Bill Savage

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

Everything boils down to us being idiots. We've done everything possible to own goal ourselves.

It can’t be said enough how right Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were. About everything.

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

White paper sign taped to side of an ATM near ordering area in a downtown Chicago Italian Beef/Hot Dog/Pizza joint. It reads: “Attention customers. Please _do not_ hang bags or purse on back of chairs. It will be stolen. [name of business , not wholly legible] is not responsible.”

This warning sign seems kind of fatalistic. “Will be stolen”? Dang.

Slipping folks Mickeys on their opening night! Way to get ahead of the competition.

Does the commandant of the coast guard get his house back now? And who pays for the deep cleaning?

A New Poem for Chicago “When I Say Chicago,” by Nate Marshall

Chicago’s birthday is always a good excuse to revisit my favorite poem. No matter where I go, there’s no place I’d rather be than here ❤️

www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...

Chicago’s most Stanley Kowalski forward dive bar has done it again!

$4 @StellaArtois Stellaaaaaaaa beers all week!

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

What Does Russia Have on Trump? Americans Deserve an Answer As Russia reportedly shares intelligence with Iran that could endanger American forces, the White House chooses to ease pressure on Moscow instead of confronting it.

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones.

Russia helps Iran track American forces.

And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.

Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Got rid of my mirror.

They look awful.

That feeling when you owe 53,173,939 refunds, with interest ...

Also: a lot of people are about to find out the hard way, on a very rainy day, that this megachurch hasn't maneuvered its substantial political influence to get any sidewalks installed on the blocks around it during the 20 years that they've been worshiping in their current custom-built arena.

move slow and repair things

No sparrows on my birdfeeder, which is usually mobbed. Thought it might be the coming storm, but then the local Cooper's Hawk swooped by.

One overlooked upside of how long Schakowsky and Durbin were in office was that we didn't have to endure endless political commercials on TV and radio, and our mailboxes weren't jammed with slick circulars headed straight to the recycling bin.

2 years from now, 5 years from now, 10 years from now, and 20 years from now, Americans are going to be subject to attacks here and all over the world because of what Trump is doing right now.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

ELECTIONS Trump asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC PUBLISHED WED, AUG 3 2016 8:05 AM EDT UPDATED WED, AUG 3 2016 3:01 PM EDT Matthew J. Belvedere @MATT_BELVEDERE WATCH LIVE VIDEO 1:20 Trump reportedly asks why US can't use nukes: MSNBC

Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee. "Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can't we use them," Scarborough said on his "Morning Joe" program.

I will just say it out loud:

I am very concerned Trump will use a tactical nuclear weapon in his quest for a quick victory over Iran.

I am reminded of the story from 2016, when Trump reportedly asked three times in a single briefing why nuclear weapons couldn’t be used:

Sadly, no!

A digitally drawn homage to the George Herriman comic strip Krazy Kat. Starting left of frame we see yellow Ignatz Mouse having just thrown a brick which is sailing across the center of the frame and in another instant will bash the oblivious Krazy Kat (a blue bipedal cartoon cat wearing a red scarf) in the back of the head as he walks innocently to the right. Everything is drawn in rough black pen and colored in pale washes. A speech bubble from Ignatz reads ‘Maybe it will…’, the word ’Happen’ appears in the whooshing trail of the sailing brick, and a final speech bubble belonging to the Kat reads ‘…Today’.

Rick Steves' Iran (2009) YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

This is a beautiful portrait from the inimitable @ricksteves.bsky.social of the people who are suffering in Iran, both under its theocracy and from our nation's warmongering.

Fascinating. . .

Mount Hope is where Buck and Helen Weaver were buried many years later.

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Chicago: City on the Make “Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” Ernest Hemingw...

Don't know when it was closed, but I figured out that there once was a gate there from Nelson Algren's Chicago: City on the Make - specifically in Section 3, "The Silver-Colored Yesterday." (Notes by David Schmittgens and @rogersparkman.bsky.social)

A document stamped "THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY" with a diagram of burial plots SECTION I DIVISION 1 DEED NO. 3627 PURCHASE [blank] OWNER NAME Ferdinand L. Barnett MONUMENT [Unfilled square] MARKER REG. [Square marked with "X"] CEMETERY CARE COSTS 155.00 TERMS 55.00 200 INTERMENT DATA NUMBER LOCATION NAME 26186 1 3½E-3½S Mary H. Barnett - Adult, 1st wife 40513 2 2E-4N Horace C. Barnett - Adult, Brother 55709 3 4W-4S F.K. Barnett - Adult, Father 81509 4 1½W-4½S Martha A. Barnett - Adult, Mother 117513 5 4½N-2E Ida B. W. Barnett - Adult, 2nd Wife 123846 6 5E-4¼N Ferdinand Lee Barnett - Adult, Himself BILLNG INSTRUCTIONS GRASS CUTTING 1936-1979 250.00 IMPROVEMENTS 2.00 … TOTAL $252.00

Ida B. Wells papers at U. of C. include this document showing Ferdinard L. Barnett owned a lot and used it for six burials — including four deaths before Oak Woods was segregated circa 1920 (his first wife, who died in 1890; his brother Horace, 1893; his father, 1898; and his mother, 1908).

Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

Us: "Abolish ICE."
Dems: "Yes, we DO need to fire Greg Bovino."
Us: "Abolish ICE."
Dems: "This is total mismanagement under Greg Bovino."
Us: "Abolish ICE."
Dems: "I am listening and Bovino must go."
*Bovino fired*
Dems: "VICTORY!!!!"
Us: "Abolish ICE."
Dems: "Yes, we DO need to fire Kristi Noem."