i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

found a string combination that eliminates the wolf tone on my open a string

john williams score where there is 30 min of music with no breaks

some of you have been remiss in posting your pets. 🧐

BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill banning landlords from using algorithms to collude and raise rents.

guys we don’t have to do this every time. usha has her own career and works for a high powered law firm. if she wanted to leave she is absolutely capable of doing that.

morale is low at the tsa

i am finally hearing the new ts album in this airport and sorry but this is not it

my all state scores were supposed to make me principal and then they changed it so i didn’t get it 🫩🫠

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: The violins tuned sharp

idk if this is anything but lincoln square smelled like chemicals this morning.

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

asking the basses to vibrato

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

I just cannot

Thanks to The Chicago Reporter for republishing my story, originally in @injusticewatch.org and @boltsmag.org, on Eileen O'Neill Burke weakening Cook County's broken system for freeing the innocent.

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

what a loser to know so little about anything.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

deploy them to the new devil dawgs on clark street

i did a tarot reading about the shut down and it gave me the 5 of wands so do with that what you will

Her sister posted that it was just a mild illness and she didn’t mean to alarm everyone. ❤️

if anything happens to dolly parton rn, i am going to crash out

I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so glad Paul Vallas isn't mayor of Chicago right now I am so gl

@chicagosymphony.bsky.social why are you hosting a two set violin event in your incredible concert hall in our city when the material in that show is going to feature racist jokes? i am so disappointed every time those ads hit me.

I have a nemesis, and it is a clarifying relationship in regards to what is acceptable behavior from colleagues and that is all i can say until the great day when i eventually leave that particular orchestra. 🤐🤐🤐

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

ICE just secured over $100 billion of new funding this year. We are in the very early innings of this campaign of terror. Blue state governors have to figure out how they are going to protect their states beyond stern press conferences and letters.

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

ICE is up, and there are early reports indicating they're targeting Albany Park again.

one thing i wish people knew about the kc symphony is that they did eventually agree to meet with josh, and in that meeting, michael stern chose to basically yell at josh for an hour until their lawyer accused josh of being too emotional. 🙃

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

i can’t explain this but thriller and don juan have the same vibe.

i thought you should all know that the trader joes hair oil is making my hair so soft rn

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

the relief i feel that i didn’t have to walk through downtown little rock at 3 am

this lady is telling the whole train how tea cured her diabetes

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

New from Symphony: New Contract for Atlanta Symphony Musicians, with Salary Increases and Addition of Two Positions

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

If you had told anyone in Philly or South Jersey in 2000 or so that CAMDEN would have zero homicides someday, no one would have believed you. Absolutely incredible success story.