NEW: The US Military is laying the groundwork for a 10,000 person temporary base “near Gaza,” according to an internal contracting document obtained by @bloomberg.com From @sooophie.bsky.social and team: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am dying at this Gab AI ad, “EVEN OUR BOTS DON’T READ!!!!”

It’s amazing how much of reactionary politics boils down to “I cannot get along with my neighbors”

Winter is woke now

Publication day for the expanded paperback edition of THE DESIGN OF CHILDHOOD, with a new intro and my Pulitzer-winning essays up front geni.us/designofchil... Plus a brand new audiobook www.audible.com/pd/The-Desig... @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

The most interesting thing about the Edmund Fitzgerald is that it was built and owned by Northwestern Mutual. Insurance company that owns an ore freighter is primo midcentury investment diversification.

An unconscionable error for any Chicagoan: Not coming prepared for the weather.

Democrats: No matter the question, “demobilize the base” is the answer

Here’s what else they did this weekend blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f...

The choice is pretty clear: A New Deal Coalition with Post-Industrial Characteristics. . . . or Barbarism

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

Anything we can actually do, we can afford.

When Trump wants to terrorize Americans that didn’t vote for his regime, they buy guided missiles for ICE. When Americans are going hungry it’s:

These guys are huge cosplaying nerds; getting tact’d up to bodyslam daycare teachers, weaving thru clouds of tear gas to harass day laborers

Reminder that as the birthplace of the American labor movement and the Pullman uprising of 1894, Chicagoans have been putting their bodies on the line for working people for a VERY long time and define their regional identity around doing exactly that www.wttw.com/chicago-stor...

This line is going to hit like crack in “trumpland” written by Rick perlstein jr in the 2070’s

Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"

Hell, individual big international unions could also do this. Give out grants to working class journalists, fund reporting trips, pay for things like records requests and training—it would be such a good investment. We used to have a widespread, well-funded labor press. We badly need one now.

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

My favorite comment on the FT story

My favorite Sandburg poem, which may be even more relevant in the context of immigration raids

"He has the brow of a malingerer," I write as an acrid fairy of opium smoke curls from my pipe. I shall soon return to the work of civilizing the lower beasts of our race, as soon as a penny-ante sawbones can exert a civilizing influence on this damnable syphilis of mine!

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i just hate so fucking much looking at a cool image and having to go "hmm now hold on a second here. that looks weird. teeth are odd. background kind of wibbly over there. is this AI". they have taken the "god thats so fucking cool" feeling and given it anxiety, is what they've done

Excited to share work I've been doing for @cplusc.bsky.social on debt + green public school facilities! There are no easy answers, but lots of room for public ed organizers to engage critically + expansively w/ questions of financing a just green transition climateandcommunity.org/research/hea...

"opening and operating an illegal school" low key the most pathetic nerd shit anybody could do. underground railroad for hall monitors

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Preservationists can be great at politics when there’s a historic building to flip for a big payday, but they forget how to organize when it’s time to stand up to Trump’s techno-fash lobbying pit

“The nominal opposition to the ballroom pulls its punches because preservation and architectural advocacy remain too dependent on the power players supporting Trump’s project.” jacobin.com/2025/11/trum...

The great thing about insane megalomaniacal design projects is that the architects get paid before anything gets built. They’ll just get on the next hype-train to the most climatically inhospitable place on earth!

Wow the thing that all the dumbest ppl in the world said was for sure going to happen is not happening

lol

too big to fail speedrun

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...

First words out of his mouth: “As Eugene Debs said. . . . “ youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?...

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Called it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

We’re about to hear a whole lot about how NYC’s inherent cosmopolitanism and exoticism means that Zorhan’s message of affordability and livability just can’t work in the rest of the country, where a nation of oafs simply cries out for common sense policies, like re-training ICE agents to mine crypto

here ya go

My new essay is up at @dwell.bsky.social: in the depths of postpartum depression, I found solace in the IKEA Catalogue Museum. www.dwell.com/article/the-...

Socialism: our style is impetuous, our defense is impregnable. we want to win hearts and minds, we want to feed your children (for free at school). praise be to Allah

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Zohran KWAME Mamdani