Bye flop

so @jjco.bsky.social found photos of the Pluribus cul-de-sac on Maps, which they built just for the show

The only cottage I’m going to

All-time sad gay boy anthem as the final lipsync on Canada’s Drag Race 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

The metric system makes more sense overall but Americans are correct on floor naming conventions and temperature. “I’m on floor 0” No. You are on floor 1.

I can’t explain it but this is a Christmas video

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

MAGA is the Bush coalition’s useful idiot wing who then eventually became so numerous as to constitute a majority of the Republican Party

I had my first kiss on that dune to the right. Not because either of us lived near it, but because we met in an AOL chatroom and it was roughly halfway between us.

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

Several major political scandals exploding two days before Christmas feels bizarre but appropriate for this mind-melting era.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Both videos I saw on YouTube were taken down by Paramount. And I get why - it's not new information but it's incredibly upsetting and damning. Also not new: we must never relent until everyone from Trump and Noem to Miller and Rubio are rotting away in The Hague. Share widely, especially w/ normies.

Chicago Eagle flip it around Eagle Chicago

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

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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Great thread that better hashes out the horrifying psychology behind my refrain from the last decade: Trump supporters know they are wrong, they like being wrong, and they are wrong on purpose.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Footage from a controversial prison camp was sealed from the public Sunday after regime-allied media leadership revoked its coverage just before airing.

Watching Lost for the first time

that's the actual reason trans people are in the political hot seat to some degree specifically at the moment, it's not something inherent about us or our cause, our issues were bubbling up to the surface at the time the conservatives decided being nice to people sucked&they wanted to flip the table

The Moors in 712 AD

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

Geography project idea: identifying "euphemism" or "shorthand" neighborhoods in every major city - the neighborhoods that are widely understood and often referenced to represent a certain demographic or lifestyle. For example in Chicago, "Lincoln Park" is one for rich people, etc.

Conservative anti-urbanism has always been in large part about social and sexual control, particularly of women. In small towns you can be shamed for having socially-unapproved sex. In a large, anonymous city with cheap housing, you can have multiple partners without judgment or social consequence.

The common wisdom around this is that MAGA can't comprehend that Dems don't have the same personality cult around presidents that they do, but I think it's even shallower than that. They mostly don't revere the Bushes or Reagan, so I don't think they really believe we all love Bill Clinton. (1/3)

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

The Epstein Files, everybody!

S-tier episode of Canada’s Drag Race tonight. And now I finally know how to pronounce Kiesza.

new fun way to start reversing the slipping literacy rates here

hell yeah

I know there's a longstanding issue with building a bridge between these cities, but it's still wild that this not only exists as a commercial flight, but they use a 737 for it!

Where does your alderperson stand on ICE? City Bureau checked all 50: blockclubchi.co/4oZRDDe

I don’t wanna hear a fucking word from these reps who not only voted against Trump’s impeachment, but lectured us about how we were so stupid and naive for demanding it.

FYI Chicagoans, there’s a free newsstand of vintage issues of @theonion.com at Hubbard & Wells

Informative interview with photographer Christopher Anderson about his recent portraits of Trump's inner circle for Vanity Fair wapo.st/49ixYtq

Mayor Biss tells me it's his understanding that CBP has left the city as of 2 p.m., but wasn't able to say for certain I drove around for the past ~30 mins and didn't see any vehicles, although a caravan of civilians was following the agents out of the Home Depot lot

Something that’s been overlooked in the storm surrounding the Vanity Fair piece on Susie Wiles is that it’s transitive proof of what @jamellebouie.net has said for months: In a practical sense, Trump is not POTUS. That job is being performed by a committee of three: Vance, Rubio, and Miller.

The gerrymandering fight being an example of the right backing down in places once democrats showed they were serious.

Thinking lately about how debasing it’s been that for 15 years, from the very first moment I encountered Trump beyond just hearing his name (the birther shit), I have deeply hated him. It’s the clearest, most instinctive reaction. No thought required, natural as the sunrise. And yet practically our…

Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.

After many years of eventful digging, #Rome has two new metro stations. This week, Line C opened the Porta Metronia and Colosseo-Fori Imperiali stations, which double as museums of Imperial Rome. I'm liking the neo-brutalist vibes of Porta Metronia... 🧵

The Vanity Fair reporter to Susie Wiles

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

So many posts about Susie Wiles but not many links to the actual Vanity Fair article so here it is.