to tell you is that your learning and thinking will soon be replaced by feeding little prompts to an AI. ok now why are you booing me

Just want to throw out a Happy Whiskey Friday to all my fellow Dokoupil Heads. We made it, folks.

A lower infant mortality rate and growing middle class?

One of the primary markers of imperial decline is cultural stagnation

It looks a bit busy, but Chicago badly needs something like this at our diagonal intersections. Maybe we will consider it in like 10 years after NYC goes first nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/13/m...

there are many forms of poster's madness but only a few root causes, and the most common one is the inability to say "you know what, my bad" and walk away from an argument when you've lost

seems like this guy should get better at managing money. not really his strong suit

this possum says trans rights

Rhythm Colour no. 1076 (1939) by Sonia Delaunay, painter and designer #WomensArt

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

I think porn is fine. I think the industry as it exists and potentially *the* porn it chooses to make are thoroughly worthy of critique, but there are people out there attributing a host of almost mystical destructive effects to the act of watching people fuck. Those people are wrong

that’s where you’re WRONG

Please tell me more about the grave threat to life and limb posed by ebikes and scooters, Chicago politicians. I am all ears for how we are gonna fix this safety crisis.

Just the most exhausting of 'oh well we tried and if you look at it this way we actually won' surrenders of the year.

Social Media in 2035

great post

hrt and antidepressants and mifepristone are the same fight

Yesterday was such a beautiful day, we actually took advantage of even more new bike infrastructure - the Lincoln Ave bike lane from Foster to the new Ainslie Arts plaza, all under @andrefor40th.bsky.social! Would you ride more if your route was like this?

70% top marginal tax rates

"TODAY IS A DAY FOR MOMS TO RELAX BUT THEN THERES NO ONE TO HELP AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO ANYTHING." - exhausted crying 5 year old

marjorie taylor green can get fucked for all eternity, what is wrong with people

"there's no way the Yellow Line will go by," I thought as I approached the bridge

it's been 18 years since the financial crisis, the entirety of my adult life. in that time i've gone through university, got engaged and started a long-running podcast, and these fuckers have abjectly refused to come up with any ideas that reckon with the reality we now inhabit. thoughts and prayers

Man Directs Full Force Of Anecdote Toward Single Person After Rest Of Group Moves On To Different Topic https://theonion.com/man-directs-full-force-of-anecdote-toward-single-person-1826391190/

cops love their toys

me in 2013: gerrymandering is one of the most important issues facing the country, we should not improperly represent states. we cannot let what scott walker did to wisconsin become the norm me in 2026: destroy every elected republican

They got guys blocking the side streets playing Candy Crush from DLSD to I-94

great day to be a pedestrian. sheridan road from foster to montrose (possibly further) is gridlock!!! plus it’s 60° and v sunny

What if, instead of a data center, it was a bespoke walkable village with reasonably priced housing and a darling cafe?

Welcome to the new bike parking garage of Lincoln Square.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

i am a believer in consumer choice and individual liberty generally but that comes to an abrupt stop on matters of public health

Nhu Lan on Lawrence will be closed for renovations thru the month of May.

"According to the city, traffic fatalities in 2025 were down nearly 30% from 2021." What continues to get lost in these conversations is it's not just about bike lanes. These projects are making our streets safer for all users, whether they be pedestrians, bicyclists, or drivers.

these 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 things they neither lift nor peel. I can't remember the last time I didn't give up and stab the damn thing to get it open without dealing with this bullshit

A perverse incentive of Callais: the more racist a party is, the more its gerrymander is insulated from any VRA challenge. boltsmag.org/scotus-calla...

xAI Memphis superimposed on the Loop

How about something we actually need instead of more sidewalk clutter?

New personal best for fastest FOIA response is 19 mins, that's gonna be tough to beat