MarkG

They seem to enjoy doing this a little too much

I feel like there are plenty of pretenders out there, who may fight at first but don't really have the resources or gumption if pressed (not without foreign help anyway). Iran may be like that eventually.
(Sometimes I wonder the same thing about ICE)

Look what Roger Romanelli, the guy who helped kill the City's Ashland BRT proposal, and his NIMBY posse are up to now. They're protesting the Grand Safe Streets project in West Town on 3/5, 5 PM at Grand/Noble. 🙄

Background:
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/12/c... @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social

The Disturbing History of ICE’s “Death Cards” The Vietnam-era practice is yet another example of ICE agents thrilling to the brutality they have been encouraged to cultivate.

Death cards made famous in a war that ended more than 50 years ago have made a reappearance. It shouldn’t be a surprise that a war of extreme brutality rooted in racism would have resonance with ICE.
https://bit.ly/4cjACBk

People have the memory of a goldfish.

Watching my son do the plunge. That wind sucks.

Pearl the frenchie

She loves her chain

A new Super PAC, "Chicago Progressive Partnership," just jumped into #IL09, opposing Kat Abughazaleh. Filings show they’re using the same vendors as AIPAC.

One of these landed on our fence this afternoon, and our local squirrel colony was not pleased.

Covie @covie_93 • 3h Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this. 264 さて5.8K 33K ıll 550K •.•

Opossum in the garden next-door

Big boy next door

YouTube video by Alan Pafenbach Volkswagen "Pink Moon"

The reality is that studios can spend the next 10 years throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into AI-produced, algorithm-driven "content" and yet they'll never produce a work even a fraction as emotionally evocative as a 90 second Volkswagen ad from 1999
youtu.be/_-kqUkZnDcM?...

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression

Sadly, that's only what we do here.

What kind of cocktail can I make with Cel-Ray?

Me too. If you're that important, shut up and go around me.

To be honest, I am not dedicating 30 plus minutes of my life to watch this entire thing, but I did speed ahead and stop here and there, hoping he was being ironic, but not that i could see.

How dare they use caution when turning into a place where there may be people walking, bikes, or other cars! Don't they know my time is more valuable than that?!

"You have more in common with the average Iranian than you ever will the pedos you're fighting for."

Nah

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02...

An idiotic fight

Interesting that the fiercest defenders of Israel's "right" to occupy the land of three or four different countries at once are also of the belief that Ukrainians don't want to live under Ukrainian rule.

Sophie Scholl: Student who resisted Hitler and inspires Germany Germany marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, who was killed defying the Nazis.

She wasn't so lucky, but she was not afraid even when they put her to death.

www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

You REALLY want this to get some traction don't you?