Good for Tom Kean for getting the treatment he needed for what was surely depression since he said it was depression and could not possibly be anything else. Anyway, for no related reason, here's my second favorite Amy Winehouse song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZ...

Hey there, European Court of Justice. My nation and I saw you from across the bar and really dig your organizational structure. Wanna come back to our place and have a Supreme Court with 27 judges who hear cases in randomly assigned panels of 3, 5 or 15 and hold office for renewable 6-year terms?

It was a 5-4 decision to defend the plain text of the Constitution, we should not be relieved by this.

I'm going to end up buying an oral history of the Great American State Fair in 2030, aren't I?

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Americanism, Dearborn Street

Be prepared.

People say reckless hedonism dies in your 20s, but I'm in my 40s and just made a cup of tea - WITH CAFFEINE - after 1 p.m. Real milk, too, not my usual unsweetened oat milk. (I still took my lactose pills - I'm a rebel, not a maniac.)

This one hits hard.

normie translation: there are legal limits on what you can print without hard evidence if you don’t want to get sued into oblivion. many times, all journalists can do is publish what they can while writing it up in a way where readers can connect the dots

The real MVP (most viscous protoctist)

RFK Jr's policies, illustrated.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

Going to a spouse's reunion.

Daley did carve all those crosses into it.

He's back 😄 #archaeohistories

I heard a pulp historian on a podcast say the reason we're not aswim in Doc Savage and Shadow media is that Conde Nast charges too much for licensing. They want their money up front rather than building generations of fans by making things accessable for kids (cheap Saturday morning cartoons, etc.)

What's the cheapest way to get Cubs tickets? Like is there a site or special code for non-gouging prices? @rogersparkman.bsky.social any tips?

You had one job, Zeus.

Thor! Zeus! You know your job right now!

The president of the United States is watching a cage fight under a bunch of untested metal structures in a lightning storm.

Come for the article, stay for the photos. Or to be honest, come for the photos and stay for the photos because good damn, those are some amazing photos.

The world is a particularly stupid chatbot.

The unifying factor between very rich people who were actually taken down seems to be that they scammed other rich people.

The grandest juror.

We don’t usually see each other’s headers. Here’s mine. Quote-skeet with yours (if you feel like it) (Mostly posted to promote artist Anna Wagner annawagner.com)

I need a superhero who only goes after white collar crime.

@unchcrosswords.com Just pre-ordered issue 4. I only started solving cryptics a few months ago and have been doing pretty basic ones online, so this will be a big step up in difficulty for me. I'm excited. Stump me!

We all know Trump has been a Spurs fan since Vietnam

Every text I send my friends includes a brief bio of myself in case they forgot

I just want world peace, understanding between all people and a small device that generates a Kirby Krackle around me whenever I say something dramatic.

The size of the butter pats at a restaurant is an understudied economic indicator.

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

Why did no one tell me the Claude AI company's logo looks like when Kurt Vonnegut drew a butthole?

If you use or recommend AI for any artistic or creative purposes, you're a bad person. Not the way Hitler was a bad person, but the way "The Room" (2003) is a bad movie. You're bad at being a person.

I did evolve to a changing world. I evolved to online first, then online only. I pivoted to video, I engaged with users, I built a brand. I was nimble, I was audience-focused, I leveraged social media. The tech bros got rich and journalism became a hobby for rich liberals between marketing jobs.

If any of us had predicted that Trump would demolish a third of the White House and build a UFC ring on the South Lawn, we would have been dismissed as the most unhinged conspiracy theorists to ever exist

Writing on the internet is weird because nothing I write will survive. No libraries, no dusty old newspaper morgue, no rando copies of a magazine in attics and used book shops, nothing clipped at my mom's house. The default state of digital writing is nonexistence unless the servers fire forever.

Again: if you didn't vote for Hillary in '16 or Harris in '24, I think you are a bad person and all the shit we're all suffering through is your fault.

It was a celebration of immigrants at a time of racial quotas, mass deportation and wartime internment camps. An I Am an American Day pageant in 1942 at Lane Tech boasted “children representing 17 nationalities” — all European.

OK Chicago, & Illinois: it's high time we go after any politician who drags their feet on doing this. ICE killed one person in Franklin Park, and miraculously didn't kill another woman they shot 5 times. Democratic officials who make excuses & don't follow through should be harassed out of office.

Is it funnier if Vanilla Ice turns the Trump 250 down or if only Vanilla Ice remains?

Saw a mom at school drop-off with a Peaches shirt and the coffee shop I'm in now is playing an acoustic cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me." Hometown representing today.

Attention: My editor has removed my "Communism was just a red herring" Clue reference I tried to sneak into a story.

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'Hourlong 9 a.m. team meeting after a three-day weekend.'" - John Greenleaf Whittier, 1856

I am the change I want to see in the world.

Teachers and doctors know what's best for your kid more than you do. Not every teacher, not every doctor. But they have training and experience and objectivity you don't, so if they're telling you something about your kid that you don't like, at least hear them out.

Next year, my car will be old enough to drive a car.

I saw a limo broken down on Garfield Boulevard this morning with Retired Senate plates. I looked it up and that's General Assembly, which makes this less funny (U.S. Senators get Retired Congress plates.), but please check in on your former Illinois State Senators as one is having a very bad day.