I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Really good explainer video from Vox on why expanding the House - and adding an option for multi-member districts with ranked choice voting - would make our democracy more democratic. (And my bill to do that.) youtu.be/KhQGHY44XPM?...

Finished! Great book if you read D'Aulaires as a kid or want to listen to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy read you Greek myths. www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

@jordanshiveley.bsky.social just wanted to let you know your words were the first thing my daughter saw after her mom’s face. Their sentiment was shared by a majority of those present.

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Same energy.

Killed for interposing himself when an ICE agent pushed a woman to the ground like a fucking 12-year-old and maintained calm while that thug threw a tantrum and pepper sprayed him in the face.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

They did it again.

We've added a big 40 page preview of the finished Blades '68 book, for free -- just scroll right to the bottom here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

sauvignon bloc

You all hated the Stranger Things finale? I cried. Maybe they made it just for me.

Here's video of Renee Good being more polite to her murderer than he deserved, and then him shooting her in the head and calling her a "fucking bitch" after she's dead.

Within 60 minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration called her a domestic terrorist.

This is the video.

The iPhone 16 allows you to customize the “action button” so you have control over what gets accidentally activated while it’s sitting in your pocket. I started with randomly cycling through ring and silent mode, but I’m really excited about the possibility of the flashlight draining my battery.

If you want to grab my attention with a headline…

Data over dogma!

Goddamn. The obvious joke here is: “This ad misleadingly represents an ICE officer getting custody of his kids after the divorce.”

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

A bop with a coffin flop. 10/10, no notes.

I think all those “Illinois 8th congressional district” searches are exclusively from me copy-pasting Raja Krishnamoorthi’s name. Otherwise this is an accurate summation of my 2025 hyperfixations.

Started!

Finished! Less interesting than the first one, but an unexpectedly relevant tale of how well-meaning people let democracy die.

Reading Claudius The God, and I came upon a passage which I think gives some insight into the current GOP and the Trump capitulators.

Happy March to the Sea Day!

No wonder Michael Wolff gets access. He behaves like a scheming vizier to gain their trust before completely completely turning on them when it's time to write a book.

I’m reminded this morning of Coates’s remarks re cowardice and the Senate’s tendency to describe itself as “the greatest deliberative body in the world.” Defending this institution is using it in moral ways, ways that can demand courage.

Fuck these thugs, and everyone who supports them.

Spanberger now at 15 and change. please feel free to read too much into it.

Quigley-Ramirez press conference on the warrantless ICE abduction at a fucking daycare this morning.

Okay, but what if I managed to be depressed and unmotivated in my 20s and 30s while being entirely sober?

This one goes out to all the secular humanists who stared into The Void too long and got depressed.

Turns out my sleep habits got so bad that they circled around to "historical."

You know it’s really bad when the bunch who exposed the Alexei Navalny poisoning plot are now focusing on the federal tactics in Chicago’s neighborhoods and suburbs

Week is starting off pretty dumb.

I was already there. I should have set out snacks.

tolkien: man I'm sure glad my book about how much industrialization sucks has found its intended audience, dudes who build war machines and want to kill the night sky

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Rest easy, Chop.

I consider Pargin to be part of an as-of-yet artistic school that includes Sam Raimi and James Gunn. Midwestern Decline Core?

Happy 166th Anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry!

This is my experience too. "The Democratic Party," as it's discussed on social media, might as well be "The Lizard People." The people who showed up to their first meeting after the 2016 election and stuck it out, however, now control the party in my hometown.

I recently gave a TEDx talk at Lone Star College entitled “The Bible Doesn’t Say So.” You can check it out at the link below & if you do: Thank you for coming to my TEDx talk. youtu.be/VidaQPd3C6Q?...

A few hundred people here in protest of the detention center now. A coalition of Jewish orgs have just arrived and are singing and praying outside the industrial park.

@themountaingoats.bsky.social what was the fight that we should look up on YouTube if we want to experience old school wrestling? You mentioned it at the Salt Shed show tonight.