Today and every day, I am proud to be a Chicagoan

I usually like to believe that I like myself. Then I catch myself putting on Calgary vs Edmonton.

Michigan Avenue right now.

This is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.

The frog costume is delightful in many many many ways but the way you could wear a gas mask under it and still look super friendly is convenient!

Miller is lying in order to get you (and “low-info voters”) to give up. Without surrender, Miller and the rest of the regime got nothing. They believe you will believe their lies and conquer yourself. But they can’t conquer you if you don’t believe them.

Dammit, I want to be the girlfriend of the Antifa founder...

I'm not going to pretend I love skrewball, but when I used it to make a pad Thai/se Asian weirdo daiquiri and it worked, I had to admit it felt like there was a niche for it. It's a dying brand in Chicago and the Chicago burbs though I hear.

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

This is like finding asbestos tiles under your basement carpet and then using the tiles as wall decor

Love it and hate it that google just called it Steve Albini Way when I turned onto Belmont earlier and had directions on.

The rules are simple.

Ive seen two people I'd safely assumed were sane leftists advocate for the military stepping in to stop the US descent into fascism. Have we fucking learned nothing, people?!?

Chat is it good that our president with significant dementia indicators is getting fed false propaganda by his caretakers and the wider news media (looking at you, cnn)

Should've used this photo

If I weren't caught in the middle as a Jewish anti-zionist and socialist of some stripe, I'd be laughing at how Trump funding Israel during a govt shutdown must feel to his Nazi supporters.

we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon

It's really sad that @support.bsky.team and @safety.bsky.app think now in the middle of a fascist crisis in America is a good time to flex and act like a bunch of 12 year old children with emotional management issues. Twitter became important because of organizing there. Just a reminder of that.

this

what does it say about @nytimes.com that a *story commenter* dispenses more truth in a few sentences than NYT journalists do in an entire year? excellent analysis from @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/partisan-b...

It needs to be repeated over and over again like a mantra, these are bad faith actors and any representation they make that puts them in a good light must be met with demands for proof.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

This just happened:

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence, I’m teaching about race and media anyway! @resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight! 600+ signups. We move!! ✊🏾

Mood

I am sorry for the very wrong thing my friend said, Gen X music dorks and young Millenials. The punishment will be swift and involve a wedgie or three.

Interesting that the @chicagotribune.com isn't part of this lawsuit. Oh, wait. They don't have local reporters anymore. I guess that makes sense then.

As far as I'm concerned, this confirms that Bluesky is actively hostile to all marginalized users. It is not worth building on. All social media sites eventually collapse in due time. This implies the end to Bluesky will come sooner rather than later.

It's probably going to hit 80 again today and I'm emailing with accounts about Winter Lager and holiday season beer. Fuck off summer, you had your turn.

Most illegitimate court in history.

Everyone still posting "Release the files" is a problem. Either you don't understand that we already know who's named in them and it's meant nothing for years or you stupidly think they're more important than fascism turning the military on American cities. Their release won't do much.

people who built bsky: -trans women (bsky protects jesse singal) -Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism) -SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK) -organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse) -artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

Can someone go look up an account called esresr for me on here? They might even have stolen my profile pic temporarily?

The lesson is that immigration is good, and we should allow more of it.

Lol, the really bad grifter I was replying to seems to have blocked me...

What's very interesting (read: sad and fucked up) is how the IL Democrats haven't done one fucking thing, not even called a special session or tried to take any of this seriously.

There's a point, a different one for each person, where you realize that you're the adult. There's no adult coming to help you, YOU'RE the adult. This is that realization on a national level. We're the adults. It's time to help.

Don't stop asking the people with power for help! But do stop telling the people doing this work that they should be grateful to people who AREN'T DOING SHIT

The free speech zone.

if you'd like to donate to a queer-affirming, welcoming church that is really doing the work of loving their neighbors, here's how: www.unidadberwyn.org

We went to the Spanish language Lutheran church that our church has been supporting during the ICE raids this year this morning and they're doing a really lovely version of the Apostles Creed about immigrants. (Translated with Google so forgive mistakes! Spanish in 1st image alt text, English 2nd)

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Illinois State Police were enraged by one small attempt at a protest march last night (which was marching *away* from the ICE facility, FTR) led by a known local activist who just does that: marches. Never saw any violence on the part of protesters.

Save big money at Menards 😊

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

I love that I'm getting excited to share the hoppy beers we make too, over at the ole day job.