Get a job at a university so it’s free

Things like this, locking up cabinets at CVS, and seating on benches have made my own genius idea for keeping people from smoking on the train inevitable. You all laughed at me, but when the smoke detectors are installed it is I that will be laughing

"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?"

Unfavorable: 15%
Favorable: 7%

Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79%

Echelon / April 2026

I don’t care who wins the gubernatorial race in California

Can’t wait for the day they find Josh Hawley dead in a Motel 8

We need a Christian economy that will let a single-income earner, preferably a man, stay at home while their married partner, preferably a woman, stays home to watch their many children. How do we do that? Well, it’s simple friends. First, let’s discuss the minutiae of our local zoning laws, which

Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Social Experiment - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Here’s one if you wanted a link

I think they’re related but if I had to choose which one was easier I’d say keeping my friends rather than persuading my critics! By the end of her term Lori was accusing Gil Villegas of trying to coup her by text message. Both failures, but one is a much bigger fumble than the other

Community areas = neighborhoods, wards = represented by a city council member. Nearly half of the city’s CAs have 75% of their population that identify as one particular ethnicity. Same for a quarter of the political jurisdictions drawn.

Here’s what the one map looks like when you sort community areas/wards by percent of population and race/ethnicity

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Not exactly - Lori had very little genuine interest in the policy agenda she ran on in 2019 and drove a lot of people away with her asshole behavior (see, G. Pratt’s book). But kind of a moot point considering Brandon 2027 is going to look a lot like Lori 2023

I respectfully disagree. I think he has a lot of problems managing the core constituencies of his base, managing personnel, and managing relationships in Springfield, and that’s gotten in the way of adopting policy changes that I’d like to see

If you made me guess for the next campaign cycle in Chicago? 👇 bsky.app/profile/marx...

Anyway congrats to Mike Quigley for announcing the exact kind of campaign we all thought he would lmao

Personally I think that one of the worst things you can do as a candidate for office in a big city like Chicago is making education your number one campaign theme, but if I had to pick a runner up I’d choose fixing the budget/pension debt. Fixes are equally divisive and also it’s boring

Chicago Cubs 1st baseman Michael Busch caught in the netting with his legs up and spread after just missing a catch in the stands

Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

Bene Gesserit: please, sit down
Me: [robotically throwing myself into seated position on chair while maintaining eye contact]
BG: I didn't use the voice you don't have to do it like that every time I ask you to do something
Me: but I still can if I want to right

I can’t imagine it’s true but who can know the mind of State Representative Hoan Huynh

This would be very funny

Actually this is lower res but has him in it

Tall children have a biological advantage in basketball & should be banned from playing high-school ball. It's not fair to the other students.

With the caveat that im actually pretty happy he’s gonna rep me in DC: can you believe that a guy who does party tricks had a grey area sex scandal

Actually worse than the period where everyone I knew demanded that people like this show despite the fact that it is among the worst things anyone has ever put on television (2011-2015)

I think it’s pretty clear what you’re looking at

Do not miss this era of American politics

1) it rocked that all those old bipartisan guys on the county board got wiped during Trump 1, 2) this discussion has made me remember something very important from the period that I lived there

And that’s great, but when I was there city politics was a real sink hole and it’s gotten worse. Their current Mayor is former Republican state rep Dan Brady lol

Political scene sucks ass though I guess

Bar scene is better, camping is better, train straight to Chicago, university right there (even though ISU sports is awful), it’s basically my entire downstate checklist. Only thing Peoria has up on them imo are the shitty AAA baseball and hockey teams