Paris. #photography #streetphotography #paris #photooftheday

I was parallel parking on a metered street. Usually I can’t remember the spot number long enough to pay the meter. Not this time. “Oh it’s 187! Can’t forget that haha.” The person with me was like, “I don’t get it.” And I evaporated into dust.

As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal. Piece by George Riekeles and I. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores You can’t make this shit up, folks

LMAO

Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social to Kanew: “We need MEDICARE FOR ALL. The time has come.” Dems are fighting to make a broken system less system less bad, but the real answer is universal health care and standing up to billionaires and the big insurance lobby.

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

And hasn’t missed a paycheck. 🤡 @bresreports.bsky.social

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Given the severity of the threats social media companies pose to democracy and fundamental rights, policy responses cannot merely tinker around the edges,” writes Christine Galvagna. The EU must act now—fund decentralized, public service social media to protect democracy and digital rights.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s passport sex markers policy conveys as much casual transphobia as a two-page judicial opinion ever could without actually including slurs. Absolutely vile stuff. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

Unbelievable but believable.

Timeline cleanse: honey locusts in downtown Chicago. #photography #picoftheday #streetphotography

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to Bovino: "No, Greg it is not. This city belongs to Chicagoans." @wttw.bsky.social

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

100%.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

tonight! neighbors emergency rally against abductions, terrorizing children, and torching the constitution

whispering into my ring like a fucking Nazgûl

One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.

Acting like Mamdani is going to put Zionists in camps when there are literal Nazis littering the GOP right now is insane

A daycare. Every day in Chicago. The state is not stopping this. Pritzker’s and Johnson’s cops have ONLY been protecting these assaults so there is so far nothing that is stopping them besides unarmed residents screaming. How many children are technically orphans now @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

🎁 Gift link — Award-winning TRiiBE reporter Tonia Hill reflects on the day she was tear-gassed by federal agents while covering unrest in a Chicago neighborhood. This article was adapted from the Oct. 30 edition of our members-only RESHAPE newsletter. thetriibe.com/2025/11/refl...

Author and historian Jon Meacham called Cheney “a remarkable American figure.” “We don’t make them like this anymore,” Meacham said, implying this is a bad thing.

“Workers said the exercises have included squatting, doing the ‘Chicken Dance,’ acting like a gorilla, pretending to vacuum, sprinting for several yards, pretending to golf, and twerking.”

Rolling Stone debunks the lies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

Love how non-Jews, especially non-Jews who peddle antisemitic conspiracies, tell actual Jews what a good Jew should be. History never sees a problem with that!

How does this person know what they know? is an excellent question to ask oneself.

"Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has said it will vote against a $1 trillion pay package for the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk... 'We are concerned about the total size of the award, dilution and lack of mitigation of key person risk–consistent with our views on executive compensation,' it said."

Trying to imagine explaining a scenario where a former Governor runs for Mayor, endorsed by former Mayors, a Republican President, local media, and still gets spanked by an inexperienced opponent who cannot get the national leaders of his party, who live in his city, to endorse him!

New awareness campaign

[smiles coyly] "Do go on."

bring back shame

LIKE A SLICE OF BOLOGNA YOU FOUND ON THE STREET 🏆 Simile of the year, and also just great advice all around. 👏

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Pretty wild when a magazine often thought of as fun pop culture fluff bravely calls it like it is, while former greats like NYTimes and WaPo are fully converted into billionaire mouthpieces and both-sides agitprop.

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

Excellent paper. I'm increasingly convinced that students are not dedicated to GenAI junk, but if they're being drowned in it, some may feel like they have no choice but to use it. It was the players who ultimately got steroids out of baseball; students will need to help get GenAI out of education.

This is very racist.

For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.

Chicago fights back with oversight of ICE. New policy will dispatch police supervisors to federal agent activity in Evanston “A police supervisor is going to go to the scene immediately try to get identification that this is a federal agent and do what they can to keep people safe"

good morning chicago find your neighborhood group docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Post-information society/consolidated fascist make-believe society

What Stuart Stevens says is perfectly obvious, and something you will not see reflected in any of the major media coverage.