At 4:00 PM CDT, 2 NNW Elgin [Kane Co, IL] Trained Spotter reports Flash Flood. Tyler creek is out of its banks causing extensive flooding at Judson University. Several local roads are flooded and impassable. #ilwx Link

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Ring ring: it's @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and me reminding you that early voting begins this Saturday!

James Dolan has me believing NYPD statements

It’s weird because many dog whistles are in general a low info indicator of being a nazi but seeing someone say, “I am being persecuted for innocently using this nazi dog whistle,” is one of the highest info indicators there is

this is one of the clearest ways he's aging - he used to snap about stuff, sure, but it was more calculated and under control he's really losing the ability to self-regulate and getting angrier and more erratic

Spot-on: “…Platner’s rocket to political stardom reflects something ugly that’s developed, not only on the right but on the left too: The only acceptable form of ‘identity politics’ now is white-male identity politics.”

My photos app reminded me it’s 3 years to the day since I first got glasses (even though I have had amblyopia my entire life, I just had to deal with it because I was never given an eye exam and was told my eyesight was “perfect” bc my parents had me read an eye chart at home)

Johnson is truly fascinating, because he's a 'type' that appears often in fiction but very rarely in the real world - the bad person for a good cause. By all accounts, LBJ was a bully, a cheat, corrupt, utterly ruthless... and genuinely driven by a bone-deep conviction to justice and equality.

Sorry but the way we vote in L.A. makes no sense. Every registered voter is sent a ballot, votes, drops them off, and then an army of workers methodically and with full transparency works through them to ensure there are no mistakes and you get a text and email if there's a problem? That's fucked.

Just one more thing. If it’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” does that mean that Alvin isn’t a chipmunk?

This is part of why I used the phrase "zero tolerance." I don't have much room for "a little bit of Nazism" or a "hint of Nazism."

As somebody who lives in a rural area now, I think this take completely misses the political difficulty of city (or city-coded) people saying “just put it in a field somewhere” when rural folks will read that as “let me repurpose *your* land to provide *my* energy.”

My two cents on The Chicago Bears threatening to move to Indiana if Illinois doesn't give them eleventy-zillion taxpayer dollars to build a new stadium: F 'em. If they want a new stadium so bad, they can pay for it themselves. Illinois taxpayers have better things to spend their money on.

No other sitting U.S. president has ever attended an NBA Finals game, and for a reason. 3rd game spectators are asked to come to MSG at least 2 hours before the game.

Well…..that’s an unfortunate place to put those rivets 😁🤣🦇

If it's 90+ and humid, I don't want complexity. I want not much taste beyond carbonation, and I want it icy cold. Lawnmower beers are fine for what they are and nobody should be ashamed to drink one.

It isn't really necessary. 3 of them outright broke the law accepting millions while a judge. They all broke at least one state law and one federal law. They can simply be arrested and impeached.

Apropos point 2: we’re well past “the beginning of the end.”

Be kind to open-source developers. Behind most open-source projects is a person donating their time and energy to help others They are often working on these open-source projects after their day jobs, family obligations, and everything else life demands of them. #opensource

sadly this is impossible: dwarf fortress doesn't actually generate the description of dwarf art until the _player_ looks at it; until the player does this, the art just exists in an inchoate form with undefined elements basically a quantum superposition of every possible art state

Trump will ban it. He'll say it involves windmills some kind of way. Or RFK Jr will bite it and decide it doesn't taste good enough to use.

The outrage over Spirit's death is amazing to behold. The same people have been silent as family farms have died, small business hit record bankruptcies due to tariffs. They speak only to support the crushing of companies by businesses with monopoly power.

while at sat in a doctors waiting room yesterday the tv announced snap was ending for roughly 150k people in Illinois

As someone with degrees in drama, Law, and library & information science, I have a hard time with this. Arts and computer science do not need to have beef. People are creating beef where none is needed.

I'm a Jewish woman and I do not support anything Netanyahu is doing! I want him gone as much as I want Trump gone!!

A Virginia animal shelter is displaying its adoptable pets the way men post photos of themselves holding fish.

Before you are too reassured, this is completely a function of gas prices.

at the gas station this morning paying over $60 to fill up my honda I chatted with some of the other customers. the refrain was constant: build the damn ballroom

There it is. Any questions?

Consumers need to understand that the risks of "UPF" can be ameliorated by massively increasing the price. A Greggs muffin will kill you, but add an unusual woodland herb and give it a French name, and you'll be fine.

Nutrition scientist here. UPFs was a concept developed a long time ago that sat around doing nothing because everyone understood it was poorly-defined and incoherent. It does have a superficial, intuitive sense of validity though which is what makes it so attractive to grifters and woo merchants.

Lincoln: the slaveholders’ definition of liberty comes from “the wolf’s dictionary”

I wouldn't put it past the Roberts Court to issue a 6-3 ruling that it is a crime to say mean things about the Roberts Court.

It also plays into the right wing idea that taxes are evil rather than a necessity for a functioning society with public services.

I don’t think people are understanding that the civil rights movement included a lot of violence.

I can't support him. I probably won't stop complaining, because even my rules about elections happening elsewhere have their exceptions. My problem with Platner is unrelated to his party wing, or who he supports as Senate leader. It's not about policy. He wore an SS tattoo and lied about it.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

This is far more widespread than many people assume, especially in diverse cities where precarious immigrant families see becoming a landlord as their only route to security (with plenty of justification, I'd add; it's a pretty logical move when you are literally shut out of several labour markets)

you must prove your autism isn't transness before being autistic. you must prove your transness isn't autism before being trans. are you ready to begin?

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Honestly this is reminding me more and more of the guy who went into his office in the Empire State Building and shot a coworker, and then left and while he was outside on the sidewalk he did not fire his gun at all but the cops shot ten people.

To appear like he wasn’t being political or interfering with justice Joe Biden affirmatively let Donald Trump get away with things any other living person would have been immediately arrested for. Biden let his political predecessor get away with everything for purely political reasons. Fuck that.

Answer: the men who got them pregnant kill them. Not top five. Not top three. Top.

Comey's lawyers are going to have to ask the court to waive grand jury secrecy like they did last time because the government is acting so weird and corrupt that they can't trust that they told the grand jury everything it needed to know.