Such a red flag when men say “females” to refer to women.

They’re not gonna let us have another pope, are they?

Nothing gives me the ick more than when men in formalwear have their pants sit on their hips instead of their waists. Look at how cool Bogart looks! Dress like this!!

"O’Neill Burke made no changes to the pilot program after a coalition of 136 organizations and people, including the ACLU of Illinois, the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, the BGA and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, sent her a letter in May urging her to halt the program."

Not what I was expecting out of Trans Day of Remembrance, but okay universe

every trans suicide is a murder every trans murder is a policy consequence and the bodies keep piling up as the elected officials who today tell us they care about us — ALL of them. — still label the hate against us as a “distraction” sorry, the funeral i went to last week was not a distraction

“A change in leadership at the juvenile temporary detention center is long overdue,” said Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center Advisory Board member Amanda Klonsky. “The young people there deserve a superintendent who is present and accountable.” buff.ly/RP4himt

Sounds like my upstairs neighbor is taking up the guitar. That’s fun. Good to have hobbies.

I gotta hand it to the man, it takes a unique kind of political vision to isolate two of the single largest things you could do to do to actually, structurally fix Chicago's budget* and preemptively rule out BOTH. *(that can be done unilaterally by the city under existing laws)

Every once in a while my sibling tells me more Grey’s Anatomy lore and it’s always wild. So many characters have left, even the main one! IMDB says some other character has appeared more than the titular character! It’s the Ship of Theseus of shows!

Over the last week I’ve gotten my personal email from over 12,000 unread emails to only 99. Executive dysfunction who??

Had a dream where someone taught me to play the harmonica. Should I start playing the harmonica?

I just realized that most buddy cop movies are enemies-to-lovers stories.

NEW: Head of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center is stepping down Dec. 1 after a decade-long tenure marked by controversy. (nothing like a good old friday news dump) www.injusticewatch.org/juvenile-cou...

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the Condé United and NewsGuild of New York union members who were retaliated against for questioning the closure of Teen Vogue.

Wait. Tom Waits doesn’t sing the Sopranos’ theme song!?

“Condé Nast I’ll see you in court” - NY AG Leticia James 🫡

A quick note for sheriff watchers: the sheriff of Cook County (Chicago), Dem Tom Dart, won't face any primary challenge next year. He also won't face any GOP opponent. So not much to see electorally in the nation's 2nd biggest sheriff's office.

The City of Chicago budget hearings are almost over! You can catch up on all of our budget snapshots, full analyses including charts and tables, here: www.bettergov.org/tag/budget-h...

@kylietcheung.bsky.social has watched TikTok + Instagram become hotbeds for birth control disinformation, + "young, female social media users increasingly fall into the trap of a misogynist online ecosystem." Meanwhile, the GOP is stripping away repro rights talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

I saw Rear Window recently and throughout the whole movie was thinking, “omg Grace Kelly looks like a literal princess??” Turns out the Prince of Monaco thought so too.

Illinois defendants who have been found unfit for trial – and are in need of inpatient fitness restoration – are waiting nearly twice as long for a state hospital bed as they did five years ago. My latest for @illinoisanswers.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2025/11/11/t...

nvm excited about having sushi later!

Kim's psychics made the classic blunder of predicting something that is verifiable! If you claim to know things through psychic means, you gotta stick to stuff no one can check! "Your dead relative is very proud of you." "Your dog went to heaven." Not the outcome of a literal test!

Anyone else get bored of eating? Like, I just ate food yesterday, you’re telling me I need to eat more today!?

Some Guild friends set up a fundraiser to help the illegally terminated employees while we fight back www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...

It's been rumored for a bit they would leave mid-November. It's not the weather, just the natural lifespan of a ~225 person operation. Before Border Patrol arrived, ICE was still here. They were smashing cars to pull people out of them, taking people from court and check-in appointments, etc.

On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.

Have they tried turning it off and on again?

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Well, as a divorced lesbian…

Unlike a temporary restraining order, which is meant to expire after 14 days, Ellis says this injunction order is to remain in effect "pending further proceedings before this court."

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

Ellis also finds that the feds' use of force in Chicago "shocks the conscience."

I have the same advice today that I’ve had for years: never talk to a journalist about DIY HRT

Just so Chicago knows, CPD and several alders are pinning their out of control overtime costs on protests. One alder said if we want to save money people should stop protesting.

Hey, why’s it dark out?

Omg my sibling and I would start the game up just to let the commentary play! Also I’d be more interested in baseball if players doing well caught on fire and could leap 50ft into the air.

One thing that sucks about living in a transphobic world is the lack of trans role models. It’s hard to imagine what my life could look like in 10-20years bc the trans representation isn’t there. Trans youth deserve role models, especially smart ones who took their concerns seriously like Lex/TV did

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

This absolutely sucks. I’ve been enjoying Teen Vogue’s political stuff for years! I was literally just encouraging my 15 y/o cousin to check it out. Where can young people go to make sense of a world that’s seemingly falling apart before they’ve hit adulthood?

Get in the control group, Shinji.

Were the LOTRs movies the last time someone who’d participated in a world war acted in movie about dealing with world war trauma?

Outside Chicago— State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear. A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection. Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky's death has rocked the chess world, especially because of the nasty, internecine campaign that former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik, who Naroditsky idolized, had been waging against the young grandmaster. defector.com/beloved-gran...