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.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Gonna wear a suit, tie and glasses for Halloween and tell everyone I’m dressed as a soybean farmer / treasury secretary.

Every day it's just helicopters all day long now and people are somehow still unsure whether to call this an occupation

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

The last stanza of "Maxwell Street" by Galway Kinnell, Chicago 1955

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

The expectation, from the complicit mainstream media, that every single person on social media hold themselves to a HIGHER standard of respect than the freaking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES will never cease to amaze me.

RFK Jr in charge of DHHS is basically like the fire chief giving a press conference saying we’re no longer enforcing fire codes and have laid off 80% of firefighters, but it’s cool because we’ve hired a dozen fire mages to do Spells of Protection throughout the city. bsky.app/profile/josh...

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

Making “real” homemade milk paint. It is so much better than the powder and couldn’t be easier to make once you assemble the ingredients.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

The fruits of my labor this week at Lost Art Press. Can’t recommend taking a carving class from the Peter Follansbee highly enough.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Imo three things you can do in undergrad that will probably meaningfully improve your career chances (that aren’t highly contextual where the wind may shift and what’s happening to CS majors rn might happen): -become statistically numerate -learn another language -learn to write well

Tech luminaries who are obsessed with both the pursuit of layoffs via AI and the pursuit of a higher birth rate to offset population decline are operating with incompatible goals that cannot be reconciled without a pretty high degree of human pain.

conservative columnists are best understood as laying eggs in the chest of whatever's handy in order to continue the life cycle of the parasitic grievance hornet

Third time was a charm I guess. Goosemas 2-Day floors secured though. LFG! 🪿

Who was president in 2018 and 2020 are the true intellectual questions of our time

congrats pat your apology is such a joke the fucking new york post is getting easy buckets on you

Thought the framing by @kyla.bsky.social was sharp here: "Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market" open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/z...

How Elon Musk retrained Grok

January 6 pardons more accurate at predicting future crime than that computer from Minority Report

What economic system has the government controlling the central means of production?

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

Imagine loving freedom so much you buy fan merch for a prison

Three best things about Chicago: June, July, and August.

god damn he's cooking

Writers: try to find metaphors that are evocative of a larger thing without being too on-the-nose Real Life: not bothered by the "on-the-nose thing"

Impossible to overstate how bad and out of touch he is in this role.

You can't doxx a govt employee. If I, an employee of the State of Illinois, can have my salary publicly listed and my emails FOIA'd, then these jerks can show their faces.

incredible, they cop-tensed the possible beginning of the next world war

The new "Infrastructure Week" of this term...

RIP to a real one.

Since we're just making up numbers why not also claim they are also 2000% following the law.

If not Gestapo, why Gestapo shaped?

Love that my 7 yo daughter made a @goose-band.bsky.social stuffie today at DIY camp in honor of her favorite band.

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

does anyone remember the entire first four years of this decade where it was considered a potentially nation-destroying scandal for the federal government to target political opponents, even if they had indisputably committed actual crimes?

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.