Alt National BIM Hour

David Bowie:

Haha, nonprofit industrial complex

IIRC they try to have it both ways where outright privatization is presented as obviously bad but public-private partnerships and the NPIC do a lot of good.

Parks and Rec is, like Hamilton, well made entertainment, but the criticisms of it are with merit. They are for better and ill extremely products of their time.

I would also disagree generally with calling Parks and Rec a neoliberal show, but it's not *not* neoliberal either

*Two* blackface episodes!

"The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill"

This comparison gets made a lot and it's always funny that P&R, as a mainstream Obama era liberal fantasy, is seen as aging worse than 30 Rock, which had characters appear in blackface *twice*

We really need to do a deep psychological dive into country club members' brains

A water taxi on the Chicago River. A weird red furry monster mascot is on board.

I don't want to cause a ruckus on here but the Jewel Osco monster mascot is jamming in the river right now

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

It's very funny and almost entirely unmentioned that the meltdown over Jay Jones texts - which were a very bad idea - is due to a Michael Scott reference

Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again

In light of the victory: I know people keep trying to compare Mamdani to Brandon Johnson but what I really want to know is, what are DSA and the teachers union doing differently in NYC vs in Chicago

My God the vibe shift is permanent

You're within the amnesty hours. I'll allow it.

In honor of tonight I'm giving myself a 24 hour moratorium on complaining that bodegas aren't special and convenience stores that sell sandwiches exist everywhere

Dark Universe? Yeah,, that's my life because the freaking sun sets at 4:30!

If I got called out this badly by someone from Glee I'd exile myself into the wilderness

What level of right-wing brainrot do you have to be on to connect these shirts with Charlie Kirk? This is like when I talk about Poob and The Grink and my wife stares at me blankly.

Screenshot of a Facebook post from retiring Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky's Facebook page. She is left of center a photo taken at a food distribution. Dan Biss is center in the photo and much more prominent. The caption is: "Thousands of neighbors came together for an Emergency Food Drive in Evanston this weekend to support families in need. In times of uncertainty, it is inspiring to see so many people join hands to lift up our community and make sure no one goes hungry."

Jan has said she isn't endorsing in the IL-9 primary but you gotta imagine that comes with a wink

In stock price, that is. Idk about sales.

FWIW, Walmart, Costco, and even Kohls are up year to date but Target is down.

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Pick a recipe, any recipe. www.budgetbytes.com

Online Chicagoans when someone starts a rumor that Lori Lightfoot bought a house in Sauganash: it's basically the suburbs, it's not really Chicago, only cops live there, her soul is impure

Online Chicagoans when a DC guy mistakes Edison Park SFHs for the suburbs: FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK OF FUCK

Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

"SCOTUS justice Barack Obama" would be a good carrot for packing the court