Pure homerism on my part - but there’s something about all the aimless, feckless ICE agents walking around downtown Chicago, a cathedral of modern architecture and industriousness and truly American in scale, that strikes me as profane

One of the most amazing things about this is that a conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein features one person repeatedly praising themselves for trying to convince other people of challenging ideas. That person is ...Klein.

I did grocery pick up & they inexplicably gave me bonus cinnamon rolls, so my Sunday is off to a fantastic start

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

As far as I can tell, my big dumb cat’s most earnest desire is to dehydrate himself and get kidney stones - we had dry food as a treat while I was out of town & now are on day 3 of a semi-hunger strike now that we’re back to wet food

I think you could buy an old school bus and get away with doing this in Chicago as long as you’d care to drive. I know I would get on a school bus after waiting 20 minutes for the 22

Do things like this shame the EU by any chance? Like, this is the state of the US - why haven’t you taken on the mantle of leadership? It’s wild to me that there is a huge lack of ambition both in our own leadership and in our world’s leaders

Why are so many pools in Chicago 20 yards? I’m kind of jonesing to swim laps but it seems like you’d just spend half the lap gliding from your flip turn

The Great Lakes call to us

I should just keep all the Northwestern Tech Science Avatars on my phone.

I’m in, here are some lake pictures as tribute

Some Far North Side goddesses

What movie do you consider perfect?

If things get weird enough I think I’m going to start a hyper-local religious cult dedicated to lake mother worship & all the small gods of Chicago

It’s kind of funny actually being on a group chat of indivisible volunteers (85% women) who organize a lot of the marches & spent a good portion of today sharing more things to sign up for & then all the drama on bluesky today

Remember when it felt like maybe Trump had died?

Every time I see a pop-up asking me to sign up for a newsletter, I close the entire website, wipe my hard drive, and yell "FEDS!" like Grandpa Simpson confronting the birdbath.

the press conference he held to roll out the bold new strategy of lidded garbage cans all while Empire State of Mind is blaring in the background was one of the best things I ever saw

This is the post that made me finally mute the Tribune - it’s a hollowed out Rightwing mouthpiece at this point & there’s no sense getting upset about it anymore

Older gentleman was blaring Maroon 5’s ‘Songs About Jane’ on the Red Line today and honestly wasn’t mad but was struggling not to giggle the whole trip

"Chicago's about to find out why it's called the Department of Well We Would But the Vibes Are Off"

I’m very invested in the rat birth control thing - like how hilarious of a job would that be? I’d love it to be my semi-retirement gig, just walking Chicago alleys and lecturing the rats about being responsible

Everything I‘m reading is telling me not to try stripping the paint from my brick fireplace but I’m pretty sure I’m built different & it will go perfectly

They insist that America is about blood & soil, about where you were born & what color you are, because on any level playing field, they would lose. They have no decency, no particular skills, no ideas, nothing to offer ... the accidents of their color & geography are all they have going for them.

This is the only kind of misinformation you’re allowed to post about Chicago right now - ominous nonsense about the lake.

Trump just got his shots if anyone was hop the flu would take its course

I'm sure there are downstream, negative effects of letting every Arkansas and Iowa soybean farmer go bankrupt, but man, are those videos of them asking for a bailout enraging

Why does every political press event now involve a posse of people standing around like it’s a 90s rap video?

I now aspire to having gate ravens - RP, Chicago

I think the only thing I’d criticize about @govpritzker.illinois.gov communication so far is I think both he & MBJ need to start doing daily press conferences addressed to the people of Chicago to establish the connection before this next weekend

Just realized he’ll have to leave the Temu gilding up for awhile in memoriam & will probably have to install a huge portrait of Trump in the oval

Death Cab for Cutie playing the prom in the OC because the OC was actually my introduction to a lot of music growing up in suburban Kentucky & it was great payoff for Seth Cohen being obsessed with them

It’s a glorious day in Chicago and we’re heading into a holiday weekend

Forget IL-9 - who in Illinois is going to primary Brad Schneider, the chair of the ‘New Dems’ in the 10th?

If I was putting on Lear it would be very hard not just to do it on the nose at this point

Meta would have us all out there looking like Pokémon trainers

At the bottom of a buttery bag of popcorn (movie theater popcorn has a better aura - they can sit next to you in a dark theater & hand the bag over and leave, but microwave popcorn would be the funniest)

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Publicists $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Cricket couldn’t be more relaxed (and yes, I’m still unpacking 2 months in - ugh!)

Laura Loomer as the Rasputin figure in a decaying American empire really does make total sense. An attention-addicted College Republicans washout who looks like she told her plastic surgeon "just keep going until I say stop" is our rough equivalent of a Siberian sex wizard.

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

My people

Popeye’s really couldn’t have paid for better marketing than the latest IL-9 drama . It almost feels like a Nathan For You Bit - the plan is to run a social media personality in a highly competitive primary . . .

A Band

Very champagne problems, but I am so fed up with the singles tax on streaming services- I, a single person, should be able to share an HBO account with my sibling as long as we stay under the max number of screens

only one thing can truly fix everything wrong with all of us: another massive and extravagant world’s fair in chicago

lucky to be in Rogers Park

There’s such a huge spectrum between ‘scratch cooking’ and ‘takeout/restaurants’ that this feels like a kind of hollow comparison - I can easily (and frequently do) eat at home for every meal during a week and not really cook once between TJ’s prepared food, bagged salad, & the deli counter