If he does not want to be compared to Hitler, he should stop building concentration camps.

poll: which Chicago completionist thing most appeals to you - every bus route - every train station - every Divvy station - every street (Wandrer) - every library - every park

This kind of stuff will make all of us go insane. Nobody was discussing any ballroom until Trump tore down the East Wing last year. And this was not an argument for the ballroom until literally hours ago. But now we're supposed to pretend like the WHCA incident settles some longstanding debate?

At Tusk: A Q&A about assassination attempts smotus.substack.com/p/on-the-sub...

Claiming that America’s top national security priority is building the president a special ballroom to host parties would be ridiculous in normal times. It is decadent farce in the midst of a geopolitically significant war, one the president started and is losing. Yet said with a straight face.

It's all so stupid but worth underscoring even this event literally wouldn't fit, even his planned ginormous edifice isn't big enough for it. The WHCD is obnoxiously large, there were 2500 people in that room. On his own plans the throne room monument wouldn't fit more than a thousand.

Conservatives have largely redefined the word "authoritarian" the same way they did the word "unconstitutional," and now both just mean "things I don't like."

I hate Dana Bash's suggestion that nonviolent "heated rhetoric" is somehow responsible for violence. Heated rhetoric is free speech. The Declaration of Independence was heated rhetoric.

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

"Heated Rhetoric."

We need to prepare ourselves for just how bad the trauma bond between the president and the press is going to be.

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

Trust in American journalism is at all time lows and it boggles my mind how my industry peers believe rubbing elbows with people who for the last decade called you enemy of the state, who spy on you, who lie to you daily, is good for the industry or society. History will not look kindly. (1/2)

What's perfect is they look like hapless characters in a Coen Brothers farce.

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

“NOW hand me my $10 billion to compensate for releasing my tax returns”

rather revealing. an "anarcho-capitalist" republic in which he's the king. i think there's a word for that.

Tucker Carlson is very close with his brother Buckley. Buckley seems to believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Trump’s assassination was faked as “a deliberate Judeo-Masonic blood ritual, staged to deceive the masses.” Okey dokey.

Mopey German-American wanted for embezzlement, Chicago 1929

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

This smoke ball will cure colds, asthma and pesky diphtheria. Chicago 1890

With kid gloves, Chicago 1890

Guy reading a newspaper with the huge headline "Heat Deflectors are the Finest Things Out." Chicago 1890

Novelty Dry Goods Emporium, Chicago 1890

Smoking jackets, Chicago 1890

Bari Weiss volunteering to have the executions televised live on CBS

A lucky Chicagoan reports to his English brother his experiences during the Great Chicago Fire.

WCTU missions for the children of alcoholics and for wayward women, Chicago 1891

Hair goods, Chicago 1891

Candy makers, Chicago 1891

Specialty keyboards and typefaces for doctors, lumbermen, and clergy, Chicago 1907

Teenie Weenie Town by Chicago illustrator William Donahey, 1942

Chicago 1966

Uninspiring townhouses under construction on Flournoy, Notre-Dame de Chicago in the background, 1966

Aerial of Lake Meadows and the South Side, Chicago 1966

Mayor Richard J. Daley showing off plans to redevelop the West Loop, Chicago 1966.

Scorecard for the 1891 indoor baseball match held in the Auditorium, a benefit for the Chicago Newsboys and Bootblacks Association. For more on the game of indoor baseball, check out my story for the Chicago Reader. chicagoreader.com/news/the-sur...

Chicago 1890

Indistinguishable from alternate histories that go "Germany could have won WWII if Hitler didn't act like Hitler."

Elon Musk and his merry band of eugenicist broccoli haired and finance bro acolytes are doing exactly what they want: cutting off the support system that allowed vulnerable, poor, sick, disabled, brown and Black people to eke out an existence--they WANT this outcome. He tells you this openly on X.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

By Joel Pett.

This is an incredible tweet.

I mean I spent 29 years in markets and know that second-guessing them is frequently, even generally, expensive. But the last time I remember this level of refusal to acknowledge disaster would be 2007-08.

People who were openly rooting for a president-for-life a year ago mad about gerrymandering sounds like you’re just losers who don’t like losing