The correct comparison for this otherwise unhelpful debate is door-to-door travel time. It takes about 6 hours to get from Manhattan to downtown Chicago (1 hour taxi, 2 hours at departure airport, 2 hours in flight, 1 hour to get from airport gate to downtown). Trains would win.

Taking a look at beautiful Champaign!

the nhl needs this for when you’re stressed watching hockey you get a break to just look at the grand canal in silence

If you loved watching the Team USA women’s hockey team dominate yesterday, let me introduce you to my dear friend the PWHL which streams all the games free on YouTube in the US and worldwide, outside of Canada, Czechia and Slovakia.

Picture this: it’s October 3, 2026 – one month before Election Day. The MEGA Act passed. You’re kicked off the voter rolls. You try to re-register so you can vote, but run into problems: 1. due to the SAVE Act, you need a specific gov't document – there’s no time to get one 2.

This is why ICE targets disabled people, children and those showing up for their scheduled check ins. It’s profitable. They make money per head, so they grab easy targets. It’s not about crime. It’s not about making America safer. It’s about enriching corporations.

The way German fascists fantasized about killing women is basically indistinguishable from the way amerikkkan fascists do. Read this and remember how they talked about Renée Good. (Theweleit, Male Fantasies, v1, 178-181)

Project 2025 says (re: weather & climate) that "emphasis on prediction & management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable." But it's clear that broader federal bureaucracy is being dismantled to prevent mitigation of foreseeable future harm.

Little kid in a Tre Kronor jersey, gleefully stomping through the rain in the walk to Milano Santagiulia: "Hockey and puddles! This is the BEST DAY EVER!"

disappointed that my alma mater isn’t on here tbh

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare just did a mixed-zone scrum that started in French, went to Swedish, then English, then French again, then English again. And he was gold, as always. Legend.

The Winter Olympics has everything & is the hottest place to be: Slovak fugitive caught watching hockey, Norwegian biathlete confessing that he cheated on his gf, French biathlete winning after stealing teammates credit card & Swedes setting up an op to catch Canadians cheating

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

The University of Wisconsin:

the gold medal game being on a thursday in the middle of the day is lesbophobic btw

once again i am saying, we must re-prairie

SportsCenter Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by Jared C. Tilton

emma maltais speech bubble