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Bluesky is dying, and the Newsky struggles to be born. Now is the time of op-eds

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I've been following the Right for more than a decade and this is genuinely the most scrambled I've seen them in a long time.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

it’s funny when people get mad at shitposters for not talking about the news, like sorry give me a minute to think of some good Iran jokes

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Just checking back in to see where we stand on this @bostonglobe.com fake front page from pre-election 2016

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!

submitted 9 days ago • 327 comments

My mind now drifts to the Simpsons episode where Springfield blames all its problems on immigrants and decides to fix it with Proposition 24, which deports them. They have buyer's remorse when they realize it hurts immigrants they personally know.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 10 days ago • 292 comments

"you're unhappy because you spend too much time on your phone" speak for yourself i'm posting this shit from desktop like a true lunatic

submitted 10 days ago • 75 comments

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

submitted 11 days ago • 95 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 12 days ago • 465 comments

Chicago will see the other side of this transit crisis.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Chicago will see the other side of this transit crisis.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“i don’t want to keep you” is a top tier conversation ender

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

"josh hawley" sounds like something a guy in texas would say when he is surprised but doesnt want to curse in the lord's house

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

Metra went Nazi?

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This is what Pusha said about Ye wow 😮

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

Republicans can't stop being weird about my campaign and a recent piece by the Chicago Contrarian encapsulated just how lame and triggered these dudes are: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RUt...

submitted 35 days ago • 322 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 37 days ago • 236 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 37 days ago • 80 comments

everyone: wow, the new pope is from america chicagoans:

submitted 44 days ago • 42 comments

Perfect, chef's kiss, etc. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pop...

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

Nobody tell him

submitted 43 days ago • 74 comments

I can’t stop hearing Laura Loomer’s “WOKE MARXIST POPE” tweet in the melody of “pink pony club” in my head

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THE AMERICAN CENTURY IS OVER THE ILLINOIS CENTURY IS JUST BEGINNING

submitted 44 days ago • 282 comments

Non machine cardinals: <shakesfist> Madigan!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This Chicago Pope…he coulda been an alderman!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Chicago Pope - hey make sure he doesn’t privatize the parking meters in the Vatican!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.

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Love the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.

submitted 44 days ago • 224 comments

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

submitted 44 days ago • 778 comments

oh my god

submitted 48 days ago • 32 comments

on Jan 20, 2025 the Conservatives were 23 points ahead in the polls

submitted 54 days ago • 29 comments

I’m not a group chat guy. I’m either one on one or posts for everybody

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Le Blanc de Blanc, by Georges Mathieu, 1987, 📸 by @catocataldo

submitted 60 days ago • 44 comments

Spencer Torkelson is the fifth Tiger since 2000 to hit 7+ home runs in the team's first 21 games of a season. Spencer Torkelson (2025, 7 HR) Miguel Cabrera (2012, 7 HR) Brandon Inge (2009, 7 HR) Curtis Granderson (2009, 7 HR) Chris Shelton (2006, 9 HR) - PR

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Can district courts order the executive branch to engage in specific acts of diplomatic negotiation? If SCOTUS doesn’t think so now, why did it let Matthew Kacsmaryk force U.S. diplomats to negotiate the revival of a Trump border policy in 2021 after Biden tried to end it? slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 65 days ago • 40 comments

The way Bob Dylan’s Pay in Blood feels like it was written for the Yellowjackets soundtrack

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

These are kids that will never have a divorce proceeding revealing that a worm ate their brain. They’ll never sleep with the sitter or kill a bear or leave a bear carcass in a park or frame a cyclist for killing a bear.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

niche but here goes: if you met your sugar daddy/mama online but NOT on a dating app — I’d like to talk. Plz RT, this is a tough one journalistically lol

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

happy ten year anniversary to this post

submitted 69 days ago • 33 comments