Jesus Christ. They copies the foreperson’s signature? What the fuck?

whatever games they played were because of statute problems- they pushed things to the last possible minute with a prosecuter who had never done this before. Judges do not like it when you, uh, maybe fabricate a grand jury record? Why is there an hour and a half missing in the transcript?

When Halligan secured the indictment there was this wave of bizarrely laudatory coverage - this novice accomplished a legal feat the experts thought impossible and indicted Trump’s enemies! Anyway it’s funny that it turns out she did it by doing everything wrong.

Every time I see an excerpt from this Nuzzi production I think of Mencken's lines re: Harding's writing: "It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

In my early adult years, we suffered through the George W. presidency, with the war crimes, followed by the massive economic collapse. And I thought, well, at least we can’t get a worse administration. Oh god. How I was wrong.

Home to Hinky-Dink Kenna’s Workingman’s Exchange. One of the most important saloons in Chicago history.

Grown adults that want to sleep with teenaged girls are amazingly fucked in the head, too. Call it the Woody Allen syndrome, but there is something monstrously wrong with them, and it’s pretty clear the President is one of them.

I know Studs Terkel is most famous for his oral history books, but I also adore his writing when he's just telling his stories or the history of our beloved Chicago. Probably the fienst product of the University of Chicago law school, even if he (wisely, unlike me) decided to ever practice.

finally saw the new Superman movie- it's pretty great! The secret to the movie, is of course, the good doggo.

Today’s wholesome activity/ reading Turkel’s prose poem Chicago, but changing all the names to the members of Paw Patrol.

I was very lucky to stumble into good mentors in law school who introduced me to mass incarceration and restorative justice. They are the courses that genuionely re-shaped by approach to law and politics.

“It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute.

Why did they put a Thursday night football game on Monday night?

Chicago is so god damned pretty with fresh snow. Let’s hope it freezes ICE out today.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Kurt Vonnegut man

Happy May Day, friends. Remember- you can never hold back Spring: youtu.be/vgeZEdbv_m8?...

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

At our favourite little cider and bar (Eris) they have a little poetry vending machine and this popped out.

Last night, at midnight, I walked 3 1/2 miles home from Wrigley Field down Addison. It was a lovely walk- a quiet, well off part of town, with a fancy high school at Western. Today, the area is swarming with ICE and is magnitudes less safe than it was for me last night in the wee hours.

Last night, at midnight, I walked 3 1/2 miles home from Wrigley Field down Addison. It was a lovely walk- a quiet, well off part of town, with a fancy high school at Western. Today, the area is swarming with ICE and is magnitudes less safe than it was for me last night in the wee hours.

Late night stereotypes in Chicago.

I walked west from Wrigley towards my house, which is a bit over 3 miles away down Addison. Part of the way I walked with a couple from Schaumburg, who were going to the blue line, who were very happy that it was a nice neighborhood and they weren’t going to be shot.

My Chicago bucket list, before we have to flee this country for our lives: 1. See my beloved Cubbies win a playoff game at Wrigley (done!) 2. Kiss my wife at the spot I proposed to her in Jackson Park. 3. Sort out who the heirs of Billy Caldwell are and sue the US for immense damages.

“Kelly thought he had a homer, then he thought he had a single, now he’s gonna have a seat.” Pat Hughes demonstrates why he’s a Hall of Famer. @niseilounge.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social @pulhitzherprize.bsky.social @levistahl.bsky.social

I am off to my favorite legal research project tonight since I went to the National Archives last year. ONWARDS!

One underrated thing about having a dog that you take for long walks in the neighborhood is that you make friends. Everybody knows Scout. Everybody loves Scout.

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This was my favourite silly pun I’ve done here in a while, and I’m proud of it, damn it.

In better news, a beautiful dog looked up at me and wagged their tale. So I got that going for me today.

The last stanza of "Maxwell Street" by Galway Kinnell, Chicago 1955

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A 1993 survey of historians ranked “Big Bill” Thompson the worst big-city mayor in American history. No wonder we haven’t had another Republican mayor since.

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today. h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

This seems up your alley, @vogontroubadour.bsky.social

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

“What radicalized you?” The Chamberlain speech in the 1993 Ted Turner movie “Gettysburg” of course “We are an army out to set other men free…it’s the idea that we all have value, you and me.”

And now, a running thread on things from America that me happy: Rhapsody in blue remains the msot astonishing piece of music that I have ever heard. It's so weird and wonderful and wild and unexpected and jaw-droppingly beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPC...

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

This only happens to you once

We are celebrating our anniversary in Rapture before the fall.

Respectively, any neighborhood that I live in cannot be the 5th coolest neighborhood in the world, as, ipso facto, I live in it. Silly lists. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

In a comical turn of events, but me and my wife concluded that yesterday was our ten year anniversary. We were wrong, of course. And it is in fact today. Hurrah! Happy anniversary!