I always say that the key to building a strong economy is making it harder to import capital goods

Fitzgerald, known as “Elliot Ness with a law degree,” is the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois who prosecuted not one (1) but two (2) corrupt Illinois governors (one of whom was pardoned by the president) and media mogul Conrad Black (also pardoned by the president.)

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Yesterday - Morning: Ultrasound of hands/wrists: no RA, possible carpal tunnel - Afternoon: Bilateral SI joint injections, yay ow Today: - Vendor meeting with 2nd largest city in IL - Continue to sit on an ice pack, ouch - Skip last flag football game due to pain Six more days, now five more days.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep 1. US individual tax return preparation 2. Romance novels, especially of the extra spicy kind 🔥 🌶️ 3. Website design, especially about accessibility (Not so coincidentally the 3 things I’m currently building income streams around, lmao 😂 💀)

- Ate leftovers (om nom nom) - Church board meeting as guest subject matter expert - Hugged teen & tween when back home - Tween asked for Pop-Tarts order - Kids LOLed on seeing 15 12-count boxes of Pop-Tarts dropped off on front porch - Took meds, got in bed, put on CPAP, time to rest 7 more days.

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

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it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

IT IS TIME.

- Volunteer to run scoreboard for 3 girls’ flag football games tonight - Arrive at 5:30 pm CT - Learn full league rules at 1st halftime when ref takes pity & shares his cheat sheet (not like NFL at all!) - Rock next 2 ½ games - Learn at 9:45 pm that field lights will shut off at 10 pm Continued…

I cooked for 2 ½ hours this afternoon. Fried plantains like my Ghanaian mom makes, kale sautéed in bacon grease with gochugang and other spices, quinoa with garlic and lots of lime juice, and a mix of two Rancho Gordo beans added to a well-spiced base with more gochugang. #BeanSky #HeirloomBeans

- Swab thigh with alcohol pad - Take 9 bedtime pills - Take 1000 mg Tylenol - Take 50 mg Benadryl - Open Kesimpta injector - Grab inner thigh - Press injector firmly on thigh until it clicks 2x - Blot blood spot - Put injector in sharps container - Turn off light - Tuck myself in bed 9 days left.

Have you used the meme of @drewscanlon.bsky.social’s blinking face before? 100% you have! Do you dig the stuff that I post? Probably! Do something nice today as a counter to (waves hands around) all of that stuff currently going on & donate for MS cure research! This person with MS thanks you. 🙏🏾

DO YOU REMEMBER

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Microsoft sent out guidance to its employees last night. If you have an H1-B or H-4 and are not presently in the US: “strongly recommend that you do what you can to return to the U.S.” before the deadline of Sept. 21 12:01 am ET. That means come back today! Before 9:01 pm Pacific Time, etc.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

I definitely celebrate.

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

“The rate of incidents is accelerating in recent years, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found, driven in large part by leaks on Airbus’s bestselling A320 family of jets…” Heh, so much for filtering flights and favoring Airbus A320s over Boeing MAX.

Many feelings. Shouldn’t write them here.

Hell yeah. Relevant to the current times in the current place.

CHICAGO AREA: put this number in your phone NOW and call them to get involved with stuff. www.icirr.org/fsn There are lots of other rapid response networks happening too, just mostly not visible, ask around to see where they are.

Out at dinner with @scottcranfill.com and having a lovely time (as expected)

White Squirrel and Andrea are almost single-handedly holding together several independent artist economies and this is a godsend to any intl people who were blindsided by US tariffs before their fulfillment process (but after purchase)!!

Something good happening in my life: “Welcome home! You are now officially part of the Rancho Gordo Bean Club! This is a recurring quarterly program and payment has been processed for the Q3 quarter of 2025” Yay for finally getting into the @ranchogordo.bsky.social family! #BeanSky #HeirloomBeans

truly I need you guys to know that "North Chicago" is an extremely deceptive town name and that Great Lakes Naval Station is way way closer to WISCONSIN than Chicago. You can take a commuter train. But it's not even peak rush hour rn and it's a 90+ minute drive from Great Lakes to Michigan Avenue.

"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)

US TRANS FRIENDS: Drop your gofundmes, venmos, whatever ways of supporting you you have, in the replies. Then go make sure you have plans with loved ones to deal with the worst. I love you all. We will get thru it CIS PEOPLE: Go through the replies and donate money to someone. Then reskeet.

I think it is time for many of our so-called elites to pick up some Max Weber The idea that the catastrophic loss of the underpinnings of our institutions is somehow disconnected from our descent into authoritarianism is farcical; yet no one is bothering to cover things as such.

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

You fool. You have just courted a test of physical prowess against the Great Khan himself. His messenger will arrive at your gates momentarily with his formal challenge to you.

I was product manager lead and contract manager for this interactive web tool & its data for three years. 😑😭 Canceling contracts to data that’s offered freely to the public for financing decisions, and can’t be found anywhere else without giving up your email address & SSN & phone number for texts.

People are shouting "LOOK HE'S THE BEST WE CAN DO" about the Governor of California, meanwhile the Governor of Illinois is out here talking like John Wick while *also* standing up for trans people.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

Take notes, people, this is how you do queer allyship. Meanwhile, Newsom and his stans are rushing to abandon us to attract far right support

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Run to Bookshop.org and buy Black AF History. It’s beyond wonderful, and the ebook is on sale now for $1.99. (!!!) Get the ebook now to support @michaelharriot.bsky.social without giving Jeff Bezos any of your money. Then read it from cover to cover. bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

I've started saying "Ope." 😑 After 20 ½ years living in Chicagoland, it seems I'm finally becoming a bit Midwestern. Not feeling great about this. Need to restore my natural balance by using "jawn" & "yo" more often, and continuing to claim "soda" & "sneakers." #Philly #SouthJersey #CentralJersey

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

There's a scene in William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" that covers a segment of the U.S. population that had never been portrayed in an American war film. Isolationists who thought Hitler should have been allowed to take Europe. Here's that scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Ej...