1970s: There were 1500+ murders per year in NYC in the 1970s. There were several active serial killers. That's not counting the DeMeo crew that killed ~200 people, including random civilians for "practice." 2025: NYC had only 75 murders, the lowest number ever recorded since record keeping began.

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

You can apply this framing to anything from crosswalk design to housing policy. How is this going to make the city a better place for kids to live? Everything has to lead back to that goal, and if it can’t it’s not worth doing

Chicago government hates children at every level and I think there is a lot of political clout to be gained in repeatedly asking “why do you hate kids so much” while offering a compelling counterexample

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

If your posting addiction gets you a point where you have to comment on literally everything that comes through the pipeline, you will be taken in by every con artist and pickpocket the internet can offer you. Scale back!

So this Walter Reed thing started with the Krassensteins. You need to stop letting yourself be tricked by the Krassensteins. That's humiliating

Car dealers are also a major source of money and power for state/local republican parties around the country so getting rid of them would have positive downstream effects beyond just making car buying less miserable

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...

I am very upset by royalty free CarShield Mr. Met

I did not expect to be jump scared by a Charles Barkley blimp during my commute. 😂

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

it's true journalists love asking pols these questions more than normies do, but i think if you're rahm emmanuel and you bring it up all the time you don't get to be like "we're spending too much time on the bathroom." you brought it up!

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

apart from the obvious transphobia, I think the majority's ruling on this as if it's a narrow free speech issue reveals that they don't really see talk therapy as medical care. The state banned a pseudoscientific practice that experts overwhelmingly view as abuse www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/supr...

Guy next to us in the merch line of the explicitly protest-themed Springsteen show says "I just wish there were some non-political options"

i watched I think every episode of this show that still exists online & I can confidently say: however bad you think Chevy Chase's talk show was--it's worse.

most games podcasts are cowards that only talk about mainstream films and tv like the Super Mario movie but there's only one games podcast that talks about real art

I grew up in a catholic family in a very not-catholic part of the country, and there were occasionally protestant guys who'd convert because they thought Catholics were more conservative than Baptists, and lemme tell you--you don't gotta read a book about those guys. They are extremely uninteresting

great work deborah

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

The thing I admire most about this movie is that it’s the most Speed Racer a Speed Racer movie could ever be

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

The most obvious thing imaginable to anyone who has attended college irl

sola fide continues to take century after century of Ls

"Charlie Brown had hoes." No he didn't. That's not true. He kidnapped people in his van; that doesn't count

criticism of mainstream American liberalism is one thing, but I have yet to see a single "these No Kings rallies are conditioning people into compliance" take that wasn't dumber than dogshit.

As a counter to the "what's the point because things will never change" crowd, having current mayors in different cities so clearly challenge the premise that cars are good and necessary for full enfranchisement in society is not a thing that would have happened just a few short years ago.

I submit that Jamie Foxx has the weirdest career in Hollywood history: •In Living Color •Failed music career •Eponymous sitcom that ran for five years on the WB •Third Black man to win Best Oscar •SECOND MUSIC CAREER! •Believable action star •Host of a game show based on an app (1/2)

can’t explain it but I don’t think there’s a joke I’ve enjoyed more. When I cite this as my favorite people generally nod politely and move on. but man it’s just perfect. They found the skeleton people dude

The young people that were against Iraq are now 40-50 and they’re still being told to go fuck themselves despite the fact that this was the formative event for them

we stopped by to tour the Hidden River Cave here during a road trip and I'm glad we did because it's incredible and I also got to say I've been to a place called Horse Cave

Chicago's planning department just dropped three videos (in English and Spanish) about housing policy. The first: Even as population growth slows, Chicago needs more homes — household size is down 10% as more people live alone or marry later.

harriet tubman’s combahee river raid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on...

lmfao

i grew up in a different (much smaller) twin city, and this is also how Auburn people would talk about going to Opelika

Mr. Comfortable

I emailed the author, her reply was "Our goal was to highlight how the tragedy has prompted broader conversations about e‑scooters and other micromobility devices." The only conversations needed is why we continue to allow drives w/cars to kill so many people & blame everyone else for it!

Iranian hackers break into Kash Patel’s email and find like four hundred photos of individual staffers and cabinet members chugging a watermelon Smirnoff Ice on one knee

Modern games: [invisible wall] Retro games: A six-point presentation on why you are unworthy of this shovel.

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