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Happy Thanksgiving to all, and to @bubbaprog.xyz for one of the greatest bangers of all time:
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Guardian: '‘Friends end up blocking you’: Northwestern Mutual sold college grads a dream job. They left in ruin and debt':
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Friends end up blocking you’: Northwestern Mutual sold college grads a dream job. They left in ruin and debt
Expecting to be financial advisers at the Fortune 500 firm, some hires say they were ‘gaslit’ into peddling ‘terrible’ life insurance to all their contacts
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Pete’s on-the-street interviews find that streateries on 18th Street NW, which the District paid for but is, nonetheless, about to dismantle, are overwhelmingly popular. Alex ruminates on the connection between streateries and street closures.
Adams Morgan’s streateries are overwhelmingly popular. Forthcoming requirements put them and others at risk of vanishing
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ggwash.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Get free beer, save a local brewery a little money, and keep these things out of the landfill/recycling plant in the process.
You can get free (or discounted) beer by recycling PakTech can holders at these local breweries
Cheers!
milwaukeerecord.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"Local and state government leaders enticed by the lure of economic development should take heed. Going forward, let us err on the side of more transparency, not less," writes Tom Content
urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/11/04/y...
Your Right to Know: Data Center Secrecy Is Unacceptable
It's hiding information the public and electric customers have a right to know.
urbanmilwaukee.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Plenty of Horne: Revised Milwaukee Streets Book Dishes the Dirt
Plenty of Horne: Revised Milwaukee Streets Book Dishes the Dirt
Carl Baehr's expanded book is still the ultimate guide. But also a lot of fun.
urbanmilwaukee.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Still need more baseball?

We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The last time the #bucks played on NBC: March 31, 2002

The 30 point loss to the Celtics was preceded by a collapse vs the Wizards in which "the Bucks trailing by 13 points with 2.3 seconds left in the third quarter, Cassell got himself ejected on purpose by punting the ball off the scoreboard."
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Mamdani: "The bigger question is whether we are willing to say goodbye to ... anti-Muslim sentiment that has grown so endemic in our city that when we hear it, we know not whether the words were spoken by a Republican or a Democrat."
October 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Milwaukee DPW Budget, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social!

(I look forward to citing these numbers the next time social media commentariat complain about the assumed cost of traffic calming projects)

urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/10/22/m...
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Another reason to support leveling I-794: thousands of tourists arrive into Milwaukee each year at the Discovery World dock and are greeted by busy car traffic, highway ramps, and a cavernous interchange paralleling Clybourn Street. Not a great first impression!
October 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Here's a recording of the pilot of C-GZPT, a Cirrus SR22, tracing the Jays logo over Nova Scotia
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Transportation: MCTS Plans 15% Service Cut
Transportation: MCTS Plans 15% Service Cut
Budget issues yield more frequency reductions, elimination of same-day paratransit service.
urbanmilwaukee.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I want to read Murph’s scouting reports so bad
October 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Targeting fare evaders will not fix a $14m deficit. We must scrutinize the waste that WI leaders put into highway expansion and the hidden costs of car dependence

We expect municipalities to balance a budget for mass transit - why don't we do the same for other transportation infrastructure?
This is bad.

Not because any of these routes were essential to the system, but because it portends a dramatic shrinking of the system that will eventually make individual routes less valuable, reduce ridership and trigger future cuts.

It is the start of a death spiral.
Transportation: 6 Bus Routes That Could Disappear in 2026
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM