Nobody in sight, huge building with columns in the background, sounds of a woman's wailing,, is this from a dang soulslike?

The quote that stood out to me the most from Lolita was always this direct address to the reader: "Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity"

When Megyn Kelly says it’s not a big deal if she’s 17, she’s not talking about her own daughter but about the underclass

It's almost like for all these years, rich and powerful people have been lying to us about what happens when they have to pay their fair share of taxes.

I watched the full women's Blood and Guts match last night and while the seams show with some of the spots (the bed of nails in particular), that ending was a corker

Had my worst CTA commute in years. One evacuated train, a bus I chased down two stops, and two hours later, I'm home.

How convenient

People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

some great news despite the fact that she never should've been abducted in the first place—and the people who did it won't face any repercussions

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Just tried a new greasy spoon takeout place and the gyros didn't come with tzatziki sauce, instead it was some creamy sauce with giardiniera???

Reminded again of how Penn Jillette (listed here alongside Bill Pullman!) no longer calls himself a libertarian because he realized the other ones were all weirdo freaks

feels relevant today

One genuinely corrosive thing about the Internet is that it flattened genuine actionable death threats on the same tone and level as declarations of "geez, I don't like the cut of this guy's jib"

I do not think we need a strong child-molesting party

based on the epstein emails released today i am Tapping The Sign

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

Until somebody designs a bigger bob-omb

Hades (Supergiant Games, 2020):

Bovino left LA to come to Chicago and it's not like LA saw immigration operations stop - just less showboating from his crew. So even if these circulating rumors over the last week turn out real, I'm pessimistic about how much change to expect on the ground.

Tired: Vote Blue and you can go back to brunch Wired: Vote Blue and you can leave 200 different Signal chats

Coming to you from the Miracle Mile shopping center in Chicago

She Beat my Bobby until I Flay

If you want to laugh or if you fucking hate yourself, check out this opinion piece/reputation laundering in today's Crain's which claims the top tier of IL-9 candidates is Abughazaleh and Biss (yes), Laura Fine (sure), and Bruce Leon (LMFAO) www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-po...

I'm going to be honest: until today, I thought the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the same era as like the Eastland disaster

Idk maybe he's a good coach hamstrung by the New York Football Giants, but as a layman I fail to see how Mike Kafka has done anything right in the NFL besides "be lucky enough to be Mahomes' QB coach"

Durbin next month:

yes, and — I doubt anyone in Chicago is surprised at seeing Durbin cave. He’s incapable of grasping the reality of this time, living in a world of better angels and blue slips.

Good morning to everyone except the landlords who didn't shovel outside their buildings this morning

Extremely funny to bookend a phone call with my dad, who thinks that Tuesday's elections were proof that Democrats needed to end the shutdown and prove how incompetent Republicans at governing, with scrolling On Here through ten thousand 38 year olds ready to storm the DNC

Seeing all these reports of Durbin lying down for the GOP again and realizing that Krishnamoorthi is probably going to cruise to victory as his replacement, feels really bad!

My entirely galaxy brained take is that these guys played too much BioShock and Soulsborne games and thought giant statues kick ass

Side note, it's weird that because of Online, Elon Musk cares about what JCO thinks of him. It's like Messi worried about getting pwned by Rick Bayless.

Not to defend Mayo Pete but since this screenshot is doing numbers: this was a week before the election, Pete actually dodges the "do you support him" question ("I'm not getting directly involved in that race"), and says Mamdani has a chance to prove himself once elected. Super bad faith framing.

Okay one more

Weird that this is seen as the solution when everyone under 40 would electrocute their own genitals before talking to a sales clerk

when will a frankenstein movie be brave enough to let us see the doctor choosing the dick

Jason Benetti calling a Northwestern football game hits a sweet spot of approximately 12 people including me

Parents, and mothers in particular, are famously a group you can casually tell "hey your kid sucks ass actually"

I think a lot about how one of Elon's DOGE wunderkinds got immediately placed into the highest civilian pay band, something you typically have to spend your entire public service career striving for, because that's what you make as an entry level FAANG employee

[sweatily doing a bit that was big for 24 hours two years ago and getting zero likes from it] Cuntgressional Mother Nan-slay Pelo-serve

hmmm what kind of features could be being looked at there, I wonder, what kind indeed

I know that an ethnography of r/Chicago is a fool's errand, but the overall vibe really is that 1) the alphabet agencies are an affront to life itself and The People United Will Never Be Defeated and 2) we must bring the imbecile Brandon Johnson and his CTU and DSA comrades to heel

This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM

the jerk store called. the cost of jerks has doubled due to trumps tariffs

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