Oh my god, a dark money group is paying people to attack Tim Onion. But they call me a "CEO of a major media company." Do not pay influencers to attack Tim Onion and his untold millions (or billions?) of dollars to attack Tim Onion without mentioning the GREAT deal you can on an Onion membership.

We called for states' Attorneys General to keep the case going, and dozens of them did. The trial will resume Monday morning.

"Discounting the enemy’s ability to adapt is also a trait of megalomaniacal leaders—many of whom choose advisers who tell them what they want to hear and suppress information that would make them unhappy." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work. Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.

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Congress funded several projects that Trump admin has put on ice, supposedly because of DEI or immigration. These include: —Chicago Red Line —NYC 2nd Ave Subway —Gateway Tunnel These projects are signed & >in theory< will get their Congressional allocations. But Trump admin is holding them up.

New Gossip Wolf: -Chicago-centric rock rag Roadhouse publishes its fourth issue, which comes with a lathe-cut OK Cool seven-inch! -Torn Light winds down its in-house label! -a roundup of some rad local releases, plus, yes, a little about Fugazi’s Albini Sessions

Archer Guardians anti-Safe Streets protesters turned today’s Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee meeting into a campaign stop

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“These are not abstract delays. They are threats to events cities have been planning for years. The Department of Homeland Security is administering these grants through Fema and needs to release these funds. Every day of delay makes an already complex logistical challenge harder to solve.”

For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is: A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans. Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.

Again, Elon Musk & ~everyone else involved in this unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crime needs to go to jail for the rest of their lives.

#BerwynIL #hail #weather

Hail remnants

Getting hail here in Berwyn …

“The civilian protection mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“What would you do if a bloodthirsty horde of fascist soldiers was carrying out a terror campaign in your state? If you’re … J.B. Pritzker, … marshal a small army of local cops and state police to protect the fascists’ illegally annexed fortress while beating the people who show up in opposition.”

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.

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“Over the autumn and into early February, the plant grew thicker and some of its leaves yellowed noticeably -- but in footage presented as fresh beginning February 9, the growth and decay appeared to have reversed themselves, with the yellowed leaves green once again.”

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“The family had been attending its required court dates and last had a check-in with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in January, where they were told to return in June… “Then he received a call from ICE saying that the family needed to check in on Feb. 25. They were detained at that check-in.”

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

Missed that my #SwarmApp check-in last night at the Cicero Community Center was number 26,162 for me (palindromic) : swarmapp.com/user/9218262...

Louisville and Lexington players paused the USL Championship season opener for 60 seconds after kickoff, letting the clock run without play. A fearless show of unity from the USL Players Association as negotiations reach a critical stage. It’s time for the league to act. #StandUpForStandards

Excellent article from Pat Forde: Miami Forged 30–0 College Hoops Season the Old-School Way

Exactly right. The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

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PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

I hate to say it, but there are several experts who warn that Russia is preparing to expand the operation into the Baltics as the “opening” provides itself. They do also connect the ban on social media and Telegram to the upcoming conscription.

“‘There’s no one to blame,’ said Kelsey McClellan, a local sign-maker who is looking to start a nonprofit for preserving the city’s classic neon signs. ‘We need to figure out how the goal of preservation becomes more important than profiting.’” blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/04/a...

NEWS: Kristi Noem misled Congress yesterday. She said that Corey Lewandowski isn't playing a role in DHS contracts. That's not true. (N.B. She's testifying today in front of the House. Someone might ask her about this.) www.propublica.org/article/kris...

I am worried that this is both presented and enjoyed by too many as some sort of a … reality show. People are literally dying. The war is expanding without the objectives being clearly defined. We can pretend that military capabilities are limitless… on tv shows they certainly are.

AI art will continue to be ineligible for copyright after SCOTUS refuses to hear the case brought by the same man whose previous appeal for patents was also rejected.

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As noted here, there is some question about exactly when to celebrate Chicago's "birthday." (Celebrate them all, I guess?)

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

The US is not helping Americans evacuate from Israel. They are advising them to cross into Egypt and Jordan, two other countries the government has said people should also evacuate from. il.usembassy.gov/security-ale...

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Israel used 2,000+ bombs in the first 30 hours of the Iran war; the US struck 1,000+ targets in the first 24 hours. Iran responded with at least 390 missiles and 830 drones in the first two days. Bellingcat has tracked the munitions used by all sides so far: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

#CiceroIL Community Center #PulaskiDay sign: flic.kr/p/2rYG8rS

US Military Shoots Down CBP Drone, Which Certainly Instills Confidence In Its Offshore Murder Program Wow. Imagine if you could just make this shit up. The U.S. military used a laser Thursday to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border. It turned out the drone…

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“So, What Does THC Take From Beer? “Based on beer shipment data, not much (at least not at a scale that meaningfully alters state-level trends).” www.brewersassociation.org/insights/how...

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?