Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Should’ve responded, “Not half as worried as if she had to walk past a hotel full of BBC presenters”
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Guy who loves to ask, “No, where are you REALLY from?”
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
when I hack my calculator to spell “BOOBIES”
No! :( Cancel me if you want but I think our benevolent oligarchs should be generously proportioned
Me when my wife sees the browser history
This is what rebellion looks like
Good morning Chicago. As I skeet, thousands of us have mounted our warcycles and are riding through the militarized Lake Shore Drive Zone to take over the John Hancock Center and rechristen it the Jane Footpussy Citadel
I nearly torpedoed my high school career after I figured out how to install Nesticle on the lab computers. I simply would not have survived the Roblox era 😔
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Thank you FSU. Thank you Bama 🙏🖕🏻
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
Trump isn’t going to see your mean skeets laughing that he might be dead but all your friends who also don’t have plans for the weekend will
4/3 does not seem epic enough of a stat line
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
all the weird excited posts made me think henry kissinger was about to die 😢
Broadview, IL police arrested and cited 3 protesters (all since released) outside the Broadview ICE processing/detention center this morning after a prayer group concluded. It was a busy morning for transport—reporters witnessed ICE move over a dozen detainees from the facility.
HONK FOR CHICAGO
Seen at Graceland Cemetery, an American kestrel wth an insect in its clutches.
AI seeks to deplete and destroy our water supply by every means at its disposal www.bbc.com/news/article...
iconic 🙌
the ensuing discussion is gold
Al Sharpton at the National Action Network rally today: "I don't endorse candidates, but I take attendance. Let's hear from Andrew Cuomo. Oh he's not here. Let's hear from Mayor Adams. Oh he's not here. Let's hear for Zohran Mamdani!" youtu.be/eznxz7ZA5Yc?...
now begins our nightly ceremony, an innumerable mass of humanity chanting “BEAN BEAN BEAN BEAN” in communion with our leguminous god
that’s cool how no one can know what openai’s “oops” blog post this week is actually in response to: ChatGPT teaching a teen how to hang himself, or ChatGPT spurring a man to kill his mom because her printer beeped at him
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
another night in the war zone of Chicago
ladies, is it maga to marry a white guy
congrats!
dumbass Grok took a comically long time to do a tally before erroring out but its preliminary findings suggest the Feds have woefully undercounted
Click through to see how Anna gets owned
Repurposed newsstands containing free doses of Narcan have officially launched in Uptown with the aim of increasing access to the life-saving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose, city officials announced. #HarmReduction
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
Five years ago, YouTube suspended MAGA propaganda outlet OAN, saying it was not an “authoritative” source of information. But today it celebrated a carriage deal beaming the network into millions of homes on YouTube TV. The timing is no coincidence, via @status.news www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
I just can't help but note how incredibly intellectually disqualifying it is for anyone to have been in that room while Yarvin said that thing and not immediately either call him a wicked fool or walk out.
Evermore Swift
I am now just learning that the WordPad product manager succumbed to the grievous injuries they received during their trial by combat, and their product team along with WordPad have been summarily executed. My condolences 🙏
The potential benefits of generative AI are vastly outweighed by the mass of superfluous/harmful features driven by poisoned financial incentives. There is simply no reason for “Copilot for Notepad” to exist, except that the product managers for Notepad and WordPad are in a corporate deathmatch
notepad has fallen
feel like pizza is a strong candidate. St. Louis style pizza is just awful on an absolute scale
Vile
What’s the statistical rate of user suicides per chatbot hour that ChatGPT has calculated? I was under the impression that they haven’t tracked or projected this
Generally the people building a bridge at least know they are building a bridge — and even then if they die, it’s often a scandal. Do you believe that if a bridge unexpectedly collapses and kills a bunch of people, that there aren’t recriminations and repercussions for who built that bridge?
Putting aside of whether the dangers of chatbots can be ameliorated, the sheer increase in scale is staggering. Email was just starting to be a thing when I was a teen, and I think there would’ve been a collective freak out had *72%* of teens said “they are email buddies with complete strangers”
Let’s go, Ordinary Citizens 🙏
I’ve been to Ubud and used to live next to Coyote Ugly, but haven’t read any Elizabeth Gilbert’s books. I might have to change that now archive.is/iz7BJ
Cops are great
archive.is/iz7BJ
Imagining that this is how Steve Jobs went
I knew it!
ominous drudge layout
My in-laws were not answering their phones so my wife and I went over to check on them. We found out it was because they hadn't paid their verizon bill. We called verizon talked to an AI bot but they offered to connect us to a human service representative for an additional $10 charge. 🙃
well Germany’s problem was that instead of riding the wave it decided to undertake several violent and bigoted initiatives, something that surely our leaders can simply decide not to do
We're journalists, not rapid response. We'll continue to do our best to vet reports as they come in and get to the scene when we're able. Chicago needs more resilient communication networks; we're a part of that ecosystem but please don't rely solely on us to stay informed
yes... ha ha ha YES
We’re still in the nascent age of generative AI and “real life Tony Stark” has already conceded that his AI’s best path to mass appeal is making anime to jack off to
Why doesn't Meislas/Meidas "take one for the team" by partaking in standard licensing agreements?
was just in Girona. many bike shops there
Master Bates got a brush burn on his jerkoff hand
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Yeah no one noticed he was suicidal for months because the chatbot was giving him an outlet to pursue and be advised on his suicidal desires. That’s kind of the gist of the complaint
Man this is dark. Absolutely boggling to me that anyone can read this and still think a LLM chatbot has even an iota of sentience
it’s the perfect cover tbh
A lot of stuff going on in this lede
Journalism is not ready for this era
This WaPo piece about the Airbnb/DOGE guy who is now the head of design in government ignores that: *DOGE fired the actual talented design people in government, including Social Security! *IRS had a beautifully designed tax filing system that DOGE killed *USDS already did online passport renewals
Never fails
I cannot type the words I actually want to say, so for now I’ll just hope these people are haunted forever.
The “you have to pledge your sword to Newsom right now” people are getting noticeably stupider by the day, unsure of what conclusions to draw from this except maybe it’s down to the people who will do it for free
just walked by a man of indeterminate ethnicity screaming at another man “are you a wop or a mick? or are you a kraut??” and i’m afraid it may be time to call in the national guard
Again: every cop doing this must themselves face criminal charges.
Headstone of Kerry Shane Sheckles located in Sullivan, Indiana. Sheckles was an avid Monopoly player. The spaces on the board refer to events from his life, places he enjoyed, and cars that he owned. #GraveGoals
i have discovered one (1) flaw in chicago deep dish pizza
if socialism were effective then why would all these people need to scavenge 🧐
Jesus 🙏
I’m sorry but technically this is a tale from the Age of Biden — the Trump Tales will surely be on another level
Absolutely epic crowd at the Melbourne march for Palestine
JB authorizing a banger skeet for Saturday night
Mingus Reedus
The Sting is hard to beat as a crowd pleaser, but Cool Hand Luke might be his best. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is an irredeemably compromised adaptation but he still does what he can
Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.
This is why progressives are wary of democrats who put their faith in "good" billionaires.
“howdy. im the sheriff of suckin u off. im gon suc—”
Yojimbo
