I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

If you are coming in this post to lecture me about how I should have "accepted a childless life," that's an immediate fucking block. We do not tell women how and when and if they should have children. Reproductive freedom is reproductive freedom, full fucking stop. God almighty.

Forget thin crust vs. deep dish. The real pizza divide is whether the pepperoni goes underneath the cheese or on top of it. I say top. Then you gotta burn it a little so you get that crunchy pepperoni thing. When you put the pepperoni under the cheese it stays, like, raw. Ew.

WUT

You may recall that Ann Coulter once said: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

This is what all the nastiness from them people is about. Being confronted with the fact that some things can't be learned via elite, exclusive institutions. They can only be learned via lived experience.

During the Lost Infertility Decade, I lost count of how many people told me I could "just adopt!" It insults the hard, complicated truths of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children to act like childless couples can just run down to the 7-Eleven and pick one up.

People are fighting back every single day.

Nothing will ever beat this tho

"The North remembers, Frey."

Short story I know you need. 💕💕💕

this is basically portland's version of a haka

I would ask how, pray tell, the VP intends us to assess whether someone in the ER is "an illegal alien" but I'm pretty sure I know.

This is what Western Civilization used to be. Look what they took from us.

Great job telling on yourself for raising a goddamn adult baby

Fourteen years ago, they tried to conjure up a racist panic by saying that Obama was having a “hip hop bbq on the lawn of the White House”. Ever since then, I’ve been saying, just do the fucking thing — they’re going to say you did it anyway. www.anildash.com/2018/01/19/h...

What Murrow said when McCarthy was pressuring CBS to bend to his will. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

BOB WENT THERE.

Everything is terrible, but here in war-torn Chicago, I have a neighbor who takes his pet parakeets, in their fancy cage, out to his back porch every morning to give them "the air and the sunshine."

Peter in Gethsemane:

If we're gonna enforce physical fitness standards, let's start with the half dozen ICE agents who got owned at cardio by a 90-pound door-dasher on camera last weekend.

Can we crowdfund this poor woman's divorce? "Mark Normand, on the other hand, joked he would bring his wife to show her how good she has it in America: “I want to be like, ‘You see? You think I’m an asshole? Well, they’ll cut your clit off, bitch.’”

shut up and drink your lunch, pete

I read this in a description of someone else but it applies strongly here: picks fights with every mirror he sees like a fucking cockatiel.

I have generally been heartened by Pritzker's rhetoric, but we need more right now than him telling us to keep filming ICE. People have been detained for doing that. People across Chicagoland have been brave, and we need brave leadership. We need more of a plan than urging individual action.

She was a legal immigrant. Following the rules. Obeying the law. And they fucking did this. I can't imagine how anyone feels safe here.

This. It's not just that I'd rather read instructions. It's that videos suuuuuuuuuuck.

My childhood dinner table was not at all a model of decorum but what the actual fuck, lady.

Something about Wichita, Kansas gave me the willies. I was there specifically to visit the parts that were the whitest and most megachurch (long story) and it felt like the beginning of a cannibal film.

Just got right through and logged my opinion with a very nice staffer so that means we need more callers!

*hums Chariots of Fire theme*

There's a real market in America for belligerence and I feel like we have not begun to explore the possibilities of being belligerent for the good and swaggering about it. "Oh, you're virtue signaling." Fuck you, be as militant in your decency as they are in their hatred.

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

I'm pretty sure "I will go into Trump's office and take a steaming dump on the carpet" polls higher than this strategy.

"I don't know one Bad Bunny song" is not the flex you think it is.

The thing that drives me nuts about this shit and how it's accepted in mainstream circles is that they never talk to any of the white people whose reaction to a Black president was "ok, cool" and who went on about their days. I'm not saying "some of us were all right," I'm saying [1/2]

The one pro-ICE guy they found to interview downtown today being a suburbs-based casino marketer and erotica convention entrepreneur named Larry Goone might be the thing that tips me over into We're Living In A Bad Fic territory

They just want to show Trump the patrol videos with his bullshit building behind with his big fuck-off name on it.

Knowing you lost doesn't mean that you don't have to get up the next day. The children need clothed and fed and the old people need tending. Somebody has got to do the work of caregiving, even when hope seems a distant future. Fatalistic of me? Maybe, but I'm still making dinner.

Look at that one goon in a cowboy hat...in Chicago

These horrible assholes

I leave town for one day and THESE BITCH MOTHERFUCKERS.

TC: "We’re losing because there are always moments when we lose." EK: "See, that feels very fatalistic to me." As someone who grew up aware of their family history (My grandfather was at Matewan in 1920, where mercenaries enforced corporate rule at gunpoint.), I am also aware that the miners lost.

As @thomaszimmer.bsky.social has long argued, the main problem facing American democracy is not "polarization" so much as it is the right wing radicalization of the GOP against democracy. Klein understands this, but he seems hesitant to take it on board. thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-americ...

I just kicked in $25 a month to support reporters who stay with a story at great risk to themselves. Do likewise if you can: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Chicago fucking rules

"IF YOU'RE ICE, THEN YOUR MOMMA RAISED A BITCH" strong contender for protest sign of the year

Fightwarrers

Glorious.