as someone in chicago right now believe me we all find it extremely disorienting that national dems are broadly fine with the administration unleashing a terror campaign on our city. it won’t be forgotten next time someone shows up here begging for votes.

Republican domestic terrorism...

Valid
I do use it sometimes in talking to a variety of people. But etiquette is about making other people at ease

From the Tao: “True leaders are hardly known to their followers. Next after them are leaders the people know and admire; after them, those they fear; after them, those they despise.” Lao Tzu, trans. Ursula K Le Guin

Always wanted to dress like Chiana (?) for Halloween but never got around to it …

I know. I hate that for them, me, and us.

That process of reading is basically the opposite of what an AI summary does. The brain is (not literally) a muscle!

Great article, thanks
Reading the Baffler is like a climbing wall for my brain

Horizon

Is there a scary music challenge for October?

Amazing for Halloween season

For example, History teachers

ጸሃይቱ በራኺ - ላ ል ቦላ [Ethiopia (Nowadays Eritrea) , jazz, folk] (1972)

ጸሃይቱ በራኺ - ላ ል ቦላ [Ethiopia (Nowadays Eritrea) , jazz, folk] (1972)
https://redd.it/13eemex
https://youtu.be/c_W5U6-sg3w

I know I heard this in Emos

Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon’s book The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Cover shows title character/ Monkman riding a horse with handsome shirtless blond guy

Lynchian 🌺🌺🌺

Ice ❤️
(Frozen peas)

Black Lamb Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

Just guessing that he had probably been kind of a 🐀

I think that’s my fave so far ❤️🌱

To Carthage then I came?

It’s fine to wear sunglasses anywhere

Walk away from conversation when you’re done talking no worries

Rolling your eyes at someone is rude

Right!

She is the one person no minister wants in their congregation, I recall

Yeah that’s my shirt now I guess

From a local news site (CO)-a small town restaurant was raided. School attendance plummeted 30%. Kids are stuck in these environments and it seems like the culture isn’t showing them care. If we get through this those memories will stay for them

Colorado environmental groups decry ‘backroom deal’ over Suncor water permit | Colorado Newsline The settlement stems from a challenge that Suncor filed to an updated water discharge permit issued by Colorado health officials in 2024.

Colorado environmental groups decry ‘backroom deal’ over Suncor water permit coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/18/c...

Always with the bullshit, Suncor

What is the neighborhood? I live in a townhouse with townhouses all around. There are some asshole PB types here but there are some progressive folks too. Taking stock now

a close up of a cricket crawling on a floor . Alt: a close up of a cricket crawling on a floor, with cricket noises

Spiders ❤️crickets

A page from the Westword about the “respiderment” of Rosie the Tarantula (w pic of tarantula)

If only more public figures would follow Rosie the Tarantula’s example and go into respiderment