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less enthusiasm today 🤞
still drinking water like it’s 100 degrees I need to back off a bit
U.S. farmers became so good at producing corn and soybeans that crop gluts are squeezing profits. A look at the challenges, in charts.
I can’t think of anything to say that’s nastier than the announcement
we are trying to untrain our squirrel chaser from patrolling the fence 🙄 there is one particular chipmunk tho, he’s clever af
no squirrelz allowed either
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
Elizabeth Holmes posting success memes about lifting in prison is about as close to an actual pale horse in history.
I'm doing a smoked pernil (pork shoulder) today. Dry brined in annatto, salt, coriander, and black pepper then marinated in a mojo made of confit garlic in olive oil blended with bitter orange juice, recao, cilantro, and parsley. I'm gonna be smoking it on apple wood and finishing it in the oven.
Great Lakes ghost ships emerge, courtesy of the quagga mussel on.ft.com/3HAKCsY | opinion
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
mmm coffee and no work today
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
I DIDNT DIE AND ONLY CAIGHT IT ONCE DOES THAT COUNT
You find signs like this all over our former colonies commemorating people who were taken by anonymous soviet secret policemen. In their 100s of thousands.
OTD in 2004 Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was poisoned. While on a flight. After asking for tea. If you can imagine that. She was later shot dead as a birthday present to Prez. www.theguardian.com/world/2004/s...
They’re yelling all day over here
Make some noise for your local cicadas!!! (Holy shit they’re loud) #chicago
the cicadas are still screaming why
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
not i said the fly
Either something is fishy or Rudy’s spokesman is so used to covering up crimes that he doesn’t know how to put out a statement without preemptively establishing an alibi...
Meet me at the LSD pole in 35 minutes if you want an ass-trippin'
i believe it (that he did that, not that he is)
Give me this energy all day over Newsom theatrics
primo nap opportunity coming up
You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.
David Pakman going from GamerGate “it’s about ethics in games journalism” moron to accepting dark money to spew DNC-approved talking points in his “journalism” is SO FUCKING FUNNY www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
tldr; grind thru it, it is what it is creakyjoints.org/about-arthri...
this guy part of arctic policy during Trump 1 brother is operations director or thought leader or some such fuckery for project 2025 tight crowd lemme know if you need a gift link
is this man a vampire youtube.com/watch?v=8g6h...
I swear to god these hummingbirds are stressing me out I’M MAKING IT AS FAST AS I CAN YOU LITTLE SPASTIC FUCKS
I do not have crohns but I see 18 crohns drugs ads a day this many people cannot have crohns, and if they do I think they know about the drugs by now
+fearless girls
every promo spot has a perfect kicker and it’s making me laugh
perfect new nickname for my dog
wgn is on 🔥 this morning lmao
IAEA experts at the Zaporizhzhia NPP were denied access to a newly built dam used for cooling water and to the western part of a turbine hall during an inspection. The agency says full access is critical to assess the plant’s safety amid ongoing military activity.
Why does China build faster than anyone in the world? Subways, infrastructure, just everyday things? Dan Wang thinks he knows the answer:
Data center power demand is sparking interest in new reactors.
reciprocity did Trump learn that from Putin
however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right
may I ask which part, my hubs was born in whitefish his mom lives in hungry horse I think
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“Reports of mistreatment have been widespread and have included disturbing details of overcrowding, food shortages, lack of adequate medical care, and unsanitary conditions.”
When someone in the replies misses the point but in a super weird way
the guys* I know bring me fish *not guys
Hard agree, expand the court immediately. The current composition and count is not serving the needs of our country.
I may have had a period of parenting two early teens boys where I applied a similar strategy Gotta let em know just how far you’re willing to take things to set the tone 😏 Very effective I gotta say
Breaking: per Al-Hadath News, The Houthis announce the killing of the Prime Minister and other ministers in the Israeli airstrikes on #Sanaa
Best wards against evil 2025 Wards against evil yard art Wards against evil on a budget
AIA Chicago is having a guided bike tour through Woodlawn and Washington Park (open to the public) on 9/20/25. “Along this 10-mile route—beginning at Experimental Station’s cultural hub—we’ll explore new urban and community landmarks that offer more than striking architecture.”
a la birds aren’t real I like this idea very much
absolutely happening, and I think it’s hitting vulnerable (elderly) people first
every week i consider bangs a bob is this another midlife crisis coming on or is the weather changing
I want a reporter to ask a senior official every single day if he’s dead yet.
Patrick Henry expressed concern that the President “may easily become king,” James Madison replied that this would not occur because “[t]he purse is in the hands of the representatives of the people.” Full Henry quote on "you Senate" below: teachingamericanhistory.org/document/pat...
I think RFKJR fashions himself as the next Trump so he’s just going for all of it
The EU is weighing legal ways to bypass unanimity in foreign policy, Bloomberg reports. A group of 12 countries backs shifting to qualified majority voting to speed up decisions on Ukraine and Russia, often blocked by Hungary. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
this guy is so fucking sketchy for so many reasons
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Woke up, and the skyline is full of folks embracing their shadows. If you're new to hexing, some advice: use protection, set clear intentions, sprinkle it with the hottest hot sauce you got, and sweep up when you're done.
If we make him think he’s dying he might
Every day I find out about a new worst thing in the world
Protecting London 24/7. Wait till the end for a show of adoration for the bollards….💛💛💛 #WorldBollardAssociation 🫡
The first ever successful & impactful cyber-physical attack on European critical infrastructure outside of Ukraine? “Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.”
Former Ukrainian speaker of Parliament Andriy Parubiy has been assassinated in Lviv. An investigation is underway to hunt down the killer, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry.
Anyway: You got this all back to front. It’s not that we haven’t seen Trump in a few days - you need to look out for Melania and see how happy she looks now
Everybody at 6 in the morning on a Saturday on social media wishing for the same thing for no particular reason
In monarchical times, praying for the death of the king was considered treason
Like the piss tape prayer candles
*got locked up there on purpose
We should build him a pyramid and force his servants to join him
Social Security chief data officer Charles Borges has stepped down after submitting a whistleblower complaint claiming that DOGE personnel uploaded the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an unsecured cloud server.
Macron: If Putin does not agree to meet with Zelensky by Monday, he will make a fool of Trump. Who’s gonna tell him?
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
chat is this real
GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe just called a special session of the Missouri legislature to start on Wednesday. He also released a new congressional map aimed at gerrymandering the Dem-held #MO05 so that Republicans can flip it. Press release: governor.mo.gov/press-releas... Via: x.com/RedistrictNe...
It’s the final weekend of the summer to enjoy swimming at Chicago’s outdoor pools and lakefront beaches, which will close after Labor Day on Monday. to.wttw.com/4oZXn0R
big same 😬
Every single Republican senator wants this. We know they want it because they refuse to stop it when they have the means and power to do so.
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
You can't spell failure without AI. Makes you think.
Picard management tip: Problems worth solving will present themselves. There's no need to invent busywork.
The illegal dismantling of USAID is a crime against humanity that will hurt millions
this is a good weekend to be a long one i hope
Corner of the Apartment - 1875 #artbots #monet https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8620
Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed. "Deeply saddened" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
hope they run a buy one get one free cuz a girl still gotta eat
We must prepare to meet this nonsense with comedy. May all Chicago protesters offer these invaders sandwiches! blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/29/t...
from the neighborhood group 2 years ago
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Cobb: That makes perfect sense but if I were to adopt that and put a citation for it, where do I get the authority for it? Lowell: We're in area where the only removals that have occurred are those in which the president admitted he had no cause and he was doing it under Article II