Remember, some folks looking for decorum/respect regarding recent events are the rhetorical cousins with those who celebrated Harold Washington’s death. Gang, folks treat history like a supermarket hot bar taking what you want, and leaving behind what you don’t like.

I’m old enough to remember when David Duke’s showed up near Hampton‘s campus with Confederate flags and what not.

A few weeks ago, me and my kid were in the dry cleaners when she saw one of the employees working the sowing machine. My kid mentions to them how my mom taught her how to sow by hand. The worker asks my kid if she’d like her own sowing machine. Today:

Brock picked up that ref like a bag of ice. Good lord.

Congrats to Howard for showing some fight for the first time since Uptown Funk was a thing.

* Tony Yayo

The federal government has made it a more difficult climate for orgs like ours to fundraise, so I really can’t express enough how grateful I am for your contributions.

Harold Washington’s Caddy.

There’s my old high school doing dope shit

Glad to meet fellow #StangGang Dr. Abdullah Pratt. Kenwood Academy High School program preparing Chicago students for medical school abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Four Little Girls. Again, Four Little Girls. Regarding cruelty, the bar — historically— continues to be in the ground.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

During my early freelance journalism days, I had the opportunity to visit Bloom for an interview. The architecture is amazing. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/14/l...

Dolton, the Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up, marked his 70th birthday Sunday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home. “It’s a good time for the community to come together,” said Village President Jason House. to.wttw.com/4gpRupH

Doctor I definitely trust more than RFL Jr.

The Metra train I’m on has stopped due to hitting a pedestrian. Train officials just announced the person’s death.

The swindle…

Time to Log off

A WILD read. justthenews.com/government/s...

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah on Wednesday, officials said. Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Kirk being struck in the neck while he was sitting on a stool addressing an outdoor crowd. Kirk’s condition was not immediately clear.

No National Guard in Chicago after all? Trump appears to be backing off his plan to send National Guard troops to the city. blockclubchi.co/4no4dvt

I am deeply worried about who this will be weaponized against and how they will be harmed.

Summer temperatures will return through this weekend. A few sprinkles are possible tonight and Wednesday with most areas remaining dry. There is a small chance for showers and possibly a thunderstorm Saturday night. #ILWX #INWX

We are a brand new, live CHGO Wrestling in mere moments. Come join us! www.youtube.com/live/WL2OPq6...

Shreveport, LA, the largest city in Speaker Mike Johnson's district, has a murder rate more than twice Chicago's, and a crime rate considerably higher than both the state and national average. And Johnson isn't calling for the military to invade it. One of many ways we know this isn't about crime.

JJ McCarthy is the burbs — not Chicago. Let’s guard the gate.

Trump said crime in Washington, D.C., would be nonexistent if local authorities stopped counting "a little fight with the wife." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Helluva last few days. Shout out to Printers Row Lit Fest and the Union League Club of Chicago for allowing me the pleasure of speaking with author Don Zminda about his book, Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams.

My daughter, who will be 10 next month, recently asked me to buy her a lottery ticket. Her grandfather — my dad — is probably to blame.

Appreciate you. 👊🏾

Slide by the printers row lit fest today. I’ll be there at 1.

Pretty much goes for a lot of instances. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Pretty much goes for a lot of instances. 🤷🏾‍♂️

RFK Jr. is testifying before senators as America's top health official faces growing calls to resign over vaccine policy changes and CDC turmoil https://cnn.it/4g7XyTV

Breaking news: Giorgio Armani, the famed fashion designer, has died at 91. He was the president, chief executive and sole shareholder of his self-titled luxury fashion house.

Me leaving freshly brewed coffee at the crib = hell on earth

I’m seeing disingenuous takes regarding investigative journalism. It costs $$$/resources — 2 areas newsrooms struggle. Some newsrooms believe the 🥤ain’t worth the squeeze. For example, see the amount of aggregated content. Seeing this work via podcast shouldn’t be a shock.

No.

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

The street dedication was an emotional moment to witness. For the revolutionaries that came before us, Chicago sees you and carries on that legacy. WATCH: youtu.be/SbQRuaOXCxI?...

Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊

Why do we get Labor Day off? You can thank Chicago workers.

Eve Ewing had this on her Instagram feed with the comment, “I come from the fire city.” Amen. Also, me, too.

Daughter’s hug = Bron Breakker’s spear

“Tonight after the match when she won, I was sitting underneath her box and she ran towards the box, smiling as she always does, and I thought she was going to go and hug her coach. But she came to me instead and she gave me five and said, ‘Great photo.’”

Two New Orleans neighborhoods tell competing stories of recovering from Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago.

Chicago's 1990s hip-hop scene produced a lot of determined individuals.