Introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live REM Flogging Molly Bouncing Souls Bad Religion Dropkick Murphys The Menzingers Social Distortion Alkaline Trio Jimmy Buffett Guy Clark

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

What there is in life is being open and vulnerable with at least one other person and being open enough to hear their vulnerabilities too. That's how we get through this. If you can't do that, you missed the point of the exercise.

Coming around to the idea that I don't "need winter" to appreciate the good weather. I think a lifetime of Midwest winters has maybe put enough into that particular bank

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

Some unexpected guests on our roof deck this morning

hitting the gravity bong with mr M and taking him to go see speed racer and he is just crying in that movie theater seat

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

This reminds me of the time a coworker was telling me about seeing Hamilton, and I thought they said Hamlet, so they were going on and on about Hamilton and I tried to stay with it and just increasingly flummoxed trying to parse what kind of production of Hamlet this was

A month before the camp was destroyed, I distributed disposable cameras in Legion Park so residents could tell this story from their perspective. Below are the photos they took of the people, belongings, and spaces that made their encampment home. chicagoreader.com/city-life/so...

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” Revisit this story from our series “The End of Aid,” a 2026 Pulitzer finalist.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

There's an autism crisis, all right -- a "crisis of public trust" as RFK Jr and other high-profile officials fuel misinformation, advocates say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today is Kentucky Derby day so I am obligated to post Hunter S. Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" because it is and also because it's such a nice piece of writing that introduced the world to Ralph Steadman.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

🍍 💚 No better night to watch CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994) on the Criterion Channel🍍💚

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

A thread of our prairie flowers this year as they come up First off, Prairie Smoke

I know this is hardly a novel observation but damn groceries are expensive

I've workshopped this with some coworkers before: a bar, kind of like Sukiyabashi Jiro, underground with 10 seats, simple cocktails made perfectly, and a TV off to the side that only plays South and Central American soccer games from the 60s

St. Paul’s @subtextbookstore.bsky.social is celebrating the release of On an Inland Sea with a reading from four Minnesotan contributors! Martha Lundin, @lilacwaabigwan.bsky.social, @sheilapacka.com, and @minnesotabrown.bsky.social. 7:00PM. Check the link for more details!

"Imagine the badger in all his relentless violence."

In honor of fellow Wisconsin Fan, Werner Herzog @edsbs.bsky.social

On May 1, kids can once again play among the exotic plants of the Garfield Park Conservatory as the 118-year-old institution opens its renovated Elizabeth Morse Genius Children’s Garden to the public, with tickets available starting Friday.

AI is never going to break your heart and most of these dunce geniuses aren’t human enough to even understand why that’s something you should want.

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

I was an essential retail worker with a young child at home. My entire life was the store and home. Very happy I kept my job but spent every day terrified I would bring home a virus that would kill my family. Slowly coming to terms with the fact that my brain was totally rewired from the experience.

Get excited. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

this is like a miracle

I am just now learning about "tree law"

Some of my recent paintings of Lake Michigan #art #painting

Welcome home, Pippin! 🤍🟢 Our beloved Pippin has returned. Many will remember he departed last summer with something tangled around his foot. We feared the worst. Pippin has returned to us with his right foot missing and a limp but otherwise appears well. 📸:Liam Francis Shanley

Going back in time to tell 2015 me that Trump will get elected which brings about a new plague and then he'll get re-elected for a second term after attempting to overthrow the government and his biggest political foe in 2026 is the Pope who is from Chicago

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

"May Vance endorse you"

the impossible is always possible.

The whole "Most Influential Modern Artist" thing is a game that interests me not at all (although judging by the comments, I'm in the minority), but Marcel Duchamp is definitely high on my list of most favorite things. Truly unique visions are rare, but Duchamp... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/a...

With seasonal depression, lack of vitamin d, and spring allergies, every year I have a couple weeks at the end of winter/beginning of spring where I'm like "this is it, I'm actually dying this time" and I never seem to learn from it. Then after a few warm sunny days I start to feel great again

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Yaaaaaay chutes SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED

Houston integrity loud and clear

Flight dynamics reports that the various copters and planes in splashdown area see Integrity coming in

This view is STUNNING

Thanks to Newcity for this great recent interview/review of our Great Lakes anthology, On an Inland Sea! Editor @mbwwelch.bsky.social reminds us all of the vital environmental element that runs through most of the collection! Check it out here: lit.newcity.com/2026/04/02/w...

“Everybody hates us, what should we do?” “The only thing that will get people back on our side. An armed overthrow of the Pope.”

The conclave really knew what it was doing when it elected an American Pope huh Like, only a guy who has endured Chicago winters and the indignity of rooting for the White Sox could meet this moment