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Northwestern and Kellogg Alum, Python, Models for Insurance and Reinsurance. Also Destiny. He/Him/Warlock. Chicago
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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This is not a peace deal and it’s not asking anything of the Russians. It’s just the US on behalf of the Russians pressuring Ukraine to surrender www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or lose support
The U.S. is now sending “signals” that everything could be off the table if Kyiv does not quickly sign a proposal, which was drawn up by special envoy Witkoff.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🔥🧊
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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this is it, exactly this. 💚
It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Holy shit, this column from @jamellebouie.net is the whole thing
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I really dislike the offside rule
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Something very few understand about the filibuster is that its contemporary form is *less than twenty years old*

Senators routinely voted for cloture & then against final passage through the early 2000s. Kerry was called a flip-flopper for "voting for a bill before voting against it;" that's this
okay one more thing, if the filibuster was so critical to the interest of small states, why is it that it didn't exist until the middle of the 19th century and wasn't actually used with any regularity until well into the 20th?
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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It’s been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona.

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear her in because she’s the final vote for the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com
It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.
October 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A reminder to watch Wolfwalkers. A story about how childhood kindness and curiosity are at odds with the harsh and controlling world of adulthood, how beautiful and archaic nature is and how it needs to be protected and about the courage to find yourself even if that’s at odds with society
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Mike Johnson has an app on his phone that alerts his son any time he visits a news website.
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration
Diplomatic Talks Break Down Between Trump, Motion-Activated Ghost Decoration
WASHINGTON—In what they described as a disappointing turn in the ongoing negotiations, White House officials confirmed Wednesday that diplomatic talks had broken down between President Donald Trump an...
theonion.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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OMFG
October 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Those #TrumpTax cuts, tariffs, genius legislation, concepts of plans, DOGE firings are really paying off
Total federal spending

2016 - $3.85 trillion
2017 - $3.98 trillion
2018 - $4.11 trillion
2019 - $4.45 trillion
2020 - $6.55 trillion
2021 - $6.82 trillion
2022 - $6.27 trillion
2023 - $6.13 trillion
2024 - $6.73 trillion
2025 - $7.01 trillion
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Oh look, @RepTimBurchett just humiliated himself again. Must be a day ending in “Y”
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM