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So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

It’s weird that people online treat politics like sports, yet never learn the part where you’re allowed to be mad at your own team for blowing it.

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

trump is taking political hits on iran is because he is now undermining his supporters' ability to win online arguments. you can just own them ruthlessly on the iran thing now for being dumdums. and this they cannot bear. they can tolerate any amount of murder and mayhem, but not being owned online

Image of Dale Earnhardt with the caption "Critical Race Theory? Brother, Every Race Is Critical".

People say BlueSky is an echo chamber but we have road cyclists, gravel cyclists, mountain bikers, single speeders, fixie riders, cargo bike riders, e-bike riders, hybrid riders, recumbent riders, bikepackers, randonneurs, and I'm sure we even have a few unicyclists among us

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

2016: the Wendy’s twitter account posts self-aware jokes, opening an irreverent new frontier in brand marketing

2026: “CEO mukbang” is now compulsory for all fast food retailers

September of what year?

put my symptoms into WebMD and it said I have a really old joke format

The headline... it's not even English...

leveraged, partnered, advanced, precise — somehow even more grotesque when the numbed, bullshit jargon of corporate marketing, already nihilistic, is transposed into the domain of state murder

Chicago Office of the Inspector General submitted a covert and anonymous request for records under the Freedom of Information Act. The Chicago Dept of Law produced the records which it had previously declined to provide to OIG suggesting they were so confidential as to be exempt from oversight.

The Chicago Stock Exchange itself should never have been demolished. This exquisite room is one of the few vestiges of it that remain, & it is absolutely outrageous that it should be endangered again.

Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1894
Demolished: 1972
Reconstruction Architects: Vinci & Kenny, 1977

everyone is fighting a battle you can't see because you are the only one without cool invisible wizard powers

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

Lock in

There is nothing more Andersonville than a land acknowledgment plaque dedicated to the former restaurant that was converted to a private equity dentist

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

"other countries have agency and don't like it when you bomb them"

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Uh, how does one mute an image of a guy’s rashed up neck?

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

Does anyone know if we're gonna have Fragile Delineation between Man and Beast tomorrow

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Why I do have to keep waking up to news like this

black and white print of Minneapolis in an imagined art deco industrial cityscape, multiple shapes of mills and railroads intersecting

"Minneapolis", 1925 lithograph by Ukrainian-American Louis Lozowick, Smithsonian American Art Museum