Famous Chicago Mayor Harold Washingron quote: "Take their money, then vote for me."

The middle class has told so many lies about who is brave and financially comfortably (nobody btw) that this sort of thing actually surprises some.

There's a lot of blah blahing for the sake of clicks and reader stats, but the Italians can be counted on the understand how most brands of fascism work and what they want. Viz:

I'm pretty sure she's asking for courage and integrity from lawyers. Trauma does trigger delusion, so 🤷🏻

CHICAGO:

What's WWIII without European casualties, amirite?

Context matters - this would have been our first large-scale concentration camp of the size of the famous Nazi 1.0 camps. He will still need facilities of this size, and while we don't want these camps anywhere, if he starts setting them up here, the risk of proliferation balloons. Short term win,

If you're at Harvard, say a thank you today to Claudine Gay, who was your scapegoat for the intolerant right and shifted the wrath of Trump to hit Columbia first. Once again, a Black woman's pain has made life easier for the elite.

I'm applying to MFA programs and saw for the first time today "do you identify as a first-generation student?" IMO, this is a status w/ an external, identifiable metric. It is a tremendous achievement that should not be watered down by people who "feel" that they are first generation but who aren't

Can anybody explain the autocorrect that hyphenates thank you? What an odd choice.

Findom in the 1930s was much simpler, you’d put 5 wooden nickels and a strawpenny in the post, and 6 to 8 weeks later a buxom gal with ruddy cheeks would send you back a daguerreotype of herself sitting quietly in the parlor wearing a spectacularly revealing hat

Pro-democratic theorists hate that Hitler got elected so much they ignore it.

Social media poster chides Buddha, Jesus for not accomplishing much. 😂

Just pathetic that a POLISH politician would not understand the logic of disarming Europe. Europe has believed that disarming was proof of its presence as a global force. Imagine if the Continent had continued to be as belligerent as the U.S. and Russia. Europe has done many things wrong, but

Where's the lie?

America doubling down on its most pro-rape political season since the 1950s.

White Americans have been agreeing to this Devil's bargain since the dawn of the republic. As long as Black and Brown folks (but especially Black folks) are getting it worse, white people will go along with whatever. For this group, anti-Black hatred is stronger than even self-preservation.

The daemon has left the bottle, and we will never get it back in. Private companies are lobbying for the concentration camps. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety

Writers: DO NOT listen to tough love advice on social media. If someone tells you that if you don't like your writing, a reader won't, they are feeding into insecurities common among many writers. Just make a note of that name and don't work with them. ✍️ Trust the process and know that

One of a new series. A kind of deconstruction (and reconstitution?) of the "No Blossom" pieces. (documentation of that exhibition can be seen at tinyurl.com/bdf4xskd) As yet unnamed, but watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 9"x12" #art #fineart

Nota bene www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Best read as a single billboard

The Bowl of Romaine Lettuce people and the Fruit on a Stick people will finally be together, as was always destined 💖

Or you could just start making loud honking noises whenever a lawyer type gets within 20 feet to drive them away (the online equivalent is just all caps words repeated without sense or surcease) and we could call that the AK AK rule.

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Remember that free speech exists in the United States, unless of course you start asking some uncomfortable questions to those of power and privilege.

The top federal prosecutor in New York and two senior federal prosecutors in Washington have resigned after refusing to follow a Justice Department order to drop the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Failed the loyalty test. Presumably this was a multiple choice exam with no advance prep, as the mayor doesn't assign homework.

Health haiku

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, all the college DEI-related law making happening right now. You have to register to see the DEI legislation tracker, but it's free : www.chronicle.com/article/here...

Metaclimax

Trump's America

This is consistent with the administration's pursuit of identity erasure of certain groups. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/...

The worst this gets, the more I hate the Democratic Party. My long era of voting may be over...

THIS 👇

THIS is why the assault on the Internet Archives preceded the inauguration of this beast.

If your defense RE Trump is that you voted for Biden, the segregationist and genocide enabler, guess what? So many Americans treat politics like a consumer and not a citizen & think "don't blame me I tried to buy the kinder suit" is a defense for what our country does with our police & military.

Counterpoint: Irreparable damage has already been done. Lives WILL be lost because of his policy choices. The damage to our political institutions cannot be undone. You must work with the knowledge that it may be in vain, but if you're not part of the resistance, history will remember your

Ignore the media headlines reporting that freezing federal spending or shuttering federal agencies “raise questions” or “push boundaries.” It’s an anticonstitutional lawbreaking spree.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

This is our first major concentration camp* -- the first Nazis ended up with 23 of these. There are also feeder camps needed to make the system work. We have 200. The first Nazis ended up with about 1,000, according to scholars. The major camps held an average of 70,000 people, 2/3rds of whom were

blue collar kids learn (often the hard way) that you cannot say certain things to people and not expect to have a fist coming your way. Rich kids never learn that. Look at where were at.

‘Mass Murderer in Waiting’: Writer Accuses LA Times of Editing His Anti-RFK Op-Ed to Support Conspiracy Theorist www.mediaite.com/media/mass-m...

However much we yell at the newspaper it’s not enough.

Sulla'd his name 😏

In our contemporary world, where people pretend there is no morality but lack the intellectual and spiritual depth to replace it, we encounter bald hypocrisy as commonplace. To wit: AI is always and only theft and its products are always

The amount of Luigi art on Xiaohongshu is unreal. Like if you thought he was a folk hero in America, I've never seen so much content about him. There's 'how to look like him' clothing tutorials. There's songs and skits about how he wants to give the freezing firewood. Had no idea this was going on.