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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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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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how did this guy run an investment bank?
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
how did this guy run an investment bank?
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
December 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it
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Counterpoint: You can get more cash than this if you just find her unattended purse at a restaurant
Kristi Noem makes an announcement on Fox & Friends: "We are saying that if you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you're in the US illegally, we'll give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home. We'll buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home."
December 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Counterpoint: You can get more cash than this if you just find her unattended purse at a restaurant
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The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
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Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
Inflation is making homelessness worse
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities like gas and food, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thinking today about this sentence:
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
"Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."
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“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions”
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions”
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
Adolf Hitler, 1939
There’s not much difference
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Just say women. This is taking forever.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just say women. This is taking forever.
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feels like a pretty obvious layup for Democrats to say, "this is an egregiously disgusting statement, even for him, and it underlines that the President is undergoing significant physical and mental deterioration, and either he is lying about it or is not aware of it."
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
feels like a pretty obvious layup for Democrats to say, "this is an egregiously disgusting statement, even for him, and it underlines that the President is undergoing significant physical and mental deterioration, and either he is lying about it or is not aware of it."
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Easiest choice we've ever had.🤦🏾♀️
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Easiest choice we've ever had.🤦🏾♀️
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In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
Since the start of the year, Chicago taxpayers spent $204.6 million to resolve lawsuits brought by 22 people wrongfully convicted based on evidence gathered by the Chicago Police Department, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
https://to.wttw.com/48PCrlM
Wrongful Convictions Cost Chicago Taxpayers $204.6M in 2025: Analysis
In the latest case to be settled, the Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $15.4 million to Robert Smith Jr., who spent 33 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1987 double m...
to.wttw.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In all, taxpayers have spent more than $300M so far in 2025 to resolve lawsuits alleging Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
The city budgeted just $82.5M to cover the cost of police misconduct lawsuits.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot force him to stay awake while his military seizes Venezuelan oil tankers, I will have to choice but to vote for him for a fourth time in 2028.
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot force him to stay awake while his military seizes Venezuelan oil tankers, I will have to choice but to vote for him for a fourth time in 2028.
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The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
Trump on the president of Colombia: "He's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up ... he better wise up or he'll be next. I hope he's listening. He's gonna be next."
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around
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There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.
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If people are asking AI for relationship advice, every answer should end with “… you fucking loser“ just to keep it real
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If people are asking AI for relationship advice, every answer should end with “… you fucking loser“ just to keep it real
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Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.
Thinking it isn’t is.
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical.
Thinking it isn’t is.
Thinking it isn’t is.
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The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The way to understand the second Trump administration is as a content generation machine. They aren’t implementing fascism, they’re creating fascism-flavored content. They aren’t implementing real policy, they’re signing executive orders to post about them. Anything that gets attention is the goal.
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Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump's dementia has grown so extreme that a select group of advisors are now running the country without his input. To find who those advisors are and what their plans are, buy my new book, which will appear in March 2029.
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If you are born here, and you are subject to our laws, you're one of us. You're an American, and you have all the rights that Americans have, from the moment of your birth. Period. No exceptions.
That's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, and it's fucking beautiful.
That's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, and it's fucking beautiful.
December 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you are born here, and you are subject to our laws, you're one of us. You're an American, and you have all the rights that Americans have, from the moment of your birth. Period. No exceptions.
That's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, and it's fucking beautiful.
That's what the Fourteenth Amendment says, and it's fucking beautiful.
Man, Trump’s rosacea nose is out of control.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Man, Trump’s rosacea nose is out of control.
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I try not to give advice I can't act on anymore.....but some enterprising Dem really needs to take the test on camera and start a trend where everyone on TikTok does the same
Trump on his cognitive test: “I'm a smart person, not a stupid person…I got every question right, and these are tough questions. These are questions that I would say 99% of the people that I'm talking to right now, meaning…the fake news, would not do well in those exams.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I try not to give advice I can't act on anymore.....but some enterprising Dem really needs to take the test on camera and start a trend where everyone on TikTok does the same
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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.
All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.