Finally, some good news.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

This.

Words matter.

Meanwhile: economy's in the toilet, job numbers are in the toilet, farmers are in the toilet (but will continue to vote for Trump), and EPSTEIN!!! (Based on previous events, those files have probably been stuffed into...a Mar-a-Lago toilet.) Don't let the false Kirk hagiography distract you.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

If you think the president is a tyrant and you're running for office to oppose him the only platform you can have is "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove this menace." Otherwise what's the point of electing you?

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

I am going to steal this. "Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" is my new go-to phrase.

Absolutely this.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

Senseless gun violence is a tragedy no matter whom it targets. Even more so when politically motivated, regardless of the politics. To do the hard thing of praying or otherwise extending grace to a victim who extended none themself is what keeps us on the side of humanity. 1/

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Take note, Chicago!

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Was volunteering to sort books today for a used book sale, and assigned to the science section (which is itself hilarious, as I have no left brain). Pulled out a copy of Judy Mikovits' Plague of Corruption, with a forward by RFK Jr. I asked my fellow volunteer if we had to put it out....1/

Trump to Chicago: "I love the smell of myself in the morning."

Of course. And a steaming, messy Italian beef is much more lethal. But first it's the salt trucks, then the Malort, and then, when we need the big guns, we break out the hot dipped sandos.

At the US Open men's finals tomorrow, anytime the match isn't in active play, the entire arena should chant, "EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!" Even if the cowardly media don't broadcast it, everyone with a phone will video it and post.

This is literally the best thing I've seen, maybe ever.

Wow. CBS really does have its tongue lodged permanently up Trump's ass, don't they? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/b...

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This is why we need to stand up for everyone, folks!

@govpritzker.illinois.gov They're here. Every hotel parking lot in the towns nearest the naval base is full of FP vehicles, Texas plates, Florida plates, plates from further-away red states in numbers much higher than we normally see on our roads. Some vehicles with no plates. 1/

RFK Jr in this hearing:

I've just realized that all this fuss over the Epstein files is for naught. All we need to do is send someone to Mar-a-Lago to check the bathrooms...

Morning

This is how it's done!

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in Pilsen, we shall fight on the Lakefront Trail, we shall fight them with giardiniera and footwork, we shall defend our city, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on Lower Lower Wacker, we shall fight in the Jewel; we shall never fucking surrender.

It's like waiting by the phone for someone to invite you to the prom...

Perfection

Absolutely this. And when we ban books before we demand full release of the Epstein files, we admit that we're more afraid of our children learning than of our daughters becoming the next victims of pedophilia.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Happy Labor Day. Release the Epstein files!

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I sure hope there won't be any big road construction zones on I-94, I-294, and I-90 next week that would get in the way of traffic between Great Lakes naval base and downtown.

Seriously, though. Is it dead yet?

If "thoughts and prayers" worked, those Big-Mac-filled arteries would have burst on 1/21/25.

Nails it.

Welcome to another day of is it dead yet?

I hate to say I told you so but . . . "Heads we win and tails you lose."