Starting an ongoing thread of off-the-pitch Nice Things at the World Cup. It's gonna get long over the next few weeks. 1. Curaçao. All of it.

14. This Japanese guy having the best time as a tourist in Chicago.

Sieger has the opportunity to do the wildest image rehabilitation right now www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20...

I do think probably the clearest and most annoying example of the Trump admin trying to portray their election as a cultural project rather than any attempt to improve public policy

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

If his confession to the media is to be believed, the person who burned a cross in Grant Park is... actually just an extremely confused moron? www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/p...

Bisexuals are lit

Gretchen Rubin being on here means I'm starting a countdown clock for Brene Brown or Dr Becky to be on A List

ngl, the space x IPO being largely successful immediately after elon musk spent a week fomenting racist pogroms in northern ireland is one of the more blackpilling events of the year for me

Everyone was speculating about conservative political leanings of both Nate Bargatze and Taylor Swift when they were demure on the issue, and it turned out he was MAGA and she's not. Big win for white women on that one, the fellas are taking the L here.

Opening my inbox after six (6) business days away from work

Consumerism is a funny thing. I react with disgust to this, but please do not besmirch my beloved Tubi.

Whether or not a UFC event at the White House is inherently white trash or tacky is a fool's discourse; the #2 pro wrestling promotion in the country has a largely anti-ICE, pro LGBTQ audience and its most popular storyline was lifted directly from Golden Age of Hollywood classics

While you don't have to hand it to Rainn Wilson, he's correct in a backwards way about not being able to make The Office today, in the sense that in September 2006 it was still socially acceptable to air the f-slur uncensored on prime time tv.

Frozen 2 (2019, dir. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) #OnePerfectShot

Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

The only Finals game the Knicks lost was the one with Trump in attendance. lol.

Congratulations to Knicks fans, but you know those know-it-all New Yorkers are going to start claiming Pope Leo for themselves and he belongs to Chicago sorry

I remember the other year someone commented during a resurgence of political violence that we'd been in a period of relative peacefulness and that there used to be bombings all the time. So, this seems pretty bad.

You'd think that ensuring adequate public transportation to and from Museum Campus would be a CTA priority year-round, much less in the summer, but once again I've been made the fool

Chicagoans will see this and say "hell yeah"

That's a whole lotta roommates

Pride version of the Chicago city flag, flying at Daley Plaza

Damn the Paraguayan national anthem is a ripper

Your mom applied for work here and everyone knew her

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

The Bari Weiss clue on yesterday's Jeopardy! surely had a record correct rate for Bluesky's contingent of libbed out 38 year old former contestants

Leo's getting me one step closer to fully committing to the bit and converting

Welp I've discovered another vaguely science adjacent YouTuber who immediately makes me want to commit a TOS violation

STOP THE COUNT

Invaluable thread to follow

I think the truth might be a bit more disturbing yet: the open statements of white supremacy have not harmed his business interests. Investors seem aware—they simply don't care.

Filed by Lawrence Ligas, who was active in Chicago politics and served as an election judge during the 2024 presidential election on the city's Northwest Side

Uh so someone burned a cross in Grant Park yesterday. Grant has enormous amounts of security theater designed to keep Black children out of the park. But cops can't ID the perp or explain how they allowed this to happen: blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/b...

Elon Musk out here turning Twitter into Radio Rwanda

ARGENTINA AIN'T PLAYED NOBODY IN GROUP J, PAWWWWL

Honey Butter Fried Chicken's pimento mac and cheese has to be a sleeper candidate for one of the best side dishes in this city

Final announcement: Tingle Souls

It's so liberating to not care about the NBA, largely because the Hawks were mediocre my entire childhood. Which makes it extra funny that I became a diehard fan of the Carmody era Northwestern bball teams because they had a few fluke upsets my freshman year.

Didn't see a waffle in this guy's order but otherwise my man knows ball

It's the second staycation day in a row where the weather forecast has been iffy and the Internet keeps going out

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Remembering, as always this time of year, the Tonys party ~15 years ago where I filled an invaluable role by being the only person who knew who award presenter Mark Sanchez was

The directive from Bari Weiss to make the protesters killed by ICE look “more violent” came after Scott Pelley voluntarily had already gone to great pains to make them look violent in the first place:

When you throw some flavors together and the dish comes out exactly how you envisioned it

A really good bit would be if Alien Isolation 2 is a roguelike or metroidvania

DAMMIT CHLOE that was high and inside

Big budget adaptation of The Jungle with rated R gore and unsubtle socialist propaganda