One of the best to ever do it

Oof, okay. This one's a weird, uncomfortable ask. December was an extremely lean month, with half my shit on going on Flex loans, and I'm staring down the barrel of not being able to pay my rent this month. If you dug my work this year and are feeling generous, I could use a leg up.

clark and a pigeon is next

what were the funniest moments of 2025? I'll start

Per Paul Vallas' author page on the Chicago Tribune's website, he's written 23 opinion pieces for the Trib just since the start of this year, and 70 since he lost the Chicago mayoral election in April 2023. www.chicagotribune.com/author/paul-...

I think the real answer is that they're A) sore losers and B) crybabies

Paul Vallas ain't the only one capable of getting his unhinged screeds printed up in the Chicago Tribune 😌

The Chicago Sun-Times (The Hardest-Working Paper in America) made passing reference to me as "an account that suggested the name" 💞💕💞

let's gooooo

They liked Trump and wanted him to win the election. Now they want to help him rule us like a king

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Hello. It’s me again. Please take a look. Bebo got boosted by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Rachel Maddow. Head to Chicagoshovels.org and let’s make this happen.

this is wild lol

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

the uncs were all chopped by the chimney with care

Henceforth this shall be known as the Shut the Fuck Up About Chicago decision. @harebrained.bsky.social

My first Chicago apartment was across the street from Best Subs #2 and I cannot stress how much this humble restaurant meant to me during my first year in this city. absolutely heart breaking to discover it's owner has been in ICE custody since September blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/23/f...

That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die

lol let me guess which customer it is. could it be the one that has repeatedly failed to develop a better "last mile" system than the one a 250 year old state-operated infrastructure agency developed for the benefit not of tax-shirking corporations, but for u.s. taxpayers?

One of the 'original' Chicago Janes—arrested in those famous mug shots—has left us. Bless Judith Arcana and her work, then, and throughout her long life. kboo.com/media/131081... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mark my words, everyone who voted for this budget will simultaneously run on it (taking credit for opposing Brandon Johnson) and against it (blaming him for all of its consequences)

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks. We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.

Make them wear the Rahm-whisperer’s budget like an albatross around their necks

Mayor’s presser about the budget today at 9:30 am!

Cook County Board of Review getting into a brand new controversy the exact minute the previous one ends

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

After months of trying to conduct oversight of Broadview Processing Center, I finally gained access. The conditions are inhumane. We must hold DHS and Secretary Noem accountable for the pain and terror they are inflicting in our communities.

I’d just add that several US citizens detained by the feds during protests—people never charged with a crime—also had dna samples collected and presumably catalogued. For what purpose, idk.

@corli.thetriibe.com has worked diligently covering the budget season. Read her latest about lessons learned by local organizers who were pushing alders to tax the rich during this budget cycle. thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...

FYI northside of Chicago, fed chopper flying northbound across Lake Michigan, maybe some more ICE bullshit incoming @unraveledpress.com

The first cop we've fired in 18 months and it's for legal weed?

A post on the Hermosa Community Forum says that ICE just took a man at Kimball and Armitage. Someone also posted a video on the Logan Square Community Forum page.

There has never, in the 250+ year history of the United States of America, been a time where someone has "had to apologize for being white." Ever. This is naked white supremacy. Why? Because whiteness is, and has always been, the hegemon.

Anyone in the Chicago area want an air fryer, or know someone who does? A good model, I’m told, never even taken out of the box. (I won it.) It’s free for whomever wants to take it off my hands, you just need to come to Noble Square to pick it up. DM me. This HAS to be a good deal for someone!

reminder

and the chicago bears, who did NOT lose

“Have yourself a lovely wet rat Christmas, Let the rats be wet, Don’t forget they make really awesome pets, Rats return as in olden days, Like the rainy days of yore, Cold wet rats gather near to us, To the rear of us once more”

who did this

WET RAT WINTER FOREVER <3

Yea, I'm gonna own this one kinda hurts personally. Lak and I interacted a lot on Twitter. Someone I genuinely really liked. His arch the last year has been really disappointing.

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

For about ten years after the N. Ireland peace agreement was signed, I helped to monitor policing in communities. What Chicago lawyer Rob Held says BP does – attacks communities as BP leaves – is what the notorious police in N. Ireland did too – antagonize locals and launch attacks as they exit.

Fucking *Early To Bed* in Andersonville has been sent a warning letter for selling gender affirming clothing, claiming chest binders constitute a medical device that needs to be regulated by the FDA this is really really stupid transphobia.