the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.
Michael Toney
@rustbeltmike.bsky.social
37 he/him Chicago, cycling, cfb, things of that nature
Whelp, scratching her name off my list
Jeremy Glover@jgrantglover.bsky.social · yesterdayJust listened to Susana Mendoza taking caller questions on In The Loop. Somebody asked about traffic congestion and the first thing she did was blame bike lanes. The second was to blame crime on CTA, as opposed to bad service. Disqualifying.
Very funny that despite this there are like 3 different people running for mayor on a public safety platform
Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d agoThere were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.
We all know what "apolitical" means here
Lane Moore@hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 2d agoDo men even like women?
stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d agoPatty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.
Correct, all the stuff that happened in the backrooms was masterful. The stuff that happened outside of it was extremely, "a 20 yo imagining how grown ups talk"
Patrick Cosmos@veryimportant.lawyer · 3d agobackrooms needed less Trauma and more Cool Shit. didn't care enough about the people and their Trauma
Was hoping we'd get Amanda's take on this and he it is
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 3d agoI think this is true to a point—we’ve been in a decades-long period of retailers testing exactly how extreme of a price/quality tradeoff consumers will happily accept, but I do think there’s some evidence that they’ve hit bottom for some important demos (mostly high-earning high spenders)
I can't believe the guy who married a Republican operative turns out not to be a committed Democrat
Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.
she does not support abortion rights. that is a flat-out lie being made by The Very Respected Newspaper, and it's something that can easily be debunked by looking at her public voting record.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4d agoSenator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court in 2018. That has emerged as a major issue in her first re-election campaign since Roe v. Wade was overturned. nyti.ms/4xatnT9
Good lord y'all, Bob Dole would not be a "centrist Dem" today. He: wanted to slash social programs and taxes and amend the constitution to ban abortion, campaigned against affirmative action and undocumented immigration, and called every 20th Century war a "Democrat war"
The Matrix: Reloaded is good, actually
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 5d agoThere was only one season. As there was only one Matrix.
To the extent that America is the greatest country on earth (an idea I am less sure of than I've ever been in my life) it is because the smartest and most ambitious people in the world want to move here and start businesses/families/lives. We should let them
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6d agoa future D administration should make an easy pathway to citizenship specifically for foreign students
I don’t give a shit if Will Stancil is arguendum the maximal version of whatever kind of bad person you think he is, he’s a community member who just got his tires slashed plausibly because of the way our community treats him, and if you don’t get that you shouldn’t be part of my community
LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
Aaron Rodgers when the Steelers hit the Eagles-Broncos-Texans stretch of their schedule:
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
when my child misbehaves i make him go stare at the old Hardee’s fry statue
Many white Americans just need to have a more normal psychological relationship to... like... the concept of black people. We're not walking morality fables, we're just people who on a case by case basis you might agree or disagree with . Whatever is going on here ain't good for you.
David Darmofal@daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2w agoThe young white left of the early 1960s worked to register Black voters in the South. The young white left of 2026 hates & lectures Black voters in the South for, in their view, not being sufficiently leftist.
Worth noting that he's almost definitely lying
beany tuesday@beanytuesday.bsky.social · last wk.There isn’t a criminal alive evil enough to make me treat an inhumane institutional failure like this as some kind of ‘progressive W’. How many other prisoners have to experience this exact same thing? Are you fucking stupid?
@rincewind.run with LeBron choosing to end his career in Philly, where does he rank all-time among Boston antagonists
Just watched obsession for the first time, and I guess I'm different because I could have made it work
This is true, but unfortunately most of the white small-c cons would die before voting for a Democrat. Deactivation is the best we can hope for with them
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agoI do in increasingly think ‘conservative’ in the small c sense and ‘Republican’ in the partisan sense are diverging tbh. There are plenty of people I would consider small c cons repulsed by the modern GOP
Disgusted by NBA coaches wearing athleisure instead of suits.
Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w agoWhat's your old person trait?