Happy Zelda Day to all who observe!

Me: Mom, do you need anything while I’m up? Mom: No thanks. I’ll wait until you sit down to ask for anything. 😝 She got her mother’s sense of humor.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Just looking in the direction of a grocery store costs $20 now

Everything is very bad right now but at least my dad’s current health crisis has finally convinced my mom that it’s time for assisted living. Now I have to get my dad on board. 🥴 Because dropping everything and driving three hours for every little thing ain’t it. #EldestDaughter

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

Declaring dissidents and undesired groups mentally ill was one of the fundamental means of control used in the Soviet Union.

The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors

Some thoughts about the Great Khan heading into Chicagoland's big Reverse Fort Sumter weekend.

If the Trump White House wants to ban all transgender people from owning guns because a handful were responsible for mass shootings, wait until they hear how many shootings straight cis white guys have done.

every single day Pritzker is out here telling his fellow Dems that they have lost the plot and it’s depressing how refreshing it is

Client: We want to say [CLAIM]. Me: Okay, can you provide me with testing to prove that claim? Client: It hasn’t been tested. How would we even do that? Me: You’d construct a test that verifies points A & B of the claim. Safety Expert: I don’t know how to do that. Me: The claim is rejected.

Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.

As a nearby naval base is being considered as a staging ground for an immigration blitz by federal agents, Chicago Mayor Johnson's measure aims to hold federal law enforcement to city rules on policing while also keeping tabs on new deployments.

I don’t know when It Will Happen, but I do know it’s going to be extremely funny

Thirty years from now posts are gonna be "why does a banana cost a million dollars" or "the hill cannibals get feistier every day" or "protest against the Moon Prison 3PM next Muskday here's how to poison the corporate nanodrones cops use to explode protesters" ha ha jk I give it three years at best

They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation

If you saw the clip, watch the whole 12 minutes. This is it. Electeds—everyone around Pritzker is knowingly putting themselves at risk—meeting the moment. It’s not glib, it’s not a meme, it’s clear-eyed, brave, & necessary. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver, bus driver, Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver-man. He screams and he cusses At ICE like we mustes Hail to the bus driver, Bus driver-man. Come on, help a good man out:

Today is a good day to treat yourself to a new book. 📚

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

Trademarks: Here are the guidelines for advertising during this sporting event that we do not sponsor. Client: Can we do X during this sporting event? Trademarks: Per the guidelines, no you cannot. Client: What’s the risk? Trademarks: You get fired for releasing material without legal approval.

It’s finally cool enough to turn off the AC but you can’t because the wildfire smoke is so thick you need to keep it on for the air filtering. 🥴 Not my favorite summer.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!" The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

My two relatively prim and proper aunts, who are in their 70s, watched South Park for the first time tonight. They thought it was hilarious. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I certainly hope that my boss appreciates that I reserve the I Told You So Dance for my clients. Because he’s having to reverse a lot of things that I was like “I dunno. This seems like a bad idea.” And he would say “It’s fine.” Annnnnd it’s not.

It occurs to me that thinking that a politician is a politician and not a validation of your personal worldview is healthy, both for you as a person and for your understanding of how politics works

I stopped celebrating the 4th of July years ago (partially because most of the dogs I’ve had spent the weeks around the holiday terrified) so now I just celebrate the birthday of the Caesar salad.

If you’re thinking “I cannot believe we’re building concentration camps” I highly recommend One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps by Andrea Pitzer. America has a long history with these types of camps.

I rant about my clients on here a lot but most of the time they’re good folks just trying to get things done. And sometimes they come back and say “You really pulled my ass out of that fire. Thanks!” And sometimes they even nominate you for an award for doing it. ❤️😭

The only time I have ever even considered using AI to do anything is when it comes to my annual objectives in my company’s performance review process. Literally no one cares and no one reads it, which makes it the perfect thing to use AI for.

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

Any public figure who said “both” in Chicago would be hunted for sport

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them

*sigh* Okay, whatever. I just want to be killed in the first strike.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Friends, if you don’t watch Dark Winds, you should. One of the best dramas out there right now.

I used to think Chicago would never vote red but if this grade-A asshole is the Dem nominee, there’s a chance that it will.

It’s good to remind people that there will be a time after this one, and that they can expect accountability in it.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

I resent REM for misleading me to believe that when it was the end of the world, I'd feel fine.

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.