Purple at the Pier, Chicago

I think intimacy is someone remembering the little things bc you matter enough to notice. the way you like your food. the songs you play when you’re overwhelmed. the look on your face before you say you’re okay when you’re really not. noticing is one of the purest forms of love to me.

Shorty having the best summer ever

It is Rachel Robinson’s 104th birthday. She is an accomplished nurse, decorated professor & is probably most recognizable as the wife of Jackie Robinson. They married before he integrated baseball. She’s a civil rights hero who was there the whole way as a stalwart in global resistance to oppression

You can't be board with summer in Chicago.

#nailwars “Polished Chestnut” 🪵 Adding these to the site for sure lol www.auriel.beauty ✨

The ref on the left got on his tippy toes 🤣

Now I want some tapas from Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba

Animal!

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Help us wish Rachel Robinson a happy 104th birthday! With grace, dignity and unsurpassed spirit, our 2017 Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award winner has been a devoted advocate for equality in baseball and beyond.

Starting tomorrow through 7/26 they have 50% off all pizzas using the code TURBO.

Be Careful With Those James Patterson Books. He’ll Have A Bookshelf Full Of Them And You’ll Wonder Where All Your Money Went 😭😭😭 My Oldest Son Was OBSESSED 🤣

First trip to the free bookstore did not disappoint. I got American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson and the boy got the first two books from James Patterson’s Middle School series.

Selassie’s parents had a time last night. 7.18 | 11 years 💍😍

So happy to see a lot of progress with the air quality today. Almost down to the red unhealthy zone, which feels wild typing out, but it’s way better than whatever the fuck that was yesterday.

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A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall

I feel so incredibly supported at work. My boss don’t play about me when it comes to a client talking out the side of their neck. She don’t care how much they pay. Disrespect is never tolerated. Now this goofy ass lady has to find a new person to handle her financials.

there's polyethylene glycol in your soda. and these are *legal* food adulterations. and they are *legally* secret. because even though they're food additives, that 100% end up in your food, that you ingest, they are not 'ingredients' and can legally be hidden from you

food safety requires 1. universal brand disclosure 2. ALL "processing aids" listed. you don't wanna know how many labels you read are lies. there's flow agent in your "ingredients: sugar." there's oil in your 100% pure maple syrup. there's cornstarch in your frozen "ingredients: broccoli"

Knowing when to quit. 🙃

Checked a different source and my brain can’t comprehend this

Dookie lettuce and spicy air. Terrible ass timeline.

Chicago’s air quality is at 363 now. Glad I kept the boy home from camp. They were just gonna be indoors all day anyway.

AQI is currently over 600 in Detroit right now, over 500 in Milwaukee, over 400 in Toronto, about 350 in Minneapolis, almost 300 in Chicago, pushing up towards 200 in the NYC area...

WGN's Tom Skilling got a look at Cinespace Chicago, known as 'The Hollywood of the Midwest.' It spans 60 acres, includes 51 sound stages, and employs thousands of people.  Full story: https://wgntv.com/news/cover-story/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-midwests-largest-film-production-hub/ 

And if you get EBT most markets now with match and double your money :)

Chosen Few DJ Terry Hunter said bringing local DJs like Slugo and Boolu Master to the festival felt like a natural extension of the event’s mission. “Slugo and Boolu from the crib,” Hunter said. “They represent house music. Juke comes from house.” thetriibe.com/2026/07/chos...

Just saw the Jesse White Tumblers on America’s Got Talent and got all teary eyed. If you from the crib, you know how big this gotta be for those babies. So glad they’re still around.

For families in NYC!!! abc7ny.com/post/new-yor...

I’m still sad I had to miss Jazzy Jeff and DJ Slugo at the Chosen Few Picnic.

I wish I knew about that yesterday. I walked right past it.

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Now I want an Umbreon onesie

Umbreon in the Pokéball like-

Tracee Ellis Ross

Saturday City Spectacular. Today's sunrise in Chicago.

The phone everybody has been using to call Mitch McConnell

Dang… she was right there. Great match tho

Let’s go Coco!

Amazing. www.livescience.com/archaeology/... - He died free in 1729.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

As post after post circulated, I couldn’t help but wonder, was I the only person who didn’t get to spend just shy of 20 minutes talking into Mitch McConnell’s ear by phone today?

Uptown.

I spoke to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes and he told me "in the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit."