What’s more Chicago right now than handing off 200 whistles in a Portillos bag.

Wait, why am I only now learning that the three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election yesterday all have EXTREMELY POWERFUL REGIONAL ACCENTS? youtu.be/ekIqnCYgLnk?...

Flyover country loves socialist policies! And we have for a long time! thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

More and more people saying this (b/c more and more people are correct).

Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts. thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

Moving into the midterm cycle, a simple request to not tell hundreds of millions of Americans that we don't deserve candidates who actually excite us because we don't live in one of five cities on the coasts. thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

"Who knows me and my neighbors in Milwaukee the best? Manhattan-based opinion writers for the Times and The Atlantic, of course. It is they, not me, who understand what animates myself and my fellow flyover simpletons (girls high school athletics, I am told)." thewhitepages.net/p/wherever-y...

Earnest socialist potluck season LET’S GO!

Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.

Obviously, the clear lesson from tonight is that NYC is the only place in the country where people care about their neighbors and want good things to happen and everywhere else Dems have to run sex pests, grumpy weirdos and McKinsey consultants! That’s just common sense!

Great thought piece & I'm looking forward to hearing more about the '48ers.

The thing about strongmen is that they're too dumb and short-sighted to know when they've planted the seeds for their own collapse (we're the seeds) thewhitepages.net/p/if-trump-a...

Joining a local ICE watch group > posting your 10th Luigi meme in a stranger's mentions

You all, nobody's talking about this particular public health risk, but this week we have reached absolute nuclear levels of Dad Discourse (meaning, "stuff that dads have opinions about") Here's a partial list...

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

I know that everybody is searching for any source of hope right now, but it's wild how many people convinced themselves that Maine is a real place with residents and Senate seats and everything.

"The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads, Marxists, the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party- they all adore the protests. They think it's a righteous time."

If you feel that big marches where people take pictures of their punny signs and do other things you consider cringe aren't effective, that's fine! Do something that you feel helps more! I am truly grateful for the big protests! And I would love to be grateful for you theoretical contribution too!

I published this a few hours before the Politico story about the Young GOP text chain but oh my God if it doesn’t reinforce the thesis— the choice right now is not just ideological, but between irony-pilled nihilism and an actual belief in and love for people thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...

"And once again, I could be tremendously wrong. But I’d rather be wrong and in love than right and alone. I’d rather be a loser with an outstretched hand than the coolest person in the world with a closed heart. I’d rather build with you than despair alone." thewhitepages.net/p/who-are-yo...

SAL FRELICK

If you are wondering "is Woody Allen's tribute to Diane Keaton in The Free Press as cursed an artifact as I'd expect?... it's, um, worse? [TW: extremely insensitive discussion of eating disorders]

Clergy protesting at the Broadview Detention Center

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

If you read one thing today, please read this. It’s a masterpiece. Sure, it’s about the Ezra Klein controversy of the day, but more importantly, it’s about empirical evidence of how to build a movement out of our current horrors.

Garrett Bucks nails it!

Sorry can’t talk right now, putting the finishing touches on my new essay “I was a lifelong leftist but I’d love a job at CBS News so I don’t know man, here’s a video of some sophomore at Sarah Lawrence who was rude to me on TikTok”

As always, the most thoughtful post about a topic (this time, Ezra Klein) comes from @garrettbucks.bsky.social

A modest proposal!! thewhitepages.net/p/ezra-klein...

Man, it would be pretty cool if cities could just be “complicated places where a lot of people live” and not “overstuffed signifiers that exist primarily to be yelled at by culture warriors desperate to squeeze just a little more juice from their most chicken-hearted supporters”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

'The counterpoint, I suppose, is “what if these rights are not allowed in the future?” but my friends, that’s not a counterpoint at all. It is but one more reason to do those things now.'

I wrote about how there are cowards in our midst, and how the temptation to follow their lead is real, but that we know deep down inside that our hearts are bigger than that. thewhitepages.net/p/whatever-y...

I wrote about how there are cowards in our midst, and how the temptation to follow their lead is real, but that we know deep down inside that our hearts are bigger than that. thewhitepages.net/p/whatever-y...

social media posturing =/= bravery

If Charlie Kirk lived in Liverpool Times, he would have been the third Beatle. They'd have kicked Ringo out to make room. If he lived in Mcdonaldland Times, he'd have been Grimace's best friend. If he had lived in Dinosaur Times, he would have been the biggest coolest dinosaur RAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR

I’m Francesca Hong, a single mom, service worker, and State Rep—now running for Governor of Wisconsin. This campaign won’t be funded by billionaires or corporate PACs. It’s powered by working people. If you’re ready to take back our state, chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/fran-...

Fran and I hosted about a dozen Medicaid town halls earlier this year, and I learned she's the real deal. For the past couple of months I've been helping with her gubernatorial campaign prep — I believe she is *the* left/progressive candidate for Wisconsin. Let's talk about policy:

A sincere RIP to Robert Redford but also everybody knows that the universe only has a finite amount of hotness available for adult blond men, so I am crossing my fingers that maybe moving forward we can spread that around a bit more evenly?

What you can try to control is how YOU fight... not how they fight.

Hey fam, I'd love your feedback. Today was my first day on the job as the guy in charge of making JD Vance look and sound, like, extra fascist. Like cartoon Mussolini. The stakes were high, what with all the fascism we had to roll out today. How'd I do? Does he look craven and vainglorious enough?

All right, so we just crunched the numbers over here at the "what kind of regimes do stuff like this?" factory and the bad news is that our machine just preemptively fled the country.

Apropos of a certain hagiographic project right now, public viral debates-- filmed for propaganda and brand-building purposes-- are not a vital pillar of a functioning democracy! They are publicity stunts! They are not designed to build understanding or find truth or make society better!

Whatever we have been through as a nation, I think we can all agree that what is most important is that we come together for fall pumpkin season

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Actually in the version of socialism I dream of we would also have this.

Whose life matters?

"I hope that you are showing even more love through the politics you practice and the movements you build. And I hope, with an increased sense of urgency, that you show love by standing in the breach against those who preach the gospel of blood and power."

This is less about what you do or don’t say both Charlie Kirk than it is about being alive, together, in a time and place that cares about far too few of our lives. thewhitepages.net/p/how-do-you...

I'm sorry, this is the first I am hearing that my beloved friends Clare Delish and Nigel Thistledown are "not real." Please respect my privacy during this difficult time for me, a dumb person.