Not looking forward to the drive back to Chicago tomorrow
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Not looking forward to the drive back to Chicago tomorrow
Not looking forward to the drive back to Chicago tomorrow
Iāve been at this place for a wedding all weekend and it really is going to suck to leave.
One more thing Iāll say about northern Michigan is the starlight. My only camera is my phone
One more thing Iāll say about northern Michigan is the starlight. My only camera is my phone
Theyāre calling this a ācenterā but it is in fact a monument
It's worse than ever in L.A. and it feels like the rest of America doesn't care. It will never not feel like insult upon grevious injury
God, how do we do this in Chicago?
Pyramid Point at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Featuring several people (for scale) and the Manitou islands
Pyramid Point at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Featuring several people (for scale) and the Manitou islands
Sleeping Bear Dunes
More should be said about the University of Chicago destroying Indiana Jonesā department.
Theyāve been lying to us our whole lives, claiming that this is picture captures two separate lakes.
Lake Leelanau, Michigan. Just drove in for the first time today. I can definitely settle here for a long weekend.
Abbott Elementary is beloved by teachers
Death panels, with an āA.I.ā fig leaf.
Notable that his wife is a member of congress.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
The better word there is censored
High school grade inflation is a real problem. Based on numbers Iām seeing locally, I would guess there are tens of thousands of US high school students each year with >4.0 GPA who donāt meet college readiness benchmarks on ACT/SAT. Notice that he doesnāt mention those scores.
Prem Thakker made a good point on Chapo - The average American knows Israel, both political parties, Netanyahu, and the media are lying to them about Gaza. And they don't like it. They might not have a foreign policy degree, but they're smarter than they're given credit for.
Not so different from when The Beatles 1 was released in 2000 (30 years after Let It Be) and became the best-selling album of the decade.
In other cases, I might want to inflate the value of something i own (an artwork) by establishing a high public value for something similar (a work by the same artist). Charity auctions are great for this because the charity halo increases willingness to spend.
Interesting study about maximizing fundraising revenue from auction/raffle donations. But critically misses that payout format dictates the donorās willingness to participate. I might donate my services to a raffle (value of my services remains secret), but not an auction (value becomes public).
āDespair falls like the day you come home from work, a summer evening transparent with rose-blue light and see they are filling in the framework the girders are rising beyond your window that seriously you live in a different place though you have never movedā From Adrienne Rich Dreams Before Waking
Why are cops like this?
I donāt think this is right. Trumpās people would not do this without coordinating closely with Roberts. Trump has lost his faculties but the whole GOP system that heās nominally in charge of is not stupid.
California has many incredible destinations that 99% of Californians have never heard of
As an Illinoisian, I do feel confident that Pritzker will walk the walk. Just remains to be seen how creative and effective he can be. Dems need to start throwing curveballs - ordinary press conferences wonāt cut it.
It canāt just be ālooks likeā it has to be āmost vigorously undoesā ā¦ in the same way that in 2009-16, Donald Trump didnāt look like the most vigorous person to oppose Obama, he was the most vigorous and effective person undermining Obama (with his racist birtherism bullshit)
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, was driving to work when he encountered an ICE checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. He was detained for three days and three nights without explanation.
Brandon Johnson did this too, just with a lot less charisma.
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
If we pumped Fox News and Facebook feeds into every hour of every teenagerās daily life, theyād be absolutely cooked But adults do this to ourselves, claiming to know better.
Adults are in crisis. Teens, enabled by cell phone bans, are showing the way forward.
I am hopeful that in another four years it will be something really extraordinary
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
This is it. Iād be interested in some investigation of its capabilities www.harvey.ai
Friend of mine is a partner at a major global law firm. One of their largest clients, a global corporation, has requested weekly updates on how the firm is using AI to more efficiently process their ongoing legal matters. Nobody is taking āit doesnāt workā for an answer.
Thatās in New York? Looks like something a central Asian dictator would have built
Is that your lawn?
This started while I was writing my dissertation, during Covid. A lot of frustration was vented through a pair of loppers.
Four years into my project of converting a giant blob of juniper into topiary. š±
I want to hear from a Baldwin/Trump split-ticket Wisconsin voter. Who are the folks who want Tammy Baldwin in the Senate and also a President and Supreme Court who would jail her for existing as a lesbian?https://bsky.app/profile/paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com/post/3kxgfavjack2d
Why does California need to care about it?
Well itās his name on the publisher line and the buck stops there. Iām a happy print subscriber and will tolerate a misfire here or there.
Good opsec. I hope they have great opsec.
Disappointing stuff from @bencollins.bsky.social when CPS has actually been one of the better districts in agreeing with labor to bring back freshly-made meals to every school unitehere.org/chicago-publ...
For the money, Vinfast. Theyāve gotten terrible reviews on style and originality but it runs just fine and comfortably and the pricing canāt be beat.
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. āHigh-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessoriesā from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
āWop, wop, wop, wop, wop, Dot, fuck āem upā popped into my head
Seems like a straw man. Thereās nobody publicly arguing for such an alternative that abolishes the SAT and leaves the rest of the current system intact. (There may be Ivy+ leaders privately arguing for that, but that would be because they want more wealthy admits).
"Hey, we need a Republican to talk about how totally believable it is that an eyewitness to sexual assaults now insists they never saw anything wrong -- who should we get?"
Had no idea how many hops one plant could produce
Compared to what alternatives? Surely they donāt mean any alternatives.
I know Iām an elder millennial because Iāve always thought of āHolesā as Louis Sacharās second act. The Wayside School was already legendary when I started second grade.
"J Michael Luttig, who served on a federal appeals court for 15 years, put the criticism starkly. 'The chief justice is presiding over the end of the rule of law in America,' Luttig told the Guardian." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
YouTube Premium includes YouTube Music. Works great and ad-free YouTube is awesome
The point of renaming the company was to put all of the Facebook scandals behind it without actually addressing any of the scandals, and it seems to have worked
Not to mention the government inefficiency of re-painting a wall that was built last time Trump was President. Heās admitting that the wall he built is inefficient.
there are more trans americans than there are operating farms in the united states
How does $3m compare to the loss of international student tuition dollars?
If itās two oāclock in the afternoon and my eye twitches and you suggest to me that I go eat a potato, that would be weird.
JCO casually doing murders last night
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campusāmaking arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Iām kind of speechless with this one. I canāt imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesnāt count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.
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What āinfluenceā did the Spanish have on San Francisco Bay in 1750? It was completely unknown to Europeans until the Portola expedition discovered it (by land, by accident, while looking for Monterey Bay) in 1769
The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.
Miraculously, he didnāt hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife. I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.
Hops plant doing well growing up the old basketball hoop. This might have to be the year I learn how to make beer. š±
I have one prairie dock in my garden, planted alongside two other tall yellow natives. I love the mass of the leaves. š±
we have this nice patch of prairie beside the highway. The prairie dock (giant basal leaves, 15 foot tall stocks, bright yellow flowers) is my favorite
Very helpful thank you!
A couple more views of the monarch visiting my garden today š±
Apparently thereās such a thing as a black morph of a tiger swallowtail. This might be that. I canāt tell and would welcome any knowledgeable opinions on the matter.
When Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house, east coast media mocked her and west coast liberals laughed. For different reasons.
āYoung people will need to payā to qualify for entry-level jobs. This is probably even more true across the US than it is in Mississippi. What are Newsom, Hochul, Pritzker doing about it?
Spicebush Swallowtail visiting my cup plant š±
Sumac in bloom. Bees love it. The buzzing is audible from a few yards away
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abe Lincoln, 1859
Wtf is this ad?
āThe president orders the military into the capital on an absurd pretense and illegally seizes control of the capital police forceā is not a sequence of events that is remotely difficult to interpret, and itās disgusting to watch our political and media class pretend to not know whatās happening
Yes I was agreeing with you
Tom Cruise is a piece of work but his artistic work does merit national lifetime recognition and thereās something powerful and hopeful in his apparent belief that he can wait to get his recognition from a legitimate government in the future
All who love freedom should cheer it wherever it arises. Calling this cringe is a tool of fascism
Canāt we all just laugh at this? Like the emperor has no clothes.
That's why we must never forget:
The thing is, itās a more important piece of white American history.
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