The difference between the Russian evacuation of Syria and the U.S evacuation of Afghanistan? There are no crowds of thousands of Syrians trying to get to Russia.

FLAGGING: The Illinois State Flag Commission has selected 10 finalists for the state flag redesign contest. Voting will open to the public in January. Here are the designs that made the cut out of nearly 5,000 entries:

This post provokes strong reactions, least of which is the difference between the Russian and English, with content for the respective audiences. Lamenting RU expenditures & casualties in Syria in the Russian version plays politics when there are no politics in Russia today. 1/7

.John Fetterman on Luigi Mangione and the online reaction: “He’s the asshole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. That's what social media is about this. And I don't know why the media wants to turn that into a

After years of reporting on the appalling human rights abuses of the Assad regime, I went inside the notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus today. #Syria #Damascus

I have 200 employees, now 60%+ migrants, 1st or 2nd generation. I’m in Missouri (Hawley country). Let me tell you about the migrant workforce.

🔥🔥🔥 In the past three hours, between 10:00 am - 13:00 Moscow time, the 🇷🇺 Ruble has lost 6% of its value 👉 The 🇷🇺 Ruble is not sustainable Russia cannot win in Ukraine 🇺🇦, nor back Assad 👉 The 🇷🇺 military is not sustainable 💥 Russia isn’t sustainable. It will collapse.

Chicago Winter Rule 9: If you choose to stand right next to the button for CTA platform heaters you got ONE fucking job regardless of how scintillating the content on your phone is…smash that button instantly when the overhead heater times out.

Retirement is for quitters. Our owner, Sam Sianis, turns 90 tomorrow!

DEI hire! Anything to help Don Jr. Eric Ivanka

Is it too late to submit a new Illinois flag?

What radicalized me against the US healthcare system? My father is a roofer. He was asked him to inspect a roof another roofer did. From the ground, my dad knew it was shoddy work, but he was asked to go up anyway. He did. A shingle slipped. He fell. He shattered his legs.

12 December 1953. Chuck Yeager’s X1-A tumbled about all three axis as it fell more than 40,000 feet before recovering level flight.

Firefighters are heroes, but in Ukraine, they’re targets In Kherson, Russians hunt firefighters—shooting at them as they respond to fires

(Murderer has ideas I disagree with): Awful. This discredits his whole disgraceful philosophy. (Murderer has ideas I agree with): Look, I'm just saying, this is what happens if you don't listen to my ideas

Beautiful beautiful thread...well worth a read.

I could watch these videos all day.

I wrote this in 3 min and went to bed. The next day it had 10mm views. Let's talk about my post immigrant labor.

On one thing, and one thing only, I agree with him.