Time for some niche content

What has 2026 taught us about being “above the law”?

Requiem for a coin; requiem for a nation

LOVE IS TOO WOKE

Venezuelan Olympic team walks out: “Maduro was just arrested” Ukraine walks out: “such a tough war” Israel walks out: “Their team was killed by Palestinian twrrorists in 1972” Iran walks out: “they were killing protesters” Team USA walks out: “U-S-A. U-S-A. U-S-A.”

I’m working on a theory about how we are starting to see a complete societal split based on how much humanity you are willing to surrender to technology. I believe this split will be so consequential that very soon the two groups will not be able to communicate with each other or socially relate.

Turns out defunding ICE means tanking the economy, so really it’s a matter of national security that we don’t ever abolish it.

Hey I made that

GENERAL STRIKE JANUARY 30 2026 🗣️ NO WORK NO SCHOOL NO SHOPPING 🗣️ CANCEL SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES 🗣️ STAY OFF AD-DRIVEN SOCIAL MEDIA

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Picked this up at Extreme Noise Records in Minneapolis this week, as good a slogan for the moment as any #DontTreadonMN

(IF HELL IS REAL)

ABOLISH—THERE IS NO REFORM

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll empty a whole goddamn magazine into you while you’re lying on the ground if you don’t cheer them on while they’re fucking doing it.

Some thoughts on “being creative” and “making stuff” and “staying sane” and “maybe not dying at the hands of state violence” right now

“These statues are about preserving our glorious history and honoring the mavericks and free-thinkers that made America great again.” says Crown Prince Donald Trump III

Let’s socialize professional sports

Either the worst idea I have ever had or the one that will be ripped off the fastest for a bootleg T-shirt

HOLIDAY GRIFT GUIDE 2025

Remote protest, 2035 AD

Why bomb Venezuelan boats? Why are there so many Venezuelan migrants? Why the obsession with Tren de Aragua? Why are we sending the CIA into Venezuela? Why did the US collapse the Venezuelan economy with sanctions? Why is Chevron propping up the Venezuelan economy and supporting a dictatorship?

When it rains, it pours. A poster for a window, for a wall, for your city.

“Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”

Don’t tread on me?

Support your local rapid response network.

gtfo chicago, gestapo

No one is illegal on stolen land.

In Chicago we have alders that represent 50 different community areas. I went to my Alderwoman’s office this morning to ask about her silence on the ICE activity in our ward. After a poor exchange I wanted to share the follow-up letter I sent:

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

In Chicago, public roads are used to store private vehicles en masse—sometimes even for free. And yet my local bike lane has oil stains from the cars that regularly use it as overflow parking.

Public parks are for all—housed and unhoused. But also when a park turns into an housing encampment, the park is no longer for all. It’s ok to balance that complexity.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

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The president threatening “Apocalypse Now” on a Chicago

The outrage-industrial complex is the only thing thriving these days.

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

On “American Disruption” (1/5)

Time once again to post Comrade Lincoln

Happy May Day from Chicago

They should really just pitch protected bike lanes as “bike free” lanes for cars so we can get the neighborhood NIMBYs on board

Vapor shaper

How the fuck do I keep a normal work day when students are being disappeared by the government. I just can’t. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

Being against the Palestinian genocide—implemented by the Israel settler state and funded by the US—is irreproachable. Being convinced to attack the Capitol because of election lies—implemented by the President and funded by billionaire dark money—is insurrection.

People over property

“Give the power to the states” they say. But then they threaten states about the way they operate—from transit to congestion pricing.

Crash symbols