This was awesome!

Super thankful to have been a part of this year’s WPRB 25-hour holiday radio show with the incomparable @jon.wprb.com. You can check out my contribution here if you missed it.

This song is so beautiful!

ALMOST THERE. The 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show begins Christmas Eve at 5:00 pm ET only on 103.3 fm WPRB!

Throughout Exmess Eve - Exmess Day, Jon‘ll spin songs & stories written for this year’s 25-hour Marathon. You’ll also get Misfitted and Kraftwerked, Lindstromd and Snaildarthad; Maggie will wrangle reindeer; listeners will provide beta on Turnpike Santa detritus. Duck out of the madness & join in.

Which means we are two-ish days from the debut of the first Red Star Sky holiday smash.

We're TWO DAYS OUT from the 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show on 103.3 fm WPRB! #wprbxmas

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

FFS. Stop killing humans.

“There’s an unflagging, uncomfortably-up-close feature to Sowash’s writing that reminds me more than anything else of the late Karl Hendricks.” ❤️❤️❤️

Now that's a sentence! @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social really captures what it was like to endure this lousy effing weekend, and also why it matters. open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...

“If people make your world a better place, it will necessarily feel like a worse place when they are gone. Yet what remains is still so much better than it ever would have been without them.”

this photo slaps even harder when you remember the FDR line Mamdani quoted in his primary victory speech

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I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

Trans people don't need the government's permission to be ourselves.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

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You have to read nearly to the end for it, but @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social dropped the sickest of burns on good old John Bolton. It’s worth the read.

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs. 1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi... 2. bsky.app/profile/roya... 3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

If you enjoyed my writing about the Chicago Silkworm shows, you may want to read another one from Jacob Simons (Moon Orchids). It’s quite good!!

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

This is the information that mainstream media needs to be reporting on. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social does an excellent job of breaking it done nice and easy. So easy even MAGA could understand what the issue here is. Important parallels are drawn. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

I saw my favorite band, Silkworm, live three times last week. I had to write about it:

NEW FROM ME: Last year, two men fed Team Trump the claim Tren de Aragua was a covert Maduro army. The Miami Herald IDed one of them in March. I just IDed the second one.

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

This shooting is nothing short of horrific. I'm praying for Charlie Kirk and thinking of the students at the event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country — it's never ok.

Well said

I'm definitely of the "Don't panic" school... ...but Trump just said religious leaders should have more of a voice and more power than you do. And corporate media didn't even mention it, let alone blast out the warning.

Happy Labor Day, oh dignified workers, we. Here’s a good little read about a slightly alt aspiration from the dignity of grind and toil. h/t @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Lee’s story underscores the need for trans youth to have access to lifesaving healthcare in PA. We highlighted the importance of this access last month:

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

Another fantastic (sub)headline, with a bonus Bartleby the Scrivener reference on the side! Find tiny bits of joy where you can these days, folks .

Now available: Lay it Down In Full View: Collected Writings On Silkworm And Their Music. The 14 essays in this landmark 416 page tome adopt a range of approaches from memoir and historiography to music criticism. Details here... shop.comedyminusone.com/products/sil...

Cost of public college tuition: Sweden: $0 Norway: $0 Finland: $0 Denmark: $0 United States: $9,596 When Republicans say it's OK to give billions in tax breaks to the top 1%, don't tell me we can't afford to make public college available for free.

🚨NEWS: As Trump now lets private equity into your 401k, new data show private equity firms have been letting wealthy investors into higher performing funds & funneling lower-income savers into underperforming funds - all while underreporting volatility. www.levernews.com/billionaires...

Sharing for the headline alone!

A great read on this whole abundance thing.

EXCLUSIVE: The new State Department human-rights report drops all mention of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act... ...which includes the death penalty.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Before yesterday’s deadly explosion in Pennsylvania, Trump officials shielded the facility from public scrutiny despite its history of accidents, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. Trump’s move followed industry lobbying. www.levernews.com/before-a-ste...

Tell Congress to shut down this humanitarian disaster NOW.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Students with disabilities deserve better than Donald Trump and Linda McMahon.

Hey Pittsburgh/SWPA people: I am looking for former teachers to interview for a story this week. Can anyone help me find one or more former teachers?

Trump’s Epstein Furor Grows as MAGA Karens MTG and Boebert Demand Answers youtu.be/uRfhbJbgvbI

“Have they never listened to a Pete Seger song?” Another gem by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social And Eff you, Rahm.

Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined. Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.

Another paper has confirmed it… …and here’s why corporate media haven’t picked up on it yet…