love watching chicago’s low-rent thanksgiving parade on TV. the only character balloon was Felix the Cat, who hasn’t been in a cartoon in like 20 years. there’s a Falun Gong float.
given how much of his inner circle is committed to their blood feud with Warren, I'd say this is a pretty clear sign that they're starting to grapple with the reality that Bernie Comin'
guy on an electric scooter just buzzed through the Celtic dancers, leading to this exchange from the presenters:
“Guy on a scooter”
“Guy on a scooter”
“Don’t think he’s part of the parade”
@sanjmovies
Doritos Spain should have done more research but I’m just not going to have that be a part of my life. I will not be making regular checkups on Doritos Spain
Her family showed Eyewitness News:
- a note from her doctor that read, in part, "Every reasonable accommodation should be made to allow this patient to work from home."
- the response from the district "denying your request for an accommodation to work remotely"
can say definitively that Brandon will be the first mayor of this city with kids who attend Chicago Public School since at least 1947. and would honestly be very surprised if he was not the first one period.
weird how malcolm gladwell shows up in the epstein flight logs and is suddenly spending 10,000 hours trying exonerate everyone who knew about and facilitated Jerry Sandusky’s systematic sexual abuse of children
@deep_beige
small brain: false flag
large brain: not a false flag because Red Guards did it
galaxy brain: false flag BECAUSE Red Guards did it and they’re cops
@LoriLightfoot
you’ve been mayor for 4 years and you couldn’t fill the vacancies! nobody is going to fill the vacancies! that’s the whole point. the money could be used for investments that prevent crime instead of sitting in a police budget doing nothing.
trying to attack brandon johnson on chicago’s underfunded pensions immediately after spending the better part of a year trying to elect paul vallas, the guy who underfunded them, as mayor.
Six of Chicago's pension funds are among the 10 worst-funded in the U.S.
Johnson will now sit across the bargaining table from the government unions who fund him.
Accommodating today’s ever-growing demands imperils the retirement security of tomorrow’s pensioners.
banner couple of weeks for Joe Biden and his wretched administration - full throated support for a genocide, building the wall and ceding federal authority to a bloodthirsty governor who wants to install Saw traps along the border. they are who we thought they were.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that the Texas National Guard is installing razor wire along the border of Texas and New Mexico on his orders.
very cool that someone who would otherwise be standing outside an abortion clinic with a sign that says Pepsi is made from aborted fetuses gets to have near-dictatorial power in setting federal law
@bidetmarxman
feeling old seeing so many people unfamiliar with this kind of move, guess it's been over a decade now since Bain Capital and leveraged buyouts were unavoidable discourse
@nytopinion
@bariweiss
@evepeyser
I think being able to chum around with cretins like david frum and bari weiss ultimately says more about you than it illuminates anything else
at sacramento and devon, probably the actual worst possible spot in the city for trying to sell this, to the point that it seems intentionally antagonistic
the context is extremely funny, real paranoid vibes here.
interviewer: well, here’s what the union openly says they are fighting for
lightfoot: no no no follow the money, they’re just out to get me
In
@nytimes
interview Mayor Lori Lightfoot uncorks more explicitly her thoughts on
@CTULocal1
: “I think, ultimately, they’d like to take over not only Chicago Public Schools, but take over running the city government.”
everyone’s really gonna land on “lol trump is bad at ~business~” instead of “trump is tax cheat who got away with aggressively gaming losses on his returns because we live in a world where the rich have total impunity” huh
Buttigieg making moderate case for student debt relief. Not cancellation, but refinancing, focusing on limiting infleunce of for profit schools, doubling Pell Grants.
"I just dont believe all of us should be paying for the children" of billionaires.
@IAmWillMarsh
@lib_crusher
It rocks, I love these moments when Chicago feels like a goofy small town that happens to have a massive downtown financial district
calmly googling "killdozer specs" as the latest video about Trusting The Science from the PR team of Mayor Lori "Close the Beaches and Open the Bars" Lightfoot plays in the background
late counted Chicago ballots really seem to be skewing left. Vallas down to 33.24% citywide and Johnson up to 21.13% after being reported as 35-20 on election night.
@culturecanceler
no mechanisms for stopping you from generating new gmail address/google voice numbers and using the signup bonuses again and again. a dream. all the different stubhub knockoffs subsidized me going to many baseball games.
@Alex__Katz
anti-capitalists don't view clinton and obama as imperfect allies, we view them as people with oppositional worldviews to our own.
the fact that you can't process any of this outside of the lens of high school cafeteria social jockeying says a lot about who here is stunted.
the thing is… i get it. the only real bathrooms are down in the basement and up on the second floor. these stairs are right next to the kitchen, so the plumbing was right there. someone had the audacity to say “why CAN’T I put a toilet in the stairwell,” and I admire that
the cubs using “Respect Our Neighborhood” as the slogan on their city connect jerseys is so funny. about a half-step removed from using “We Call Police,” honestly it’s perfect