I assume this means someone found his Grindr.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease www.science.org/content/arti... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... www.economist.com/science-and-...

hey @gayerthanthou.bsky.social ! Meecrowahvay!

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

In 1963, a man named Lawrence Herbert developed a process of color matching that reigns supreme as the industry standard for more than 60 yrs. Pantone’s standardized color reproduction method allows manufacturers to produce work that is consistent with the originally intended palette. #Art #Design

NEW: For decades, the DOJ relied on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to foil and forestall attempts to discriminate against minority voters. On Wednesday, the DOJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to devastate and vitiate much of what’s left of the landmark civil rights legislation.

The man has a life, you can't expect to be able to just pick up the phone and bug him at like 3 frickin' 30 in the afternoon

The reason Trump won is that people like this actually refused to believe his own words, substituting their own fanfic Trump instead bsky.app/profile/shar...

The conservative educators' group doesn't mind Ryan watching pornography during meetings.

Oklahoma's top public schools official, Ryan Walters, says he's resigning to lead a conservative educators' group.

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

What an amazing city we live in.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

Sir, you put a swimming pool full of water on top of your emergency bunker? @dicknixon.bsky.social

The presidential emergency bunker—codenamed CACTUS—is accessible via elevator from several locations inside Aspen Lodge. President Nixon, during his first term, decided to build a swimming pool adjacent to the lodge, partly above the bunker, which had to be reinforced at significant additional cost.

Caught up with it last night. Throughout I kept thinking, "Why are we hearing this from Jimmy Kimmel instead of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries???"

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

More please.

Choose ‘em where you use ‘em Wordle 1,559 4/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

When this all started I said Israel had to play this very carefully or they would end up isolated, and worse. I didn't expect they would do so, but I said it and got called every name in the book.

Odds are good that The Marrying Kind is one of the best films you've never seen.

I don’t know what she’s talking about. RFKKK dropped by her take out potluck to tell his dead bear cub story to her in excruciating detail. What more could anyone want?

"PLEASE STAY FOCUSED ON *OUR* UNHINGED CONSPIRACY THEORY SIR"

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad." And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

Lmao

I've been thinking about this a bit, and I've decided that Nancy Mace is an insane person who thinks she's a sane person posturing as an insane person.

Took my cat to the vet today and asked the people at the front desk what the weirdest pet name they’d ever encountered was One of them said, immediately, “Well, nothing’s going to beat ‘Cocaine’”

This is the SECOND time a security guard from THAT JEWEL GROCERY STORE (Wabash & Roosevelt) has shot a customer!

LFG

people are starting to speak up about the Argentina bailout

- Carol Kaye is a serious jazz musician who did those famous records for money - she is serious about being IN THE BAND & won't be held above it - she did not say this but she's Carol Fucking Kaye, who needs awards

Wild that I can look for some not shall we say popular books, find the New York Public Library has them, & they’ll quickly send them to be collected ten minutes’ walk from my house.. as in so many things Benjamin Franklin had the right idea, full marks

It's hard to go full fascist when your facility in is in a densely built urban area and you have to share the space around fascist HQ with others, and the local municipality can say "Hey, don't block the street!" cc: @joshtpm.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/24/b...

Oh my....

ICE illegally built fencing on a public street, blocking emergency access in the area, all to keep out protesters. Good for the Broadview Fire Department for calling this out. Broadview Demands ICE Facility's New Fencing Be 'Removed Immediately' blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/24/b...

Some news.

If you're like it's not a "miracle it's science" I'm just going to block you. They've successfully for the first time treated people with Huntingtons. We have effective gene therapies for people with sickle cell. People with cystic fibrosis are suddenly confronted with getting to live a long life.

It's wild that science is out here performing miracles while we have the most anti-science people running our health agency.

Within one day of the Covid virus being sequenced, we had a trial vaccine. ONE DAY. (Did Dolly Parton help? Yes, she did. Of course she did.) And these dipshits are all like “no thanks, horse dewormer pls”

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

Breathe deep. Wordle 1,558 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

One beautiful morning, Chicago!

mRNA medicine is a miracle. We should be investing in it HARD as a country, not cutting it.

Who the hell makes this face when hugging a grieving widow?

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇