holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

“Leo should get his act together as pope” is when it became clear that this is a simulation.

If you win the Masters back to back you should get green pants

In more "American aristocracy" news, the leading GOP congressional candidate in my hometown's district is the kid of the GOP congressman who previously held the seat for more than 20 years.

So much restaurant traffic is driven by algorithmic social media content & influencers. I bet that's the "competition" this owner is talking about.

“If you’re part of a violent hate group, you shouldn’t be empowered to enforce Chicago’s laws,” 47th Ward Ald. Matt Martin said.

I said

Frosted brown sugar & cinnamon is the best Pop-Tarts flavor. Frosted cherry is the second best.

"Surely Minnesotans won't fight back," racists in 1863 and 2026

Ridiculous that my public K-12 curriculum tried to pretend there was some argument over the causes of the Civil War. Read this whole 🧵:

You can't talk about the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army at Appomattox Court House #OTD in 1865 without also mentioning the fact that roughly 4,600 African Americans, who lived in Appomattox County gained their freedom that day. #CivilWarMemory

April 9 should be a national holiday to celebrate the Union victory in the Civil War.

What many people have refused to understand (not Marisa, she gets it) is that the moment CJ Roberts swore him in under that rotunda, Trump was effectively crowned King of the United States. This is what monarchy is like! And why we ditched it 250ish years ago.

A lot of folks aren't "duped" about who he is, but about what he does. This morning's headlines are all about the president making an "expletive laden" social media post, Iran surrendering immediately, & the market rebounding.

Trump was elected to wipe the trauma of the first black president from American history, a task which included scrapping the nuclear deal that had the US in a much better strategic position than before this needless, unconstitutional war of choice against Iran

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

The post-1865 decision not to prosecute leadership of the so-called Confederacy is still impacting US politics today.

Sometimes I feel like I’m fighting a weird little battle scrutinizing a charter school board’s compliance with state Open Meetings Law. But it really is all the same thing.

My column from Monday. The anti-Muslim rhetoric coming from Alabama Republicans echoes the worst moments of our state’s history, sometimes verbatim. And we can’t let this election become yet another referendum on some Alabamians’ right to exist.

Y'all pay attention to how politics works in a "red" state. The *instant* New Orleans voters elect an exoneree as Clerk of Criminal Court, the Louisiana Legislature moves to eliminate *the office.*

Any time i found myself in a Waffle House without a clear idea how I got there, I just figured the cause was more like "bourbon," not "teleportation at the hands of a higher power."

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Looks like we’re well into the political purges of senior military officers stage of authoritarianism. It’s been going this whole time, but now noticeably accelerated. Even worse, the regime is doing it in the middle of a war, one they launched that is going poorly.

Chicago acclimation check: I ain't used to constant cloud-to-ground lightning anymore. That last one made me jump.

I do not believe the Supremacy Clause protects Federal agents who commit crimes or violate people's Constitutional rights.

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Are you a Chicagoan confused by this headline & lede? CCPSA District Councils all across the city will be explaining the CPD Workforce Allocation study at their next public meetings.

It can be expensive when your local police force has a practice and pattern of violating people's civil rights.

Street Sweeping starts this week, y'all!

love it when a map tells a story (the story is slavery)

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

the level of pent-up horniness for a rocket launch that doesn't benefit or involve elon musk exceeds even my high expectations

My dad is at the beach on St Simons Island in Georgia & he reports a nice little crowd gathering, looking down the coast. They should be able to see the launch.

The Second Reconstruction sure is going to have a lot of work to do.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

According to this, the public comment was 66 opposed to the drone program and 4 in favor. In the Times-Pic article about this meeting, they quote one opposition attendee and three people in favor. therosenbergbrief.com/2026/03/30/m...

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Just got one of those scam text messages threatening to suspend my "Georgia driver's license" if I didn't scan the QR code to pay for my "parking/toll violation" in Fulton County back on March 10.

Just learned about "home cafes" and "home bars" and all I can think about is how short term vacation rentals started the same way:

Somebody has gone to great lengths to place hundreds of red Solo cups in the overpass fence spanning the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd to spell out an important message, and that message is "WHO TF IS DAN RYAN SIR?"

“How is diversity a strength” well it’s better than racist dumbass homogeneity, you see

I can't go today but make your voice heard, make some new friends, and share your ideas. Shout them! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort. #nokings

Conservatives love to talk about "paid protesters," but they never bring up that time it actually happened in 2018. From @thelensnola.bsky.social:

If you don't do the big protests, that's okay! There are plenty of very local community organizations & public meetings where you can get engaged at a smaller scale.

The text of my lecture yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. A special thank you to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the generous invitation! www.unpopularfront.news/p/why-the-cl...

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

The goal of these extremists, whether domestic or international, is to use violence and fear to silence anyone who pushes back on the racialized terror narratives they use to justify handing more unaccountable power to corrupt leadera and to bring down more violence and chaos on our communities.

We shouldn't talk about this without noting that Hadden, a Black queer woman, receives an entirely different tier of personal harassment and threats AND that Hadden has drawn this kind of terrifying hate before when she has pushed back on racist political framing advanced by extremist groups.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people