i keep this new years card/zine from @sarahmccarry.bsky.social open on my coffee table, because

"Syril, please. They're not real people. Let me talk to Uncle Harlo "

Like this post if you ever argued with someone in Chicago about whether tornadoes can in fact hit the city. Repost if you did it while tornado sirens went off.

❗BREAKING❗ Leavenworth residents and workers from across KC are rallying outside City Hall to BLOCK 🚫local officials from granting CoreCivic, America’s largest private prison corporation, a permit to set up a new ICE detention center in our backyard!

The man is the first person to be killed by a Chicago police officer in 2026. One other person was wounded by police on Jan. 24 in Grand Crossing. CPD officers shot 22 people, killing nine, in 2024, records show. In 2024, CPD officers shot 12 people, killing six, records show.

Home security systems are safety theater. They make us feel like we’re in control, but they don’t actually reduce the risk of violence. If anything, they’re a part of a broader, predatory industry that exploits our fears and *increases* the risk of violence to keep us spending money.

In the almost words of Leonard Cohen, You aren't going to like what comes after History

Retaining kids is a failed policy, say it louder (repeat it?) for the wonks in the back

Elliott Smith on the coffee shop audio feels like a cry for help from someone

Nothing like your pickiest child coyly saying "I think you know what I want" in response to breakfast options. No dude I do not know. It's very early, please pick a cereal.

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

As the South Side parade approaches I'll be honoring the memory of my own ancestors by fleeing the other Irish in favor of a more multicultural location, as they did many years ago. By which I mean going to King Spa.

Beautiful day for a first walk around Graceland cemetery. Louis Sullivan memorial is at a human scale but conveys a lot about his work and life.

It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

Truly the most half-assed version of security theater because in addition to being a bunch of flimsy rails, you can fully skip it by coming in from the east side of the park! Might as well just burn money while telling people not to visit.

Regulation, systems of public good (transportation, childcare, education, &c), none of this stuff occurs to them because "vote for me, I'll cut your taxes" is the only thing that fits within their belief system.

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

Trailer for season 2 Deadloch features this great cast, a Hemsworth, a shirt with a hammerhead shark on it, multiple crocs, angry tour guides; they have ticked every single box, no notes 🐊🙌🏻 March 20 cannot come soon enough youtu.be/bEu3XAz0otY?...

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

80% of having a child rearing village in America is just this back and forth

A genuine apology to our friend from St Louis who has been visiting Chicago for more than 20 years and is still being subjected to intense Boosterism. One day we will make you One of Us.

Ida B Wells tribute at the Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago forever problems for now

Can't believe this raggedy failed country is bringing back heroin chic just in time for my kid to become a teenager

idk guys this kind of talk might alienate gettable fascist votes

Yeah sure she “never hired” a campaign manager just like Jason Lee “doesn’t live” in Texas.

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Think of an Agent as a colleague who hallucinates and whose main accomplishment is doing a bunch of cocaine and playing pokemon for 24 hours, this is obviously the future of work and you are stupid if you don't understand why

She did find time to make an appearance at Davos, I believe

Dems can't clear the no-Nazi-shit bar set by the US Marines, explains a lot about where we are

Cannot emphasize enough: if you don't want the crypto/techpawn Senator, you should vote for LG Stratton There are several other reasons for a progressive to favor her over Kelly. And a point or two Kelly has in her favor. But at this pt it's most important to guard against a downgrade from Durbin

Truly next level delusional that people who, like me, lived through wars Iraq I, Afghanistan, and Iraq II, think they can do a week of bombs and then just pick the next leader. Even if it weren't evil it doesn't fucking work like that!!!!!

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Queen shit here 👑

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

I don't know how to explain this but Casablanca is a movie for adults. There are lots of movies built on an element of fantasy about being young or brave or defying the odds. Casablanca is not that. Everyone in that movie has back pain and they have all just accepted it.

Cuba and Haiti stay the best examples of how racial capitalism punishes dissent/autonomy at a state level

Good morning! You are loved and unique in all the world. Your flaws are part of your beauty. You do not require optimization. You deserve rest and people who understand you when things are hard. Also it is Friday!

Michael was an unfailingly sweet, generous man, selfless organizer and father and a friend of Palestine. Read his obit if you have time.

My view on AI is basically the same as Will Smith in I, Robot: -Don't want it or trust it -constantly warning others off it -disappointed and concerned when someone says they used it - see it as part of a political project to devalue labor

Pretty classic rust belt action: After serving in WWII, they came back to Pittsburgh. Italian one got a GI Bill degree and was a research chemist for U.S. Steel. The Irish one worked at Allegheny Ludlum Steel, w his dad, brothers, and one of his kids.

bluesky is an echo chamber where you learn about alf's dick. twitter is an echo chamber where you learn to say stuff like "actually it's called ephebophilia"

As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.

I wonder if this pilot program will find that people do indeed pee and poop. Let's give it a couple of years...

RETVRN to bikemaxxing Chicago mayors. Carter Harrison 1897, "Not the champion cyclist but the cyclists' champion."

The "Is Campbell's chicken 3d printed" section of the website is raising a lot of questions that should have been answered by the website