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High Chi guy Chicago via Detroit. Be excellent to each other.

This just triggered so many memories of people I grew up around in suburban Detroit telling stories of the horrors they’ve witnessed in the city, except that invariably their stories all took place outside of the Renaissance Center because it was the only place in the city they knew by name.

Jordan@slclunk.com · 3w ago

I love it when scared suburbanites have to regale us with the tales of how they saw a couple homeless people in downtown Salt Lake

/ walked past a literal drug deal to get to this antique shop...

For some reason Rahm Emanuel’s extensive and impressive resume (covering up police murder, closing schools and mental health clinics, NAFTA, racist 1994 crime bill, anti-single payer healthcare, pro-drone strikes) is not resonating with left-of-center voters. A true mystery.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo ago

His long résumé would traditionally be an asset, but it could be a liability in a Democratic Party where some are calling for younger leaders after former President Joe Biden. on.wsj.com/4xerLZA

Fans who want MLB to have a salary cap on the premise that it will supposedly create more parity need to reckon with the fact that dynasties happen in the NBA and the NFL more than they do in MLB and that MLB has more parity than those leagues do. The main argument for the cap is a total lie.