I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

Everything is fine

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less & retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us.

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women. Wilson has gained notoriety for his Christian nationalist views and his ties to Pete Hegseth.

The Republican Party is not attached to democratic form of governance. I’m genuinely not sure how we go forward from here.

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Dispatching three Long Island finance guys who look like they should have ponytails but don't, two 67yo Florida real estate developers named Steven and Stephen, and a nephew I don't think very highly of to negotiate an advantageous peace in the war I started.

don’t forget that wilson thinks black people should be enslaved!

Sudan is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with 19 million people facing extreme hunger. With international aid stalled, the Khartoum Aid Kitchen is feeding families across the city. Please donate or share to help fight this famine. Every bit counts. #KeepEyesOnSudan

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

If leaders abuse the rule of law to make themselves immune to it, so that they can undermine the rights of others with impunity, by what moral or philosophical argument are they entitled to its protections, once they lose power? By what grace should they be sorted by law instead of by other means?

There were 32,660 hit-and-runs in Chicago last year. Nearly a third of all crashes. Behind every one of those numbers, someone's life was changed. A Strong Towns Chicago volunteer put all of it on a dashboard. 🧵

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

Wow incredible new resource mapping every carceral facility in the US visitprisons.endmassincarceration.org

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

CPD Internal Affairs didn't interview everyone on the 663 team, didn't interview everyone in the office, didn't interview the sergeant's bosses, didn't interview the district commander. Even after they reopened the case. illinoisanswers.org/2026/04/10/c...

A Chicago police sergeant told internal affairs he thought another cop stole a gun from his district tact office. CPD Internal affairs didn't add the theft allegation to their case file, closed the case without more interviews, only reopened their case after we asked CPD about the theft. #chicago

Lina Khan is one of his advisors you know, the ex-FTC head whose efforts to do things like ban noncompetes (and her gender) "forced" all our rich tech execs to support abject fascist corruption

I think @brianbeutler.bsky.social almost certainly right that the bogus OLC opinion claiming the Presidential Records' Act is unconstitutional only really makes sense as a prelude to destroying inconvenient records <cough>Epstein<cough>. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

SoH transits from Lloyd’s List:

Had to read that a couple of times cause I just see the French shorthand.

When you don't pay people what they are worth, you are merely training them for your competitors.

Less than zero sum chance that some of the Iranian negotiators are worried about being positively identified and then being assassinated.

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

“There were 169 car crashes on 63rd Street from Western Avenue to Pulaski Road in the year before Sunday’s fatal hit-and-run. About 29 percent — or 40 — of those crashes were hit-and-runs, city data shows.”

One last thing about why Wurman’s insufferable schtick. When @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and I wrote our Cornell piece, the Dunning School warning was about the public perception being altered by malignant actors. That’s continuing to happen. This was identified as a worry from the start.

The only unelected representative of the corridor is blocking the entire project, which includes parts of three wards. The 27th ward covers less than half of the corridor, and only the southern half of the street. The project was designed in consultation with his father, former Ald. Burnett (II).

Womp womp @sidestreets.bsky.social @chi.streetsblog.org @chiwho.bike @chicritmass.bsky.social

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A big reason we are in this constitutional crisis is that Republicans like Kevin McCarthy refused to break with Trump after January 6th. McCarthy backed Trump during a visit to Mar-a-Lago just weeks after Jan. 6. This was after McCarthy publicly admitted that Trump was culpable for the attack.

"At least two potential 2028 Democratic nominees may have played a role in killing the resolution, with one DNC member telling Politico they received direct calls from the presidential hopefuls expressing concern about the resolution."

The City's Dept. of Law fought the family's attorney's subpoena for CPD videos and other evidence for nearly 7 months. The videos are currently under a protective court order. CPD denied my FOIA request for videos, citing an "ongoing investigation" into the crash that occurred 14 months ago.

Alex Haley, who also wrote Roots, was the scribe for Malcom’s autobiography. It’s almost as if we have a good basis from which to evaluate statements like these. And maybe more people should read more books.

Americans like their morally righteous heroes when they are safely dead and no longer a threat to existing power structures.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

The business owner who can only imagine driving everywhere represented by politicians who can only imagine driving everywhere asked questions on news programs by interviewers who can only imagine driving everywhere. And everyone else subject to the results of this systemic failure of imagination.

This seems bad.

The stupidity of picking a fight with the Vatican is I guess pretty much in line with the stupidity of everything else these goons do. They're too dumb to understand that they keep more leaners on their side if they don't force people to pick a side

I hope there's a progressive backlash to Brandon Johnson that results in our getting a stronger progressive candidate next mayoral election, because Lord help us if a conservative backlash to Brandon Johnson gives us Paul Vallas. Anyone got a sense of how ambitious Andre Vasquez is?

Unprecedented corruption

Now I’ve got the “Sur le pont D’ Avignon” song stuck in my head.

This is just so corrupt on every conceivable level. There is no excusing it. These people are The Shittiest Gangsters and we need to throw them in jail for the rest of their lives.

Someone really needs to go surround the White House with a bunch of Pope Leo votive candles. That would be pretty hilarious.

yes I'm still thinking about the Court illegally rushing in to save Rep. Nicole Malliotakis's bitchass--and about the states making their own versions of the SAVE Act the Court is expanding states’ authority to hurt voters & constricting states’ authority to help ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

I have a '65 Mustang at home but I put way more miles on my bike every year.

Good lord.

Per a reliable source, Ald. Walter "Red" Burnett III (27) may cave to the campaign by suburbanite Roger Romanelli to cancel the Grand Ave. safety project, by withdrawing aldermanic support. If you live in the ward, let the office know how you feel on this issue. www.chicago.gov/city/en/abou...