producing podcasts @uchicago | prev: @kalw @consumerreports @newmarkjschool | left my heart in san francisco
Joined May 2010
- Tweets12.4K
- Following345
- Followers663
- Likes10K
Lea retweeted
Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, stuns in a White Sox cap.
ALT Pope Leo XIV wears a Chicago White Sox cap, on the day of his general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican June 11, 2025. Photo by Remo Casilli for Reuters.
ALT Pope Leo XIV reacts wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball team cap as he meets newly wedded couples during the weekly general audience in St Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 11, 2025. Photo by Filippo Monteforte for Getty Images.
Lea retweeted
tldr:
-cuomo hasn’t lived in NY since he was 32
-his rent is $8k
-he can’t think of a single thing he’s changed his mind on politically
-he regrets resigning after credible allegations of harassment
-he has 4 cars
-his bagel order is an English muffin
nytimes.com/2025/06/03/nyreg…
Lea retweeted
The repayment system never accounted for pregnancy, unpaid caregiving, or maternity leave. That’s by design.
Lea retweeted
I’ve seen three puffers and a fur-lined hood this morning. Please respect Chicago’s privacy during this difficult time.
Put seeing Beyonce after waiting hours for a storm to pass while 8 months pregnant at the top of unhinged things I did while pregnant, but 10/10 would do again.
Beyoncé delivers the best SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN performance so far at the COWBOY CARTER TOUR in Chicago, night 3.
Her energy tonight is 🔥
tour.beyonce.com
In Europe, new food additives are generally presumed unsafe until proved otherwise through scientific review. But not in the US, of course. Food companies have a loophole where additives are "generally recognized as safe." nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opini…
Lea retweeted
Da Pope: Chicago lose its mind over homegrown pontiff.
Within minutes of the announcement, Chicagoans had Photoshopped the new pope holding an Italian beef sandwich and made at least 50 Malört jokes. buff.ly/hxnbaII
Lea retweeted
This is Dr. Casey Means, an absolute MAHA warrior and President Trump’s new nominee for Surgeon General of the United States:
“Health is getting destroyed in the United States, which we don't really talk about, because it's not profitable to heal in this country. It's profitable to keep people sick and then drug them, cut them and bill them, which is what we learn how to do. What we have here is a disconnection crisis.”
MAHA just got even stronger.
Sorry I can't come to the phone rn my brain has shrunk parentdata.org/how-pregnancy…
Lea retweeted
Young men should be angry. The long-term effect of taking Adderall and Ritalin over years is growth suppression.
I don’t think many boys are told “take this pill, and the major side effect is you’ll be shorter.”
Terrible.
“There is no long-term effect. The only long-term effect that I know of has been the suppression of growth. If you’re honest, you should tell kids that, look, if you’re interested in next week or next month or even the next year, this is the right treatment for you. But in the long run, you’re going to be shorter. How many kids would agree to take medication? Probably none.”
Lea retweeted
Somewhere in Japan, a warm breeze passes by Hayao Miyazaki's face. It is the beginning of a global heatwave driven by the high GPUs needed to power OpenAI's imitation of Studio Ghibli. He frowns and wipes his brow indiewire.com/features/gener…
Lea retweeted
The first episode of Gavin Newsom's new podcast is genuinely humiliating trib.al/wkiLywd
Lea retweeted
I lived in Beijing in the era of airpocalypse, and the US embassy's air quality monitor helped push China to change policies. It improved health and transparency for Chinese and US citizens. It cost nothing. It was a big success. @SecRubio shut it down: nytimes.com/2025/03/04/clima…
