Mary Hale

Jesus of Nazareth, weak on crime. Bad on foreign policy. I’m Pontius Pilate and I approve this message.

@AshleyRParker My dad died of dementia in 2021 and my mom has it now. The pain of this disease is so distinct. It is so beyond the loss of memory. Thank you for writing about your dad and yourself so openly.

My dad died on Valentine’s Day—ever the mischievous cherub—after a decade-long battle w dementia. My essay on what it’s like to lose someone you love, before they’re even gone: theatlantic.com/family/2026/04…

@beefeatergimlet @chicagobars Tell us more about that sandwich

Beer at an undisclosed location @chicagobars

No school assignment needs to be written to “get it done.” It’s exercise. You don’t lift weights because the weights need to be moved. You do it to develop a strength. Difference is one case is about the definition of your bicep and the other the capacity of your brain.

@seanw_m Would love to see the key for this map if there is one.

I own a Soviet military map of Chicago. basically this guy in 1989 acquired a metric shitton of them when the Soviet Union fell apart, and as recent as 8 years back he was selling them for like $10-50 on eBay

Good thing Congress isn't alive to see this.

The machine has no morality. No conscience. Now we will see what that means. Boycott AI.

Take Irelands name out of your mouth when you want to rationalize white supremacy. The Irish didn’t come to America to share their culture. They came fleeing destitution and starvation in their homeland, courtesy of the kind of imperial power you now fetishize. We don’t forget.

“I drew it with my imagination.” AI knows nothing about the capacity for human wonder.

I once had a drink in an igloo on south quad in between dorm parties. When I reported this story to my roomies the next day, they asked me to prove it - and I brought them to the spot where it had been, and it had disappeared…

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

The brave people in the streets of Minneapolis are descendants of the Americans of Selma, Omaha Beach, and Gettysburg. They are among the best of us. Let them not be the last of us.

Protester: "They say they're coming in to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who bake for us, who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. I can't stop thinking of Mr Rogers. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, and right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

@melnickjeffrey1 Have used this technique with both my toddler and my mom with dementia.

But giving toddlers regular false choices (“do you want to get in the bath now or after we listen to ‘New York Groove’ one more time?”) is the essence of good parenting

If our only option is “obey the nameless masked men or die,” we do not live in a free country

The United States doesn’t even support the brave people of the United States.

So, CBS News decided not to air this 25 yr veteran federal agent pointing out all the ways the ICE agent was in the wrong for shooting Renee Good, on its broadcast (I wonder why🤨). At least it’s online. Reshare.

Two parents with dementia means people frequently tell you that is “their nightmare,” so it is interesting then to see human society turning over its mental faculties so readily to robots.

@smalls2672 Why does this tweet not also mention the Catholic Churches that offered help? when there so few who did this looks like a really shady description of her “findings.”

This woman is running her own social experiment. She's in the south calling various churches and asking if they could feed a starving baby. Here's a list of churches that said yes/no. The few that said yes include black churches, a Buddhist temple, and an Islamic center.

What's happening in Chicago is straight up Aryan race shit. But instead of Jewish people, Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo is disappearing anyone of questionable whiteness. 😳👇