If they made Dazed and Confused today it would be set in 2009.

Legendary wiki entry under Personal Life. RIP.

“Yo, Mayor, you let dem close the Aurelio’s in da South Loop?”

Your event is beneath (checks notes) Milli Vanilli.

“If I’m getting you a six-figure book advance, I don’t want you to be putting it into ChatGPT,” said a top literary agent. “Go to the fucking library.” nymag.com/intelligence...

lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now

Whats Kalshi have for odds on Morrissey cancelling his Riot Fest booking?

SUGAR is coming to Chicago for RiotFest! Tickets on sale now for Riot Fest 2026 at Douglass Park in Chicago. Head to sugarcopperblue.com to purchase.

Gin Blossoms

Quick, summarize America in one headline

They never let Bartolo Colon lead off (Because they were COWARDS)

So weird how these programs keep having the same positive results.

Ruining another casual conversation by saying that generative AI is incredibly unreliable even for that one little thing you like to use it for

Terminator 2 with parents at the drive-in (double feature with Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey). I was 9. Pretty great.

Wendy’s Spicy Chicken sandwich has long been the pound-for-pound champ.

Cubs win one in a row, baby.

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

Per NYT, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew Boutros (yes, the one who just admitted to alleged misconduct in the Broadview Six case and dismissed it days before trial), opened this inquiry:

Cubs good again

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

I did a thing. Instead of sausage and peppers, I made sausage pizza puffs and peppers. New level of Chicago created.

Tobacco industry pledges $250 million to anti-teen smoking ad campaign

Besides that fact that standing in line for anything gives me anxiety, I’ve never eaten something where I’ve thought after, “Yeah, I’d wait half an hour before even having the opportunity to even order that again.” I’m confounded when I see lines to get into any eating or drinking establishment.

PSA FOR PARENTS: Do you have young kids who are into history/archeology/space documentaries? Do they have access to Disney? If so, you need to know that Disney's algo immediately suggests conspiracy TV, even when set to a kid-aged profile (tv-pg). This is dangerous, and seemingly by design 🧵

NEW: The State Department is super cagey about its new office, named for a far-right European plan for ethnic cleansing. A source says it handles tens of millions in payments to support people being deported to countries they aren't from, with minimal oversight. @davidgilbert.bsky.social has more:

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

pretty much every single one of the founders except for John Adams were the "candles $3600 someone help me my family is starving" meme, but for brandy and slaves

Did you just give agency to a construction project?

Munetaka Murakami seems fun and cool, which makes it even more sickly comical that America genuinely doesn’t know the White Sox exist. That dude would be THE topic of baseball if he was on about twenty other teams.

Turk Wendell Pitcher Debut: 1993 - Retired: 2004 CHC - NYM - PHI - COL

The charges against Jacobs include felony strangulation and suffocation, and four misdemeanors: battery (domestic abuse), criminal damage to property (domestic abuse), disorderly conduct (domestic abuse) and intimidation of a victim. www.nytimes.com/athletic/730...

Geno Smith (questionable - computer gave instructions on self harm)

I’m Spartacus! 🇬🇷🏛️🏺 Great to have you Russel! #RolandGarros

Cubs love not doing anything after the opposing team commits an error and gift wraps a big inning.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

Fitting that first inning happened while I was fixing a toilet.

Hey, what time do the Cubs start?

Lewis Grizzard said he suffered from "Heinekenitis" and "PBR Syndrome." He wrote that in the paper, and they published it.

Though the customer ahead of me didn’t ask, the cashier at the hardware store went out of her way to mention the recent 45-cent tax on some chemical the guy was buying and how the governor is “lining his pockets” with said tax. “Where does it go?” she asked the uninterested guy. Much to consider.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Hey all, debuting something today! So get ready, multiple BlueSky post thread incoming. I'm going to be doing a daily World Cup newsletter, which kicks off today with a Group A preview! sam-fels-but-whos-buying.ghost.io/presenting-t...

dying at cheryl hines yelling "bobby, please!!!" in the background

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

Decided to write about it The Cowardice of Political Incuriosity www.wideleft.football/p/the-coward...

if MAHA were a meat industry conspiracy to trick people with cardiac disease to choke down as many beef products as possible before they croak, it would be doing exactly what it's doing www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/s...

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

LMFAOOOOO ZOHRAN RETWEETED VIVEK

The sudden silence in that rowdy joint