O’Neil Burke was pointedly absent from the coalition of prosecutors who announced they’d start talks on how to prosecute ICE.

1) the MCA reciprocity program is really good, almost worth the cost of membership alone (it got four of us into the new orleans museum of art for free last week) and 2) the hayward oubre show at noma was quite good, especially his wire sculptures—HBCUs, arts education, sculpture and painting

You need to understand that for every store that gets out, there are easily 5 more. There are segments of la frontera that are known as death valleys because of the difficulty of maintaining hydration and CBP‘s institutionalized culture of destroying water sources left behind by crossers & activists

One of the things that the second Trump administration has proven to me is that lobbies are actually a lot weaker than most progressives/leftists think they are

did Gary Larson draw this

not an endorsement i expected from the trib www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/12/e...

there hasn't been any 2026 polling on preckwinkle vs. reilly, right? confident she'll beat him but wouldn't mind a little more reassurance that she'll absolutely crush him

WOW

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

NEW @ms.now: The lawyer representing the woman who was shot 5x by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago in Oct says the agent is the subject of a criminal investigation by the US Attorneys Office. This would be a remarkable shift in a case that started w/ the gov’t trying to prosecute the woman he shot ⬇️

Republic Steel, Chicago undated

I totally forgot Monica Seles was 17 years old when she ran off to hang with Donald Trump in 1991. Holy fucking shit

"I have done some deer hunting up there, but wouldn't think that would make me the most-searched old, washed-up baseball player in 2025." The full, ridiculous tale of how one man made Kyle Farnsworth @baseball-reference.com's most searched pitcher in Iowa for 2025: www.mlb.com/news/kyle-fa...

Play through the whistle, Minnesota!

About "agitators" -- 1. Homan can't even capitulate without threatening more illegal, military-ish force against people exercising their 1A rights. 2. I doubt it's unintentional that they continue to use a loaded term inextricably linked with segregationists and bigots.

"Can the American electorate have a genuine change in preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet" is the question to define our future

“Everything he was doing to make America great I was cool with up until he started messing with the immigrants,” said Andre Lewis, 32, who lives in White Bear Lake. Gotta love the American voter www.startribune.com/minnesotas-s...

there should be some kind of coupon or code word that's good for like 3 free cans of soup that you only find out about at the end of the nightly news

damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

The short story of the 21st century in the United States is that out of malice or cowardice or some combination of both, every presidency contributed to building and expanding a federal secret police of goons and thugs, despite clear warning and obvious abuses, until we got to this point.

I don't even know how to describe what is happening here.

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

A police chase reached 95 mph and carried on for eleven miles / nine minutes before ending in a wreck that killed a 55 year old woman 18 Aldermen just told her family to kick rocks instead of settling the case, so now it’s going to trial

Incredible photo from ChiDrone on Instagram. Chicago rules

"Amoskeag Mills #2". Charles Sheeler. 1948.

no particular irritation with hayes here but i find a lot of the discourse about this unhelpful, because there are numerous if/and/or statements you have to apply at an industry-by-industry and almost company-by-company level that renders big generalizations things that obscure more than they reveal

I have to say, @fritzforassessor.bsky.social lays out the grift here better and more clearly than I’ve ever seen done before. A vote for Pat Hynes is a vote for corruption AND higher property taxes for homeowners.

look ma, i'm a real writer now—WBEZ ripped off and paraphrased my whole damn article without a link back www.wbez.org/architecture...

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

Têtes-paysage, by Francis Picabia French, 1879–1953 1928 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/26082

tolkien set out to create a mythology for england but ended up making a mythology for people who like maps. Love that for him

what is a good career for someone who is pathologically good with names and faces and so constantly has to pretend not to know who people are

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

The murderer walks scott-free because the residents of the relevant jurisdiction are literal subhuman apes who refuse to indict Unironic Reconstruction is the only road left

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local government thugs stop, harass priests, cardinal intervenes”

Looks like ICE is eyeing Oak Brook for its Illinois expansion office.

I'm convinced that he has lost the ability to do his job because he is afraid of right wing violence against his family, and when things get to that point you really have a duty to resign

deeply disorienting experience is meeting politicians whose positions and records you (charitably) oppose and at worst absolutely detest and how like 1/3 are super personally charismatic and you’re like, oh, this is how you amassed this power that you’re using to shitty ends

i’ve beheaded this monster in the witcher iii

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Last month I joined @goodjobsfirst.org as its research director. And while I’m still very much in learning mode, I had the chance to write a blog on how Lincoln is using TIF to help landlords weatherize and rehab buildings while keeping rents affordable goodjobsfirst.org/lincolns-exe...

Vinai I knew you were an arsehole but man you’re also really terrible at your job. Fire this man tonight or you’re actually gonna take us down.

NEWS: a 4th Illinois open-seat House race is seeing big outside money from AIPAC, this time a $2.8 million ad buy for Melissa Conyears-Ervin, the Chicago city treasurer. AIPAC switched sides from Jason Friedman, who had raised 3x as much money as anyone in the race. prospect.org/2026/02/10/a...

it tracks that bruce fucking rauner’s only donation to the art institute would be a norman rockwell painting

hell yeah, excited about the alma thomas show that’s coming to the smart museum in march smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/...