Benson Cook

Apparently both CIBC and BMO are sponsors of the Blackhawks and as someone who is here to root against them and for the Habs are I just find that funny

RIP Sister Jean, Loyola’s beloved icon.

I love that the one baseball team the entire continent outside of New York City can agree to root for is located in a town where tonight, way more people were paying attention to a hockey game

It’s only acceptable in Westminster legislatures where the speaker doesn’t usually vote — in that particular case it is almost preferable

The line to get into the River North Trader Joe’s is somehow nearly an entire city block long at 8:58 a.m. — what is this, Covid?

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

I've been an exec in corporate TV for 30+ years. This is a harsh, but accurate take on the challenges facing Bari Weiss by @lopatto.bsky.social.

Leading a large team, creatives, and navigating the corpo world without years of experience is exceedingly difficult.

www.theverge.com/business/793...

Favorite part of 107 Days so far is when Harris quips that she and Biden bonded over their mutual suspicion of the British due to their Jamaican/Indian and Irish ancestry

And to be clear, we probably weren’t going to go anyway, because we don’t like most of the people we went to high school with, but this is still ridiculous either way

Sorry but when your campus looks like this and tuition costs more than a new Toyota Corolla *each year* I think it isn’t unreasonable to expect your ten-year to be catered

@ivanagat.bsky.social and I just found out that our ten-year high school reunion isn't going to provide food and I've never been more outraged in my life

DHS shops local The federal government recently paid a company in Lake Forest $1 million for launchers to shoot pepper balls like those showering protesters.

new: in mid-september, dhs paid lake forest-based pepperball $1.1 million for “pressurized air launchers.”

the federal government has spent millions in recent years on launchers and chemical projectiles like the ones agents are now using to brutalize protesters.

via @juggaloreporter.bsky.social:

Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift "It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.

Pope dips his toe into a US political debate. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Fully convinced the only time a person who isn’t from there has ever traveled to Frankfurt of their own free will is to connect onto a flight going somewhere actually interesting

Loving that the Copenhagen airport has hardwood floors throughout — feels wildly impractical for such a high-traffic space but it’s a great aesthetic 👌🏼

RTA presses the CTA, Metra and Pace to share more details about looming service cuts RTA board chairman Kirk Dillard sent a letter to his counterparts at the CTA, Metra and Pace telling them to come prepared to talk about service cuts in detail at an Oct. 3 meeting.

RTA presses the CTA, Metra and Pace to share more details about looming service cuts — a nice scoop from @taliasoglin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/15/r...

I think if I get the orange iPhone I’m going to regret it in a year because it’s so loud and I can’t have my phone competing with me for attention

Welp we landed early at O’Hare so that means we’re in plane jail on the de-icing apron for the next 25 minutes

Floored that 2026 Arc passes were $30 LESS on presale than 2025’s were last year. Good for them — and more importantly, good for me

obsessed with the term “jamboree of autocrats”. Gotta be up there with “parliament of owls” as one of my favorites.

Why did the New York Times send a push alert today about John Sununu MAYBE running in the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary NEXT YEAR but not one about the NEW LADY GAGA SINGLE that dropped

I will say, after hearing it sampled sixteen times yesterday, I think I’m ready for the chord progression of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” to go dormant for a decade again

The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.

omg lol why would someone mouth that

Obsessed with MSNBC’s insane rebrand. Five random words that don’t make any real sense together; an acronym that’s close to the old name but, critically, not the old name; a logo that’s giving US Bank — it’s such an exquisite example of all the things the A.I. chatbot Versant execs used is bad at

Because you asked, yes, I’m selling a Queen ticket 👑

My only major complaint so far is that they repeat ad reads in a single episode and I truly, profoundly hate that

So I started listening to Las Culturistas, and it’s complete nonsense but almost in a comforting way? Like it’s nice to listen to something with essentially zero stakes sometimes, but it feels less like I’m putting my brain in the microwave than watching reality TV or something

It’s a bit more complex than that but this is also not really an argument I feel like having at 1:16 in the morning. Have a nice night!

u do realize that those two entities work in lockstep right

Eventually we *will* force the CTA’s hand — manifesting enough density that they have no choice but to add an infill Brown Line stop at Division