telling my kids this is the Centre Pompidou

With all due respect, it's utterly dismaying to see the leader of the AFT saying that we should embrace AI as a solution to the crisis of overburdened, under-resourced teachers instead of leading the charge against this project to make them do more with less.

Something else I have been thinking about is the increasing stories I'm seeing recently about young men killed while out late at night delivering for companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats. These apps make it easy to deliver food late at night w/ little safety measures.

Another Latino young man killed a few months ago outside Loretto Hospital while delivering for uber eats. He was killed when two people tried to carjack him. These killings also feel systemic to companies that make it easy to make money but no considerations for greater risks late at night.

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Getting real tired of these infuriating, nitpicky left wing Litmus Tests for anti trump candidates, like the purity test of: the child amputee who had to have that done without anesthesia because of our policies, did the kid have it coming, y or n

“A street car passenger requires an average of only six square feet of street space; an automobile passenger requires eight times as much.”

Heads up everyone, the Jackson Park cherry trees are starting to do their thing. #Chicago Tommy is a tree keeper so knows the varieties. I think there are at least three.

“Chell himself said…that a ‘standing order for decades‘ has instructed police officers not to issue tickets to teachers, doctors, nurses and employees of ‘other city agencies.‘ When he was the NYPD Chief of Department, he said he added to that list ‘friends‘ of right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg.”

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

more like dumbsueto amirite

This worship of efficiency kills creativity. Every transcript I have, every piece of research, I go over again & again, looking for detail, pattern, illuminating anecdote. It’s not efficient. I flail sometimes! But it’s essential. It’s how I learn to tell the story to myself, so I can tell it to you

I think it's important to note that this is actually pretty subtle (original post says "they're not even being subtle anymore"). Most people do not know what this means, they've never heard of this event. That's what makes it a dogwhistle. The people who know, KNOW. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Ha...

This sucks! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

interesting which corners you hear "we should stand on moral and political principles even if doing so carries electoral risks" from these days

Republican voter turnout in Chicago for the 2026 Illinois primary

NTSB says that Level 2 systems like Ford Blue Cruise and Tesla Autopilot don't improve road safety, In fact, they may worsen it b/c automakers overestimate their capabilities. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy: “These systems function primarily as convenience features rather than safety enhancements."

I joke about the pain of transcribing, but I enjoy doing it because it helps me get into the fine-grain details of a conversation and zero in on seemingly esoteric minutiae that actually brings character and life to a story. It’s time-consuming labor that’s also critical to making a story work

jeez o pete those gas prices look so high

Saving money on gas starts with smarter alternatives to owning a car. With an e-bike that can handle groceries, commutes, and school drop-offs, you can transition to a one-car family, using it for daily trips and saving thousands each year. #risinggasprices #gasprices #cargobike #ebike #SaveMoney

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love

my grandmother once helped birth a child in her neighborhood when the mom couldn’t get to the hospital in time. the newspaper the next day said that the cops had delivered the baby (they showed up afterwards)

Play is the work of children. It’s how they process the world around them and practice adult skills. In the photo below, children in Gaza are reenacting a funeral procession in play. (The photo is a screenshot I took from an even more heartbreaking video via AlJazeera.)

Nonprofit All Kids Bike donated a fleet of 24 bikes to elementary school students at Sidney Sawyer Elementary School. For some students, it was their first time on a bike.

is this real lmao

That's right

From the report below, if you wondered if the situation has improved in the last week: "The FDA has again recommended that RAW FARM, LLC voluntarily remove their raw cheese products from the market, and the firm has not responded."

On Feb. 17, white former Chicago cop Lee Bielecki made a late night visit to the home of Abierre Minor, a Black Chicago police oversight commissioner. His visit exposed concerns over racism and police influence in Chicago's newest police accountability body. My latest for @unraveledpress.com:

Saturday night is the perfect time to note that I finally published the historical Chicago zoning data I put together a few years ago danielkayhertz.com/zoning

It's pretty fucked up that we ended up with "you must pay thousands of dollars to a corporation to have freedom of movement" in most places.

Our constitution sets up such a defective system of government that this guy can walk around doing impeachable offense after impeachable offense in broad daylight and no one can do anything about it.

trains now trains now

bravely, I don’t think you should be allowed to own 11 buildings and if you own 11-100 buildings, I would not call you a “small landlord"

you ever exhaust yourself mentally trying to pick the perfect pair of socks for the occasion?? not too fancy, not to shabby, nice but also leaving additional nicer socks for later in the week maybe??? which mental illness is this

world’s best website

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

artificial intelligence…..it’s everything I could hope for

we need a “shut up and dribble” for law professors. why do i have to hear what sam moyn thinks, he’s been wrong about everything for a decade. stop sharing your opinions. go teach civ pro to a 24 year old.

LGBT stands for Lets Go Baseball Team

we need to create a world where we aren’t dependent on gas to get around

Single mothers, many of whom are commuting to work and shuttling their kids around, are among the hardest hit by rising gas prices due to the Iran war. As a single mom, “you’re already underwater, and it’s almost like the gas puts weights on your feet.” 19thnews.org/2026/03/iran...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

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e-scooters solve a transportation problem for many people, and they expose how deadly the majority of our public space (streets) is for anyone not encased in steel. let’s plan for safe micromobility

Safety of auto-centered massive public subsidies questioned

Economists Warn That Even Their Friend’s Son Who Went To Business School Can’t Find A Job http://theonion.com/economists-warn-that-even-their-friends-son-who-went-to-business-school-cant-find-a-job/

ashamed at how much i enjoy #products sometimes