Or we could… hear me out now… establish universal healthcare and be finished with corrupt insurance companies that bankrupt people forever. Silly me, right?

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

I did this 17 years ago! I can’t believe they still do it, and with what appears to be the same turtles (minus one who I assume died) nonetheless. You’re really the best, Chicago!

Screenshot of NYT article with the headline Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year

Seriously, @nytimes.com ?! No one has called it Obamacare in years and yet you call it that when printing an article about how bills will double unless Congress acts? It’s the Affordable Care Act. What is wrong with you? Are you fully in Trump’s pocket now?

Dear World,

We are so sorry our President is so awful. You have every right to hate us right now. Half of us hate it here too. He’s a total embarrassment. We’re doing everything we can to fight back, but the party of cowards love him/won’t stand up to him and without them it’s an uphill battle.

You bet! It’s my very favorite city. Also be sure to ride the El at least once for some excellent people/city watching. And if you go to the Art Institute, don’t miss the Thorne miniature rooms in the basement. Coolest exhibit ever.

Home | The Neo-Futurist Theater The Neo-Futurists are a Chicago-based collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers, and creators of the late-night show The Infinite Wrench.

Go see thirty plays in sixty minutes at the Neo-Futurist theater! It’s a blast. Also, go eat at Ethiopian Diamond if you like Ethiopian food, get some fruit sushi at Orange, and check out the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square. neofuturists.org

If Trump really wanted to sanction Putin, he could. It would be no problem. Congress would go for any sanction he wanted. So any time Trump puts a condition on sanctions, it’s just another piece of evidence that he is protecting Putin from sanctions and helping Russia in the war.

This is how you do it.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

August 23, 2025 “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...

August 23, 2025

being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games

And people wonder why Luigi did what he did.

Why am I always delighted when fiction books I’m reading reference other *real* fiction books? #FreshStart #GaleGalligan

Noticing a pattern here.

Sean Duffy Wants Rainbow Crosswalks Removed Nationwide Transportation secretary calls rainbow crosswalks an unsafe “distraction” and urges governors to remove them.

Planes are colliding, but our reality TV personality and avocational stripper Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, remains laser-focused on what matters: rainbow crosswalks. This administration is always more interested in trolling than doing its job.
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In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

I’ve been waiting MONTHS to see this! We’re seeing Naked Gun on Saturday and Weapons Sunday! 🙌🏼

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "As a state rep, I get paid about $600 a month. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind... So this decision was not made lightly."

Rewatching Now and Then. This movie just never gets old. I adore it.

Same, and I most definitely do NOT care to see that fella.

Remember when one of your biggest problems of the summer was that the grass seed you had sown took root and grew almost immediately in one part of the yard...but wasn't doing jack sh*t...in the other areas? I vaguely remember that era. It's been a bit.

Trump is building a new $200 million ballroom at the White House President Donald Trump will continue to put his personal stamp on the White House with a new $200 million ballroom.

The White House doesn’t need a gold ballroom. That $200 million should be used to support more affordable housing.

Gimme!!

Best impulse buy all summer. My wine shall be FIERCE.

2 points here:

1) There's no statute of limitations in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes (maybe also options in New Mexico and Florida). A pardon can't stop state prosecutions.

2) We just got another reason to release the Epstein files: so the public can test Maxwell's truthfulness.