@musingmeredith.bsky.social do you have any snowmen around you? I don't have any by me and I'm disappointed in the neighborhood kids ☃️

It looks like a normal Ventriloquist dummy so far #DevilDoll #Svengoolie

Oooh someone on the block has a snowblower and just did the whole block for us! ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ #snowstorm #chicago

Absolutely stellar play to have the election stats guy deliver analysis for the dog show #bestinshow

🚨Winter Storm Watch!🚨 Brace yourselves, Chicago! Expect heavy snowfall exceeding 6 inches from late Friday night through Saturday. Travel could be tricky. Stay tuned for updates.

thesis: buy books antithesis: pirate books synthesis: get books from the library

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Would it be weird to try to send Valentines to the dogs whose walking route my house is on?

Clear your podcast queue: Season 5 of Going Over Our Freds starts Wednesday Nov 26 🚀🌕🚀🌕 🚀🌕

[The Daily] The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S. podcastaddict.com/the-daily/ep...

New episodes start soon. We're doing Christmas a little differently this year. . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyHE...

This is clearly bad; however, if you want a small bit of light, Chicago is probably the most transparent city in the US on this. Every city has police lawsuits. The difference is that they usually hide the cost of them from taxpayers.

Check in for #svengoolie #DraculaHasRisenFromTheGrave

Unhappily reading the obituary (!!) of a past acquaintance, who was too young to go

This is a great and quick exploration of plane landings on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive 🎧 [Curious City] How many planes have landed on Lake Shore Drive? #curiousCity podcast-stream.wbez.org/recast/curio...

Illinois passed the Illinois Bivens Act, which allows folks to sue ICE officers who violate their rights. “damages can increase based on various factors … including the use of facial coverings, crowd control measures like tear gas, vehicles with a non-Illinois license plate or no license plate…”

Google translate is such a good tool. Too bad I have to fight against one AI tool (spell check) and actively ignore another (Google AI overview) to get the info I need.

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

50% of the Canadians I know have attended a world series game within the past 2 days

Superb conversation on the value of horror movies to the human experience [The Assignment with Audie Cornish] Horror Used to Be Escapism. Now It’s a Mirror #theAssignmentWithAudieCornish www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect... cc @audiecornish.bsky.social

Kitty!

Bad news about sucralose (Splenda): Popular sweetener found to damage DNA in the human body - Earth.com share.google/2jm5r5n6daxW...

Here for #Svengoolie & #theFly!

I borrowed Project Hail Mary after hearing about how disgruntled its fans were about the movie adaptation's trailer (apparently there's an awesome twist that is spoiled). 63 pages in and the protagonist is puttering around doing high school physics problems.

You know, a fascist president tearing up and destroying parts of the white house associated with the President that got us through WWII would be too on the nose for fiction. But I also don't think Trump is that aware either.

Deeper context for the raided building in South Shore, with a bonus cameo appearance from the idiotic idea that has defined the entire past decade of my local political engagement: the motherfucking Tiger Woods golf course.

OK FINE I'LL LISTEN TO GOLDEN

Clocking in for #YoungFrankenstein on #Svengoolie

Here is Abraham Lincoln looking on approvingly as a whole bunch of us towards the Van Buren Street pedestrian bridge over to Michigan Avenue.

I, and many thousands of others, did not start the match by walking down Jackson. This is huge and it is definitely not the entire crowd!

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

LIVE: Mayor Johnson of Chicago addresses the #NoKings crowd www.youtube.com/live/54qDhQH...

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

I'm almost totally ignorant about public opinion polls and am not finding what I'm looking for via Google. Are there recent polls regarding the city's opinion of Mayor Johnson?

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

We've got a special series cooking up for Christmastime, Goofballs, you better get ready.

Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

2025 Chicago Marathon runner tracking: See where your runner is on the course #nbcChicago

The Chicago Marathon crowds are sparse today

Try this gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Halloween Houses 2025: Where can you find Chicagoland's most 'spooktacular' home displays? share.google/2qky0SHfiehh...

NY Times Gift Article by David Wallace-Wells “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Praise the Lord

Hey what are we going to call the American equivalent of the Nuremberg trials?