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

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

H&R Block and Blick Art Supplies are collaborating to inject art into accounting!

This theory absolutely nails our current situation: the oligarchs ARE next government. Trumpism is just a way to get there. open.substack.com/pub/shanealm...

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

In the “roaring twenties,” AI Capone ruled an empire of crime in America: bribery, grifting, robbery, “protection” rackets, and murder. And it seemed that law enforcement couldn’t touch it.

Makes sense that our used-car-salesman-in-chief would turn the White House into an auto dealership. It’s grifts all the way down.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

There’s nothing “unfair” about trans athletes in women’s sports. It’s sports—it’s just for fun. What’s unfair is creating a “gender apartheid” where a class of people can’t participate in society.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

The real “Gulf of America”

The age of “soft power” is over. This new USAID logo proposal creates an opportunity to transition from “foreign assistance” to “trolling foreigners.”

One of the world’s richest designers is now a member of the oligarchy fascist sympathizer shadow government.

It’s vintage

Anxious as fuck, how are you

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

The greatest collaboration of American exceptionalism in history

The National Science Foundation has 1% of the budget of the military—but they’re gonna slash it to 1/3 to “save money”

You want to find governmental efficiency? Cut a portion of the $850 billion in military expenditures—that’ll make more impact than any other cuts. You want to cut down on violent crime? Put some serious restrictions on guns. Violence isn’t endemic in immigrants—violence is amplified by guns.

I hope the entire Super Bowl is artificial intelligence ads. It's going to feel like the world is ending. Entire commercial breaks of commercials for companies promising to do both everything and nothing all at once. The disassociation bowl

The Gaza real estate grift is making me physically ill—we knew he was a ghoul but this is outside the bounds of what I could even imagine