Annie

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writer in chicago / sleepier than ever / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine

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Given the opportunity I would also probably make a pact with a demon to become lord of a dungeon because you get SUCH a hot outfit usually when you do.

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Missing Chicago woman Taylor Casey’s loved ones beg for better search in Bahamas: 'Black women matter, Black trans women matter.' chicago.suntimes.com/chicago/2024...

Missing Chicago woman’s loved ones beg for better search in Bahamas: 'Black women matter, Black trans women matter.'chicago.suntimes.com Taylor Casey's friends and family called on government officials to prioritize her case and highlighted the lack of resources often given to missing cases of people and color and LGBTQ+ people.

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my goodness

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

Doing the rest of my work today with this on in the background so I can feel like answering an email is the defeat of an elemental boss youtu.be/fNQKjSgK2XI?...

Final Fantasy IV OST Battle With the Four Fiendsyoutu.be Clip showing the the boss battle vs. Scarmiglione, the first of Golbez' Elemental Archfiends. Enjoy! Support the developers of the game by purchasing it from their Steam page here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/312750/ I do not own the audio nor the video; ©1991, 2014 Square Enix CO., LTD. All Rights reserved.

Turns out the article was updated and that the McKinsey contract was $1.6 million, not $4 million. But still a lot of money to learn if they can do something pretty much every other major city does!

You're telling me NYC needed to pay freaking McKinsey consultants four MILLION dollars just to tell them something any grandpa on the street could've told them the city needee www.businessinsider.com/new-york-hir...

New York's viral new trash cans are the result of a $4 million project involving consultancy giant McKinseywww.businessinsider.com New York City contracted McKinsey & Company in 2022 to work with the Department of Sanitation to design a program to minimize curbside trash.

GASPED OUT LOUD. Please please please

Oh HECK yeah, bring on the 4K restoration of THE FALL, and then put it on streaming and home video so people can actually see the movie I've ranted most about for the past mumblety-odd years!

At least Severance has a teaser trailer and release date for season 2. At least there's that www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

‘Severance’ Season 2 Sets Release Date, Unveils Teaser Trailerwww.hollywoodreporter.com The second installment of Apple's workplace thriller will feature 10 episodes.

Consulting is just institutionalized, reified grift

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friends, countrymen, we’re all tired of articles about why The Bear sucks, but what if i told you the class dynamics of fine dining as presented on the show *also* suck? for @defector.bsky.social, i dug in

'The Bear' Misses What's Truly Toxic About Fine Dining | Defectordefector.com I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been to a true fine dining establishment. Not some generally upscale trend spot with interior design straight out of an Urban Outfitters, but the real ...

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Sarah J. Jackson

All of this comes from an essay by the late Howard Zinn from 2005 titled, “Don’t Despair about the Supreme Court” in which he reminds us that we only ever get free by organizing and fighting.

Howard Zinn on the Supreme Court, The Progressive, November 2005www.howardzinn.org Article by Howard Zinn. The Progressive. November 2005. "John Roberts sailed through his confirmation hearings as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, with enthusiastic Republican support, and ...

Sertraline would be a beautiful name for a girl

Today sucks but I did take this photo of a butterfly on my way in to work today. Internet says it's a hackberry emperor. An emperor in the clover

I want to live like they lived

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge

-We still have power. People will tell you that we do not. They will tell you that neither party wants to fix these problems, and that worse, these problems should not be fixed. They will tell you that we deserve our fate. They are wrong.

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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court

The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

I just wish that those with power and progressive minds could see that the right have no real sense of justice, they will always make the decision they can get away with which will further the agenda, and that they have to act accordingly

What a joke of a country this is

In the winter CTA has lamps which warm you like a rotisserie chicken, so in summer I think they should have sprinklers to mist you like romaine lettuce in the vegetable aisle

It's still very funny to me that Gale Baldursgatethree is so ripped. Like sure he WAS self-quarantined in his tower for a year so I suppose he could've been doing crunches when he got bored. But do we really think he was doing crunches

Why is every Terry Gilliam movie in the Criterion Collection yet they didn't pick up Tarsem Singh's The Fall

I was watching The Bear all evening; did something happen

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After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

these Turkish delights have Turkish ends

I requested for CPL to purchase a book I wanted to read and they actually did, and now I've borrowed it. This is a civic victory the likes of which I've never experienced and I feel on top of the world