A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY

This little thrill is making me so excited for the big one.

France, Spain, England and Argentina feels like a very “1920s American author traveling the world to find themselves” group of countries

Abolish ICE.

Diversity, Equity, and Italians

We often romanticize the past and gloss over the struggles. For example, we remember the good times of the pre-pandemic era but never the collective shame of seeing weekly viral posts saying “I thought Ariana Grande was a font 🤣🤣😂😂💀💀”

The 2024 Presidential Election: 🫣😂

If we’re gonna have this ridiculous patchwork of age verification laws, there needs to be some kind of legislation to force telecom companies (or whoever) to have accurate locations for users. Why do multiple apps and sites constantly think I’m clear across the country from where I actually am?!

Fondly remembering when one of my high school bfs and I split up, he made his AIM away message the lyrics to Avril’s “My Happy Ending” in Spanish.

Current* conditions near Milwaukee, WI:

🚨 Urge your alder to hit the brakes on The 78 TIF! 🚨 Instead of investing in public transit like in the original 2019 plans, the City is now trying to ram through $216 million in public subsidies for a parking garage, with little transparency on the impact nor what public benefit this will provide.

Bolsonaro running into McConnell at the hospital

Endlessly fascinated by the local wildlife that make their homes in and around zoos filled with non-native animals. Like, does this rabbit realize that tiger is a straight-up murderer? What do the birds make of the rhinoceros? Does a golden eagle have beef with the hawks?

Current* conditions near Toronto, ON:

May US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing! SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 16% on Muni & 13% on BART SEPTA (Philly, 8.7%) and PATH (NY/NJ, +6%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, +0.6%) is the slowest🧵

If Mitch McConnell (dead) was a Democrat, the Republicans would be on every news station and podcast and radio show around the clock screaming crying pissing and shitting about the cheating Democrats and demanding proof of life. Imagine we had even 10% of that energy.

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Are you sick of winning yet?

Obsessed with this. Makes Lindsay Horvath, Hugo SM and Kenneth Mejia seem like normal and fun people (and in Hugo's case, extremely corny (complimentary)). Of course Katie Porter has endless, irate 1-star reviews. Garcetti's only review is at a surprisingly low-profile hole in the wall in India.

Folks, a *very* exciting announcement: The Downballot has just published updated 2024 presidential results by congressional district for every state with a new map this year! That's 10 states in all, covering a full one-third of the House. Please dive in!

Can't shake a stick in the Midwest without a Chicago gay falling out! Been on a Twin Ports gay bar crawl this evening with dawetsnow, @daneydu.bsky.social, and @tomtomchi.bsky.social

Tired: he/they drives Wired:

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

ICE murdered another person.

Green Line to the Obama Center and Midway Brown Line to Jefferson Park Pink Line to North Riverside Blue Line to Maywood

I built a program that will pull ~every historical aerial image and map for a given location in Cook County in one command

Thornton Reservoir was 94% full on July 6, with 7.3 billion gallons captured in the reservoir, which is the fullest it has been since becoming operational in 2015. Learn more: mwrd.org/what-we-do/t...

Sabrina, I got something I wanna talk about

THE ACKROOMS

Non-exhaustive list of transportation modes Carly Rae Jepsen has used in her songs: ✅ walk ✅ run ✅ bike ✅ bus (in the rain, no less) ✅ Shinkansen Your. Fave. Could. Never.

Yeah, I can dunk

Been in Duluth five minutes and have already yelled “oh my god!” 50 times. It’s like the architecture of Chicago with the topography of San Francisco.

Hot guy at the cafe unknowingly has his phone flashlight on. This is my moment.

I’m in northern Ontario for the weekend (more on that later) but I feel like it’s a fairly good representation of Canada’s place in the world that the root beer-based fast food chain A&W sells masala veggie burgers and Pret coffee.

It’s America 250

I’ve always found the Hallelujah lyric “But you don't really care for music, do you?” to be unnecessarily hostile.

The reason America as a whole is going to walk on by its 250th birthday with nary a thought about it is that it is profoundly embarrassed, ashamed, and angry at what we've allowed to happen to our country

Tonight’s lightning, seen looking north across the Montrose Beach Dunes

They like Trump. They want to help him rule us like a king

I really don't see how you can have a functioning country when everyone who knows how to do anything is in one party but the other party can still win elections

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

The only way for Alito to show NPR who's boss is to stay on the court until 2029.

Let this please disabuse everyone of the notion that Gorsuch is some sincere but misguided western yeoman. He's a craven Reagan Revolution hack just like Roberts.

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

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The Sheep Detectives looks like a fake movie from a 90s sitcom. I refuse to believe it’s real.

Heads up for Chicago trans/NB ppl! Love this.

Confirmed Slayyyter Stan

Pieces of long-lost Louis Sullivan building revealed on Chicago’s south lakefront (gift link)