SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

Before cooking with peanut butter (every time): this is God's favored food, it makes everything more delicious, I cannot fail While cooking with peanut butter (every time): FUCK why can't I stir this, why is it so gloopy JESUS CHRIST FUCK

The entire Tourette’s Booth discourse appears to ignore that Hannah Beachler and Delroy Lindo want an apology *from BAFTA* and seem relatively philosophical about the actual incident

Cries in Chicago

Is the branded mayoral jacket just a New York City thing? I've certainly never seen a Chicago mayor wear one. And they put their names on everything!

This is, among other things, a reflection of the right's decades-long effort to redefine the word "criminal" among the general voting public to mean something a person simply *is* as opposed to describing a person's specific actions within a legal context.

Found out something interesting. Delia Ramirez is all good according to Track AIPAC even though she has taken money from J Street, but Daniel Biss gets a red poster from taking money from the same organization. Is J Street the "Israel Lobby" or not?

Choose your fighter

Jack's frozen pizza

Was on airplane mode for two hours and this is what I return to 🙄

Somehow I missed among the Discourse that Biss is pro AI slop

Critical support to comrade Pizzaballa

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are the best Zelda games because they don't have traditional dungeons, which are stupid and dumb.

I will only marry a woman who is: - Favorite show Danza, also the news; weatherman Skilling; music, the blues - Favorite actor Dennehy - Favorite drink O'Douls - Bears - Hawks - Sox - Bulls

The neoconservative line we were told post 9-11 was that one democracy would never attack another. It only logically follows that if the Federal government is invading its own cities, the democratic thing to do would be to resist and realign the country to its own stated principles.

These people are alive because the Chicago District only relatively recently reversed an absurd policy of not having life preservers on the lakefront because they thought it was a moral hazard that would lead to more people swimming. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02...

Everything is the Racism Dial, isn't it

Did somebody mention an ECW with opaque finances?

When you check the weekend forecast and the Southern state you're flying to is getting a 20 degree cold snap

A fun thing about being a parent is learning you can get into Park District youth sports programs for a song if you register precisely one second after classes open, or you can pay out the nose for private programs with way more convenience and perks.

Honestly one of the most fascinating city council splits I've seen in a while. Almost the entire North lakefront, not a single South Side vote, and an ideologically mixed bag of SW side support.

The Rise of Skywalker

It could even Happen today

There's been this endless, tedious discourse about the role of "the groups." These are the fucking groups! These 3 PACs have nearly half a billion dollars to spend on elections. Slightly more power than a goddamn questionnaire.

I would wager that, just as Trump gives social permission for countless bad behaviors, a major Democratic politician could easily give Americans social permission to broadly support trans rights. But nobody seems eager to do that.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

i don't think ted needed to say all this but it's very cool he did!

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

Want a local angle on Jesse Jackson? Of course you do! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Deeply ashamed to live in a country where tweeting this isn’t instant career suicide

25 years ago today, ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US began its worldwide invasion on @newgrounds.com.

Important Jeopardy! update: you're not going to believe this, but Halloween III: Season of the Witch has actually been referenced twice before today's episode

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Kiddo wanted to watch Home Alone 2 today, and as an 8 year old I was definitely not discerning enough to realize this copies every single story beat from the first

If you think Buffett is coming off rosy here: he's changed his mind about his own Giving Pledge because - I hope you're sitting down for this - he's determined that he simply can't give away 99% of his wealth finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-...

"Don't spend the winter in Montana/ Or mention Sherman in Savannah" is an insanely hard line for a Sesame Street song

Another Presidents Day, another feeling of surely the office isn't actually closed and my boss wants to know where I am

The real reason you know Kat isn't from Chicago is that she didn't break out the old saw about being the nobody that nobody sent. The windbags here love pulling out that line.

Other questionable analogies aside, "I'm the only candidate who didn't wait my turn" is quite the claim when Amiwala is only two years older than her

Rolled credits on Donkey Kong Bananza. It's fun!

I like how libs like actively screech at anyone who points this out, and then these ghouls are just loudly and proudly taking credit for building up and funding the fascist apparatus.

Jesus Christ

Toffee, if only because it'll probably get stuck in my teeth

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Playing Mario Kart as Toad:

imagine this is the last thing you see before you die