Potemkin Village sprucing up as Chicago repaints bridges and viaducts in advance of the the DNC. The city cannot let the delegates see how much vandalism has defaced the expressways. Mayors Lightfoot and Johnson would have done better if they kept up with the graffiti removal practices of former mayors.
@Nick Name - I was on the White Dudes for Harris call too! Tons of great speakers like Pete Buttigieg (Pete for Veep!!) Pritzker, and Tim Walz (MN Gov), as well as celebrities like Sean Astin, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hammill.
Gravitas,
I think I’d cut Lori some slack there. She was dealing with a pandemic which meant that with social distancing (especially in 2020) she really couldn’t assemble teams of volunteers, or people working off fines or even teams of city workers to do that kind of work.
- Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 10:43 am:
What TJ said. It was a joy watching US swimmers win gold and silver medals. The Cubs are the bigger disappointment of the two teams. They are supposed to be in playoff contention, not last place.
I have enjoyed watching the Olympics this week. Rugby sevens has been particularly fun. It’s going to be rainy and/or hot in Chicago this week, so may as well hang out inside and watch the Olympic Games.
Heading to Wrigley Saturday for Cubs-Cards. I do not expect that to go well. Cubs have been an enormous disappointment.
== Don’t understand why that group isn’t called Honkies for Harris.
Worked for Harold. ==
Elon already banned their twitter account for… reasons, and given that he’s also on record somehow claiming that “cis” is a slur, I’m sure that he’d go even more ballistic if a Dem-oriented group used “Honkies” as part of their name.
I went into the office a bit later than usual today (but still before 9 AM), and I have to say the number of folks on the train and the number of folks on the walk to my office seemed truly like it was before COVID.
=== Don’t understand why that group isn’t called Honkies for Harris. Worked for Harold. ===
Heck. A lot of people of my complexion are pretty sensitive to race (I am white). I tried to organize a public, community presentation on racism, and gave it the title “Racism for White People.” That title landed my on the Turning Point USA Dangerous Professors list. [Imagining now what “Racism for Honkies” might earn me.]
- Captain Obvious - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 7:54 am:
The corn sweat at my house has been stifling. Bright sunshine and pouring rain simultaneously last night. Felt like Fogerty.
- TJ - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 7:56 am:
Watching the Olympics has been a welcome respite from watching the Cubs the past week, and I imagine that the same’s quadruply the case for Sox fans.
- Skeptic - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 8:03 am:
My alarm clock sounded remarkably like the sound of the weather radio going off. Oh, wait….
- Steve Polite - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 8:18 am:
We are in a power outage on the northeast side of Springfield.
- Gravitas - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 8:22 am:
Potemkin Village sprucing up as Chicago repaints bridges and viaducts in advance of the the DNC. The city cannot let the delegates see how much vandalism has defaced the expressways. Mayors Lightfoot and Johnson would have done better if they kept up with the graffiti removal practices of former mayors.
- Nick Name - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 9:09 am:
I was on the White Dudes for Harris call last night. Three and a half hours, but we raised $4 million+!
Gov. Pritzker was one of many speakers and he did great. I am so glad I took part in this.
- Nathan H - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 9:28 am:
@Nick Name - I was on the White Dudes for Harris call too! Tons of great speakers like Pete Buttigieg (Pete for Veep!!) Pritzker, and Tim Walz (MN Gov), as well as celebrities like Sean Astin, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hammill.
- cermak_rd - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 10:25 am:
Gravitas,
I think I’d cut Lori some slack there. She was dealing with a pandemic which meant that with social distancing (especially in 2020) she really couldn’t assemble teams of volunteers, or people working off fines or even teams of city workers to do that kind of work.
- Grandson of Man - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 10:43 am:
What TJ said. It was a joy watching US swimmers win gold and silver medals. The Cubs are the bigger disappointment of the two teams. They are supposed to be in playoff contention, not last place.
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 10:50 am:
===I was on the White Dudes for Harris call===
Don’t understand why that group isn’t called Honkies for Harris.
Worked for Harold.
- West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 11:10 am:
Apparently Twitter’s new AKA suspended the White Dudes. Way to go Mr. Free Speech Guy.
- SouthLoopGuy - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 11:16 am:
I have enjoyed watching the Olympics this week. Rugby sevens has been particularly fun. It’s going to be rainy and/or hot in Chicago this week, so may as well hang out inside and watch the Olympic Games.
Heading to Wrigley Saturday for Cubs-Cards. I do not expect that to go well. Cubs have been an enormous disappointment.
- TJ - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 11:46 am:
== Don’t understand why that group isn’t called Honkies for Harris.
Worked for Harold. ==
Elon already banned their twitter account for… reasons, and given that he’s also on record somehow claiming that “cis” is a slur, I’m sure that he’d go even more ballistic if a Dem-oriented group used “Honkies” as part of their name.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 11:59 am:
I went into the office a bit later than usual today (but still before 9 AM), and I have to say the number of folks on the train and the number of folks on the walk to my office seemed truly like it was before COVID.
- H-W - Tuesday, Jul 30, 24 @ 12:01 pm:
=== Don’t understand why that group isn’t called Honkies for Harris. Worked for Harold. ===
Heck. A lot of people of my complexion are pretty sensitive to race (I am white). I tried to organize a public, community presentation on racism, and gave it the title “Racism for White People.” That title landed my on the Turning Point USA Dangerous Professors list. [Imagining now what “Racism for Honkies” might earn me.]