Mike Fragassi

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I’m genuinely sad that people are trying to streamline reading, the greatest invention the human race ever came up with, by blending existing texts into a soylent-style nutrient slurry

The story of the time Stanley Kubrick (a Jew) had dinner with the most successful German filmmaker of the Third Reich, and what it inspired in him:

Annex Rosemont into Chicago
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i mean, i, too, would rather walk around in a neighborhood with In This House signs but also i feel like plenty of trans people in the past day have explained why this sort of virtue signaling feels hollow. calling us "brave" as the 4th circuit rules state bans against our care are legal feels empty

This one is a really big deal, so pay attention

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*sigh* looks like I stepped in a Discourse, huh

A 78th Community Area, holding the rechristened Northern Branch of the McCormick Convention Center

Oh yeah, but the context here (in the thread of the post I'm quoting) is about those who are generally aligned against the right wingers crapping on "In This House" signs

They'll be doing this for at least the next decade. We're a few years away from The Hobbit 4: The Legend of Curufin's Gold

ICYMI, the race in IL HD-40 (where I live) has fully jumped the shark. Instead of red-baiting the challenger to his Left, which hasn't worked in this district, establishment ally Jaime Andrade has doubled down the lie that immigrant rights organizer Miguel Alvelo-Rivera ... supports ICE?

Or is it "ethical principles"? I forget that part of philosophy class

Any given individual who virtue signals is not somehow certified One Of The Good Ones, or placed beyond reproach, but that doesn't mean that having as many people as possible declare the importance of moral principles is itself somehow bad

Anyone who craps on "virtue-signalling", in this day & age, is a fool, adopting a hipster pose.

Is "virtue signalling" enough, to bring change? No. Should everyone be doing it anyway, if just to push back against what can only be called overwhelming, widespread, "vice signalling"? Absolutely.

This may be the most succinctly accurate assessment of our current state yet.

*Annex* Rosemont.

It just occurs to me that I have still never seen this movie. When it came out I wasn't particularly interested, but now I think it might just put a spring in my step

A good casting choice. I'm looking forward to her Gollumette

Transgender Chili’s manager fired over ‘personal values and lifestyle,’ lawsuit says Exclusive: Hudson Webber claims a store manager said another employee at a different location was being terminated ‘for the same reasons’

Rosemont, Illinois

Just realized I misspelled Michael Sacks' name. Here's another profile of what he's been up to: funding the aldermen who opposed the corporate head tax. Note that he's "an ally of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel".

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Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.

ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate,’ an ADL spokesperson said

I'd love a long read on exactly what in God's name happened to the ADL

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Yair Zivan @YairZivan Senator, I work for the Leader of the Opposition in Israel and I’m writing this from a bomb shelter with my children. Israel is under attack by fanatical terrorists who want to murder us. It never ceases to amaze that your humanity never seems to extend to Israeli lives. Quote Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders · 56m It’s not just Iran. It’s Lebanon. In less than 2 weeks, Israel has killed 570 people and displaced 750,000 — over 10% of the entire country. Residential buildings are be

This guy works for Yair Lapid and is complaining that Bernie Sanders isn't sufficiently supportive of Israel during a time of war that most Israeli Jewish politicians, including Yair Lapid, wanted and started.

If you think post-Netanyahu relations between US Dems and Israel will improve...

The Modern Political Science Memes Megathread of these starts here:

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I'm going to steal this term. It deserves to be up there in the modern political lexicon next to stuff like Wilhoit's Law and Glonzo

American farmers discussing their reliance on fertilizer from the Strait of Hormuz is a certified “Complex Interplay Moment”

Idea: some brave folks, casting themselves as the epitome of everything evangelicals consider horrid, damned to Hell atheists, pagans, Satanists, go forth to Texas & condemn Talarico. Specifically going around saying, loudly, that he'll destroy the Democratic Party by getting Jesus all over it. 🙏