Peeped at the damage from the alley. Looks like two huge branches came down because the one had started to rot.

A bald eagle I saw today on Chicago's South Side

Funny how that works

Yeah I'm gonna say that fair or not AI will be like GMO or Nuclear in Europe politically. Incredible bag fumble by SV

Heard a big crashing sound from down the street and went out to discover that this grand old tree, which curled up to the sun in the lot between two apartment buildings, had collapsed out of nowhere.

She has literally less than zero credibility anyway, but this is still some hot, stupid garbage.

Could not agree more. He was the deciding vote and betrayed his entire career in public health knowing exactly what hell he was unleashing on the nation for really no reason at all.

The number of conservatives calling the compact Memphis-based TN-09 an "illegal racial gerrymander" has been insane. Whatever Alito wrote, the loud and clear signal was that even if Black people make up a majority of a coherent community, they aren't allowed to vote for their representation.

the FBI as make-a-wish foundation except instead of going to Disneyland it’s just the stupidest and most disrespectful bullshit anyone has ever come up with

TGIFrancis Fukuyama

I maintain that this man's entire existence is elaborate performance art to call attention to the elite impunity problem in this country in the most garish way and it's still not working

No particular order Ragtime Catch-22 One Hundred Years of Solitude Lonesome Dove The Great Gatsby Moby-Dick Wolf Hall Golden Hill The Age of Innocence Lincoln in the Bardo

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

They really need to show us the correct freeze frame because otherwise it looks like an open conspiracy, lol. bsky.app/profile/liam...

Hold on, Hearts. Just a bit more time.

I feel like prominent journalists being massive conspiracy theorists isn’t good for society.

Really hoping Hearts hold on, what a great story.

23/100 in this fairly odd list.

Honestly, this would delight me.

Chicago map lovers (you know who you are and there are too many of you to tag), look what's just been released! node.uchicago.edu/collection/m...

Trump fomenting the insurrection should have disqualified him from holding office. Pardoning insurrectionists should also have. Setting up a slush fund to pay insurrectionists, yup, you guessed it:

Hearts!

That's right. Our single member districts are another anachronism that was, at the time it was introduced, a wholesome innovation. Congress forced states to use them starting in the mid-1800s to end the unfair practice of states allocating all seats to the party who controlled the state legislature.

The worst possible outcome for Republicans in Georgia, NC and Texas is if racial depolarization fades so Latinos, Black peoples and Asians revert back to voting for Democrats but education polarization with white people remains so upper class whites with degrees stick with Democrats too.

Oh no! I got to meet him a few times in my tour guide days and it was always fun to say hey and shake hands with a guy who had done the same with so, so, so many people from near and far.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

never not going to be mad that Trump broke all the norms on presidential financial and health transparency, and yet was somehow not the president that the media concocted a hidden health scandal about.

One thing about choosing to be a deeply unpopular boss is that you can be fairly certain that no one working under you will do more than the absolute bare minimum.

Trump bought $1 million-$5 million worth of Nvidia stock a week before Nvidia announced a major deal with Meta. The previous month, Trump bought $500,000-$1 million worth of Nvidia stock a week before the Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China. www.notus.org/money/donald...

i think it’s good for trump to bring the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission into mainstream discourse

sufficiently large polygons are the domain of lovecraftian horror

If you haven’t seen it, you really should watch All the President’s Men on HBO Max before it goes away

Jarrett Allen clearly tripped Ausar bro smh

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

James Harden's style of play is so inherently contemptible.

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

it’s gonna be like the end of prohibition here when it happens

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

When my dad taught Econ at West Point, he actually found a local Marxist to come in and give a guest lecture on socialist economic theory as a viewpoint to contrast and critique with capitalism. He probably would’ve been non-promotable if he’d done that in the current environment.

Holy shit y’all this is not a drill, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert are dropping stuff off the rooftop of a building near the Ed Sullivan Theater!

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

This should be the Wrigley Field experience, imo.

I had forgotten that the Chicago History Museum has part of the walls of Fort Dearborn in is collection. That's amazing! Also, I chaperoned for my 3rd graders field trip and there is just not enough money in the world to fairly compensate grade school teachers.

I AM NOT DEFENDING DONALD TRUMP HERE: It's objectively hilarious that Trump is currently polling worse on inflation than Jimmy Carter (inflation hit 14.5% just before Carter lost to Reagan).

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Consistent theme in the Trump era that his supporters see invoking his name as a form of racial antagonism

Aside from Mexican sovereignty and how setting off car bombs on their freeways is literal terrorism, it's worth reiterating this kind of crap has been conclusively proven to not make one iota of difference on the quantity of drugs reaching the US to meet US demand.