Democracy is too important to cede only to the people paid to pay attention.

Oh boy is that the sound of our first oncoming major AI credibility crisis?

Hey Chicago! An ICE contractor is trying to buy our parking meters — and City Council decides whether that happens THIS WEEK. We've got time to stop this, but we need as many people as possible to fight back: tinyurl.com/icepark

Also a huge shoutout to Andre Vasquez's team for putting together the resource guide which you can find at tinyurl.com/icepark

This is my take on it. I have a lot of empathy for people who feel like they have to stay closeted because of their circumstances. But obvs not if your circumstances are “get lotsa power to be a POS and make life actively worse for everyone and especially queer people” ding dong the witch is dead

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

The face of Modern Diarrhea www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

@jessiegender.bsky.social fucking kills it in this video and why I am so mad at leftists about Platner. There's misogyny and sexism baked in, there whataboutism, and support at all costs running through the sphere that is going to poison the movement. youtu.be/vbkxVa_3lGc...

Yes please

A clear indicator of where the future is going: Our Ember data for the OECD shows that wind and solar matched electricity generation from gas in April. A lot has changed in recent years: April 2019 to April 2026: - Gas: 28% → 26%⬇️ - Wind and solar: 13% → 26%⬆️

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

What drives me crazy is Leftists thinking they're immune to this type of targeting and manipulation. It's happening, it's been happening. They know how to work emotions on social media.

It's not a hard decision. These November elections are about who we really are. And it's our choice.

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

I love, love this whole article! One quotable part among many;

It’s funny because I now have to add some quick asides to my vid on Obsession about leftist misogyny because it applies so well to what I’m talking about there. So many leftists want to think they’re one of the “good ones” while chauvinistically talking over women they say they’re trying to help.

U.S. military spending could soon hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that have routinely price-gouged the government, according to investigations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed eight straight audits. Hello???

Conservative ideology is rare at universities because it is an intellectual failure. It provides no useful insights and produces no technological advances. It failed. In the biggest free market for ideas ever created, the market chose the productive route of real scholarship and real research.

FFS…Something is deeply, deeply wrong with these people. 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄

NEW: The Chicago Police Department spent more than its City Council-approved budget in 2025, costing Chicago taxpayers more than $162.5 million in unanticipated expenses, records show. @wttw.bsky.social

As AI becomes more powerful and influential, companies and the government have a responsibility to anticipate, manage, and transparently communicate the risks. Illinois is proactively embedding safety and accountability at the frontier, not at its tipping point.

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.

One thing about a bartender: they can spot a Type

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

FYI Chicago since this storm was announced late: there is another round coming later tonight that could be as serious or more, depending So keep an eye out

Here’s a timelapse of the shelf cloud that just rolled through 😳 // #ILwx #WXSky #Chicago

Chris Wright crashes out and calls Rep. Amo's line of questioning "bullshit," which prompts the Republican committee chair to tell him to "watch your language"

SYKES: Do you love inflation, yes or no? WRIGHT: No SYKES: Do you know that your boss just stated that he 'loves inflation'? WRIGHT: He's an entertaining, hyperbolic guy who has done tremendous leadership S: So it sounds like you're unaware that President Trump just said he 'loves inflation'

Flagging because of all the suggestions that people — usually journalists — play audio of Trump to anyone who says they “haven’t seen that.” Rep. Sykes does just that.

NEW: The FCC wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones—a phone not explicitly linked to your identity at the point of purchase—which would impact privacy-conscious people, to domestic abuse survivors, to journalists, and many more.

because of woke you cant even denigrate an entire nationality wholesale anymore without being called a racist

omg again I cannot stand the voiceovers for Nintendo trailers. We're gonna describe everything and try to sell it to you instead of...you know...a trailer that speaks for itself. And with the cheesiest voice possible.

Occupy the Jumping Castle. Anyway, part of the success of European socialist and social democratic parties in the past was being able to provide almost a whole cradle-to-grave lifestyle for their members. Communist Parties, too.

Watching GOP influencers turn against their MAGA heroes (because their MAGA heroes are realizing that Trump is a fraud) will never not be hilarious to me. Zero actual positions on anything. Just whatever Trump wants.

Van Hollen to Blanche: "Two days ago, you even suggested there was 'a ton of evidence' the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. And here you are a budget hearing asking for taxpayer funds when you're using them to punish Trump's adversaries, reward his friends, and pursue his personal vendettas."

This is a betrayal of our basic social compact. Blanche and so many others chose loyalty to Donald Trump over loyalty to their country.

Birth rates have been declining for hundreds of years. Blaming smart phones for recent declines is nothing more than moral panic at its finest reason.com/2026/05/18/t...

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

So cool

The real wreckers are neither DSA nor centrists but members of either faction who care more about winning intra-party factional struggles than they do about defeating fascism.

Here's the key section on methodology. Not an unreasonable assumption, but I don't think a federal homebuilding program should limit itself to building apartments that are, in NIMBY parlance, "at scale with the surrounding neighborhood."

It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.