Shame on Northwestern. What utterly disgraceful decision. May those responsible be called to account.

We will not see his like again.

Nobody did it better.

Well, enshittification has consumed Google Maps, which (repestedly) warned me that my route went through a winter storm area, that all lanes of the interstate were closed ahead, with no safe alternative route - none of which was true

If you're looking for alternatives to big corporate stores, @chicagoreader.com's annual holiday gift guide might help. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ho...

Do you know that I teach a scriptwriting course online through Interlochen Arts Center? The courses make great clutter-free gifts, and I have a code for $50 off: CYBER2025 www.interlochen.org/online/progr...

One layer of my personal Dante's Inferno: Watching tech support at my job trying to fix my computer by Googling the error messages that pop up when I have already done all that.

Glittery. Down-home. Prophetic. Dolly Parton is the rhinestone-clad prophet we need in our polarized times. — Lindy Vogado #ModernMusicalProphets

Invested Faith Grants 17th Class of Fellows These four social innovators are working to address systemic issues of injustice in their communities while building sustainable financial models.

Hell yeah @rianjohnson.bsky.social (reposting with alt text)

Kyle Rittenhouse got run out of PA last week, and I’m sad I missed it. 😂 atlantablackstar.com/2025/11/17/r...

"Andrea Hanis, veteran Chicago newspaper editor, dies at 56. 'She lived and breathed integrity and good journalism'" for the @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Airlines may not be able to rely on affluent travelers to buoy demand for much longer, according to recent industry reports.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Currently at this very interesting and slightly terrifying conference natureconferences.streamgo.live/microplastic...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Michiganders are sharing their health insurance premiums increases with me… not 10% or 20%, but in one example - $200/month to $2900/month. Republicans have tried to kill the ACA more than 70 times since 2010, and have never once had a plan for anything better.

🚨 STREAM TONIGHT 🚨 Playing Papers Please and talking about Remove the Regime! Come hang on YouTube or Twitch in 15 minutes!

Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

Just throwing this out there for reasons apnews.com/article/2022...

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

reached back into my Cracked toolbox to write about six things I’ve learned during the ICE invasion of Chicago www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657790

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

Points at this article again www.burnsnotice.com/trump-is-set...

".... we might need to know not just the current state of all 86 billion neurons and their 100 trillion interconnections, not just the varying strengths with which they are connected, and not just the states of more than 1,000 proteins that exist at each connection point...." - From this essay:

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

i love this band! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPE9...

New Hollywood blacklist just dropped www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...

These are the people we need in America, not soldier boys and Mar-a-Lago harpies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/07/l...

We wanted to share this to help people understand what’s going on. It was shared by Jay Kuo and written by Steve Vladeck a clear, straightforward breakdown of the SNAP situation.

The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.

Keep the faith, Waukegan!!

Trump got his wish to starve Americans. The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to temporarily withhold portions of SNAP payments for November. Huge thanks to the states and workers who rushed to process benefits before the ruling came down, not all heroes wear capes!

If you need a cocktail by the end of this week -- I know I do -- here's a suggestion. jamesfinngarner.substack.com/p/a-cocktail...

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

Pick up a copy of @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social new series DEATH DOG. Inside you'll find my first ever Western story!

Stop pushing the argument that #SNAP beneficiaries are just a bunch of lazy people who need to get jobs. The official USDA data says otherwise. And there are lots of ways to catch fraud that have successfully thrown people off the system. Read or listen: open.substack.com/pub/gerfarin...

Took my students to the Neofuturists. last field trip for awhile. My beloved IIT (0 snark— I love it) is under strain from the federal everything and for right now I won’t be hired next semester. Here’s hoping, tho. I love teaching. #theatresky #chicagotheatre