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I have committed myself to read my family’s voluminous war correspondence. I picked this letter out of the pile of some 200 letters. This one written by my Grandfather, Major E.R. “Robbins” Kimball Jr. M.D. to my Grandmother Alicia Barber Kimball on the 16th of June 1945. Some 38 days after VE Day. It is written on Beckleidungswerk Waffen SS stationary from the Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria. “Beckleidungswerk” meaning “clothing works or garment factory” Dachau housed the first main SS clothing factory and a major depot for uniforms. It was chosen for the access to forced labor and their utility as supply and production centers for the Waffen SS. The camp was the 1st concentration camp established, on March 22, 1933. The reign of terror at #Dachau ended 12 years later when the camp was liberated by American soldiers, that included my beloved Grandfather, on April 29th, 1945. 9 days before VE Day. Chills ran up my spine just as I opened it and realized what I was reading. Which includes a brief account of some of prisoner living conditions.

@ImLivinTheMeme @ChicagoContrar1 ?

@ChicagoContrar1 North Ave and at 57th??

Hearing the mob action — yes, mob action — at North Ave. is getting out of hand. One CPD tells me: "Kids are going nuts."

@AJManaseer They wanna put us in a quagmire

First make them endure a 3 year long renovation on the highway connecting the regional capital to the busiest airport in the world. Nice. Then jam in bike lanes that no one uses and will reduce lanes for cars and buses all across the city. Good. Now allocate a billions dollars plus per mile to extend the Red Line to the least dense part of the city while the CTA is facing an existential crisis. Yes, perfect. Now shut down a handful of Northside streets and bridges all at the same time and keep extending the timeframe for completion. Excellent.

@mollyfleck They wanna put us in a quagmire

Apparently the Cortland Street Bridge will be closed even longer than originally planned due to the discovery of "additional issues." The good news is that it will remain open to pedestrians and cyclists until at least June.

@AlexTran677026 He can play outfield for the @SFGiants

John Turturro originally thought he was going to have a bigger role in 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖). When he read the script, he realized the part was quite small. However, the Coen brothers let him come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backwards, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali.⁣ ⁣ Fair to say he completely 𝐎𝗪𝐍𝐄𝐃 his role as “The Jesus”. One of the best comedic side characters in movie history!

“As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free” Chills every time. Here is the Tabernacle Choir and the West Point Band performing Battle Hymn of the Republic 🇺🇸🎺 A must-listen this Memorial Day:

Someone recommended "Blue Ridge" on Amazon Prime, so I gave it a shot. It opens in a rugged Appalachian mountain town with a tough WHITE sheriff singlehandedly taking down three convenience store robbers. I'm thinking, “Okay, this could be good.” Five minutes later: The BLACK FEMALE mayor pulls the white sheriff aside and tells him he needs to “do better.” She then introduces the SUPER WEALTHY WHITE FEMALE property developer… ...who just happens to have a NATIVE AMERICAN PATRIARCH father who heads up a NATIVE AMERICAN tribe with the Irish last name, "McGrath." There's a SMART LATINA FEMALE deputy who has to explain basic things to her WHITE MALE boss... ...while the token DUMB WHITE MALE deputy exists purely to make her look like a genius. Something seemed "off," so I asked Grok: What are the true demographics of this area? Grok: Rural Blue Ridge Mountains areas (like the setting/filming locations in North Georgia/North Carolina) are overwhelmingly WHITE, with very low Black representation. Then I asked: Have Rural Blue Ridge Mountains areas (like the setting/filming locations in North Georgia/North Carolina) ever elected a black mayor? Grok: No, rural Blue Ridge Mountains areas have never elected a black mayor, so when "Blue Ridge" features a prominent black female mayor in a tiny Appalachian mountain town, it is highly unrealistic and a clear example of forced diversity casting that doesn't reflect the actual demographics of the region. See? Even AI gets it.

@EndWokeness It’s a dude

Miss Wayne County at today's parade:

Muhammad Ali called for black personal accountability and moral reform in America “Let's quit worrying white people, plaguing white people's neighborhood, forcing ourselves on white people, and we don't clean up and do for ourselves. The slum is not in the neighborhood. The slum is not in the ghetto. The slum is in the people. The people make the slum. And the condition our people are in now, if you gave them a $93 million project, they'll make a slum out of it in 24 hours” “Then you can take a nation of people who are intelligent and they can make a slum a paradise” This is a real quote from Muhammad Ali is authentic and comes from a 1967 interview He also urged black people to stop relying on external aid and take accountability for sustaining their own lives This too me is the most important thing Ali preached Ali argued that true improvement starts with internal transformation such as mindset, behavior, family structure, education, and community standards rather than just pouring money into housing projects or blaming external conditions This is just as true today as it was back then. Nothings changed

@KarenBassLA Score!

It is an incredible honor to receive an endorsement from Congresswoman Maxine Waters. She has been one of the most powerful voices in Washington as Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, opening the doors of banking and finance to Black and Brown communities who were locked out for generations.

My mother took my brother & when my brother was nine, he had vomit inducing nightmares for a month

@DriXander Bike lanes suck ass

Didn’t expect to kick off my 2027 aldermanic thread w/a bike lanes story, but here we are: chicagotribune.com/2026/05/25/chi… 1st, 3rd & 12th ward cameos along w/Urban Center fingerprint. We’ll get a preview of their impact in school board races, they’ve been doing some targeted organizing.

@SeanMMorrison They’re laundering payoffs

Governor, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration approved so-called “affordable housing” projects costing nearly $850 per square foot, almost 4 TIMES normal market construction costs. That is anything BUT affordable. If you truly cared about helping struggling families, you would demand these bloated projects be re-evaluated immediately. By applying common-sense private market standards and fiscal discipline, Illinois could house 2–3 times more people with the exact same taxpayer dollars. Do you understand this concept? This is the glaring difference between leftist Democrat utopian government thinking and Republican common sense: Less waste.
Less bureaucracy.
Less taxpayer money burned.
More actual services delivered to the people who need them most. Democrats measure success by how much money they spend. Republicans measure success by actual results.

Let's say that regulation is imposed on $hype The consensus so far is that it's bearish bc SOME of retail would flee. Only the left tail risk has been largely discussed, but not the right tail. Revenues could even 5-10x. Right now, institutions can't touch Hyperliquid in the US. No KYC means no hedge funds and asset managers. There's compliance around using unregulated offshore derivatives. If we get a compliant path in the US which is likely. Then sure, you might lose some small retail traders, but you're going to end up with billions more from institutions, hedge funds, prop desks, asset managers on chain. Hedging exposure, putting on delta neutral trades, 24/7 trading etc. Lower fees than CME. I think the bull case, is bigger than the bear case with regulation. Jeff is already working on this, there is no doubt about that.

Tough day on the course right there

Major areas where the financial system still needs an update: 1. Tokenization of real-world assets - Real estate, stocks, bonds, funds, etc. onchain for instant settlement, fractional ownership & massive distribution. 2. 24/7 Global trading - Pooled global liquidity, every asset, every person, with great leverage and capital efficiency. 3. Next-gen payments - Near-instant, low-cost global transfers using stablecoins, including for Agentic payments. 4. AI-powered risk, credit, compliance, and advice - Better decisions, less fraud, and broader access to capital. Everyone gets access to a great financial advisor. 5. Innovation friendly regulation - Move from one-size-fits-all to risk-based rules that encourage innovation and competition instead of stifling it. 6. Expanded access - Open protocols that reduce middlemen and self-custodial wallets to expand access to everyone with a smartphone. 7. Capital formation - Low cost and turnkey for anyone to raise money for a good idea, increasing the number of startups. 8. Sound money - A refuge from inflation, when discipline is lost in fiat money. Jobs not done until we get these working for all. Will require lots of tech innovation and policy work to get there.

LATEST: 🏦 The FDIC advanced a proposed Bank Secrecy Act rule requiring FDIC-supervised stablecoin issuers to maintain AML/CFT programs, sanctions controls, and reporting obligations under the GENIUS Act.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@BonillaJL @redsteeze She tried to get two legitimate American heroes to disparage the country to align with her warped agenda but they called an audible and heaped praise upon it instead

WATCH: CBS's Margaret Brennan tries to goad two Medal of Honor recipients into bashing America, gets rebuffed MARGARET BRENNAN: And before I let you go, we are coming up on this 250th anniversary of the American experience. I know I can't ask you a question like, are you optimistic? There's no way that two Medal of Honor winners could say they're not optimistic. So what specifically makes you optimistic? Because this country, at times, can feel dark, these days, there's a lot of darkness. What makes you feel optimistic? WILL SWENSON: Well, ultimately, because we're in Washington, D.C., and everything revolves around politics, we have to remember that politics aren't everything. American lives continue on. Children are born, children go to school. Lives are achieved. Dreams are achieved. This country is a great place. It's not politics. It's not just what's the news bites coming off of media. Ultimately, we continue forward as a country, continually imperfect, continually evolving forward, always trying to achieve a more perfect union. That's what's important to remember, what we can achieve aspirationally. No other place in history, time or on this planet have ever gotten to where we are today. We need to be proud of that, and we need to remember that is what we stay focused on, what we can be. BRENNAN: What we can be, and the promise of it. What makes you optimistic? MATT WILLIAMS: You know, I agree with Will. I think, you know, it's- it's so important to remember who we are as a country, and take an opportunity to celebrate that, and think about all the- the challenges that we've overcome, how far we've actually come. You know, I think if you- if you frame it that way, you think very deeply about our trials and tribulations from beginning to today, we've made tremendous strides. Our country is, you know, we're a super- global superpower. Our economy is doing well. All those things are great. And- and take politics aside out of this whole conversation. Just talk about our communities, that- that we live in, and the people that you surround yourself with, and your families, and the opportunity to be free and, you know, choose what school you go to, and where you want to live and do what you want to do, and what career path you go down or don't if you want to, you know, I mean, there's so much to be positive about. And I think the opportunity to celebrate America's 250th birthday, you know, over the course of this next year is- is amazing. There's so many great places to visit. You know, the National Mall is going to be full of Americana. And what we're going to- celebrating ourselves, which I think we should take the time to do. I think it's very important. You know, across the country, you know something we're very passionate about at the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, is- is a- is a phenomenal beacon that stands to- to talk about and house our, not only our story, the story of the Medal, and what the Medal represents itself. And I would challenge people to go there and celebrate our history as well. You know, it's so important. There's so many great things to go do and great things to visit and don't just take part in it, because it's something to do on a weekend, right? Think about why you're doing it, and when you're there in the crowds and you're- you're enjoying yourself, and you're taking your family to go talk about our country and celebrate our country, actually celebrate it. Be grateful for what you've got and the opportunity that was provided for you. If you do that, I don't see how you can't be optimistic about our future. BRENNAN: Well, thank you. Thank you both and thank you for your service. WILLIAMS: Thank you. BRENNAN: We'll be back.