Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson/Jim Rose Circus Bob Dylan Ani DiFranco/Dar Williams Waxahatchee George Clinton & Parliament

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together to get thru this thing called life. Electric word, life, it means forever, and that’s a mighty long time. But I’m here to tell you…”

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

It’s the only thing I know how to do.

Why are people I follow filling my timeline with photos and posts about a white supremacist, QAnon, conspiracy theorist, 9/11 denier, Jan. 6 insurrectionist, bullying congresswoman who’s never authored any bills? Why do respectable people boost, promote, and build the popularity of people like her?

Tear gas (usually CS gas) is prohibited to use in International warfare by Geneva Conventions and Chemical Weapons Conventions. The US classifies its use as a “riot control agent” rather than a lethal weapon, so it is allowed to be deployed on people within the US.

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw: Ministry/Front Line Assembly/Gary Numan Arlo Parks Peter Hook & The Light Waxahatchee/Lucinda Williams St. Vincent

“..whether you like him (Khashoggi) or didn’t like him, things happen.” things = brutally murdered, cut apart with a bone saw, and his dismembered body was likely snuck out of the country in suitcases happen = US CIA intelligence concluded that Crown Prince MBS ordered this “thing”

So yes, I want the whole damn thing eliminated. I want the police defunded in favor of healthcare and basic income for all. I want prisons and jails replaced by programs to eliminate poverty and treat addiction without stigma. I want drugs and petty theft and sex work decriminalized.

Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Dear Media; The “Epstein files story” is a story about wealthy men (and at least one woman) colluding to rape, sexually abuse, and traffic children. It is not about emails & files, nor about politics or political strategies. It is about horrendous, sickening crimes. Please report accurately.

Northern lights were different before phones & social media. You’d just be out at night in early winter, look toward the sky, and suddenly see the colors glow. It felt mesmerizing to be there alone, experiencing the rare beauty. You might call a friend when you got home, or tell people the next morn

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Photos of the Feds with weapons out taken by @chicagotribune.com photographers yesterday @briancassella.bsky.social @mandophotos.bsky.social

When they “Blitz” invade a city and neighborhoods repeatedly with armored vehicles, long guns, tear gas, pepper bullets, flash bang grenades, smoke bombs, etc, to kidnap and terrorize residents, they can expect that occasionally someone will shoot back.

Well, this makes me even less likely to stop boycotting Target. This would make me leave the store.

I love this writing about the temporal, emotional, and physical experiences of the game of baseball. In this era baseball essays and proclamations filled with numerical data, actuarial science, and statistics, this paragraph rings clear and true in my heart. This is the beauty of baseball.

Outside Chicago— State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear. A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection. Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls and arrested U.S. citizens. In Evanston, a weapon was repeatedly pointed at protesters. They grabbed workers in Hoffman Estates, landscapers. And house painters and laborers in Edison Park, Skokie and Niles. “Feels like state-sponsored terror."

There is nothing the city or the state is doing to stop them. One gestapo wagon did a hit and run north of us after threatening to kill a witness and pointing his gun at them. No local cops followed them or will do anything to prevent this from happening again. They want to and will kill someone.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

This is a lie.

I’ve learned during this baseball postseason that most baseball people I follow on this app have very different experiences, thoughts, and responses about baseball than I do! 😂 Which is awesome. I’ve learned a lot about how other people experience, feel, and think about my favorite sport.

This is another JD Vance flat-out lie, presented as if it’s a known factual truism. As with all his lies, his goals are to rewrite history, create divisions in contemporary society, and promote white Christian supremacy

Any business, blog, or caring empathetic person who continues to regularly post or link to the X app is knowingly contributing to and supporting this AI algorithm, and all the other AI, porn, bigotry, racism, misogyny, propaganda, & scams dominating that app.

kids entry is always free

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.

I do and teach creative work Using AI as a creative tool has problems, including: AI never replies “I don’t know.” And it never knows when its answer is wrong Not knowing is the catalyst of all creativity, and knowing what you’ve created is not right is a crucial in successful creative process

My World Series prediction is that neither owner will have to worry about how their performance or an injury might affect their future salary. I also predict that both owners will dream of a not-so-distant future when all games are AI-generated, and they won’t have to pay any more player salaries

Hey MLB! The start of the World Series (featuring a SoCal team & a team in Canada) would be a great time to support & honor immigrant & migrant work in the US, especially because of how much MLB relies on immigrant & migrant workers for its success (~ 25%- 30% of MLB & MiLB players are foreign-born)

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

I frankly don’t care if a wing of the White House is gone. It’s just a fucking building. For fucks sake, people are losing jobs, families, lives. People are losing rights. People are losing opportunities. People are dying. The government is gleefully, openly destroying, stealing, and murdering

West Ridge this morning, 11:37am— Neighbors witnessed Border Patrol agents arresting a man who's been building a new staircase on their building. "Wait, this is private property," the woman recording says. "No, it's not," the agent replies, covering his face with his jacket.

The news that the owner of the South Shore raid building knew in advance of the raid, proactively identified non-paying units to federal authorities, and permitted/endorsed the raid fits squarely in the category of information that is essentially expected, but still horrifying.

2025 Postseason Chicago Cubs: 4 wins 4 losses (.500) M’waukee Brewers: 3 wins 6 losses (.333) Cubs had more postseason wins, and a better postseason record than Milwaukee.

The Chicagoland ICE sighting Facebook page was taken down at the Justice Department's request. blockclubchi.co/3WIPq32

This is a residential neighborhood in Chicago today, a regular Tuesday. In this photo, I count 40+ troops in military uniforms with lethal weapons. There are also helicopters and drones overhead. And there is photo & video documentation of CS tear gas used against these community neighbors

Hey baseball writers! Instead of all these repetitive articles about pitch velocity, bat speed, and when was the last time a home team did blah blah blah, you write about how Asian, Central- & South-American immigrant/migrant labor sustains major & minor league baseball, making white men rich?

nobody attended class again

Wayne Thiebaud, Cup of Coffee, 1961

In their 8 playoff games, the Chicago Cubs struck out 81 times. 40% of their total outs were by strikeout. They had 20 total walks (averaging 2.5 BB per game)

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

The Trump administration is killing people in international waters, calling for killing US protestors, sending federal troops into US cities, calling for arrest of mayors & governors, arresting people based on skin color, blackmailing universities, indicting opponents, and shut down the government

A'ja Wilson's 2025: ◽️WNBA scoring title ◽️Regular-season MVP ◽️Defensive Player of the Year ◽️WNBA championship ◽️Finals MVP Best season ever?

seems original..

The centerfield camera angle is terrible. It reduces the game to only 3 players and one tiny part of the field. I wish that a camera angle from behind home plate was used more often (all the time!). This is the best seat in the stadium, please show it on the broadcast.

who pays the hospital less? who is this “they” that they keep talking about?

There was just a commercial during the Yankees-Blue Jays game for a company making survival food, like 3-, 6-, or 12-month supplies of freeze dried family meals. The ad began with a white man with a flannel dirt and a long beard saying “we all know food shortages and lack of food supply are coming…”