lake effect kid

Every TikTok I see about Chicago, I post "Chicago is the greatest city in the world" and get a chorus of "hell yeah" replies. And you may ask yourself, why do people love Chicago so much? It's simple. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

DOCTOR AND MISSES WAFFLE ARE CHICAGOANS???

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

vivek's hairstyle kind of looks like dessert at the cheesecake factory

Overall, 96.9% of the money donated thus far to TFM/"Democrats for Mike Rogers" was contributed by individuals and groups that mostly or exclusively donate to Republican candidates and causes. For a group that claims to be made up of "Democrats", there are vanishingly few Democrats in sight.

Not only do I think people should not date Republicans, I think we should make it embarrassing to be a Republican. You don't care about other people? That's so embarrassing for you. That's so cringe. That's so cruel. I can't believe you'd admit that.

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

The colors at sunrise were *insane* this morning. The sky, the fall colors at Promontory Point, the lake...Sheesh! Sure picked a good morning to wake up early

Good morning. Sunday morning. zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

I grew up in a middling town where Red Lobster was basically the only option for a "nice" dinner as a treat, and still people would have looked at you funny or thought you were joking if you described it as fancy fine dining.

AOC is traveling the country... stumping in key swing races... funding candidates from her war chest...

El-Sayed: "Don't get it twisted. I love America. I'm so grateful I get to raise my 2 daughters here in America. I just love America enough to call on her to be America for all of her kids."

birthday shenanigans part 2 at Gunny's tonight at 7, mutuals are welcome. spot just opened recently and is already one of my favorites, should be a blast

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

forgot I had a roleplay court case today, won anyway

I'm not going to pretend to have read this yet, but it underscores the importance of Court's taking up the statutory question and NOT the due process question. The opinion *presupposes* that statutory law requires mandatory detention w/out bond-and concludes that this is constitutional.

I just yelped with joy SO loudly. HELL YEAH, ladies. www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowbo...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This is Mike Rogers’ lifestyle. How about yours?

Experiencing an unthinkable amount of schadenfreude at the moment

i wonder what percentage of the electorate now understands that this man and maybe 75 other people like him are actively trying to destroy our lives. that he is the biggest national security threat we have faced, even moreso than bin laden or whoever. its got to be dawning on more and more people

NEW: 4 of the CPD officers who pulled over Dexter Reed and killed him in a barrage of gunfire after he fired at officers in March 2024 violated the constitutional rights of another Chicagoan less than a month before the fatal shooting and should be suspended, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

Democrats recruiting bland upper-class centrist veterans for swing districts at the expense of every other kind of candidate is a strategy that mostly has downsides but one key upside is those people all think Hegseth is the antichrist and want to be on the team of impeachment managers at his trial.

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

New @CookPolitical: 19 more House ratings move in Dems' direction, including six seats from Toss Up to Lean D. Full analysis by @ercovey: www.cookpolitical.com/…

Nasty little Turning Point USA freaks are the future of their party

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...