The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Bulls did it against Minnesota in 2015-16 I’m still annoyed by it!

Charlotte Bacon ~ Daniel Barden ~ Rachel D’Avino ~ Olivia Engel ~ Josephine Gay ~ Dawn Hochsprung ~ Dylan Hockley ~ Madeleine Hsu ~ Catherine Hubbard ~ Chase Kowalski ~ Jesse Lewis ~ Ana Marquez-Greene ~ James Mattioli ~

Now that OKC has lost a SECOND game, they have to: 🏀 Play at a 70-win pace for the remainder of the season to tie the ‘96 Bulls 🏀 Play at a ‘96 Bulls pace to tie the ‘16 Warriors 🏀 Play at a ‘16 Warriors pace to break the record. 72-10 and 73-9 are truly absurd accomplishments. #NBASky

“Common sense” in legislative/policy circles is usually an adjective to describe something that has either not been proven to be effective or, more frequently, proven to be detrimental to the stated outcome (e.g., mandatory minimums or death penalty)

Before I got involved with @momsdemand.bsky.social, I was very naive about how the gun lobby works. The work to fight back is constant, exhausting, and absolutely necessary. Find the folks in your area who are already in the field doing the work. They need you. We all need you.

I may stop asking new acquaintances about their kids cuz it’s getting harder and harder to listen to the unexamined ways in which people will go ON about how raising boys is SO much easier than raising girls. Maybe we have a male loneliness epidemic cuz parents aren’t raising their male children.

I became a dense walkable neighborhood activist in my drunk 20s when I lived in a dense walkable neighborhood and took the train to other dense walkable neighborhoods.

If you go 75 the entire time for 15 miles—no junctions, no traffic, 75 point A to point B—that takes 12 minutes, a 3-minute savings vs. 60. But that’s not how traffic operates. Most people bitching about not going 75 are bitching about it in 3-5 mile chunks. Enjoy your extra 37 seconds I guess.

I’m gonna say it, if your front end is that big then you need a commercial drivers license to operate it.

This behavior is on display in police departments across the U.S. They’ll arrest a person they “know” is guilty, that person’s charges are dismissed because of shoddy [or invented] evidence, PD proceeds to harass that person endlessly because they “got off on a technicality” (i.e., were not guilty)

If it’s chill to target Catholic Charities then we need a full auditing of every megachurch in the country. There’s 501(c)(3) violations ALL over that shit. Make these cheek-mic grifters account for every penny the way abortion providers do.

LRT I hope everyone who upended that child’s life is having a really shitty day.

A coworker’s husband coaches girls high school lacrosse and one of the girls on his team got a scholarship to a D1 school for lacrosse but the scholarship was revoked because she’s intersex and her birth certificate says she’s a boy.

"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

There’s the whole “Make legislators take public transit” movement but hell yes “make legislators navigate private health insurance.” Make sure you use up your FSA money before 12/31, senator!

Yes, you shouldn't have to take a Writing 101 class in college, but if you've ever been in a Freshman gen ed writing class you know full well how necessary it is for a lot of students, because American primary + secondary education systems are quite bad and our culture is deeply anti-intellectual.

White suburbia is always the enemy of progress and the failure of America

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

Also and should be noted… if you look around the media landscape and the singular Black person you select for your panel is Charlemagne the god… I have no confidence in you to hold these conversations responsibly

I wish I could take literally any politician to Vancouver so they could see what 100 second frequencies can do. It’s radicalizing for automation and screen doors. Trains come so often you wouldn’t bother to walk faster in order to catch one.

The idea that they want only legal immigration was a lie from the start.

Here’s the thing: based on the rules of whiteness, while immigration is not a plot, it will ultimately result in a depletion of the numbers of people counted as white. Whiteness as a concept is exclusionary. You can’t be half white and be considered white by the people who care about whiteness.

Gianni Infantino managed to make people nostalgic for the corruption in FIFA from the Sepp Blatter era

I am undoubtedly at risk of having too much of my worldview based on The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but so much of the corporate world's rationale for its heedless destruction sounds to me like "It's a bypass. You've got to build bypasses."

Omg the Secretary of transportation is either gonna do the most pathetic 180 or he’s gonna be long-knived. Either way it’ll be a trainwreck to watch. (Or more accurately a cybertruck or waymo wreck)

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

There is not a corporate neologism I loathe more than “human capital.”

Drinking a Mayan mocha in a South Asian-owned coffee shop that occupies the storefront that was the first ever Starbucks in Oak Park. This must be why the feds indicted one of the Village board members.

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

I’ll be in JACK & JIL FUK Bah #2 pissing in one of the 3 sinks

O Come All Ye Faithful but it’s gotta be in four-part harmony. Can be a quartet a capella, a chorus either a capella or with keyboard accompaniment (pick your keyboard), but must be minimum soprano-alto-tenor-bass following the basic 4-part harmony rules. The Drifters’ White Christmas.

Every election is the most important but there should be “wresting back state legislature” strategies being funded NOW aimed at 2030. Redrawing district lines simply to accurately reflect the electorate will gerrymander the GOP out of relevance, you don’t even need to be political about it.

Very sad that the headline is not “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. And now so is Tom Stoppard.”

The Hornets’ in-house DJ is DJ A-Minor. Spectacular.

The double doink is empirically the funniest moment in Chicago sports history. Literally anyone who knows anything about that history knew the season was going to end on a missed FG and he missed it in the dumbest and funniest way possible.

Lmao intercepted screen pass THAT is the Bears I know and love.

Kind of funny to think how many local governance issues could be fixed if more employees responded to [request for dysfunctional rule sidestepping] with "no"

him: “I’m not a lawyer but -“ me: “I am though“ him: <click>

if you ever rt’d Justice for Becky when Yitzy and Costello were bullying her for doing her job, hear her out now too

It’s really uncomfortable to change your mind especially if it means accepting that you’ve been part of something that you thought was helpful that was actually harmful. But it won’t kill you! It’s ok. :)

Idk committing a mass shooting seems like assimilating to US culture just fine.

Is that the same guy who fumbled it diving for the end zone in the AFV title game a couple years back?

They did a shot of the inner harbor cutting out to commercial of the Ravens game and I made a similar whimper noise that I made for the 14 years I didn’t live in Chicago when they’d show the skyline during Bulls games. I have two homes.

I don’t really watch football much anymore, I see “Karras” on a jersey and I go “oh I wonder if he’s related to Alex Karras” and sure enough, grandnephew of Mongo himself. I have turned into my father.

Not Prince Harry I hope?

I don’t know why this is making me giggle so hard but it is (probably the Irish coffee and mimosas)

Reminder that calling these people weird was working

The children I know who 6-7 don’t do it cuz it’s cool or whatever, they do it to torment their parents. This would be no deterrent.

A party full of cronies whose only jobs have been consequence-free sinecures. Now they’re being held to account a couple two-tree times and the flop sweat starts flowing.