mystery ghoul

have smashed TWO glasses in two days this week after not breaking a glass for years!! I do not like these sharp omens.

Updating the "everyone is 12" theorem to add "everyone is 12 and can't read"

(and my idea is that this is done with 0 notice to shock them all into doing their jobs.)

one of my better ideas is that the senate needs to be collapsed into the house effective immediately because it shouldn’t exist anyway and then the whiners will still get two extra reps on top of it.

just durbin slamming the door into his own ass on the way out, a dereliction of duty to his constituents for a pinky swear.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

This is so sadistic. These people are proud of the terror they're inflicting. They're enjoying it.

aspirational but also reminding me when I had to explain a disco nap to my younger coworkers

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Absolutely craven maneuvering, spineless.

Is there some reason you just decided to dump any leverage you had because as a constituent I cannot believe you are trying to strike a deal with these wildly unpopular goons for nothing

@durbin.senate.gov hey what the FUCK

Abolish the fucking senate

I need to start knitting again so I can make a second one of these giant scarf/shawl/cowl things

would be a shame if people called venues the way they did for Jeffries’ book tour

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

this is assuming my flight doesn’t get cancelled lmao

I’m only going to see a couple of the same people again but that’s no excuse for repeats!!

I have a cabinet of polish and I just sorted all of it by finish last weekend so it’s really just Decision Paralysis and trying to not take 5 colors with me for the hell of it

my nail game was so strong last week and now I have to pick new colors to take on the road again

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Working late on a Friday night to starve children

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

incredible work, everyone

Using up sooooo much bad luck today, incredible stuff.

Nicole looks like she is trying to cosplay Mary, which is giving every scene they have together an INSANE edge. Beyond parody, sublime.

thrilled to discover my garbage* is back!!

[*selling sunset]

follow the rules

… a lot of my hobbies seem to involve amassing a collection of colors I enjoy and that really explains a lot about how I pick my new fixations.