Ya think?

Another one bites the dust.

“An ice skating performance at the Olympics or a Super Bowl halftime show may not seem like much in the ever-lengthening shadow of fascism, but they are a reminder that … the kind of joy that you want to surround yourself with … is one of the most radical things there is.”

Effective 5 a.m. Chicago time Sunday.

“States need to start passing the laws they want, aggressively, the way conservatives have for decades. … At what point has a court so thoroughly abandoned the Constitution that … the states have a duty to stop treating its rulings as legitimate? The founders had an answer. It was not ‘obey.’”

Honk if you remember the short-lived Chicago Public Square Annex (delivered via Nuzzel, before Twitter bought it and destroyed it). This edition, from 2018, preserved by the wonderful Internet Archive, still seems timely …

“That a president can illegally exercise such powers for so long and with such great consequences for almost a year means we’re not living in a functional constitutional system.”

“There is absolutely nothing the courts can do to stop Trump from ignoring their decision and he knows it.”

“Are the ‘retail’ prices just so artificially inflated that they make up their margins by ripping off all the folks who don’t use the app and take advantage of the discounts?”

Score a big win for a Chicago guy.

“The most shocking thing about the Supreme Court’s decision … is that three Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose ones that are unrestricted in amount or length. Fortunately, the other six said no.”

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

“If a federal law enforcement agent commits a crime, my office will not hesitate to act.”

“Watchdog agencies, and research facilities and university centers that would counterbalance the whims of business are being scrapped. “Scientists are not going quietly.” — @neilsteinberg.bsky.social

“Our finest athletes have met their Olympic moments by saying ‘Hey, you know what? I’m proud to be here, but it’s not that easy right now to embrace everything this flag currently represents.’”

“I will reveal later whether or not I survived, but first let me give you a technical explanation of how these amazing futuristic machines work.”