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The elder millennial existence consists entirely of alternating geopolitical and financial crises

Baron Harkonnen spent years planning every moment of the invasion of Arrakis to guarantee just the right balance of deniability and threat, when he could've just gone for it on a whim because of Twitter memes and prediction market bets.

It's stunning, depressing, and engaging to once again see a cavalcade of people trotted out to tell us "we need to bomb these people to save them."

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

The least human thing you can do I read a story just now about a man in Chicago who saved a baby after its carriage had been blown into the harbor by heavy gusts of wind. Lio Cundiff – who is a trans man not that it should matter her...

Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you.

Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.

immediately recognizable as the same logic holocaust deniers use!

Please government, keep spending money on Kash Patel and his girlfriend. We just love to see them enjoying their lives

Chicago.
Today.
5pm.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

a shirt design featuring a skateboarding boy who may look somewhat similar to a famous skateboarding boy from a cartoon but it's impossible to know for sure because there's a black bar over his eyes, holding his own severed head and saying "anything subversive or countercultural can and will be commodified and re-absorbed by existing social order, defanged and neutralized, reduced to an aesthetic pose. No product can ever be radical, man." in blue and red on white

My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image
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They’re killing children. They’re fucking killing children and posting shit like this

Voltaire rolling in his grave over the name “Chicago [sic] Progressive [sic] Partnership [sic]”

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

We live in hell but do our best

that’s on me, i set the bar too low

Choosing to read this as all punchbowl news text subscribers also recieving terminal cancer diagnosises

i already established this

i just want to say that this king went to redhot ranch after saving the baby which means he gets what is good on a spiritual level

JUST IN: A federal judge has found that immigration agents have no probable cause to detain two people arrested in an infamous raid on a building in Chicago's the South Shore neighborhood in September.
Judge Cummings is still reading his ruling
background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/o...

ICE protesters keep beating Trump in Chicago court, but the battles take a toll. 'It’s about intimidation' Cases against 17 of 32 people charged with crimes during Operation Midway Blitz have already collapsed, and no one has been convicted. But federal prosecutions are daunting, they carry the threat of p...

good story from the sun-time about the consequences of criminal charges—even if those charges are later dropped.

wish they would apply the same logic more generally to people facing things like gun charges, which get dropped all the time bc they’re bogus/illegal.

BOARD OF ELECTIONS ISSUES REMINDER FOR TIMELY RETURN OF MAIL BALLOTS SPRINGFIELD – (Feb. 26, 2026) Illinois voters planning to vote by mail should be mindful of postal service postmarking procedures and ballot return options to ensure their votes are counted in the March 17 primary election. Under Illinois law, vote-by-mail ballots delivered through the United States Postal Service can only be counted if they are postmarked on or before Election Day and arrive within two weeks after Election Day. Voters who use the postal service to return their ballots should be aware that a ballot dropped in a mailbox or handed to a letter carrier will likely not receive a postmark until the mail is processed at a regional facility, usually a day or two later. Voters returning ballots by mail close to the March 17 primary are advised to visit a postal service retail location and have their ballot manually postmarked. Most of Illinois’ 108 local election authorities also offer secure drop boxes that allow voters to return their ballots without putting them in the mail. Information on drop box availability and locations is posted on the Illinois State Board of Elections website. Voters also may return their marked mail ballots in person to the office of their local election authority. Those wishing to vote by mail have until March 12 to request a ballot from their local election authority. Applications and election authority contact information can be found on the SBE website.

Timely notice from the Illinois State Board of Elections about what to know about returning ballots by mail.

Never heard of this law before right this second but holy fuck if it does not 100% check out

if you said 'dudes rock' when you saw this story give it a repost

An actual company (Anthropic) told me no, so now I'm going to pick a fight with children to feel big and strong

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

Never gets old, man

Oh so the segregationist has something to say about all of the segregation he helped along?

Happy Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil