Tim L

Cubs fan, Runner, Lover of Jazz, former Southwest sider, now near west suburb.

[Chicago 2100 Urbanism @Chicago2100]

Chicago’s mayor has a police detail of 150 officers, or 4 more than the number of total CTA train stations

[Tim L @arbtim]

@MidWestMet @brendenmoore13 ☝️☝️

[Tim L @arbtim]

@eeners @nypost 🎯

[Jorge Bonilla @BonillaJL]

Imagine the Supreme Court stopping the count after polls close and ordering polls reopen for two hours ONLY in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, and you sort of get the scope of what's currently happening in Brazil.

[Tim L @arbtim]

@cbschicago 3.87 Billion - 800 million = Where is the breakdown of where the rest of it goes?

[Latrice Littleton @latricex]

Notice the move. Don’t answer the concern, just laugh at it. When a real worry gets turned into a punchline, the goal isn’t to inform you. It’s to make you feel silly for asking. Ridicule isn’t a rebuttal. Stay sharp, and don’t let anyone laugh you out of your own questions.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

A college student tries to lecture Will Witt that capitalism and billionaires are the root cause of young people’s pain.

Then he asks her to explain what capitalism is, and it’s over.

WITT: “How does capitalism cause the problems that you’re seeing for young people in this country?”

WITT: “What does capitalism do?”

STUDENT: “I feel like I already kind of explained that…”

WITT: “So what is capitalism?”

STUDENT: “What do you mean what is capitalism?”

WITT: “What would you define capitalism as?”

He keeps handing her chances. She keeps refusing to take them.

WITT: “Just a definition, so we’re on the same page, because definitions are important. What would you describe capitalism as?”

Cornered, she tries changing the subject to immigrants.

STUDENT: “No, I’m saying that it’s not immigrants that are causing the problems for America.”

Witt drags her right back.

“So what is capitalism? Just tell me what capitalism is.”

STUDENT: “Okay.”

Then she walks away.

She’s not the exception. She’s the rule. A poll of 2,000 young Americans found most couldn’t define socialism or capitalism. And the more they learned about socialism, the less they liked it.

These people can tell you exactly what to hate. Just don’t ask them what it means.

CONTEXT: Capitalism pulled 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990. Worldwide, the rate fell from 43% to 10%. Nothing else in human history comes close.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Lula "won" in Brazil yesterday.

Their stock market responded: down 17%, or $280 billion wiped out in a day.

Coming soon to a 401(k) near you if there is a Blue Wave next week.

[Libs Of Chicago @Libs_OfChicago]

She’s a leftists because she talks to non-white ppl? This is far-left transplant Rachel Cohen who gets paid $200,856 a year from you to tell you how to think & if you think any differently your a racist or whatever other ist or ism word she comes up with.

I grew up in Chicago, I was born at Grant Hospital, I’ve lived in Humboldt Park (twice); Edgewater, Rogers Park, West Pullman & University Village. I went to 5 Chicago Public Schools, 3 elementary schools & 2 high schools. I have friends of all different races, religions, financial backgrounds & political beliefs.

White leftists transplants talking to non-white ppl that they know & coming to a conclusion that what non-white ppl who grew up in Chicago want the things that white leftists transplants want is really ignorant. It’s also disingenuous as hell, I’ll never say all ppl of one race want something. Ppl are individuals, they all want something different but white leftists transplants see ppl by race & only race.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

I don't agree with the Iran war, but I also don't believe in revisionist history. Obama's comments are complete nonsense.

Iran never possessed a nuclear weapon - before his deal or after.

The JCPOA was a temporary pause with sunset clauses that left Tehran’s enrichment infrastructure intact, legitimized their nuclear program, and handed them a path to a nuclear bomb after 10 to 15 years.

It also unlocked tens of billions in sanctions relief that funded the regime’s terror proxies.

“Everybody acknowledges” it worked? Basic facts do not. Temporary diplomacy that enriches a terrorist regime isn’t strength - it’s weakness and it's a lie.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

During the World Cup, FIFA made all 7 NFL stadiums with turf install real grass.

All 7 went back to turf for football season.

On turf vs. grass:
Non-contact lower extremity injuries: 28% higher.
ACL injuries: 67% higher.
Season-ending surgeries: 60% higher.

Jerry Jones says turf "improves the economics."

Roger Goodell makes $60 million a year.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

He’s right. Preach. Worst officiated @NFL game I’ve ever seen. They won’t care.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

The replies 🤦🏻‍♀️

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

NOT a Texas father!

He is an ILLEGAL ALIEN from Mali with a final order of removal from a judge, who said he’s homosexual in order to dodge deportation - despite having a wife and two kids at home.

Wonder why @60Minutes didn’t ask him about that.

[Chicago & Midwest Storm Chasers @ChicagoMWeather]

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📍 Jupiter, Florida | October 25, 2026
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⚠️ Elevated king tides, persistent onshore winds, and rough Atlantic surf are combining to create powerful tidal currents as water surges inland through the inlet.

🚨 The force of the incoming water is impressive, highlighting the strength of this coastal event across South Florida!

🎥 Chicago & Midwest Storm Chasers is on location capturing the impacts firsthand!

📩 Video Licensing: Severe Studios — [email protected]

#JupiterFlorida #JupiterInlet #LoxahatcheeRiver #KingTide #CoastalFlooding #FloridaWeather #StormChasing #ExtremeWeather #ChicagoMidwestStormChasers

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

How many Americans know that for eight straight years after September 11, Japanese warships stood in 120-degree heat in the Indian Ocean to pump 135 million gallons of free fuel into the U.S. Navy?

After the twin towers fell in 2001, American carrier strike groups raced to the Arabian Sea to strike terrorist strongholds in Afghanistan.

Why could American warships not simply pull into Middle Eastern ports to refuel? Because just one year earlier, suicide bombers in a small boat had blown a forty-foot hole in the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen. Entering port meant risking ambush and losing days off the front line.

Within weeks of 9/11, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force dispatched its fleet oilers, including JS Towada, JS Tokiwa, and JS Mashu, ten thousand miles from home.

Sailing side by side with U.S. destroyers and cruisers at twelve knots across heavy ocean swells, Japanese sailors shot steel cables across the water and winched thick rubber fuel hoses into American tanks without spilling a single drop.

From December 2001 to January 2010, Japanese crews completed 939 underway refueling operations. They delivered 510,000 kiloliters, roughly 135 million gallons of fuel, plus 11,000 tons of fresh water, entirely paid for by the Japanese taxpayer.

On the final day of the mission in January 2010, American sailors lined the rails of their warship in the blazing sun, took off their caps, and saluted the Japanese crew as the hoses were uncoupled for the last time.

True loyalty does not ask for a camera. It holds the line for eight years in the sun.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

J.J. McCarthy’s locker-room speech after beating the #Texans in his first start with the #Giants:

This team is fully behind him.

(📽️ @Giants)

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

George Soros and the Open Society Foundations – The Capillary System.

Everyone says Soros this, Soros that. But how do they actually operate?

Most of the organizations we have described operate at the elite level – the meeting in Davos, the seminar and the committee in Brussels. The Open Society Foundations are different. They operate at every level simultaneously – from the supranational to the local, from the think tank to the street activist, from the Supreme Court brief to the district attorney election. The most complete political funding infrastructure ever built by a private individual.
Follow the money – most of it is hiding in plain sight.

Soros made his fortune speculating on national currencies – most famously breaking the British Pound in 1992. He used the proceeds to fund institutions that argue against national sovereignties, helping him make such operations. This is not irony. It is a business model. An arbitrage.

1. The mechanism is simple and almost elegant. You create a nicely named organization – an institute for open society, a foundation for democratic media, a center for justice reform. You seed it with ten million dollars of private money, enough to hire staff, produce reports, and establish credibility. Then, through the network of associates and ideologically aligned officials that decades of funding have placed inside governments and supranational bodies, you ensure that this private organization receives hundreds of millions in public funding – EU grants, USAID contracts, government subsidies. The private money creates the platform. The public hundreds of millions buy the reach. The taxpayer funds the project. The project serves the agenda.
A nice arbitrage again.

2. Let’s imagine in every country a main foundation operating as a buzzing corporate office — a headquarters — populated with people who know the agenda best and understand how it connects to the global program. Everyone comes there for instructions. Every smaller organization in the country — the migration NGO, the media fund, the arts prize committee — knows where to come for orientation, for funding, for the framing of the next campaign. It looks like a civil society hub. The people inside it may believe they are doing good. The architecture ensures that doing good means advancing the agenda.

3. The network controls the full loop. The think tank produces the paper. The advocacy group runs the campaign. The legal organization takes it to court. The media organization covers it favorably. The fact-checker delegitimizes the opposition. Each may look independent; the funding architecture connects them. The public annual reports list the grants and recipients. The architecture is not hidden. It is simply too layered for most people to read clearly.

4. The cultural layer is the most insidious. The network funds literary prizes that go to authors advancing the agenda. They fund film festivals, journalism awards, university chairs. None of this requires explicit editorial control. You don’t tell the prize committee who to select. You fund the prize committee. Over time the selection reflects the values of the funder.

5. In America, Soros-backed political groups have funded progressive prosecutors and district-attorney campaigns. The money is visible in campaign-finance records; the resulting policies are visible in the cities where they were implemented.

6. In Europe, the same architecture appears around migration: advocacy organizations, legal challenges, NGOs, political lobbying, and media narratives. The different pieces reinforce one another. One source. Every layer. Taxpayer money amplifying private money at every stage.

7. That is the capillary system: an ideological project reaching from elite institutions down into everyday life. The activist, journalist, lawyer, academic, official, and politician do not need to know one another or consciously share a master plan. Networks, institutions, and funding create the coordination.