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Chicago...

[maureen @maureen1255]

@crawlyscubs I sat behind him many times. RIP.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@chrisshipitv This came from "His private security team". 🤦‍♀️

[maureen @maureen1255]

@VintageReadShow This is so tiresome. 🤦‍♀️

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

An evening Melanie & her family will remember 💛

Melanie, who is currently undergoing treatment for medulloblastoma, participated in a special pregame “Home Run for Life" with her brother, rounding the bases and receiving high-fives from the big-league players and coaches in attendance.

[Mike @ChiSoxFanMike]

And for the cherry on top, the White Sox are back in first place again.

What a night.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@andyburnham

[maureen @maureen1255]

@Savanna221988 I want to read it. Please. 😊

[Marie Bernard @MarieBnard]

- Le monde est beau.

David Hockney,
moins beau sans lui.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.

His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.

Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@LifeIsAFilmFest It's great. Just watched it.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@Chicago_History Pizanos

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Alexi Giannoulias @Giannoulias]

A heartbreaking day for all of Chicago.

Sam Sianis served the entire City. He was the epitome of the promise of America. He brought a smile to every one of our faces - whether we enjoyed his burgers, the SNL skits his inspired, or his removal of the curse of the Billy Goat.

I am extremely honored to have counted him as a friend and as a paradigm. Thank you to the Sianis family for sharing this larger than life man with us all. 🍔🇺🇸🙏

RIP 🐐 and thank you for everything.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

Rest in peace, Staley Fisher.

He landed in Normandy, liberated Bergen-Belsen, and helped defeat Nazism.

He passed away today at the age of 101.

Stanley defeated Hitler and lived exactly 81 years more than evil Adolf.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@reesetheone1 Blisters, Blisters, Blisters.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@reesetheone1 Man I love this movie. 😂

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

No one should be comfortable with a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell.

[maureen @maureen1255]

@SabirahLohn Agree. He's worth $1B. He can get a driver. Risking innocent people's lives.