South Side stars 🤩 Munetaka Murakami, Miguel Vargas and Tristan Peters are All-Star Game ready!

As someone who has been struggling with this for months, if not years, without the ability to take any time off due to the crumbling economy and empty social safety net he helped create, I am torn between “glad you got the help you need” and “fuck off.”

The White Sox are celebrating the 1983 team today The graphics match the era! Love things like this

I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22.

Advertise your bluesky account with a Simpsons meme

Andrew Benintendi pinch-hit GRAND SLAM!

I got 82-0! www.82-0.com/share?id=T9d...

My best is now 76-6, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=nnv...

They should bring back the pond on the side.

Best I could do was 72-10. www.82-0.com/share?id=WPQ...

A car honked at me for drifting slightly left on a shared bike path and coffee shop didn't have bike racks. So long "National Bike Month", hello "Shut Up Annoying Bicyclist" year.

Paige Bueckers WNBA debut jersey sold for $64,720. Her WNBA salary for that season was $78,831.

Most home runs in team’s first 55 games, White Sox history: 1994 Frank Thomas: 21 2026 Munetaka Murakami: 20 2006 Jim Thome: 20

"Schlitz ... had become a niche brand consumed by old men and young hipsters" At what age does one go from a young hipster to an old man? Asking for a friend...

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

The obit from the Tribune ends with unpublished comments from Mike Royko about Sam Sianis.

Good gravy, they have a winning gd record

Since its Star Wars Day, I have a theory that Tatooine/The Book of Boba Fett is actually the darkest timeline of Moana.

I went to a Mets home game on April 9th. An usher was rude to me for no obvious reason. The Mets have lost 10 straight games since then. Pretty sure the entire losing streak is because that guy wouldn't let me eat my French Fries in the CF Pavilion in the 6th inning.

I have always hated the TACO stuff. There are so many ways to mock this man. Taunting him about not following through on his violent, destructive whims is not helpful to us. Thank god he doesn't always follow through, and may this be one of those times.

Suddenly Dan Hurley looks like the normal UConn coach

What did Geno say?

For at least 10 years journos have been working so hard to dissemble and obfuscate under the Honorable Notions of What Journalism Is and now even the people whose water they’ve been carrying are like wtf I’m trying to be racist

"As a society, we are making an enormously risky bet: that we can reap the rewards of a runaway gambling industry without paying any price; that the litany of social ills long associated with this vice ...will be kept in check; unlike every civilization that came before us, we can beat the house."

The Dan Ryan Expressway was built to increase segration in Chicago, displaced tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans and increases polution in neighborhoods. Why is naming it after someone supposed to be an honor?

Guest editorial about gambling in Illinois, the author's bio includes the line "He has worked for three unindicted Illinois governors"

Happy women’s history month. Believe victims and survivors.

Good to see the Cubs are in mid-season form. (First time in MLB history a triple play started with a hit)

American sports have become this weird paradox where the only acceptable result in leagues with 30-plus teams is "championship" while at the same time ownership groups have never cared less about winning. Their ultimate goal is real estate appreciation. Something's got to give

I suspect the Super Bowl will be a blowout, so the highlight of the evening maybe a Lady Gaga cover of "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"

ESPN's Top Headlines includes a story about an MLB All-Star rigging pitches in 48 games, right above a story about the 60 best to make on the Super Bowl.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

It would be funny if Eli Manning is voted into the HOF this year.

Let me say something very directly. We are objectively in a fascist authoritarian moment here in this country. Academics and historians have established indicators for this. We are well over the line on many of them.

When the NRA finds out that a citizen was shot and killed by Federal troops merely because he was carrying a gun, there is going to be hell to pay. This is the exact scenario they have been warning us about! These are the jack-booted government troops from which we need unfettered liberty!

"A group of grown men in tactical gear, working under the auspices of the federal government, bum-rushed a kid in a bunny hat with a Spider-Man backpack on his way home" read @justinellis.bsky.social on ICE's ambush of Liam Conejo Ramos defector.com/how-do-you-j...

Building work exposing old signage. NE intersection of Howard, Rogers, and Greenview. This is the Howard Street side. @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social

In the great green room 🌝

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

How do they do it?!?! How do they manage to win AND keep me from enjoying a single fucking second of the game?!

in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!

The NBA claims the WNBA player's offer will result in $700 million in losses. I did the math for everyone. The math says the NBA is essentially arguing they will only break even if the union caves this week. So why are NBA owners investing in the WNBA? wagesofwins.substack.com/p/the-nba-as...

My nominee for most undercovered story of 2025 www.google.com/search?q=hom...

I had a few returns for today, thankfully there was no line at the library book drop box.

Tomorrow is the last day of this holiday toy drive for Chicago families impacted by ICE. 41 of the 60 kids who were registered have had a present purchased. Organizers are hoping every child and family can receive a gift. Let's help them reach their goal! Venmo: KHPWtoydrive

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

I’ve been writing about kei cars and minicars for years, and I’d be thrilled to see them legalized in the US. But I suspect this story/White House announcement is less than meets the eye. Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change. Quick 🧵

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Just putting this out there, for later. Only @marksimon.bsky.social can recite them all from memory!