An important read if you're from Chicago, because this is the lens some people in the rest of the country are seeing us through right now

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Say what you will about Dick Cheney, the man had no heart.

Fire the manager or whoever made that decision into the sun. Otherwise, an absolutely brilliant WS. What a shame to end it that way.

I love bunting. I want to see bunting competitions as part of all star game festivities. But I don't see how giving up an out to get a guy from 2nd to 3rd makes any sense.

Now the jays will get an inside the park hr in the bottom of the 11th to tie it up

It me

This game is cuckoo bananas nutso

Statement from Alderwoman Julia Ramirez regarding the man taken by federal agents at a barbershop in Brighton Park. “This is an unjust and horrifying act that violates the trust, dignity, and safety of our community members by tricking them into letting agents inside private property.”

This, coupled with sending IL state troopers in to cooperate with ICE & CBP would tank any further political aspirations JB might have. Get the W so we can take the L!

Bunting is a lost art.

My disdain for Rodgers is such that I find myself actually rooting for GB, for once.

93XRT Fall Jam night one. @mymorningjacket.bsky.social on deck after @martylennartz.bsky.social thanks everyone for their contributions to the Lin Brehmer Scholars Fund @saltshedchicago.bsky.social. 2nd Friday. #GTBA

Imagine if the president wore a brown suit, tho

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

This Seattle Detroit matchup is peak baseball, and I will be so sad when this game finally comes to an end.

Boom. Blocked, like our arteries

What a beautiful baseball day, watching the Yanks book their annual autumn vacation and now seeing Kershaw get shelled as the LA crowd hits the exits to beat the traffic.

Can we get a quote from governor Abbott about sending his well-trained goons here to help the feds as they search for the migrants he bussed and flew up to Chicago on the taxpayer's dime?

Hey, @npr.org, if the trump cuts basically turn you into a stenographer for ICE, might as well rebrand as CBS. bsky.app/profile/gbro...

This headlines gonna look so ridiculous when more facts are gathered and npr has to either delete it or amend it to read almost exactly the opposite of what the propagandists have issued as a press release.

We're in the 'arresting elected officials who are standing up for the constitution' part of this.

Blurbed as "one of the most Chicago novels I've ever read" by someone from here, Orner's take on provincialism in writing is, for my money, spot-on. Hear all about it, and subscribe for free to @caropopcast.bsky.social!

It's Friday, which means my inbox is flooded with new music releases, one of which is from a band called Couch, who is apparently touring this Fall with a date in DC November 15 @930club.bsky.social. I hope their TM protects them from JD Vance.

These folks are literally being targeted by ICE for documenting their atrocities. Help support their vital work in this crucial time:

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I've waited waaaay too long to finally see Silkworm. Andy Cohen is an understated guitar genius and @timmidyett.bsky.social has my favorite bass sound outside of my brother @theoso.bsky.social. I really hope they're able to do more things together in the near future.

What an appalling to say after such a horrific event, and knowing full well you're doing it into a camera with a microphone attached? What does this guy say when he's behind closed doors?

Jesus. I was wholly unprepared for this truth

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

That 'apprentice' has somehow been worked into this AI slop is simply ICE'ing on the cracker.

Unraveled is one of those groups that does so fucking much and gets very little support or recognition – – for many years I assumed they had some kind of real funding source and was so shocked to find out it’s all grassroots. Supporting them matters!

En español en el hilo de abajo

Today at Graceland Cemetery, I stopped by the grave of Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld, whose words are relevant today.

@caropopcast.bsky.social returns with one half of Squeeze's dynamic songwriting duo: @chrisdiffordlyrics.bsky.social. Share away, subscribe and give a little back if you want at caropop.com

In the 90s, I had trouble understanding why so many of my peers liked oasis when the Beatles were right there. Similarly, Tolkien's oeuvre existed first, was LIGHT YEARS better than anything Rowling put to paper, and to me, it was evident from the first chapter of their respective landmark works.

This is the way

These are gonna come in verrrry handy around town next month. Better stock up.

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Conservatives reacting to the most benign shit possible

Enabled by an illegitimate supreme court, tiny dictator exclaims that when the president does something, it's not illegal

This could be about literally anything, but the specific thing it's actually about is particularly alarming given all the failures that have led to this point.

canceling student loans canceling nih research grants drake meme

Good ad copy usually is an oxymoron, but this actually does resonate.

How many people have been kidnapped by ICE?

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A war criminal is meeting a convicted criminal in Alaska to broker another country’s sovereignty. Doesn’t get much more kleptocratic than that, huh.

Reminiscent of a Black person I saw in the wake of the George Floyd protests, tears in eyes, pleading for justice and saying that we should be grateful Black folks are just seeking equality, not revenge. I felt with every fiber of my being that revenge would not be too tall an ask, in all honesty.

Increase a band: Plus the Bear