Liist of WGN advertisers here, to call and let know you're boycotting until Kimmel is reinstated, because they're owned Nextstar, the conglomerate that triggered the decision. www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

Mrs. P was part of the "riot" (according to a lying DHS press release) that just SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN. (We couldn't hug upon her her return: tear gas residue.) www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

The president apparently just accidentally posted his order to the attorney general to prosecute a senator, a state attorney general, and a former head of the FBI, or else.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

That Trump specifically refers to what Brian de Palma made up in SCARFACE confirms what I hypothized in this piece!! prospect.org/politics/202...

History often turns on unexpected pivots. The aspiring dictator has probed the limits of his power by getting a comedian fired. This has been met with significant pushback by both ordinary and powerful people. Tipping points like these can make a difference. 1/x

Melville, mu favorite stylist. His punctuation is like musical notation. None more rhythmically enchanting.

It's long been my dream to meet the people in the photo below. I doubt it will happen. My friend just wrote me, "I hope you publish my appeal so that someone can help me get out of Gaza. We are living in hell here. Every second we hear explosions." www.paypal.com/donate?hoste...

Must-read masterpiece by Maureen Tkacik. prospect.org/power/sugar-...

First 25 minutes, I talk about why Charlie Kirk was so good at what he did. Then we pivot into positivity: how Chicago is firing on all cylenders to resist tyranny, and how youtmr town can too. kpfa.org/player/?audi...

Melissa Hortman. Say her name.

Hooks readers with an unsupported claim, I think. But it moves on to a crucial review of the extermination language that has been normalized at the highest levels against trans people. F those establishment institutions that helped enable this panic. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Superb podcast eviscerating the dangerously bad motivated reasoning among too many among liberals and the left a out Tyler Robinson. Angry Planet | Matthew Gault | Substack share.google/T9gyGtUeU2qu...

Literally what’s happening in the opportunistic / falsified GOP reaction to a horrendous murder, with clear intention to harm any perceived enemy. If I were Kirk’s family, I’d be horrified by how his death is being used. Silencing Kimmel’s criticism of the truth is real 1984-level stuff by ABC

Please fascist the country, please...

Some serious fascist enabling here by ABC.

Many Baby Boomer friends entertaining confidence that the texts between Tyler Robinson and his roommate were fabricated. Unlikely in the extreme. Would require a conspiracy of silence dozens of law enforcement at various levels, and an easy opening for defense to make conviction impossible. Stop.

Easy way to help kids and parents who were put through hell during the recent extremely hinky ICE operation that led to a death of a migrant that the federal govenrment is working very hard to keep anyone from investigating. publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/petitions/ke...

In case you missed this one of mine from December 2023. inthesetimes.com/article/far-...

The drama of forbidden love revealed in those texts in the Robison indictment, like something out of Chekhov or Shakespeare, so much more richly human, strange, politically uncatagorizable than the idiot babble we're forced to endure about which "side" did it. Sigh.

Possibly not particularly ideological at all. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Can't wait to see who Trump starts putting on coins.

Great context for the witch hunt against people telling the truth about Charlie Kirk. "The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review share.google/R3D3K0sO7x5J...

Great context for the witch hunt against people telling the truth about Charlie Kirk. The actual politics of free speech is fueled by a right-wing political strategy. - Boston Review share.google/R3D3K0sO7x5J...

Of possible today: my response to January 6, about how violence works in the long history of American reaction. newrepublic.com/article/1609...

Miles Davis called him "the most impressive musician in the world." He died today. youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

An exceptionally shrewd operator. Also: the insanity of a society that makes this front page news fora week, whereas the far more transparently political assassination of the Minnesota House speaker was just a blip.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

The news getting you down? Strap in with headphones, your drug of choice, and block out an hour. youtu.be/bulibjyaQ0s?...

Great package from UK radio on right-wing political exploitation of anti-urbanism. I'm last, expressing my fear that untrained, propagandized rural Guardsmen will panic us into a tragedy, then martial law. KC mayor was great. open.spotify.com/episode/7ttf...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio. Considering Donald Trump's irritation with America's big cities, with @ashleyrparker.bsky.social, @rickperlstein.bsky.social and Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Sad that filks strenuously object, thining I'm making positive moral judgement, when I call Charlie Kirk "brilliant." Bad significance how "smart" is fetishize as a moral good in itself, downgrading of the power of institution-building, where he was also brilliant. share.google/jQgJOaFG5PcO...

Report from #Chipocolypse #Hellacape: thousands of hungry ears wandering half-mile square stretch of Avondale, traversing the seven venues of the first Sound & Gravity Festival. This was the legendary Rob Mazurek. Now we're waiting for Bill Callahan, one of my faves among non-jazzers.

Motive: maximizing online engagement? Tom Wolfe once wrote an essay in the 1970s arguing that something similar had become the motive for highjackings, the ultimate "Me Decade" crime. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

I'm selling a lot of books his week. Amazon rankings through the roof. Leading indicator? :-(

I get the feeling he was just pretending he was in that video game.

My essay from the tenth anniversary of 9/11 may help explain how it catalyzed our present national lobotomy. prospect.org/power/solida...

Debating tricks and screeching.

As likely the Night of the Long Knives as Horst Wessel. Think about what a snake pit MAGA is; also, all the accelerationists, the kind of people who conpsire to knock out power grids

A reader writes me: ""'At the White House, Trump’s Grief and Shock Turn to Rage' Over Charlie Kirk' in the NYT, Haberman accepts the assumption that the killer was on the broad left and offers no pushback to Trump's assertions that the broad left was responsible....

In 2019 Nick Fuentes' neo-Nazi "Groypers" engaged in a systematic campaign to harass Charlie Kirk at his events for not being racist enough. He responded by becoming more racist. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gr...

The World's Greatest Bait Shop, in Chicago's Montrose Harbor, joins the resistance.

I learned from a reliable source in corporate security that the National Guard is not coming to Chicago. Crossing fingers.

Seems like it comes earlier every year.

Kids, you have no idea how evil this man was. Oliver North and Fawn Hall, Key Figures in Iran-Contra Scandal, Are Married - The New York Times share.google/kAouPxzd1kYS...

It's going to be hell for ICE in Chicago. For many of us, resisting them has become part of what it means to be a Chicagoan. These are from today and Sunday: two huge rallies in 72 hours, the second called with a days notice...

I'm deep in writing about the DLC right now and stuff like this is just such profoundly powerful subversion. The bad guys KNOW this works, and that it proves their perennial claims about "centrism" as the way to win election to be total bullshit. So they're melting. youtu.be/x__Cu2MLxEU?...

Heard today: “Harvard can’t use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions."

On my way downtown to Michigan and Ida B. for the emergency rally at 5. Hop on the bus!!