Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

Huh what nation in Lincoln’s time had 11 states

He wasn’t funny to begin with.

a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

just wanna point out that the "bathhouse john" guy in the center bottom right is a real guy and i am in fact related to him

h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times The Replacements Bob Mould The Pixies Sonic Youth U2

"fake news" and "Lügenpresse" were less about spreading novel lies and more about maintaining epistemological discipline in the face of countervailing evidence

When I was at NC state, I had lunch with a visiting scholar from Sweden who was visiting US universities for the first time. He described his experience as touring “hedge funds with football teams.”

Maybe quick ask your history department how capitulation to tyrants works out.

The more that gerrymandering tries to squeeze more seats out a fixed pool of voters by lowering expected margins of victory, the more vulnerable it becomes to a wave in which the expectations are upset. There are self-interested reasons why many Republican incumbents haven't wanted to redistrict.

Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?

Rare example of a political cartoon where the good guy/chad is portrayed as a fat guy in a top hat and waistcoat holding a large bag with a dollar sign on it.

Has-been I Will Maiden, St. Louis 1896

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

This is how you do it

MST3K is one of the great artistic achievements of the twentieth century. And of course episode 505 is its peak achievement.

It’s like the people behind the Fyre Festival decided to throw a little war

any system that showers hundreds of billions on this person for building zero sustainably profitable businesses is a bad system

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

“She beckoned to Veikko” (1922) by Jay Van Everen, from Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Internet Archive https://pdimagearchive.org/images/038bd2b1-27e1-44fa-9de6-f5f76b4a6eb7 #scandinavia #animals #nature #myth #finland #patterns #trees

Continuing my obnoxious tradition of showing you where people are interred, here's where Marion reposes within the Chapel Hill Columbarium at Graceland Cemetery.

Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

Glad this dude isn't dead yet on the off chance he could feel embarrassment for the first time in his life.

The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.

Your friendly reminder that Elon's DOGE cuts have already resulted in mass death.

Check out this 1923 transit plan commissioned by the Chicago City Council. We use to be insanely ambitious. A network like this would've supported Paris-level population densities. It's never too late!

"Congress deliberately created two different oaths…That structure is not…trivia; it is grounded on the bedrock American civil–military relations. Ignoring it leads to the misleading assumption that everyone in uniform bears equal responsibility when confronted with an unlawful command."

on this day we were warned that: Swastikas and nooses do not betoken hate & Reminding the military to abide by the law is punishable by death. g’night

Chicago skyline, 1958

NEW: For Rev. David Black, the pastor seen shot in the head w/pepper balls by DHS agents in a viral clip, protesting ICE is part of an old Christian tradition. “I’m seeing almost a revival of Christianity through what’s happening at Broadview in Chicago,” he says. religionnews.com/2025/11/19/f...

Charles Dana Gibson sketches of Buffalo Bill and members of his troop at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Good job, Charlotte! Where to next, thugs? Can you handle Harrisburg? Paducah? Gobblers Knob? GTFOH

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

Detail from a map of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and its connecting lines, 1983

So Fargo North Dakota isn't quite at 10% Muslim population, but it's above 5%, maybe around 10% of the population is either Muslim or a first-gen immigrant from MENA/Africa. And guess what? It's fine. In fact it's pretty nice. Is Fargo North Dakota really too radical for these guys? Weak.

remember this "case" began with DHS press person claiming that multiple vehicles had ambushed and cornered CBP agents in a scene reminiscent of Baghdad 2007

On one hand, yes, obviously this is/should be a massive story. On the other, I understand news orgs’ dilemma: News is NEW and while this is an escalation in rhetoric, it’s one of degree, not kind, so it may not count as “new”—at least not to readers, whose attention these orgs need to survive.

I think there's a decent chance that the Pope visits Chicago during this presidency and while there asks to see Broadview and I wonder how that plays out.

Santa Fe California Limited ad with a Hopi model, Chicago 1912

I'm always a sucker for goofily-drawn bear. New York, 1912

Hazy Chicago skyline, Mather Tower under construction, c. 1927

One of the best cross-examinations I've heard started with: "Sir, can you describe what you're apologizing for?" That seems appropriate here.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?