The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

Oh this is. Pride.

AW Bingley arrives, looks around, sees Jane smile, and plants his ass wherever’s next to her, which just goes to show that people with short memories and few problems have a talent for casual decisiveness.

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

Corporate media does not want you to be safe from dangerous air quality or disease. Mask up anyway.

do i know anyone here who has gone through EMT training here in chicago? EMT and/or wilderness first aid? if yes feel free to dm or email, [email protected], this isn't for a story but i am curious. thx! :-)

I need a meme where Satan is checking his tracking info for Mitch McConnell's soul and it says "label created."

I was pleasantly surprised at how many people I saw wearing masks outside these past few days! A few folks at work asked if they could borrow masks for their commute home on Friday (I mask indoors, including at work).

My child, who is one of the funniest people I've ever met, is quoting Venture Bros but in the voices of Batman and Superman. "Eat the pennies, Clark! Eat the god damned pennies!!"

I love that Jesse from Team Rocket got a blonde wig and works at The Daily Planet in "My Adventures With Superman." Perfection.

MST3K fans: the phrase “push the button, Frank” is a direct reference to this movie.

finally catching up on the vampire lestat bc i lose my fucking mind every time lestat says a word heretofore unspoken in the anne rice verse before & i need five full minutes to scream & process. he said bukkake

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

get your story in! I did!

Took a quick peek for old Yiddish pickle advertisements and came across the story of a man who is “a pickle taster by trade and has tasted so many pickles that [his] mouth is completely puckered.” Because this is an ad from 1913, it is naturally an ad for Helmar brand cigarettes

Garett: They're trying to do Catholicism without the Pope! Me: Kind of. Garett: We have that at home! It's called Protestantism!

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I love how every discussion of the x-men immediately turns into “Charles, you raggedy bitch!!” hehe I love this fandom so much

WATCH OUT because if you read one of these books there's a VERY good chance you'll then feel compelled to read more of them and then other things that she's written as well. I'm not saying this is a trap but it absolutely is very snare-like.

I’m starting to appreciate how Lydia is the result of a lack of parenting so severe that she might as well be a 21st century American teenager isekai-ed into a regency novel

Once he was warned of Wickham he wouldn’t wait and went and weeded out a woman who was once his ward’s watcher to waylay Wickham’s wicked Wickham-ing

Blood draw was HORRIFIC. They wound up DIGGING in the first arm which is very rare where I normally go but the needle was right where it should be except the blood wasn't flowing? So dig dig dig. They wound up having to go in the side of my other arm. I fully expect horrific bruising by tomorrow.

huh. sounds like a weirdo.

Artist Brian Bonebrake is seeking $4 million for 1111 W Randolph, one of the last small mixed use buildings in Fulton Market, after 21 years of ownership. It's an interesting building, modified extensively to personal taste by Bonebrake and by previous owner Toby "Moses Pinkerton" Prange.

I have to GET UP EARLY on my DAY OFF so some LAB PERSON can STEAL MY BLOOD and run tests on it. I am a hard stick! This is going to SUCK! I'm going to treat myself to a fancy coffee afterward. I haven't had coffee in a week.

Welcome to Seattle we got Hot Rat Summer & Jimothy, our new cryptid

a whole rural pacific northwest town full of characters for They Glow in the Dark

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

these were taken a week apart from each other here in chicago. it smells like smoke in the newsroom

it broke the scale :(

“More Walks” (2026)

suddenly vibrating with the need to play a warlock’s daughter incensed that the family pact has been entailed away from the female line

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

the two outfits for men

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Anybody want to work for the national party of the Democratic Socialists of America? an organizer position, remote check it out!

I know i said the same thing for pride month...but..maybe help me, a VERY ill trans nb comic artist afford to get to my doctor appts this Disability Pride month if it's okay to ask...again..aha my apologies. I actually will share some art too this time! Proof im an artist! Qrp thread has info

I think a lot of people are about to find out that recalls are technically voluntary

i have a bunch of medical appointments coming up and need money for transit/co-pay, so i'm doing doodle commissions again until july 25th. ko-fi.com/maximumgraves

This is a huge problem in the handcrafted maker community. These AI drop ship fake businesses especially like to use the images of Indigenous and Black people.

In this era of AI slop, I DESPERATELY want to encourage you to embrace the kitbash in your work there is free software to play with take public domain pieces and mix 'em up download free brushes and fonts and get weird make it chunky and funky and gritty and punk Let us usher in a new era of Zine.

Calling Chicago zinesters! Apply for a Chicago Mini-Zine Microgrant and receive $50 to create a one-page mini-zine about your neighborhood, local history, civic life, or community resources. Six microgrants will be awarded across August and September. Apply at tinyurl.com/ChiCivicZine.

they put the entire run of The Prisoner on criterion, and we’re only two episodes in but: truly nothing is more thrilling than when a thing that you suspected was made exactly for you actually appears to be

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

My kid just pitched an elseworlds for Lois Lane where she's a private investigator. "Well, she's an investigative reporter, so...?" "I wanna see a Mike Ehrmentrout-ass motherfucker Lois Lane." My child then did Mike Ehrmentrout's voice but saying mean things to Clark Kent instead of Walter White.

Chicago’s air quality could worsen as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads across the Midwest. blockclubchi.co/4pHdrpf

The Comfrt ads got me, in case any NZ people considering buying their sweats were wondering if they're good: > shrank in the wash > size proportions seem weird > get lint all over the place > return policy is terrible

OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!

I wear a mask indoors and on public transit and I guess tomorrow I'll be wearing it out of doors as well.