Yesterday it was 61°; Monday we may receive anywhere from two snowflakes to 87 feet of snow; Chicago baybeeeee greatest city in the world.

Soooooooo many people don't have any concept of compound Interest.

I rarely talk about the process of getting my work published but this one is a definite exception. I have never experienced this before in my career. Both of the TV editors working with me on this piece were let go in the middle of the editing process. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...

I think drawing swastikas on a Jewish day school is bad and whoever did it should be punished to the full extent of the law regardless of the direction from which they are trying to terrify Jews

Two kinds of bathroom guys: the ones who use a paper towel to avoid touching the bathroom door when they leave because of the ones who left without washing their hands.

I asked my subscribers to send me their new ACA premium quotes. OH MY GOD. Republicans are sending us into a full on healthcare crisis. You’ve got to see this.

Dear senator: Publish your threats. If the Capitol Police won’t protect you, say it. You are being blackmailed into silence, and the only way to deal with a blackmailer is to refuse, to stand up. The more you bow down, the more your abusers will kick. They WANT your acquiescence. Stop cooperating.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

jfc

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Chuck Schumer is a complete sentence

Because this has Mandala Effect’ed for most of the last week, I’m writing it down to get it out of my head. If someone around you has both a substance abuse problem, AND they’re abusive or hostile to others, especially while under the influence, treating the substance abuse has to come FIRST.

As David Lynch said: “Fix your heart or die” They would rather double down, and rarely consider the ”or die” that comes for their heart as they embrace bigotry. Maybe if they do more for the right, exceed in cruelty; they hope to outrun the blood they will get on their hands in being sympathetizers

In a big-box store the "must engage, must smile" is misery wrought upon employees and customers alike. In a small shop, like a comics and games store, genuine engagement from the lone human at the counter is kind of nice. It might just be waving hello, it might be "I'm over here if you need help."

Please pray for rain in Iran.

A bit more on the warnings the trajectories of Dworkin and her ilk offer: bsky.app/profile/davi...

Start here and keep going for an absolute octopus of threads worth reading.

This also means that those of us they're trying to destroy need to treat the fight for trans survival like a war. Now.

This is awful and I wish the Tribune headline did not say shots were fired, because that is what officers claim and not what video shows.

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

Buying planes is a bad idea for multiple reasons, which is why many airlines lease planes instead of buying them. I also can't believe this is happening after massive cuts to cancer research, arts grants, the government shutdown and the pause in SNAP benefits.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

can we stop pretending The Free Press was "an outlet" and remember that it was a substack? please and thank you. she's done a great job of creating the illusion that she is a journalist who was running a newsroom, but she's an opinion writer with a newsletter, no need to repeat the lies folks.

…and? Do not make me start quoting Luke, people, because I WILL DO IT*

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

On Wednesday, October 22nd I was scheduled to have my surgery for #breastcancer. I had to postpone my surgery due to not having enough funds to get me through my recovery from the surgery. I need to work & raise funds for bills, rent, & groceries. I'm attempting to raise $500. 1/

Fuck this Bullshit. If you're business model relies on theft you should be put out of business.

Somehow I missed this (and it's not on Substack). Subscribing right now.

For anyone who doesn't know, this is a user-selected function. As in, "This is a more comfortable provider of this service I'm paying for." I guess it's a problem for men lacking other scenarios to force women into their car.

Minnesota restores full SNAP benefits to families in need www.startribune.com/minnesota-re...

This is so damn beautiful

Repost your posts. Brag about your accomplishments. Get yourself treats. Be weird as fuck. Above all, do all these things for those you love too. Life is too short to try not to take up the space you need

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

A 50 year mortgage would be just great for the banks. We'd all pay more for the same amount of house, and banks would reap the profits. This is not the way to make buying a house affordable. Building more housing and paying a livable wage will benefit everyone except banks and their shareholders.

Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none

Hello Friends! I need a new website. I have a Squarespace site, but I need someone with actual artistic talent (and that's absolutely not me) to actually make it, you know, useful and good. I'd really like if a queer and/or racialized artist did it, and yes, I will pay for your work.

It is midnight in Scotland so HAPPY BIRTHDAY to @phoenixforce.bsky.social. Every day I am lucky enough to have Bex in my life is a better day than it would be without them. And after the last year, recovery from injury, start wrestling, and get their PHD I am only more amazed with them than ever.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Trump’s America is truly bizarre. There is no white genocide in South Africa. No evidence has been presented. Even a white farmer told Trump this was not happening and that the accusations are false. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE agent in Chicago draws and trains a firearm on protestors armed with iPhones. Trump's America in 2025.

This is TOMORROW!! I am both excited and nervous that the snow is gonna make it a dead market soooo come say hi and alleviate my fears?

Thank you! They are well aware they are well loved, but more never hurts!

I missed it yesterday, but yesterday was JingleCat and NinaCat’s Gotcha Day, so here are their most recent and their first pictures. Ninacat was probably around 10 months when we got her, and had borne her first and only trio of kittens. Jingle was about 6 months old.

I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.

not doing anything to change my opinion tjat every manager who says that line to people who are on their feet for hours at a time is a nightmare human being who shouldn't be allowed to manage a flea circus

This auction is now live on eBay. 1500 credit Orlock gang. 9 humans and 2 cyber-mastiffs (Scenery not included) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/39722454... Starting at £50. Oz will get the money, not me. DM me if you have any questions. #Nerdlings #Necromunda

As David Leonhardt calculated, whites have 0.35 Senators per million people, while Blacks have 0.26, Asian-Americans 0.25, and Latinos just 0.19. The Senate is affirmative action for white people"