He's exactly what you think he is. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

We've seen another morning of increased ICE activity with DHS helicopter out and about in Chicagoland. Feds have taken people from Humboldt Park and Ravenswood. Vehicles also seen in Rogers Park. ICE watchers are asking north side neighbors to get outside and keep an eye on landscapers & laborers.

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

It’s so funny that FIFA gave Trump a Peace Prize and a few months later he threatened to kill a national team that qualified for the World Cup.

I have had friends call me from their boats and their in-ground pools to tell me how much this country screwed them

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work. Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

one of the things that sucks about this website is we can't sarcastically suggest that we build a big tunnel under the strait of hormuz and then have elon musk unironically advocate for it

The adorbs turret at 3800 W. Huron, built ca. 1890

You know what else kills a lot of birds? Explosions at oil depots that cause toxic black rain to shower down from the sky.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from March 10, 1907.

Man it must suck to have your personal space constantly encroached on and when you say "no" they just become more demanding, threatening and derisive.

This is the guy who likes to downplay non-fatal injuries suffered by US service members in combat.

Extremely weird for Kelly's campaign to put rabid right wing blog Chicago Contrarian on her endorsements page - one week ago they ran a piece about policing on the CTA with the subhed "the legacy of Jesse Jackson makes all of us less safe" - and weirder still that they actually link out to it.

how do you not do this before launching a war on iran

Ghost sign for a ghost newspaper, Chicago

They don't know of this because Call of Duty doesn't show any of this.

Mouth of the Chicago River, 1872

Can I just say: As weary as you may feel, do not turn away from the degradation and desecrations, the violations and the violence. This is what the lawless Trump regime hopes--that our fatigue will make it easier for them to consolidate their power.

Among the things that's going on is Mamdani is being judged against the WILDLY inappropriate practice of Trump, Bondi, Kash, Noem, et al, publicly weighing in on matters that involve criminal charges. A political leader SHOULD NOT get ahead of investigations. Trump routinely does.

Most people waste years doing exercise that construction equipment crushes in hours. I've trained for 10 years. Half was cardio. Quarter was weightlifting. Quarter was cross training. My new backhoe can do all of that work in hours. The exercise game has changed forever.

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

This experiment of putting the worst people in charge of government should be over.

Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.

Life at Marina City. And no, it isn't me. Years ago, I would sometimes encounter an amiable, elderly neighbor, who seemed absolutely normal until the day he told me in the elevator that someone was breaking into his apartment to steal his umbrellas. I never saw him again.

Trump can just openly say “I am doing this to bring in a one party state for 50 years” and commentators will hem and haw about the intricacies of carrying off a talking filibuster

this guy loves making down payments on future 9/11s with other people's money

Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Trump on January 22, 2020 when the CDC confirmed the first US covid case: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine.”

Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."

Fire flows through gutters meant to carry water to trees in Tehran. Death flows where life once did. May God forgive us. (Video has been geoconfirmed.)

Iran regime change advocates got what they spent decades pushing for—the US to launch a big war to collapse Iran’s government—and they’re still not happy. Because what they pushed for years was a fantasy of a smooth, easy regime change war that gets everyone to tell them they were right all along.

It's wild how this type of posting is like 4 generations deep and none of them ever realized that there's probably a playground in walking distance from their house

A very endangered piece of Chicago history, industrial history, and labor history is for sale. This property, vacant for a decade, contains the last remaining confirmed Pullman brickyard cottage. These unplumbed shacks were hidden from fawning PR narratives of the "utopian" Pullman factory town.

Obama wanted to strike Syria in 2013 after the Assad government gassed 1,400 civilians in Ghouta. He backed down to opposition. This is absurd historical revisionism.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet. It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.

"The Unrestrained Demon of the Wheel" Judge magazine, 1893 🎨Grant E. Hamilton

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

The Trump Administration's choice to end their "Shield for the Americas" summit with the Monty Python Flying Circus theme march is inspired. I take back everything bad I ever said about the regime (That ~2 second dropped signal is, I assume, some AV guy cackling as he zooms in on Kristi Noem)

"JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE" The July 2024 jobs report released three days before this post showed +112,000 jobs. The most recent jobs report shows -92,000 jobs.

Black people are not allowed to talk amongst themselves without white people feeling its their duty to police those conversations. The response from white people to this statement by Kamala Harris is an example. Those responses to her statement are also a glowing example of hit dogs hollering.

How many odd details can you pick out in this "photo" of the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire?

Lifting sanctions so Russia can sell oil for more money while they simultaneously feed intelligence to Iran’s regime for targeting U.S. service members in the Middle East It’s all around rotten to the core

Sick, decadent country.