Dirt Dork.
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Illinoisan. Likes plants. Posts are whatever crossed my mind, reposts are things I thought anyone who willingly signed up for Matt Thoughts would also find interesting.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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There are a lot of derelict schools in the city that are close to transit, and a broad shortage of housing. I think there's a two-birds-with-one-stone solution here.
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
There are a lot of derelict schools in the city that are close to transit, and a broad shortage of housing. I think there's a two-birds-with-one-stone solution here.
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There is some *extraordinarily good* near-future espionage fiction happening in this thread.
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There is some *extraordinarily good* near-future espionage fiction happening in this thread.
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Residents of the Loop, Chicago’s downtown area, live on average until they are 87. In the West Garfield Park neighborhood, the average is 67. (via @wbez.org)
There’s a 20-year life expectancy gap in Chicago. Many of these deaths are preventable.
West Garfield Park residents are expected to live on average until 67 years old, compared to Loop residents living to age 87. This is widest death gap in Chicago and the biggest gap of any big U.S. city, the most recent data shows.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Residents of the Loop, Chicago’s downtown area, live on average until they are 87. In the West Garfield Park neighborhood, the average is 67. (via @wbez.org)
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Portrait of Chester Dale (1958)
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21032
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21032
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Portrait of Chester Dale (1958)
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21032
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21032
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The wizard takes a sip from his cardamon tea and leaves a note in the margins of his grimoire.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The wizard takes a sip from his cardamon tea and leaves a note in the margins of his grimoire.
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If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
Have to say, @magic.wizards.com got me but good with the ATLA set. Kept going "that sounds familiar but I don't remember" looking at the cards, and now I'm halfway through book 1.
Bodes well for the in-multiverse TV show, I gotta say.
Bodes well for the in-multiverse TV show, I gotta say.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Have to say, @magic.wizards.com got me but good with the ATLA set. Kept going "that sounds familiar but I don't remember" looking at the cards, and now I'm halfway through book 1.
Bodes well for the in-multiverse TV show, I gotta say.
Bodes well for the in-multiverse TV show, I gotta say.
"They seem happy, Sokka."
"Not for long!"
"Not for long!"
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"They seem happy, Sokka."
"Not for long!"
"Not for long!"
please do this, as an american i would be so fucking owned.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
please do this, as an american i would be so fucking owned.
I was lucky enough to get on one for a commute home a couple times and I need non-CTA riders to know that it's decorated inside as well. I'm grinning thinking about it. It really is several tons of moving holiday cheer.
Colleagues and I were just talking about this: The CTA holiday train is the purest experience of joy in the city. -No one- is so jaded that they don’t light up when they see it. Commuters get genuinely excited. People smile and laugh and text pictures to their friends. It’s a delight.
Non-Chicagoans don't realize how fun it is to see the Holiday Train pulling into the station. A little jolt of joy gives you a lift.
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was lucky enough to get on one for a commute home a couple times and I need non-CTA riders to know that it's decorated inside as well. I'm grinning thinking about it. It really is several tons of moving holiday cheer.
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"average french person arrested 3 times a year for corruption" factoid actualy just statistical error. average french person arrested 0 times per year. Corruptions Sarko, who lives in le XVIe arrondissement & has over 10k convictions a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"average french person arrested 3 times a year for corruption" factoid actualy just statistical error. average french person arrested 0 times per year. Corruptions Sarko, who lives in le XVIe arrondissement & has over 10k convictions a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Setting aside the "how many Americas are there?" question for a second, I guess I don't have a sense of how common/useful referring to a whole (couple of?) continent(s) by one demonym is? We talk about Europeans, but that has a similar issue of the EU. African and Asian have their own problems.
yeah this is exactly why USians continues to irritate me
Like it’s one thing for a group of people to say “I prefer to be called this” it’s another to TELL another whole country of diverse ethnicities and heritage that you will now be calling them something else.
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Setting aside the "how many Americas are there?" question for a second, I guess I don't have a sense of how common/useful referring to a whole (couple of?) continent(s) by one demonym is? We talk about Europeans, but that has a similar issue of the EU. African and Asian have their own problems.
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It’s awesome how they fight new apartment buildings by claiming it’ll increase gentrification and it is of course the opposite
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
It’s awesome how they fight new apartment buildings by claiming it’ll increase gentrification and it is of course the opposite
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“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"It was supposed to be a celebratory milestone, the final step in the process to obtain U.S. permanent residency. Instead, as each interview with an immigration officer wrapped up, federal agents swooped in, handcuffed the foreign spouse and took him or her away."
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Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
Animated adaptation of the Terra Ignota series. Only way to do it.
Prestige Baroque Cycle series. Ben Kingsley as 1714 Daniel and Ferdinand Kingsley as Restoration-era Daniel.
Prestige Baroque Cycle series. Ben Kingsley as 1714 Daniel and Ferdinand Kingsley as Restoration-era Daniel.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Animated adaptation of the Terra Ignota series. Only way to do it.
Prestige Baroque Cycle series. Ben Kingsley as 1714 Daniel and Ferdinand Kingsley as Restoration-era Daniel.
Prestige Baroque Cycle series. Ben Kingsley as 1714 Daniel and Ferdinand Kingsley as Restoration-era Daniel.
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boldly rebuke vice
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
boldly rebuke vice
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Every once in a while the Lakes remind you that they're older and larger and stronger than us.
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Every once in a while the Lakes remind you that they're older and larger and stronger than us.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I am going to drink these motherfuckers's tears when Naperville turns solid blue.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I am going to drink these motherfuckers's tears when Naperville turns solid blue.