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We have GOT to go harder on making metro population the standard for this. It needs to happen before Houston "passes" Chicago because I will not survive that discourse lol. San Antonio is not bigger than DC! Austin is not bigger than SF! Houston isn't even really the biggest city in Texas!

It's getting unbearable!!! Can some major (good) news happen please?!

Nothing about Mike Simmons, the young progressive with the most public service experience and polling in 4th??

The fact that she didn't want to be in a room with the people who welcomed ICE into Chicago and lectured us about not being excited enough for JD Vance's baby is a major selling point for her.

I’m already thinking about how we get someone to run as an indie if she wins. iirc any primary losers can’t run in the general.

As a cyclist it’s always like 50-50 whether the driver next to me is on their phone

Same 😭

Durbin voted for this guy after he dodged Durbin's written questions about J6. Why even ask these questions if you plan on voting to confirm him regardless of his answer?

Why wouldn’t someone do that?! I always do.

Congrats!! Stockholm is such a great city!!

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Don’t tell wh*texican

LMAO

Love to hear that! Those kinds of community places are so important for this city

It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.

Diego Garcia

Childrens’ drawings of viruses that say “CORONA VIRUS” and “COVID-19”

I’ve only been once, I gotta go back! I was tickled by the kids’ drawings by the register lol

Yesss it’s the best after some drinks in Andersonville

Penelope’s in Andersonville is another good one! A little higher-end though.

I’m blessed to live near several, but I gotta go with Lindo Guadalajara on Clark and Lawrence. My fave in the whole city though is Quesadilla La Reina del Sur on Western. Classic taqueria but all vegetarian, including mock versions of all the taco meats 😋

A google image search result that is a photo of the Minnesota state flag but is captioned "Puerto Rico Gay Pride Flag"

Duluth is the San Juan of Lake Superior so I get it

Yep! Usually within a week of my actual bday. D is very low stakes and low effort ftr haha

B*, C** and D***

*bbq/cake with family
**dinner with a few friends
***house party or night at a bar with many friends

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FRITZ EMMANUEL LESLY MIOT, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-02471 (ACR) V. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: "America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions." More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington's vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take.? eSec Noem I just met with the President. I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies. Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS. WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE. 6:52 PM - Dec 1, 2025 - 13.2M Views ' Letter from George Washington to Joshua Holmes (December 2, 1783). 2 Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl.) 1110 n.91. But see supra n.l.

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) "damn" countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti's TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, "killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies." They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer's disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) 1 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. 1 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. | 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. 9| 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. 9|5. They claim that Secretary Noem's decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary's decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI.

Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things— in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

Dems still voting for Trump’s picks.

We are waiting on an order by the end of the day from Judge Reyes in DC as to whether ~350K Haitians will be going out of status and Trump will be able to begin the long promised ethnic cleansing of Springfield OH tomorrow. I remain optimistic based on how the hearing went last month but uggggh

Dems should run on the true-in-spirit statement that “we effectively don’t have an immigration system anymore, let’s make one.” And if we made it in the image of what most people think we already have — an orderly and objective “line” for people to get in — that would be a massive victory.

CTA Rail Arrivals and Schedules by line. Weekdays only. 5-day moving averages

CTA Brown Line Arrivals and Schedules. Weekdays only. 5-day moving averages

CTA weekday rail service by line for the last 6 months. Brown line was getting back in a groove the first half on January but fell wayyy off last week.

“Let’s cover up half the photos on the looking at photos app” is true brilliance at work