Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

scheduled posts & email marketing blasts on a national strike day are the business equivalent of my oven’s Shabbat setting

The Twin Cities' resistance extends far beyond the walls of its breweries & bars. But Hop Take is a beer column, and the trade isn't exempt from Trump's fascism. When feds storm other cities, industry members there must be ready. Heeding the hard-won wisdom of their MSP counterparts is a good start.

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

The more the world sees ICE brutalize and murder ordinary people whose existence the org ostensibly exists to protect, the more trouble this administration will have in maintaining the absolute bullshit they’re selling to their dwindling base

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

It's a murder.

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

In case you want to make it a twofer, there’s a circumcision protest kitty corner from the Hancock.

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

Scion of one of the largest Anheuser-Busch InBev distributorships in the country, Hensley Beverages, where he currently serves as the director of government affairs 🫡

hey listen up the Chicago alderman caught on record threatening constituents, stalking people, threatening rivals’ volunteers, and who even recently called a city worker to try to deny permits over political differences, has some thoughts about politics and political harassment/violence.

An airplane flying around Soldier Field ahead of the Chicago Bears home opener, is dragging a banner that reads “HEY ICE MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS”

We need you to infiltrate a notorious pedophile hangout. To make sure they don't suspect you, you will be a real-life pedophile. To do this, we are going to have you become best friends with the main pedophile for years, and then to ensure you don't get in trouble, you need to get elected president.

this is an excellent read

As adorable coyote pups frolic in Graceland Cemetery, dogs are banned — for now. blockclubchi.co/3ZlanDe

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Subway Cadbury Creme Egg Submelt (2023-2023): A 6-inch sub roll, filled with Cadbury Creme Eggs and grill-pressed until toasty golden brown. Was available for free, for one day only, at 4 Subway locations in the UK, with only 500 subs available at each location.

I hope deporting fascists never goes out of style. I just dropped the price to $14.99 as we’ve only got smalls, XL, 2XL, and 3XLs left.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

taproom menu at a brewery that's currently being run out of business by a dipshit owner

We all see it don't we?

Masha Gessen: "The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

It's time to talk about how if people really want this American experiment aka "democracy" to survive, they will need to put bodies on the line to protect the vulnerable. Otherwise, the United States will just become yet another nation ruled by kings, thugs, and cowards.

Thread from a Beer Professional, or My thoughts on Anheuser-Busch dropping their sponsorship for St. Louis Pride: Anheuser-Busch, a Brazilian based company headquartered in St. Louis that espouses Neu-American Values, has pulled its annual sponsorship of Pridefest. (1/12)

Nice to see Brendan Whitworth sucking Donald Trump's dick for pride month. @budweiser.bsky.social fox2now.com/news/missour...

gestapo is as gestapo does

Meanwhile... www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

The Ides of March is my favorite holiday. Which tyrant will *you* be regiciding today in celebration?

If you live in Illinois and appreciate Gov. Pritzker speaking out against this regime, you probably won't like that Sen. Durbin has voted to confirm Bessent, Ratcliffe, Collins, Burgum, Rubio, and Rollins. He also voted to move Driscoll forward for confirmation.

Sub Pérignon is served out of a water dish.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Gardiner’s donors must love to see their 💸🔥

I love field recordings

“The Gulf of America” thing is so stupid, it’s strangely comforting to me. I can’t really explain it. Maybe it’s that even if I end up being executed for the crime of virtue signaling I will have lived my life never, even at my stupidest, having been that dumb

"When social media filters have led people to make TikTok reels about 'le$beans' and 'seggs' education, when children’s Drag Queen Story Hours attract armed vigilante groups, none of us should feel confident that our kid-safe content won’t be tagged as someone else’s porn" @luxalptraum.com

One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. propub.li/3BQjJ1e

we won.

Everyone's been talking about it since yesterday but it's some real Kafka shit that it's unethical to point out if the Supreme Court does something unethical.

I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad

welcome to bluesky everyone.

I will also add: the MAGA chuds who are so happy right now will never find peace. They just won’t. Their entire self concept is wrapped up in an If/Then premise in which they can trigger the libs enough they will find meaning and joy. It won’t work. There will be a gay M&M or something.

Q: Are we not men? A: We are VRBO!

Michigan State Rep. Josh Schriver was deeply disturbed by a harmless non-Christian display outside the Capitol. Now he plans to file a (totally illegal) bill to revoke the tax-exempt statuses of “non-theistic churches.” www.friendlyatheist.com/p/michigan-g...

Dan and Jennifer Mead are suing a Michigan school district. The alleged crime? The adults at the middle school used their trans son's name and pronouns without telling them. (If your kid doesn’t trust you with that kind of info, you’re bad parents.) www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

The Satanic Temple's display in the Iowa State Capitol is harmless. But conservatives, who don’t know the first thing about how the law works, are pretending it's an offense to humanity. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/conservati...

I’m sorry it’s just so fucking funny that they built an entire AI just to give them the answer they wanted to this question and they couldn’t even do it