Mark Chonofsky

@markchonofsky.com

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cyclist, dog enjoyer. currently @wbez.org / @chicago.suntimes.com

instructions to Don Quixote
it's five gallons of gas, donald, what could it cost? Ten dollars?
a pair of people named Rowe and Payne have set a speed record for the very painful task of rowing across the Pacific
weird dude looking weird while levitating in front of an American flag
paragraph beginning "Request that the Court order the release of your PayPal funds"
Dimona G-WENN landing at Long Marston, seen from the side
Google trends for “Trump” in Canada, showing a rise in early January, plateauing by mid January at a new high level
everybody facing in same direction - east - toward lectern, including reader. congregants can see back of reader's head between them and the gold screen, which is mounted on the lectern. the reader is facing the screen
Detail from the photo showing the decorated prayer lectern in situ, courtesy of Zussia Efron, 1969. From https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/synagogue/aron-kodesh.html
four soldiers in an air force cargo bay wearing oxygen masks, ready to jump
airbus beluga, one of the most (but not the most) ridiculously-oversized jets ever to grace the skies of Al Gore's earth, containing one (1) cargo deck above the cargo hold
screenshot of an incorrect post that used a layman's understanding of the word 'term' to conclude that board members should serve out all three years for which they were appointed
A book which reads: Discussions across the force confirm, as previous reports have noted, that the requirements passed down from above far exceed the ability of units and individuals to accomplish them. A former brigade commander bluntly described the annual training requirement situation: “It’s more than you can do in one year.”10 Another officer gave more detail: “The amount of requirements, if you laid [them] down on a calendar—all the external stuff you have to do—and then how much time you have to complete [them]— it’s physically impossible!” Another officer added his perspective: It’s a systemic problem throughout the entire Army . . . We can probably do two or three things in a day, but if you give us 20, we’re gonna half-ass 15 and hope you ignore the other five. Given that it is impossible to comply with every re- quirement, how do units and individuals reconcile the impossible task of accomplishing all directed training with a bureaucracy that demands confirmation that every requirement was accomplished? Do they admit noncompliance? Do they submit false reports?
amtrak
reddit post from a rightwing user that notes that fact-checkers can't "poke holes" in arguments from the left, as opposed to rightwing propaganda content, and bemoans the fact that 'statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side'
black square, painted, white border
bottles that say 'this is food'
diagram of magnetic field shielding in MRI. the magnet (crosshatch) produces the field in loops around it. it passes through a body inside the mri and returns through iron elements which prevent most of the field from passing through the air outside the magnet. iron is much more conductive than air so the field sticks to it
"...a horse and animal grooming product it calls 'Striphair' and 'Gentle Groomer'.... This is not Plaintiff's first brush with this litigation..."
a flying turdcopter
Subcat Catalonia, 30 pax
National religious conservatives and Likud party leaders believed that withdrawing from any "Jewish" land was heresy.[4] The Likud leader and future prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused Rabin's government of being "removed from Jewish tradition [...] and Jewish values".[2][3] Right-wing rabbis associated with the settlers' movement prohibited territorial concessions to the Palestinians and forbade soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces from evacuating Jewish settlers under the accords.[5][6] Some rabbis proclaimed din rodef, based on a traditional Jewish law of self-defense, against Rabin personally, arguing that the Oslo Accords would endanger Jewish lives.[5][7][page needed] Rallies organized by Likud and other right-wing groups featured depictions of Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform, or in the crosshairs of a gun.[2][3] Protesters compared the Labor party to the Nazis and Rabin to Adolf Hitler[5] and chanted, "Rabin is a murderer" and "Rabin is a traitor".[8][9] In July 1995, Netan
For example, in December 2021, one contributor (the “Contributor”) texted Santos and others to make a contribution to his campaign, providing billing information for two credit cards. In the days after he received the billing information, Santos used the credit card information to make numerous contributions to his campaign and affiliated political committees in amounts exceeding applicable contribution limits, without the Contributor’s knowledge or authorization. To mask the true source of these contributions and thereby circumvent the applicable campaign contribution limits, Santos falsely identified the contributor for one of the charges as one of his relatives. In the following months, Santos repeatedly charged the Contributor’s credit card without the Contributor’s knowledge or authorization, attempting to make at least $44,800 in charges and repeatedly concealing the true source of funds by falsely listing the source of funds as Santos himself, his relatives and other contribut
"Michele Lee is a Senior Public Affairs Manager focused on Accessibility at Cruise, a self-driving car service. In this role she cultivates relationships with key advocates, community organizations, and experts representing the full diversity of the disability community to build a more accessible AV service."
in fourteen hundred and ninety two / columbus sailed the ocean blue / this has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move
Faced with a litany of criminal charges, Donald Trump on Sunday told a campaign rally in Iowa that he would prefer to die by electrocution rather than be eaten by a shark if he ever found himself on a rapidly sinking, electrically powered boat.