California cities need to stop wishing for their own death spirals

It is kinda funny to me that 5 years on and Pete Buttigieg polls 0% with Black people. Black people are an important part of the Democratic base so becoming the nominee without any black voters os pretty tough

Planning on how to take the brown to orange line CTA trains and it looks like I can do it by being at Kimball at 7:34 am, 7:42 am, or 8:06 am

Wrong. The only battle gimmick that is worse is Z moves.

Wait, dashlane is getting rid of the free tier? Looks like i can use iCloud passwords on windows though.

Marjorie, you are in the Republican Party. I know you are stupid but not realizing this would be an issue in the Republican Party is really stupid!

If a job required me to wear a suit every day I would genuinely turn it down unless I was desperate for a job.

Stop fucking putting things in Texas!

I once considered moving to St. Louis instead of Chicago because of how cheap St. Louis is. Maybe I would have too if St. Louis wasn’t in Missouri. That ended up just being a dealbreaker on St. Louis

It is so sad that St. Louis is still declining in population. The city deserves so much better.

I never realized how diverse Hammond,Indiana was. And honestly, I did not suspect it would have a plurality Hispanic population.

What is going on in the Republican party?

Hi!!

Congress MUST abolish ICE. After the chaos and trauma caused by these masked thugs in our neighborhood—a WGN reporter slammed to the ground, a daycare worker kidnapped out of her classroom, and countless other examples of violent acts of terror—there is no room for incremental reform.

TIL there is a town names Triangle, Virginia

I’m so tired at and it is only 8:30 pm

Over two dozen hidden webpages on a site called proisraelnetwork.org, hidden from standard internet searches and filled with fundraising pages, solicit donations to Fine's campaign. The way the site is set up allows donors to appear as individual contributors, as I reported last month

“I’m not endorsed by them. They are just giving me money!”

The goal with the new transit funding

Honestly, why would you even buy a vehicle from a domestic brand? Toyota is much more reliable AND they actually have reasonably sized vehicles. When I had to have a car I really enjoyed my Toyota Corolla.

I tried looking at how the shift in Chicago in 2024 correlated with density, transit ridership, and owner vs renter percentage among Asian, Black, Hispanic, and white majority (or plurality) precincts to see if there were any meaningful shifts. There was maybe 1 worth talking about.

The funniest thing would be if Dems actually win the gerrymandering battle before 2026 midterms

I kinda hate the G Elliot Morris moved his polling average to a separate site. The old one had comparisons to past presidents at this moment in time and the current one seemingly does not.

As much as I dislike Pete Buttigieg I also hate when people say he was only the mayor of a small town. The difference between a small town and a small city is actually quite large and you could actually argue that South Bend is a medium sized city.

This sounds worse than the idea for an emoji movie

I love how pokemon games have handled saves on the switch. Finally I can have a second save without deleting my first! I have a second nintendo account called "cole 2" just for this.

A lot of counties are in a death spiral. Low population means low amenities. Young adults hate that and move out. This leads to less demand amenities that young adults want so the cycle starts over. Meanwhile old people stay so the population is both shrinking and aging.

1) Immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale. 2) Many of our counties have overbuilt infrastructure and abysmal value density, and their infrastructure needs to be condensed around higher value-per-acre developments like their mixed-use old main streets.

When you are such a hater that you time travel to be the first block

Also, we hand out licenses way too easy and are way too hesitant to take them away. When I was growing up I heard a lot of “driving is a privilege, not a right” from adults but we often treat it like it is a right.

Honestly, yeah. A Ford F-150 isn’t as heavy as a bus (obviously) but ime buses actually are designed to try and increase visibility while big trucks do not. I felt more comfortable driving a 40 foot bus than a Ford F-150.

j’adore le wokisme!!

You mean there were empty threats to leave? Next you'll tell me there aren't mass resignations from NYPD!

I just saw a youtube short where a woman politely declined services from a contractor she hired previously because he had a full ass confederate flag waving from the back! I don’t blame her! That flag represents vile things! I am also wondering why he’d do that!

My least woke opinion? I like sleep.

Happy Fat Cat Friday

Medicare for all included those things… www.npr.org/2017/09/14/5....

When I look at precinct level results of the 2020 primary and weight it according to turnout, the 4th district ends up being THE MOST progressive. So I think Frank here is wrong

Hmmmmm

The “technically it is ephebophilia” defense just makes you look like a pedo to most people. Yeah, the younger the victim the more horrific it is, but it’s not like the victims being 15 absolves you of any wrongdoing.

so about 40% blame dems and 57-66% blame republicans. That is fairly good for dems. I wish they asked people who blame both if there was a party they blame more than the other.

Maybe I am just used to Chicago politics but I don't think they Chuy thing should be getting as much attention as it is.

population density and transit usage both correlate fairly heavily with how places vote in Illinois but once you look within the city of Chicago (and probably other areas) the correlation falls quite a bit. I had to do a log of the population density to find a decent correlation.

And it will still suck

ICE are terrorists!

The cat kept interrupting me making lunch because she wanted attention

Wait, Why have Seattle Mayors had such bad luck trying to win a second term?

People have been way too kind to Perez honestly. I see people praising her all the time but she’s legitimately just awful.

Im sorry, I did not expect that Trump met with Epstein while he was president! And the NYT covered it up?!?!