In Hearing Transcript, Jack Smith Defends Decision to Indict Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Ah, populist economics for the uh, 13% decline in income. www.ft.com/content/727d...

Van Halen live in Chicago 1982 youtu.be/IaXMKhNE57s?...

U.S. plans to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Ya don’t say.

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Chicago postpunk trio Uniflora embody the boundless creativity of our young indie scene chicagoreader.com/music/concer...

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Dueling U.S. Efforts Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...

Live Updates: Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard in Los Angeles www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

This is wild. Russia recruited and paid a young Canadian as spy. Excellent deep reporting. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Wow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Judge rules Trump’s USIP seizure unconstitutional, oversteps authority www.devex.com/news/judge-r...

New Uniflora single open.spotify.com/album/7xcgnb...

RFK Jr. never misses an opportunity to mention his uncle JFK. Yet as head of HHS, the relative he should be emulating, if anyone, is his Aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She did incredible work helping kids and people with disabilities. He’s exactly the opposite.

New Uniflora single streaming on Apple Music and everywhere. music.apple.com/us/album/to-...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Excellent day for strolling around Logan square.

Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout

My Philadelphia Eagles jacket, 1980-81

Prediction: this DOGE nonsense is a catastrophe that takes years and hundreds of millions in court cases and systems development to clean up.

Justice Dept. revokes job offers to young lawyers in elite honors program

Johnson aide advised against Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’

I’m still appalled that they are not called the Washington Communications & PR Professionals. Much more intimidating name.

Nice piece by Irish Jack on "I Can't Explain" at 60. www.thewho.com/happy-60th-b...

We had cassettes before they were retro. www.instagram.com/p/DDtHjWVNZJ...

The (alleged) assassin appears to be (on Twitter at least) a fan of Peter Thiel, Christianity, the Roman Empire, Elon Musk, etc.

My mom suggested throwing a wad of aluminum foil in with the dinner silver in dishwasher. Apparently this works. “Polishes” the silver through oxide exchange. Deoxidizes the silverware at high temperature.

Heading into Friday with Edgar Summertyme Jones “Here’s to the Holidays” youtu.be/1YKZ6_Z1-9E?...

Relaxing in a very special and boring way: by reading online reviews of the new tires I’ve already purchased and had installed.

Sad news. A colleague from my Time Out days Kris Vire just passed away. He was a great writer and theatre critic. playbill.com/article/chic...