Ninety-five Theses 2.0 is going to be so dumb. Just a twitter thread about wokeness

Boo

I actually would like to see more pro-democracy messaging in politics but instead of throwing it around like a magic word you could tell people how it connects to their social and economic life experience. Here are a hundred ways your life is shitty because a handful of evil dorks make the decisions

What a sad story. Washington DC is also shutting down a line this year: the DC Streetcar on H St NE. Both the streetcar and the Northstar suffered from poor design, inadequate service, and failure to complete extensions that would have made them much more useful.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

DOMINANT WIN FOR NO. 1 INDIANA. The Hoosiers’ last bowl win was the 1991 Copper Bowl.

Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Pretty simple answer to this question, it’s because Sam Alito is steeped in right-wing grievance culture and views himself as entitled to deference and respect from everyone he encounters

I remember thinking “why would they open Jurassic Park again? All those people died!” Or “why would they have another summer camp at Crystal Lake after Jason killed all those people for seven consecutive movies?” but it’s gotten to the point with things where it’s like yeah they’d do that for money

Need this in Chicago.

Everyone on Twitter is insane

Worth thinking about this as less of a coherent ideology about building stuff or whatever than as nostalgia for when a certain set of guys were younger and somewhat more influential in DC

Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I’m from Whoville, and I say kill the Grinch!

Soviet New Year's card from the World War II showing Ded Moroz (Santa Claus) decorating his tree with Nazis, 1942

Chicagoans - please take a moment to tell the OIG to investigate aldermanic prerogative in housing development Survey closes Dec 31 igchicago.org/2026-annual-...

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

But I was told that building more housing was gentrification! Oops.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

In this NYT article, not the onion, they refer to both Paul Ryan and George W Bush as moderates. Clown show excuse for a newspaper. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Color me shocked.

Oceans of data on job, education and housing discrimination: Try harder, losers, stop blaming everyone else Anecdotal evidence and innumeracy: There's no point in trying, the deck is stacked against us and it is a great injustice that must be rectified

Remembering after today's events that Tony Grootens, the Adams County, IL sheriff who admitted earlier this year he had worked with ICE in apparent violation of the IL TRUST Act, is still the Adams County Sheriff. Despite Pritzker telling press in August he was aware Grootens was breaking the law.

@ilattygeneral.bsky.social, do your damn job. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, do your damn job.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

About a year ago, after a school shooting in Iowa, Trump told survivors to “get over it” His callousness towards the victims of the murders at Brown should surprise nobody

"Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that prompted Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” writes Miles Taylor

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

You could say that the quality of a city’s public transit system is directly related to how often/seriously its leadership rides. Look at @wmatagm.bsky.social in DC, or @mta.info’s leadership. They don’t just ride their own transit, they go out of their way to ride it and tell everybody about it.

A quote from @yonahfreemark.com: "It is, frankly, demonstrative of the way that too many local and state governments treat their transit systems, which is a mechanism to move poor people around. Board members don’t see themselves as users of the system." www.startribune.com/metro-transi...

Despite being in charge of the Twin Cities' transit system, many of the people on the Met Council essentially never ride it. The funny thing is we've known this for over a decade. It continues to be true, everybody says "that seems bad," and then nothing changes

lol. Every take they have is bad. Iron law of the universe.

1-800 come on now

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

He really went with the source of “dude, trust me bro” Any one of us would be fired for such shoddy work. The fact that he won’t be fired leads me to conclude that he’s doing the job they want him to do. Push evidence free propaganda to advance a political agenda. Fun times.

CTA's slow zone map for November: A whopping 742ft of slow zone was removed from the Congress branch without any new sections added! That just leaves 82% of it still restricted to 35mph or less... The lack of urgency around fixing the Blue Line is so frustrating.

💯 When Lander was my councilman I saw him all over the neighborhood. On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.

Rich Miller, in just 38 words, exposes a common fallacy embraced by SAFE-T Act Critics

Who has made this 🤣

if i was an indiana fan i would snort 60 tons of cocaine and swordfight a cop probably

Ward 46: Autobots Assemble! Our Ward office is asking for feedback on the delivery robots that are run by a private company, blocking sidewalks for walkers, people w/ strollers, and folks who use mobility devices. They also make an annoying sound that I can hear inside my condo bit.ly/46thWardPDD

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives