it’s funny how we’re all going to be poor soon

Chicago is eternal , good luck Texass

Now why am I contributing to my 401k when the AMOC is about to collapse

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

Now see actually the farmers are getting a raw deal because inflation adjusted-

Takes like this are starting to feel weird because like what do you expect them to do?? Walk into the forest at 65 like in The Giver???

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Scrolling the other website now is like - “Trump announces new 1000000% tariff on California” - “30+ And Making Under $900K Per Year? The Surprising Case For Self-Euthanasia” - “Penguins Denied Asylum in Alaska as Antarctica Melts”

Gonna be honest having half my book of business in the 4th quarter sucks so bad because what do you mean half my holidays and travel for the year are going on and I have to lock in 110% for the 3 weeks I’m here while everyone else is checked out

It’s kind of evil Joe Ando Hirsh is straight because like what do you mean

I don’t need sleep I need to be put in an induced coma for a week

So tired I can barely type anymore

I miss fun, chaotic energy gay twitter used to have pre-covid

Sigh

Logging on for the first time after a week away to check your emails feels like defusing a bomb

Jet lag kicking my ass oh no

Watching Chilean election results come in and once again thinking about this tweet

What happens when right now is just a warm memory in the cold night

The best tops started out as bottoms.

I love living in Chicago. I love my job. I love my apartment. I love my cat. I love ORD. I love my boyfriend. I love the L. I love pizza. I love my life. Not in any order. I never thought I would be so happy, let alone so happy to turn 30 :) grateful for this little life I’ve worked so hard to build

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

I don’t wanna work anymore

So moved and enraged by the replies to this and was thinking... maybe we should collect them and send them to Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Senate cowards. Form here, won't collect emails unless you provide them. forms.gle/YnhsgtKTWD9A...

No, no, no, by bailing Trump out, Senate Democrats won the major victory of a pinky promise to hold a meaningless vote on the ACA subsidies which -- hang on now, this is the good part -- will *shame* Republicans when they vote against it. Wait, Dick Durbin has some charts that'll blow you away.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I woke up with an actual twitch in my eye is it Senate Democrats or my end of year schedule

I have family members that will probably die because of their vote today

looks like senate dems are folding on the shutdown in exchange for a doomed vote 40 days from now and nothing else

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

I would like a single day to be happy without dem senators stabbing their voters in the back to gargle Trump’s balls @peters.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Heartbreaking and infuriating.

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

Hello I’d like to commit private credit fraud would anyone like to loan me $500 million dollars?? @blackrock

¡Chinga La Migra! Chicago street vendors are being targeted by ICE & Border Patrol agents. As a result, many are staying home and not able to work. Preorder and $8 per shirt will go towards the Street Vendors Association of Chicago who offer financial assistance to vendors who stay home.

How it feels to be a risk analyst

So much has changed in my life in the last two years it’s kinda giving third puberty

I think sports would be a lot more fun if they toned down the heterosexuality a bit. What’s more fun than dressing up in coordinated colors with cute little logos? Maybe they could do competing dance routines or sing at halftime?

Legal just warned me one of my cases is gonna have to go up to the president of my (fortune 500) company and my boss is just like “oh sure whatever I don’t really think you need to cc me on anything further for this”

NEW: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called the indictment of Kat Abughazaleh and five others an "alarming abuse of power." Full statement below:

Got promoted today into a role they specifically created for me to sidestep the normal seniority progression into management but I calculated my net pay after taxes and now I’m sad again

My head hurts too much to work

Josh Marshall; gift link. Civic virtue is incredibly important. People who study crime say: most people don’t commit crimes not because they’re scared of punishment, but because you just don’t do that. Imagine how awful it would be if that weren’t true; if we couldn’t rely on people’s decency.

this is why i keep asking about the federal government's books, because everything they're doing is the kind of thing that creates massive accounting disruptions, and it's like no one in political media has even given a single thought to it

approximately seven million people were out in the streets protesting last week. these people need to grow a spine. www.ft.com/content/1377...

They’re tear-gassing people on the street a 30 minute walk from my apartment

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Coworker went on 30 second rant about how the tariffs are “the only thing supporting the economy”

It’s never pointless