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Kind of wild that Lincoln Yards was viewed as this pivotal thing in the city's history, featured in a documentary about the '19 Mayor's race, and it's just... not happening.

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a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

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I almost feel bad for Ezra Klein, having to come up with intelligent analysis about two guys who are absolutely making it up on the spot.

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Strange to think of the hegemonic magazines of my youth, all gone or shells of their former glory: Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic...

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Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson just the first call whenever anyone starts a podcast? The second has to be Esther Perel.

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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.

submitted 24 days ago • 584 comments

Shane Gillis going hard against Trump & Elon on the latest MSSP feels like some kind of indicator.

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Kind of thought Adrianne Lenker deserved the Folk Album Award, the Gillian Welch album was not so stylistically inventive.

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Thought I'd see more buzz about Mark Guiliana and Julian Lage both missing on best Contemporary Instrumental. Perhaps they should release a "diss track"!

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Tough thing is that Trump has never shown strong attachment to particular policies or interest in the future electoral prospects of non-Trump Republicans so it's hard to know what's guiding the decision-making at the moment.

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People pretending not to know that Democrats are out of power in Congress is the worst genre of skeet.

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me

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I don’t really understand the point of leaving Twitter to come here and spend all your time talking about Elon.

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The News: Devastation in the Palisades! My mind: Thinking outrageously, I write in cursive

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To be honest, whining about content moderation on platforms designed to make you angry and depressed seems kind of obtuse.

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Apart from anything he’s done, Zuck has just been around for too long. We’re all tired of the guy. and he’s apparently planning on hanging around another 30 years. Yeesh.

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all the critical infrastructure in the US is like a decrepit one-mile long concrete viaduct built in 1926 that was built in 6 months by 30 men with hand tools and it will never get fixed bc building a replacement would take 15 years and cost 5 billion dollars

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Williamsburg is much more ‘Santa’s Village’ than I was expecting.

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The Third Man is a surprisingly topical movie. And on Amazon Prime! I guess Bezos has to give us something to chew on.

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I said this on the show, but something that hasn’t sunk in, I think. We haven’t had a “new” president who is sworn in and is immediately a lame duck in the nation’s entire history. When Grover Cleveland was sworn in a second time we didn’t have the 22nd amendment!

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It should be illegal for podcasters to give out advice.

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The population of "core" Logan Square (bound by Diversey, Western, Armitage, and Central Park) has decreased by 52% since its peak in 1930. The biggest single-decade change was 2000-2010 when it lost over 14,000 people. The data is from the IPUMS NHGIS.

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Quite something to see all of these pro-Trump podcasts (Rogan, Flagrant, et. al.) go anti-health insurance. They really just assume you have dogfood for brains.

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My favorite thing about Chicago is the number of spaces you can enter and feel like you've stepped back in time. Here, the Auditorium Theater:

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It does seem like, if you're Ezra Klein and going to do an interview with Rahm Emanuel about corruption, there ought to be some questions about state and local government in Illinois.

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Crowing about someone getting murdered is gross.

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Rogan saying he endorsed Trump because he found Tim Walz to be too dishonest is really something.

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Our biggest comedians are really ploughing that "my kids are annoying" field. And just in time for Thanksgiving.

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I kind of appreciate the audacity with which Andreesen talks his book. "The only way to meet the challenge of AI... is with blockchain."

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