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I do recommend the architectural river tour as one of the best touristy things to do in Chicago, but ICE really should buy a ticket like everyone else.

I know BlueSky has been waiting for my Klein/Coates take. I think Klein is speaking as a Democrat, and Coats is speaking as a liberal/progressive/leftist (I don’t want to put words in his mouth, not sure how he identifies). I personally tend to say I’m a liberal or a progressive, not a Democrat 1/?

Your 2025 Central division champion Cleveland Guardians!

The Guardians clinch a playoff spot with a walkoff hit by pitch

Welp, I hope I can at least bring my ACLU hoodie with me

Never tell me the odds

Almost 30 years after Lilith Fair, we’re still asking “what does celebrating women have to do with hating men?”

That's how you write a headline

Your Cleveland Guardians! ❤️⚾️❤️

What time is the rapture? Have I missed it?

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I’m just saying, if you’re not a Disney Adult, it’s unlikely The Mouse will know you’re not. Maybe tell them you won’t be spending money at their parks/resorts/cruises and leave out the part where you planned to vacation everywhere else first.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

I think the demo failed because the demo guy was rude to the AI. He interrupted her and that’s when it went off the rails. I’m always polite to AI. I hope they’ll remember me as one of the nice ones after the robot revolution.

I’m not even a big Kimmel fan! I remember Girls on Trampolines from The Man Show

I’m not an expert on McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklist. But my understanding is that they interviewed big stars like Lucille Ball, but only blacklisted relatively unknown writers and directors Going after famous, well liked entertainers who have Fuck You Money is a very different story

imagine joking “i wouldnt give speeches in utah right now”

This is Max Miller's Halloween costume, I imagine.

I believe Max Miller is afraid to visit Cleveland.

I love wine but I will pass on the explosive prosecco

This is what finally made me cancel my @washingtonpost.com subscription. Democracy can’t die in darkness if The Post is complicit in killing it in broad daylight.

Oh yay! He is so good on Severance, esp in the second season

Rosa Parks moved to Detroit after the Montgomery bus boycott because she was fired from her seamstress job and blacklisted from work in the city

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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

More people need to realize most Americans don’t have “papers.” Around half of us have a passport, which would prove citizenship. Birthright citizenship is under attack, but aside from that a lot of people, esp women, don’t have a birth certificate that matches their legal name.

Having Morgan Spector in this in his Gilded Age costume is amazing

A hopeful thread

Keep your chin up, scientists.💕 youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

If we rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then let’s commit to the bit, in the interest of consistency. Dept. of Transportation => Dept. Of Gridlock Education => Ignorance Energy => Lethargy Labor => Sloth Agriculture => Subsistence Commerce => Hoarding

Whoo!

Long thread, but worth reading if you listen to podcasts. Aside from ALL other issues with not allowing creators to block political ads, SBTB’s listeners probably aren’t the best demographic for pro-ICE ads

Not what I would do if I were desperate to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you, @propublica.org, for doing the journalism I requested a week and a half ago

I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.

Cleveland friends: beware the Cleveland Clinic’s new billing scheme

Once, when I lived in Chicago, I looked up my address on one of those crime map websites. A majority of local crimes were domestic violence The rest were a some car break ins, petty theft, public intox/D&D (nearby bars) and fraud Unsure how the National Guard would have stopped any of those crimes

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It's extremely unfair to speculate about Donald Trump's health just because he's elderly and can't form linear thoughts and has the diet of a first grader who won the lottery and his flesh has been changing color like autumn leaves.

Shout out to the woman last week who, when a less experienced man re-explained a point I had made previously on the call, interrupted to say “yes, that’s what Mary already said”

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I can’t imagine what morale is like when you’re sent away from home to pick up litter. A task that is often community service done by volunteers and people sentenced to perform community service. The high visibility vests over camo is emblematic of these times.

Happy International Dog Day!

*Attempts to fire But any journalists want to look into Republicans’ mortgage applications? Vance was already wealthy when he became a politician. Rubio? Cruz? Noem? Hegseth? MTG? Boebert?

Little known fact - many citizens of Chicago hate Illinois Nazis.

Ah yes. Washington DC. The city so dangerous its residents fear wearing watches or carrying purses lest they are robbed. Which is also the city tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of schoolchildren visit annually without their parents.