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Chicago copywriter, wildlife watcher, theatergoer, national parks enthusiast. It turns out that knowledge isn’t power, but it’s still better than not knowing shit.

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We got bored with that after a few days.

09.11.2025 05:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What if the beavers at Montrose Harbor sent it, though

09.11.2025 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I live in Chicago and am superannuated in comparison to you. In 1996, 14 people in our precinct voted for Bob Dole. My husband and I became obsessed with finding out who these fools were and would whisper to each other on the street: “Do you think he’s one?” “She’s gotta be one!” etc.

09.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s why I cried when the World Series was over.

08.11.2025 21:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@windhorse.bsky.social this psychotic administration is exhausting

07.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

06.11.2025 17:50 — 👍 2506    🔁 635    💬 32    📌 28

Judge Ellis does some reading every week.

06.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 72    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The humiliating way he left the governorship.

06.11.2025 06:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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06.11.2025 03:02 — 👍 111    🔁 84    💬 2    📌 4

Fourth if you count the mayoral primary.

06.11.2025 06:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When Zohran wins he should sentence Cuomo and Adams to be each others butler

23.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 70    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2

Agreed. He would, however, probably like a senate seat.

06.11.2025 06:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sometimes we ask employees to drop bags of shredded documents into random trash cans around town for entirely professional reasons

06.11.2025 05:35 — 👍 182    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
EASY WEEKNIGHT DINNER
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Wondering how hard it’d be to convince Ackman or Musk that this is the first evidence of the immediate communist islamification of New York

06.11.2025 00:18 — 👍 98    🔁 11    💬 12    📌 5

That place slaps.

06.11.2025 03:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

05.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 19497    🔁 3351    💬 255    📌 136

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

05.11.2025 05:22 — 👍 56780    🔁 6799    💬 636    📌 224

addressing trump:

"to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

05.11.2025 04:38 — 👍 588    🔁 71    💬 5    📌 12
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

03.11.2025 14:35 — 👍 6360    🔁 1484    💬 92    📌 152

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

03.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 44360    🔁 12444    💬 1398    📌 734

This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."

02.11.2025 14:34 — 👍 3156    🔁 536    💬 99    📌 125

The president has never been shown the system for deciding on retaliation specifics. The contents of the black book are completely new to him and he has three minutes to read them.

03.11.2025 06:30 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

03.11.2025 05:14 — 👍 1074    🔁 213    💬 33    📌 11

Had this experience canvassing for Obama in 2012. His voters would excitedly say who they were voting for. Romney voters would look down and say they were undecided. Every time I heard a “I’m gonna pray on it,” I’d mark my walk sheet “likely Romney.”

03.11.2025 04:04 — 👍 59    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The very same.

03.11.2025 00:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“His brother married a Jewish woman!” is the most cringeworthy example of this I’ve seen in years.

02.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

About 30 points higher than 69.

02.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That poor tailor. The abuse he took.

02.11.2025 19:25 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

True, much harder for him to put troops on the streets of Toronto. But clearly still a goal of his.

02.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is made worse by the certainty that Trump is going to say something extremely offensive about it.

02.11.2025 04:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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