"This will be so, so, so, so, so bad. We're talking about Covid-level demand loss, no cars on the road, no planes in the sky, but with no pandemic.” www.wired.com/story/iran-w...

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

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these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...

honestly

I would like to personally award Afroman the Bluesky Medal of Valor for Exemplary Service in Bringing Back Shame

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

ummmmm

I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!

Had an editor at one of the big university presses recently tell me psychoanalysis is just not relevant anymore & literally since that moment it seems like every week there's another retort www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

That noise you heard was Montaigne shouting 'oh just fuck off' in 16th Century French.

So smart and fun and good!

Really quite special.

[Sade voice 🎵]

Tapping the sign!

Great resource and thread

this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can

“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.” Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.

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I can point to the exact moment I realized how fucked we were about to get. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-trash-...

march 17 chicago election day is coming; march 17 chicago ginormous drinking day is coming; this is fine

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

can this be a solution?

Maybe a good time to for a reminder that Laleh is one of the few people you can follow right now who definitively knows what she's talking about re:

Along with Project 2052 online launch of our first five stories, on 03/28 we are hosting an in-person panel and party in Chicago, at Pilsen Community Books. We'll have food, discuss the project with authors and our publisher, and raise money for more stories! withfriends.co/event/276791...

The Gig is in its toddler era! Here are my anniversary reflections, with Year Three highlights and a few resolutions.

good morning to @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social on the art & science of criticism! "Paying attention to something is a form of love... Criticism makes you slow down and stay and reflect, just like art does." chireviewofbooks.com/2026/03/11/w...

I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social

It’s true. Music is our path, as creatures of the erotic drives, back to an instinctual life we will never again reach. This distance between eros and instinct is what music opens up; for a while, everything is possible in there!

Abughamentum!!!

This is a two way race.

"[Cook County State's Attorney] O’Neill Burke rebuked the call for a special prosecutor... 'Yet there has been no federal or state investigation or prosecution of any [of] the individuals who perpetrated these offenses,” the firm said."

This really got me

reading Hyperpolitics and Muskism at the same time and it's making me nauseous remembering the last two decades

That’s right

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

The People's Forum collecting donations: "To donate by check: Make check payable to: The People's Forum On memo line write: “Urgent Aid” (Do not write Cuba!) Mail to: The People's Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018"

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

In recognition of Éliane Radigue's death, the recent themed double issue in Contemporary Music Review is now available in free access. (It says 'variable access', but that's because some articles are open essays anyway.) www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcmr20/4...

Absolutely rancid WWI vibes to all this

Here ya go!

Has Altman tried asking ChatGPT how to turn a profit?

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

As a former union rep, I know how vital unions are to protecting workers and winning fair pay. But we're all tired of the backroom deals. We deserve transparent leadership and independent unions.

Report from Seventh Grade’s Self-Directed Friday Telephone Game: “Kr*sti N*em got fired” (starting phrase)—>”Tr*mp is in the E*tein Files” (ending phrase)

It’s true