me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

$250/barrel by next wednesday. $15/gallon, rationed gasoline. the total collapse of car culture and the suburban lifestyle. get ready to take the fuckin' bus folks

requiem for vanished birdsong

Pure godless evil.

a very misty view of the chicago river in downtown

unironically one of my favorite kinds of chicago weather

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

genuinely so funny and depressing that everything from the right is fake and bots. stuff like this reinforces that the rights strategy hinges upon paid lying and misinformation networks

Okay, 2026 should be the year Illinois lawmakers do something about the housing shortage Governor JB Pritzker announced his plan to address the state’s housing shortage in 2026. This is the third year in a row I’ve written about proposed legislation to unlock new housing in…

here's my summary of the six land use, housing, and zoning reforms that Governor Pritzker and six legislators introduced on Wednesday.

www.stevencanplan.com/2026/02/okay...

photo of a hard taco from taco bell with a shell made from doritos. the shell-shaped wrapper says "Taco Bell: TACO on the inside. Doritos on the outside."

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

Signed monkey prints are now available!

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

From: The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (1965), dir. Lev Atamanov, Soyuzmultfilm

the left is winning gun rights and the 2nd amendment in the national divorce

tRUMPSTEIN IS DESTROYING OUR CONSTITUTION!!

1st Amendment: GONE
Right to Assemble
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of the Press
Right to Petition

2nd Amendment: GONE
Right to Keep & Bear Arms

4th Amendment: GONE
Unreasonable Searches &
Seizures

Illinois split into three nested Illinois-shaped districts. The smallest, centered around Chicago, has 5.7 million people. The next one out has 3.8 million. The last has 3.3 million.

Inside you there are three Illinois.

Zohran CLAIMS to be a socialist, and yet he keeps doing things that I can only categorise as 'king shit'. INTERESTING.

You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.

Two panel comic. Panel one: a coconut crab sits at a dinner table with a human nose on his plate. He says “aww, man. Amelia Earhart again?” Panel 2: a bigger coconut crab sits at the opposite end of the table, with the rest of the crab family surrounding him, fingers and ears on their plates. He says “you’ll eat it and like it, young man!”

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

Gone girl

It is absolutely *wild* that feds abandoned multiple vehicles to protestors last night. What a bunch of amateurs.

i’m noticing that he didn’t deny that he’s a pedophile protecter…

wearing this with blazer and jeans

Trump is a pedophile protector. You can't suspend the truth.