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The actually existing fundraising model for the Democratic Party is to scam old people out of their savings, so I’m not sure that approach is superior to DSA’s.

once again it is FUCK george cardenas

jill stein, watch the fuck out

seeing a lot of hubbub about the availability bias. from what i can gather, it’s basically the only bias you really need to worry about

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

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Today, Elizabeth "Lily" Shambrook was honored with a memorial sign, designating part of Leland Ave by Dover St as "Lily's Greenway".

thanks to Trump v US, the president would have absolute immunity as CiC stuff is in his core powers. and he could pardon every single person involved. we already live in the lawless world, it's just that as of yet nobody has picked up the metaphorical/literal loaded gun yet.

The only thing drivers hate more than driving is the suggestion that sometimes they should not drive

It’s a shame that Buena Park lost Holiday Club. The housing is desperately needed. But there elephant in the room is Thorek Hospital land banking some of the most valuable land in the area with zero growth plan in sight. Chicago has got to pressure its vacant land holders ASAP.

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

Is this anything

[Two Opticians getting married] Priest: For better or worse? Better or worse? Better or worse?

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I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

Illinois’s population of high-income earners ($500k+) almost doubled between 2013 and 2023, but the millionaires who do leave are real loud, cranky, pains in the ass about it so the Trib Ed board tries to make it a problem for the rest of us

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watching several friends navigate immigration issues in high school was incredibly eye opening. knowing people who are dealing with the system in any capacity you cannot come away thinking it makes sense.

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

Okay, this is a fun app, which every alderman should have to take as required onboarding.

Every anti-cyclist Red Pill moment is just "I saw a cyclist moving faster than car traffic, thus proving the argument that bike lanes are efficient at moving people and reducing car gridlock. This infuriated me."

If you try to fly a Chicago flag upside down to signal distress it just looks like a normal Chicago flag, which raises the possibility that every Chicago flag you've ever seen was flying upside down to signal distress

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REACTION: Guy named William who once drank beer with Sheryl Crow at noon on Tuesday in a bar that faces a giant car wash hears "All I Wanna Do" for the first time

Billionaires and charter school lobbies have spent more than $5.2 million on the Chicago school board race, more than $2.8 million in the last two weeks alone. So we built thebillionaireboard.com to help track how much is spent and which candidates are supported by charter schools and billionaires.

if Trump does manage to catalyze the destruction of fossil capital (politically speaking) the Marxist histories of this era written 40 years from now are going to be magnificent

Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

This is the "DHS/ice must be destroyed" energy house democrats need to be bringing to the midterms

Building a parking garage next to a transit station seems to be a counterintuitive way for the University of Chicago to pursue its climate/sustainability goals.

"what do you want to be" i want to want to be

Babe I know the world's a scary place and it's tempting to stay in Protected View but you gotta Enable Editing

so which one is it: a) posting is the birth of the post. now it can be read and celebrated and engaged with. every post is a birthday b) posting is the death of the post. it is no longer malleable, changeable, and what we observe is actually the corpse. every post is a wake

Among the elite media, there is a consensus that Trump is committing illegal extrajudicial murders of random Latin American guys in boats all the time, but if you say he might have also committed an extrajudicial murder of Jeffrey Epstein, the idea is treated like saying he rode a unicorn.

It's not about placing themselves at the top. They're already at the top. It's about putting us more firmly under control. Deskilled, devalued, hyper-surveilled, desperate. That vision of fascism won't be defeated in the next two elections. It's a long fight.

Some people, and I don't just mean Trump, have been moving through the world as though they would never face a potential consequence for any choice ever again, because they never planned on losing power. That means they think they can't afford to lose now. There are a lot of desperate moves ahead.

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

We found that our fossil fuel hot water heaters had their exhaust chimney blocked, potentially leaking carbon monoxide into our home. Rather than paying to have the chimney repaired, we replaced them with heat pump water heaters which do not need to vent.

Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

"I'm too smart to have my brain pickled by the X algorithm" is exactly the kind of thinking that leads to getting your brain pickled by the X algorithm