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One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

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Cuomo now regrets the tenant protections he signed into law, and his major donors include the city's biggest landlords. His housing policy paper was revealed by Hell Gate to be ChatGPT-assisted nonsense. He also hasn't paid rent or property taxes in over a decade. hellgatenyc.com/couchsurf-cu...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Me when I am disagreed with: This is what The Entity wants

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Speed cameras are good actually

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Chicago has a few of these types of stops near the end of the brown line but most of it is elevated or underground

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Someone adopt this silly silly cat www.wagtopia.com/search/pet?i...

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There is still an opportunity to make our voices heard and to stop Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” from becoming law. This is not final. Call your Senator today: (202) 224-3121

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"It’s “the visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn’t right – but having no clear idea how to fix it”, Harfoush tells me"

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there is no greater indictment of American car culture than the school pick up line we have built almost all of our country around the most dangerous and inefficient possible form of transportation

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Here's what else you need To know today

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Ok this guy seems good

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Gossip girl here, your one and only source into the scandals lives of Manhattan's elite

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Wow I legitimately thought this was going to be because he mentioned Palestine. You will absolutely not be able to predict why they stripped him of his title. I am starting to feel like we are seeing an enormous cultural backlash against "smart kids"

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this is so despicable, if we thought the loneliness epidemic was already bad, now we have the richest most powerful companies encouraging loneliness. these tech CEOs want us to only have ai friends

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

yeah grown ass men with sausage fingers are also out there painting tiny dolls using nail art brushes so they can play house* with their friends. american men have plenty of manual dexterity *warhammer 40k

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The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

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IS THIS NORMAL? HALF OF THE BUDGET FOR THE CITY'S SECOND-BIGGEST PARK GOES TO PARKING LOTS?

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She’s never had to open a Microsoft Teams. An email has never found her. She doesn’t need to “circle back” to someone. And that’s why she always looks so happy.

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swing voters are the stupidest people alive and it’s insane that our lives depend on them

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FACT: The more people choosing to walk, bike & take public transit to get around cities, the better cities work for EVERYONE, including DRIVERS. Anyone claiming that less car dependency is a “war on cars” doesn’t understand how cities (or geometry) work. It’s time we tell #TheTruthAboutTraffic.

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If you would like to know what it is like living as trans right now: I cannot think of a single week in the last 5 and a half years since I transitioned where a politician, celebrity, government or public figure of some prominence hasn't attacked trans people. It is constant. Never-ending.

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NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

We call this the Abughazaleh Method

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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

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"we can't have better public transit, because we don't have good public transit" "we can't have better bike infra, because we don't have good bike infra" "we can't make driving safe, because i rely on my car" these are not good arguments

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FULL STORY: 17 members of the Chicago City Council joined together in an unprecedented show of force Wednesday to block a vote on a plan to allow CPD officials to preemptively impose a curfew begin enforcing it with 30 minutes notice to stop large teen gatherings. @wttw.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

They should make Chicago permit parking slightly more expensive imo

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i was not familiar with your game ken jennings

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

they should give buses ambulance sirens and require cars to pull over to let the bus pass

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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

submitted 9 days ago • 469 comments

This is a massively underrated take and needs to be instituted yesterday.

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14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx

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I love when people say "automated trains could never work in Chicago" when these move millions of people a year

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been getting yelled at for almost five months now about how "there's nothing Democrats can do, they're in the minority" and yet WHEN they can block bad Republican legislation what are they doing? passing it

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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

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A reminder

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What is the point of an FSA

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In my reporting on generative AI, I keep saying artists and writers are the canaries in the coalmine. That what happens to us will soon happen to everyone. Here's the first step to this happening to everyone: companies using AI deepfakes to interview job applicants. SMDH slate.com/life/2025/05...

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“If Harold Washington had been able to finish what he started, this would already be a different city. Now, Brandon Johnson is our chance to pick up that torch and carry it forward. He is not a symbol; he is a strategy,” one Chicago organizer penned. thetriibe.com/2025/05/opin...

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This is a real thing. Democrats are supposed to be normal and good and rational, and Republicans are supposed to be deranged.

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It’s wild how corporate America backed Trump big and small, thinking he’d be some grand era of deregulation and profit-making, and instead all of his actions have been “you should make LESS profit to avoid damaging me politically and avoid being honest with your customers”!

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"Do not run across a crosswalk apologetically. You are of this earth and walk among her choir. The devils commanding their wrenched chariots have long since severed the roots of their flesh and need a reminder that a leisurely stroll triumphs the roar of their insatiable machines." -gooselander