18 years ago today, Vanessa Hudgens released “Sneakernight.”

Even better than I remembered!

The year is 2068. An American delegation arrives in Brussels to plead their case to keep the Chicago Bears from moving to Siberia.

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

I don’t understand how days before the election a leading gubernatorial candidate doesn’t understand the biggest CA infrastructure project. Up until a few weeks ago Becerra barely seemed to grasp the housing crisis, with few ideas on how to address it. Why are so many Democrats supporting him?

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Can’t do the top 10 Kylie songs prompt because it’s destroying me to even get it down to 15. Also half my list would be off of Fever, one of the most perfect albums of all time. Every song still hits every time.

My masking calculation has become “if I got (non-fatally) sick from doing this, would I think it was kinda worth it?” A concert, drinks with friends, dinner with family: probably worth it. Sitting 6 inches away from some sniffly rando for three hours: not worth it.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

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Adding to Tom Steyer discourse

Gotta be Louisiana, Alabama or Tennessee. Michigan is plausible but the people saying Illinois, New York or Washington are engaging in the fallacy that rural people’s opinions count more. Chicago is 75% of Illinois’s population. We outnumber them and we don’t hate ourselves!

Got to see a CATCH THAT TRAIN meetup today, where people assemble next to an L station in absurd costumes, then when they can see the train coming, race into the station to catch it. I love this city so much!!!

Pozole verde in my bowl and a docuseries about a grisly murder on my tv, this is what it’s all about folks

Several bloomfs spotted at the Chicago Eagle opening party

I love Crystal Methyd

My GOD that Laurie Metcalf monologue in the new Hacks. I am gonna miss this show so much 😭

Recession indicator: just saw a gay wearing an Iggy Azalea hoodie

Saw two great Netflix titles recently that I hadn’t heard anyone talk abt: Caterpillar, a doc profiling the surprisingly compelling journey of a man surgically changing his eye color; and Emergência Radioativa, a gripping dramatization of a nuclear incident in Brazil in 1987 that I had no idea about

“Don’t top me now!” — Freddie Mercury after too much dairy

the lead prosecutor for the broadview 6 case works for dick durbin and the senate judiciary

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Usenet sites for every interest imaginable - I was obsessed with misc.transport.road about road planning/engineering. They had a live quiz game and I took over hosting it until someone found out I was 15 lol.

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. Yesterday I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies. We cannot take water for granted.

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

An embarrassing end to the most prominent DOJ efforts to prosecute anti-ICE protestors in Chicago.

I doubt most people will investigate the number of employees at a restaurant and will likely just tip normally or stop altogether - thus creating incentive for workers to go to large restos to get those "idk what's going on" tips *plus* the min wage increase. Workers at small restos will be screwed.

This Memorial Day weekend's weather across the northern US is another fine data point for my pet cause of moving our collective understanding of summer forward by a month. Most of June is spring and most of September is summer!

When people enable the setting on Insta so you can’t click on their profile pic

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Happy 80th birthday to the legendary Cher.

A raccoon family maneuvers into a hole in a tree. One of the little guys gets some assistance. (Seen this morning at Jarvis Bird Sanctuary.)

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

That’s for the panelists on the Minneapolis Truth and Justice Tribunal of 2030 to decide. But I gotta say I don’t like his odds.

Dick Durbin is so embarrassing.

I own 51% of this Wired magazine!

Durbin, staring down retirement, taking some last hits of his favorite drug: voting for Trump judges

grilled tofu, tempeh bacon, greek yogurt and tomato on 3 layers of toasted sourdough

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

Invite me to the strategy session for getting financial and other reparations for ICE terror. An actual opposition political party would be calling people together now to work on this. They would be preparing the public for this now.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

A Guinness record-holding urban explorer can stay in Chicago after a visa scare. blockclubchi.co/49Yra43

Immediate images flashing into my brain of this being worn by Princess Diana, Bill Clinton and George Costanza

the Democrats should announce that they will prosecute anyone who accepts a single fucking dime Trump stole

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I sometimes wonder why Musk doesn't just retire and live a life of luxury, but then I realised. He IS retired. And we're his model train set. The world is his greenhouse to potter with. The politics he fucks with are his Warhammer model kits.

Yesterday was National Train Day, so here's a map of the Midwest overlaid with France's high-speed rail network. Haters say the US is too big for HSR, but there are many regions perfectly suited for it. A network centered on Chicago could connect Milwaukee, STL, Detroit, Indy... even Nashville!