Lol and furthermore lmao

I'm begging you CBS, there's still time to salvage this mistake. I will greenlight good projects (El Salvador prison exposes) and kill bad projects (town hall snooezefests featuring nobodies). I have good instincts and editorial judgement

‘Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.”’ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted, I always say

The New Yorker (1955) Artist ~ Alain (real name - Daniel Brustlein)

"America is set up like a casino; living here is exactly like a guy going broke playing craps and blaming somebody playing nickel slots for his bad fortune. The problem isn’t anybody else. The problem is you’re living in a casino." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/it-sucks-t...

Going to look like this until April, great

Graffiti commentary on an advertisement inside a Red Line car

I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.

Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country

Ads on the bridge houses. I wish there was some public space, and architecture (art), not for sale, that just belonged to the public. (Yes I have a problem with music fests in parks.) But I guess any vertical flat space can house a DraftKings or Hairlacher ad

Video by Block Club Chicago. Shows you the CBP & Bovino terror campaign on the southwest side of Chicago this morning. Chaos on 26th street. Little Village’s 26th street always one of their favorite spots to wreak havoc, the heart of the nhood and Mexican Chicago

"Students at Little Village Academy were escorted back into the building by teachers who put up barricades as crowds formed around agents’ vehicles." Little Village Elementary is a Pre K through 8 school in the heart of the Mexican-American community.

Border Patrol is back. "Law enforcement agencies in the area have been alerted that Bovino and about 200 Border Patrol agents have arrived in Chicago for more enforcement action, sources said." blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/16/b...

We have moved beyond the need for Vox.

This Iowa National Guard squadron (1-113 Cavalry, 34th ID) first deployed soldiers to Iraq more than 20 years ago, in 2005. This tour it’s been at al-Tanf Garrison in Syria. The youngest soldiers in the squadron probably hadn’t been born yet during C Troop’s 2005-6 Iraq deployment.

Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

One of the victims of the antisemitic massacre in Australia was a Holocaust survivor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m not sure I have any great wisdom or feeling other than profound sadness about where we are. But I’m glad to be lighting the candles tonight. To pull a clue from a nearly 75-year-old hand-sewn felt dreidel made by a grandmother I never got to know so our son can run around our house in joy.

I listen to this with my son sometimes

I was ready for a deep dive on Bovino’s life. Bovino has become the face of anti-immigrant in this country but his roots lie within immigrant ancestors from Italy. His story displays many of the contradictions to what he is now in charge of doing to migrants. A longer read but worth the time.

Greg Bovino's the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... By me and @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social who traveled to both coasts to find out more.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Had to explain this one to my 8yo last night

Well recent developments have put me off writing a canto

"Baker has been stripped of his policing powers since August, though not as a result of the shooting. That step came after... he tried to obtain surveillance video that captured a fight he and another woman got into with a female police officer." chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera asked a question Thursday as she announced a wrongful death lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department and the officer who fatally shot her daughter shortly after they broke up. “Where is justice for Krystal?” tinyurl.com/3axr73wf

so hyped for baseball

Rivera warned supervisors that Baker was a reckless cop, according to the lawsuit, and that other cops knew the relationship had ended, that Rivera wanted to be reassigned away from Baker, and that she “believed Baker was a threat to her personal safety." @ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social

Baker accrued more than a dozen complaints in his short time as police, including one as a probationary PO where he's alleged to have lifted his shirt to reveal a gun after confronting a woman he'd tried to date. CPD never said why he wasn't fired as a PPO. @ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social

Rivera was part of the tact team that inventoried a gun from a buyback at St Sabina that was stolen from a room full of cops only to later be found on a 16yo and linked to three shootings. Rivera helped search for the gun + cooperated with investigators. @ctoner.bsky.social @schuba.bsky.social

Lawsuit alleges Baker “ran in the opposite direction and left her to die,” and knew that “Rivera’s death would prevent her from making disclosures that would likely destroy his relationship with his long-term girlfriend." @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social illinoisanswers.org/2025/12/10/f...

Don't ignore *this* part: "the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability closed its investigation into the incident “unusually fast” — in three and a half months — and says that showed the city did not “adequately comply” with its duties to investigate the domestic violence accusation."

Lawsuit filed by family of Krystal Rivera, shot to death by her partner Carlos Baker over the summer, alleges Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase. #chicago @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social

this is blowing up my chicago feed obvs but non chicagoans may want to catch up via this thread

The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner Carlos Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5. tinyurl.com/5krk79br

Lawsuit filed by family of Krystal Rivera, shot to death by her partner Carlos Baker over the summer, alleges Baker was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase. #chicago @schuba.bsky.social @ctoner.bsky.social

AI also can't wear that coat

Regrettably, I have no illicit cash income to hide 😔

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

Need some of that CLOSING GATE ARM today

I know this is not new and is just how shit works now and has been for a while. It’s also like fun and vaguely engaging. But so much of the internet is now just “I stole a journalist’s work and am reading it to you and monetizing it for myself.” This has happened endlessly with our Flock reporting

"If we lose poetry, we are done for even without war. Love, Mom"

"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare." - Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938