Jeffrey Chonko 🇺🇸

Arsenal / Red Wings /Michigan, Oregon football fan BU and DePaul Alumn. cautiously optimistic, rationally skeptic.Chicago supremacist, likes ≠ endorsements

[Jeffrey Chonko 🇺🇸 @Gooner_Chonko]

You’ll never find a better post than this

[Clara @Claralkpz]

My dog fought cancer and won.

[` @ryanxball]

The dopamine rush after a complete stranger beats cancer

[Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy]

.@ChicagosMayor is pushing to hike Chicago's rental tax (PPLT) to 20% in his new budget proposal.

Before he took office, it was just 9%.

Despite Brandon Johnson's rhetoric, the tax does not just hit "cloud computing." It taxes anyone renting software, construction equipment, vehicles, or event supplies within city limits.

Most of the city's 50 aldermen are already pushing back, warning that such a massive tax hike would further hurt the local economy.

https://t.co/urblLJMFOo

[Deep Thrill @DeeperThrill]

All the cool kids are pro data centers and pro nuclear energy.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

The solution is always to lean more on the people who are already paying and working.

[Benito Tortellini @cartoon_magoo]

If your argument is "working class people won't support a project unless they get direct cash benefits, before the project even starts, and the benefits have to be cash (they can't reason about abstract things like city budgets)" then that's an argument for removing their input from any consequential decisionmaking as expeditiously as possible.

That is not the perspective of a person who can participate usefully in important decisions about their own lives.

[litquidity @litcapital]

This photo is hilarious and emblematic of the brain dead anti-data center luddites

She’s standing there like “yall, I just did something big for my community” and it’s simply protecting a massive abandoned parking lot from being turned into a huge tax revenue engine for the community

We are being crippled by economically illiterate morons

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

It's not that. It's more that at 10%, it would no longer be viable to give credit cards to "desperate" people (and frankly, at 10% even some with merely decent but not great credit wouldn't get cards). They are too high of a default risk. Right now it's fine if some don't pay, as the high interest rates on those who do make it all work.

If you are OK with that, then that's fine - there's a strong moral case for not giving credit to those who are bad with money!

But I suspect that's not what you want. You probably are demanding 550 credit scores get 10% rates. So, LOL no.

[Imp @impostersyndrum]

If you cap credit card interest rates at 10%, the people with shitty credit will just get a payday loan at 400% instead. You cannot help this type of person. They will continue to make poor financial decisions.

[neoliberal_hack 🌐 @neoliberal_hack]

I just really loathe these bullshit proposals from people who know better. Warren acts like there is no downside here, you just cap the interest and the companies take the hit.

and she knows she's lying. Access to credit would be heavily restricted and all the perks programs people like would disappear. No one is forcing you to use a credit card if you don't like the interest rate.

She has ZERO respect for her voters.

[Steve Robinson @SteveRob]

Umm... Are they ready for the extremely uncomfortable conversation about who is no longer going to be eligible for credit cards?

[Will Poff-Webster @willpoffwebster]

This is the best reason to pass BAAJA: we can’t possibly decarbonize by the 2040s years if building a single electric transmission line takes 20 years

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

BAAJA shows the downside of single-issue advocacy. 350 million Americans will benefit from cheaper, cleaner, more reliable energy. Yet interest groups focus on how the bill affects their narrow issue, ignoring its broader benefits. The millions who stand to gain aren't heard.

[Field Yates @FieldYates]

The NFC North is the 1st division in NFL history with every team 3 games over .500 through Week 9.

The NFC South is the 1st division in NFL history with every team 2 games below .500 through Week 9.

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

Since losing to Man City in April, we have won 14 out of 15 PL games with one loss.

This is the most wins Arsenal has put together in a 15 game stretch in the league since 2002. Super Mikel Arteta 👌🏽

[The xG Philosophy @xGPhilosophy]

Arsenal have a 75% chance of winning the Premier League.

It’s early November.

[🌒 @N9aanaa_]

on mérite tellement pas les animaux

[Jeffrey Chonko 🇺🇸 @Gooner_Chonko]

@DaOfficialVigil My condolences

[Dave Loughran @Loughy]

Jaxon Smith-Njigba being wide open on every single play is more impressive when you consider he’s the only Seahawks player any defender ever needs to worry about