Mary@Work

love letter to 157 e ohio st...built 1911 and snuggled between the muck of ed debevic's and the magic of aritzia. first floor, sayat nova armenian restaurant; second floor, cash-only gay bar; third floor, i'm actually not sure what's up there now but it used to be psychic readings by natalie. what a lineup. streeterville's finest.

@shagbark_hick My hometown (like many towns) painted all the fire hydrants to depict the founding fathers/signers of the Declaration of Independence. It started like 6 months before 7/4/76. firehydrant.org/pictures/bicen…

Something tells me we're not going to have this kind of energy for America's 250th. You'd think by now I'd be seeing "250" everywhere but I honestly do not see it anywhere. I mean this is a quarter-millennium here. You'd think we'd be exceedingly hyped already?

@magi_jay Jesus Christ, lady, let it go. Your options are support Platner or support Collins. I mean, I wish the candidates in the primary were better than "death's door" vs. "nazi wannabe", but this is where we are now. Piling on Platner is doing Repub oppo at this point.

In 2019, seven years ago, when he was 34-years-old, Graham Platner logged into reddit and posted a response to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban. Platner wrote: "This video never gets old. Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat." Think about each line. "This video never gets old." Platner's implying he's watched the video several times and enjoys it. "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt." That's what Platner thinks about his fellow Americans at war. If they're not good at killing or broader tactics, he has contempt for them. He displays no empathy. The opposite, in fact. The man that Platner is commenting on, by the way, is Pfc. Ted Daniels, who was a 37-year-old father of two serving in Afghanistan at the time of the incident (2012). The bad tactic Platner enjoys mocking? Daniels stepped into the open deliberately to draw Taliban fire away from his fellow soldiers so his squad could get to safety. Daniels was shot four times in this video and, ultimately, earned a Purple Heart. When the video was initially released (2013), Pfc. Daniels was critical of himself in interviews, saying, "It wasn't the most tactically brilliant thing to do." He described that he was embarrassed by the video; that people could hear him screaming for help. But, also, he said: "I put my ass on the line for other guys." Then, we have, again, Graham Platner, logging into reddit, in 2019, to comment: "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live." For all those who say, "That's just how Marines talk," I'll tell you: Platner's comment got downvoted by the military community. Even if it didn't: We're not talking about the military anymore. We're talking about a 34-year-old man, years after service, logging in to mock another man who's being shot on video. We're also talking about the U.S. Senate, not boys-will-be-boys or Marines-will-be-Marines. We're always told to view Platner as a changed man. 2013, when he made the rape apologia comments, was the "darkest point in his life," or so we have been told. So what was going on in 2019, such that Platner enjoyed watching a video of a man getting shot and mocking him? How many arcs of change are there in Platner's life? Was there a specific point where he discovered human empathy? I couldn't help but think of that specific reddit comment while watching the video below. "Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles away from home," Platner says. Didn't he log in to reddit seven years ago to say, "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live" ? I don't like being lied to.

@FrankCalabrese Possibly, because the McCaskeys are extremely not smart.

Does anyone really believe the Chicago Bears are actually going to build a stadium in a swamp surrounded by toxic waste sites and heavy industrial factories?

@marcusleshock @chicagotribune Company that only exists due to the monopoly they get through regulations is mad at the same regulations that let them have the monopoly

@Eric_Erins I believe you mean mostacciolis. The plural is important. Also must be served alongside a salad that is absolutely DRENCHED in Italian dressing.

Anyways being from Chicago has very little to do with where you were born and everything to do with whether your family parties served Mostaccioli or not growing up. Lots of native Chicagoans born in Phoenix I suspect.

@chinster202 @MattZeitlin What does she preach?

@MattZeitlin This is stupidity. That's not the issue. It's that she doesn't preach what she practices.

College graduate woman gets married at 29 and is pregnant at 31, stop the presses

@NnaedoziemA @Brockman001 @TizzyEnt Noted. But was Iran a threat between January 2017 and January 2021?

@Mary_at_Work @Brockman001 @TizzyEnt Btw, it was women like you and leftists that installed that Islamist Theocracy. Much like you idiots are mass importing Muslims into Western countries. The left truly is a cancer.

Reality is starting to sink in.

@NnaedoziemA @Brockman001 @TizzyEnt Was Iran a threat between January 2017 and January 2021?

Yeah bro, let's let Iran become a problem because "no new wars". If there's a threat, it would be better to ignore it and let it grow to be a bigger problem that has even worse consequences than "muh gas prices". Y'all truly are idiots. Yall are the type to let criminals walk free so they can kill another person because "I don't want to put another black man in jail". So of course logic is lost on you malignant cretins. Fuck you and your patience you impulsive leftist scum

River sunset, view from the Bywater, New Orleans

I hope the choices you make this weekend are as good as the baseball fans in from Japan whose first meal in town was two Chicago style hot dogs and cheese fries with giardiniera.

Rom-com to the left of me, film noir to the right. #Riverwalk #LowerWacker

@davegreenidge57 Literal butt-head.

Why does he have a crease down the center of his head?

@Olivia_Reingold @TheFP Girl, wash your hair.

Rama Duwaji wants the spotlight, just not the scrutiny. My latest for @TheFP

@spencerreiss @UrbanCourtyard Oh, really? I hadn't noticed. What does that have to do with the original post or my response?

@Mary_at_Work @UrbanCourtyard sorry to break this to you—driving is actually quite popular

I think the disagreement is over whether affluent suburbs offer a high standard of living. They may offer large houses, but at the expense of freedom of movement and aesthetic standards. In suburbs, ordinary activities like seeing friends, buying groceries, going to dinner, attending a concert, letting children move around independently often require a car. This is a serious abridgment of mobility, and the car infrastructure and low-density architecture are visual blight. A beautiful city gives people access to more of life with less friction.

@DKThomp I dunno, man, you've got 200 years to figure it out.

"I don't think we appreciate how big of a change [low fertility] is. I'm going to make a crazy forecast. Let's suppose Thailand keeps its current fertility rate of 0.8 ... for 200 years. Thailand right now has 63 million people. At the end of 200 years, it will be around two million people." "I'm sorry. Two million?" "Two million. How do you wind down a society of 63 million people into two million?" youtu.be/5F7_qa-XLBg?si…

@spencerreiss @UrbanCourtyard ...my friends in NYC don't have the same experience, so suburbs are better b/c driving. Like, WTF are you even talking about?

@spencerreiss @UrbanCourtyard Literally the point of the post was sending your kids to a neighborhood school is great b/c all the kids' friends live in the neighborhood with their parents and all the parents form a social circle that is hyper-local and facilitates walking. And your response is...

@RjFisher1998 @PopCrave University of Chicago is a private school. Taxpayers are not paying for anyone to go there.

@PopCrave Let’s re-write this. Anyone who makes over 250k and send their child to the University of Chicago will pay for the children of anyone who makes less to go. Oh, and taxpayers will pay for the rest even if you don’t go to school there.

The University of Chicago will guarantee free tuition for students with family incomes below $250,000 starting in Fall 2027. Students with family incomes below $125,000 will also receive free housing and meals.

Candidate steps into fried chicken fight dlvr.it/TMVjjq