For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming. Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City’s capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans. This framework builds on that work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.

What’s a line delivery you’ll never forget?

Women won the lottery of life. They get to be in relationships with men without everyone calling you gay

twink death is a terrifying thing

25 years ago, papa roach released ‘last resort’

What is an American?

It's time to acknowledge that cancel culture is primarily a right-wing thing.

i’m friends w a guy from a band who toured w weezer and he said they were the perviest band he’s ever played with. he said they would basically herd backstage girls like cattle to choose from

What’s the most great performance in a blockbuster movie?

Protesters in Cologne (Germany) raising awareness about global warming. They're standing on ice.

It’s such a piss a trail home from the bar type of night

There are not enough firefighters according to LAFD Chief.

coldest names ever: - bane - johnny knoxville - billy butcher - van helsing - wolfgang amadeus mozart - victor von doom

What's the Appalachian equivalent of the Haka?

Meet the 16 year old entrepreneur interested in cryptocurrency: trib.al/JAX74d8

Temperatures tend to trend colder over the month of December. al.com/news/2024/12/what-wil…

Just landed in NOLA, beautiful day for the Super Bowl!

what’s the defining piece of covid era art?

With over 1,000 entries written over many years, the ADL Glossary of Extremism has served as a source of high-level information on a wide range of topics for years. At the same time, an increasing number of entries in the Glossary were outdated. We also saw a number of entries intentionally misrepresented and misused. Moreover, our experts have continued to develop more comprehensive resources and innovative ways to provide information about antisemitism, extremism and hate. At ADL, we always are looking for how we can and should do things better. That's why we are moving to retire the Glossary effectively immediately. This will allow ADL to explore new strategies and creative approaches to deliver our data and present our research more effectively. It will keep us focused on ensuring we do what we do best: fighting antisemitism and hate in the most impactful ways possible.

what's the funniest tiktok video you've ever seen?

rachel zegler you will always be loved by me

A magnificent example of the European culture we’re told doesn’t exist. Touches my heart every single time.

Greatest phone call scene? 📞 I'll start and it's easy:

Georgetown women's basketball mourns the tragic loss of Sydney Wilson (C'13). Forever a Hoya. #HoyaSaxa

“Black trans women have a very simple message: stop killing us” - @imarajones translash.org/

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers. (Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates). More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.” Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. “Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Per @TMZ, Hulk Hogan helped rescue a woman involved in a bad car accident.

Lana Del Rey is back at it with another controversial take: she says Trump didn't mean to incite the Capitol Building riot: bit.ly/39qfjMb

Obama's biographer reveals ex-president fears for his legacy after 'tone-deaf preaching' harmed Harris campaign trib.al/ReWMti0