technically Latino undocumented workers in California feed us and not Racist Larry in Iowa, but who’s counting

Garage sale heads up: North Mayfair and Albany Park sales will both be June 6 this year, so you can just cruise down Lawrence picking up treasures

“rejecting war is one thing, but i draw the line at someone urging for peace”

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meanwhile MBTA trains are not only not at all automated, they are designed so that the human operators can do things like go more than twice the maximum allowed speed for the line they're on until derailing or tie off the throttle out of laziness and have the train run away from them. U! S! A!

In 2021, Hannah Goetz’s pharmacy began filling her tacrolimus prescription with a generic made by Accord. What she didn’t know: An FDA-commissioned study concluded months earlier that Accord’s generic was not equivalent to the brand drug. From our “Rx Roulette” series, a 2026 Pulitzer finalist:

Query if anyone has any expertise, can you identify this? This came in a collection of miniatures that I got from the Goodwill website. My searches are 50/50 that it might be racist bullshit and that might be indigenous art, maybe Maori? Going to mark as graphic in case it's the former.

Been watching some Welsh horror which is cool because that’s a language that’s definitely got some wizard shit baked into it

Democrats stripped 50 anti-LGBTQ+ measures from the last appropriations bill; Republicans put those measures there. Pretending these are the same thing *puts queer people at risk* and I am fucking sick of pretending it's acceptable. Stop throwing us under the bus for internet clout points.

this is the secondary essence of Reacher, besides Being Large Reacher arrives, Reacher is Large at the bad men who run the town, Reacher leaves may the show continue forever

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Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

AHHHHHH look at how gorgeous these are. Incredible fiber art.

this probably doesn’t even count as controversial but I think it’s hilarious that George Lucas made a movie in the late 70s from the principles of “whee hee hee woo hoo hoo spaceship” and consequently spent the rest of his life as the author of The King James Bible

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_R... I hate that folks call it "Project 2025" and not its actual name, "[A Conservative] Mandate for Leadership". Because the former is a implicit depoliticizing of the intent (and folks don't be reading past titles too often).

"It was hard to keep it quiet," said one insider. "A significant part of the allure of jangling keys is the sound."

Evil AI billionaires are trying to pay left-leaning creators to hype their slop machines and clanker factories, and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social has the receipts in @wired.com. If you see your favorite creators suddenly pushing chatbots, they've sold us all out. www.wired.com/story/super-...

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

Spirit Airlines has officially shut down operations. Well, you know what that means...

The people saying that gutting the Voting Rights Act has nothing to do with racism are the same people who say overturning Roe v Wade had nothing to do with women

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

I love how every interview with Bryan Cranston where "Breaking Bad" comes up he has to tiredly inform somebody "You realize Walter White is a terrible person, right?" "But you're a good looking white man, Bryan! How can that be?" "You see the point I'm making. You just don't realize it yet."

Hmm. Considering spending my birthday making art for folks to raise money for a cause again. I like doing it for smallish charities that don't get a lot of press. Anyone working for/volunteering for something hyperlocal (esp. in Chicago or Saginaw, MI) that would be a good choice?

I don't know what is going on with this popular repurposing of "restorative justice" to mean "no consequences for perpetrators" but hear me when I say, absolutely the fuck not

279.5% is predatory af.

Really liking this -- it's fun and weird and eerie.

May Day greetings.

Leaving all else aside, it's also not at all clear to me that "true young adults" even necessarily want wholesome, uplifting books on the whole? Adults often *want* them to want it, sure. But at least in my experience, teens tend to seek out and enjoy pretty explicit, shocking stuff

This reminds me of when Liliuokalani tried to rewrite the constitution to strip power from the plantation owners and so they overthrew the government.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

Truly insane that we’re being asked to tolerate this.

Assuming I don't die from a severe case of can't see shit, my guess is I'd be in the fiber arts. Since I've got some mechanical aptitude, probably weaving.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Love this so much and bought some immediately

these mfs played to a blood pressure score

New type of prosecutorial misconduct just dropped cases.justia.com/new-mexico/s...

the Knicks are leading 60-19, which is actually higher than the scoring margin on the scoreboard in this Space Jam gag before it says "kinda one sided isn't it"

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

NEW: Certificates of innocence are court orders that can make it easier for exonerated people to get jobs and housing. Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is trying to make them harder to get. (w/ @boltsmag.org) buff.ly/GAxhSl8

The Iran war has nearly doubled jet fuel prices in the United States. That means the bill for firefighting aircraft operations this summer will likely rise by tens of millions of dollars.

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

okay but also I would bring back Television Without Pity and pay people exorbitant wages to write 14-page analytical essays on every episode of the things I like

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this would fix the website

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It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.