Was waiting for the 20 at Halsted/Madison and saw a guy almost hit a pedestrian while making a left turn. Pedestrian said something, driver got out and threw a trash can in the street then tried to get in the pedestrian’s face, who ran off. Totally normal reaction to almost hitting someone.

Highly recommend Kaatayra's latest album "Caminhos de Agua." Brazilian atmospheric black metal/folk metal with great percussive groves. #metal

It should be illegal to play a 30-minute live Phish song at the bar. I don’t put on “Mirror Reaper” by Bell Witch, an 80-minute funeral doom epic. #livelaughlove #metal

Service has resumed in both directions.

Previous two Howard-bound trains have headed back to 95th at Belmont. Now saying there’s a medical emergency at Addison.

Howard-bound waiting at Belmont. Waiting on power to be restored to the tracks.

Sure, “he can’t” run again, and if he did that would be a Constitutional Crisis Dems and Fascists would immediately unite on and not allow Trump to do unconstitutional things. Cause that’s what always happens. We are definitely not in a constitutional crisis in regards to war powers in Iran.

Fuuuunnerrall-oppolis

are you kidding me

This is what they wanted They looked at their Black neighbors and said "fuck you, even it costs me" And they voted accordingly This one of the bleakest, most recent, examples of the idea that republicans AREN'T voting against their interests, you just didnt understand what their interests are

RESULT: Darializa Avila Chevalier, a challenger backed by New York's left, has ousted Rep. Adriano Espaillat. An earthquake result, which means all 3 congressional candidates backed by Mamdani have won: Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez.

The House’s BUILD America 250 Act would simultaneously slash funding for passenger trains and strip it of “advanced appropriation” status, so the money wouldn’t be guaranteed. There is still a path to push back and work for investments in U.S. passenger trains. Read more on our blog:

It's only Algae if it comes from the L'Algae region of France, otherwise it's Sparkling Slime

Sysco didn't deliver today on what has become our biggest F&B day of the year. (Juneteenth is now bigger than Mother's Day, NYE and Lolla.) Driver ran out of DOT hours. Not driver's fault - he's our usual Friday guy and is great. Sysco doesn't want to hire enough labor/overworks drivers. #fucksysco

This is very “they don’t play guitars in the rock music anymore” you heard from boomers in the late 90s/early 2000s when I started playing. As if Tom Morello, Johnny Greenwood, Adam Jones, Tosin Abasi, Wata from Boris and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez weren’t reinventing what guitar playing could be.

I want to believe.

Tribune E. Board rewrote history this morning to downplay the insane injustices in B6 and likely other cases that have been dropped related to Midwest Blitz. In my opinion, that piece was mostly spite because Kat wouldn’t interview during Il09. Rachel has a better/more-enlightening/damning analysis.

Heads up, Chicago, let's flush out this coward.

Witch Club Satan was great at Reggie’s tonight. They really nail the early-90s Norwegian Black Metal sound, but with feminist and decent politics which that early scene definitely didn’t have. Patriarchy opened and was incredible as well. #metal

Really excited to see Witch Club Satan at Reggie’s tomorrow. #blackmetal

Out of the gate, this lazy ad hominem reaction of “HR Lady” is just completely based in misogyny. No one truly believes only women work in HR, but they use “HR lady” as a misogynistic attack to divert the argument to women being bad people, rather than addressing the underlying claims.

Remember, according to the @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board, the onus is on bike advocates to find more “common ground” with the drivers that kill them instead of making streets safer for all. They literally said that like three weeks ago.

Fourth photo is incredible: kids playing basketball, guy riding a bike on what looks like a beautiful golden hour. Five police cruisers parked on the grass.

New Blood Incantation ambient album dropped. #metal

Great explainer from Steve. Been in my apartment 5 years, would love to see Just Cause passed. Remember going to a Just Cause rally a few years ago and speakers talked about how schools like Swift near me have seen declining enrollments as properties on Sheridan gentrified.

Iowa’s first Supreme Court case was In Re the Matter of Ralph. Basically the Dred Scott case but the Iowa Supreme Court was like “nah, Ralph’s in Iowa now. Fuck off.” Like years before Dred Scott, too. They taught it in school. Iowans used to be proud of it.

What if there were public spaces for teens to gather and utilize? Like what if we had a big park along the lakefront? Or like a beach with volleyball nets and basketball courts? Could have like people selling ice cream out of a cart. If only we had something like this in Edgewater.

Getting drunk on a Saturday night, listening to funeral doom and submitting a FOIA request to the US Navy for inventory variance reports relating to alchol, menu listings and cocktail builds for events so I can price them out. My worthless journalism degree and procurement experience meet.

I just saw like a 10-year-old kid score a bicycle kick goal in a pick-up game at the Swift School. John Kass and Paul Vallas will say we need to shutter public schools (Swift is at risk of that) and also whine about how kids don’t play outside anymore. Give kids public spaces. They’ll use them.

No local newspaper despises the city it is based in and its residents as much as @chicagotribune.com hates Chicago.

Yeah, we decimated the WHO and DOGE got rid of all the smart people who were leeching our tax dollars by trying to prevent global pandemics, but we'll all be OK cause RFK wants us to drink our own fermented urine as a cure-all. Can't wait to get into butthole sunning.

While I'm on my drunken rant listening to funeral doom metal, I would add that it's true some FOH staff make almost six figures from tips. I'm a procurement manager and a lot of FOH staff makes more than my salary. Which they deserve - they upsell and deal with horrible rich people.

As someone who works in the industry, hard not to see the elitism/racism from Sposato. Sure, there are white college kids serving while in school. But a lot of BOH is POC and migrant workers who work fucking hard. Some of them have been there for a decade due to economic/political circumstances.

Don’t listen to Led Zeppelin often, but I put on IV while doing laundry and what the fuck is “Stairway to Heaven” about? Opens with a rich lady that can get into shops after hours. LOTR stuff. Then some life advice. Big guitar solo and more LOTR stuff. Then “she’s buying the Stairway to Heaven?”

So this is kind of funny, and I don't think intentional: The band opening for Witch Club Satan is Patriarchy. Sometimes, opening bands are referred to as "support." Witch Club Satan is an incredible feminist Norwegian Black Metal band. Ironic the poster reads as "Support Patriachy." #metal

Cancer levels are astronomical in rural areas of Iowa because of nitrates in the water. Grew up in a small Iowa town. They are dying because of a lack of jobs and decisions like this. Like two people in my high school class still live in town. Everyone else is in Des Moines or left the state.

New Witch Club Satan. #metal

Oranssi Pazuzu at Reggie’s in Chicago from Sunday night. What a show. #metal #blackmetal

The only moves toward a permanent CTA leader that should be made are ones that involve that being Nora Leerhsen. Compassionate. Collaborative. Competent. Those are the Mayor’s self-stated priorities when selecting leadership, and they accurately describe Nora’s approach in the past year and a half.

Oranssi Pazuzu tonight at Reggie’s. #metal

I’ve long believed the next James Bond should be Wanda Sykes.

The housing shortage is completely real, and it’s crazy to see this. However, I hope the BUILD act will also recognize that a lot of people (myself included) will likely never own homes or condos under current conditions. I love my apartment, don’t want to be priced out. BUILD and pass Just Cause.

"Dopesmoker" by Sleep.

Highly recommend this album from Norman Westberg. I've seen him several times performing in Swans, and got to see him solo opening up for Thor and Friends in Seattle. A very sweet, kind and soft-spoken person.

"We envision many a suburban driver taking a deep breath and rolling up their sleeves before turning the keys in the ignition, steeled against the darkness with a hot thermos of coffee and as many audiobooks as their Audible budget affords." Just fucking hilarious.

Admitedly don't know the details beyond what's reported here, and it may be a little tin foil hat, but how is this fundamentally different than what happened to Mulugeta Seraw? Nazis saw Seraw, confronted him and killed him.

The corruption is so out in the open. Venturella worked for Geo Group, the private prison contractor that operates multiple ICE detention centers that have been criticized for horrible conditions. These prisons profit from inhumanity. #AbolishICE and prosectute their agents.

Gold Coast Chicago Tesla, the midwest hub of Tesla protests, is gone.

Abolish ICE in its entirety and deny everyone working for them any future government employment.