Suspense

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

Split-second decisions; screenshots don’t tell the whole story; dangerous job; you weren’t there; feared for his life; call a crackhead.

Critical support to comrade Brown Recluse.

Damned if we do; damned if we don’t. I’m a lawyer so I read the opinion, in the vain hope that it might be something other than disingenuous, partisan sophistry. With the US Supreme Court’s decision in Calais, white supremacy has put us in a Scylla and Charybdis on voting rights.

The mods are my bffs. We share lip gloss and everything.

I was just a kid during the voting rights struggle in the 60s, but I remember it. Seeing this photo in Black & White made my heart skip a beat.

He had one job. He blew it.

When I was a young lawyer, Seán MacBride asked me to sit in on the briefing for an extradition case he had before the Supreme Court of Ireland. It was a sharp contrast to what Katyal describes.

This illustrates the difficulty with blue states responding in kind. No, I’m not willing to give up my solid progressive Latino rep to get some triangulating white dude who plays to bigots in the burbs.

Minnesota apparently induced ICE to switch gears from spectacle to stealth. That’s a win; the numbers are way down. But getting to zero requires a long slog.

Trump’s playing checkers. Iran’s playing Go, and it’s *their* board.

Why Joyce called his novel Ulysses.

Rubios made his choice.

My favorite flavor is Blue.

i just need the internet to see perhaps one of the most amazing gifts i’ve ever received

the more I think about it, the more I feel like “Odysseus is from Boston” is true in a sort of ecstatic truth way

Of course Trump attacks the outspoken Black woman. Of course.

Spring in Chicago used to mean Chicago police sweeping random people off the streets in Black and Brown neighborhoods and parking them in County Jail for the summer. Ostensibly designed to maintain order, the sweeps in fact cultivated disorder.

How your elected Democrats apply a sanctuary law is more important than anything in the text of the law. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker uses brute force to run interference for ICE; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is more subtle. Both adjust to the constituencies they choose to cultivate.

Suspension of disbelief is normal human behavior. Everybody does it. It’s just a question of whether you’re aware you’re doing it. Dawkins apparently isn’t. He’s always been too clever by half.

long overdue, but i have a feeling this will go the way of most investigations into police violence: too little, too late

Damn near 8 months later and we still don't know the name of the ICE agent who shot and killed Villegas González, or that of his partner at the scene.

It made this seem much more ominous than I ever have

A single CPD detective cost Chicago taxpayers $141,900,000. We cannot afford policing.

No, you don’t have to hand it to Rahm Emanuel.

The US is unsafe for visitors.

He took the sting out of a good nickname that could get you shot if you used it on Ben Siegel. Irish, in contrast. always took it as a compliment, but the rabbit changed the connotation to cute. 🤷‍♂️

I’m *so* glad Mamdani beat him.

Passive aggression *is* aggressive. His death on hunger strike 45 years ago today was the turning point.

Just because the colonizer calls you a “nationalist” that doesn’t mean you should conform to their stereotype. That’s what got Michael Collins killed.

Jackson’s the sharpest knife on the court; it’s not even close. Alito’s in a different league.

"Fuck Keir Starmer Netanyahu's Bitch & Genocide Armer" Keir's been chatting shit about us for years now....so we got a billboard in London just for him with a few words he had to say about us when he was in Belfast. 🔥 54 Cable St, London x

“75% of far right commentary about Ireland comes from outside Ireland” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

I do not lightly say that Chicago’s Copaganda outlet has earned an award for reporting on law enforcement, but they did. Truly standout coverage, especially given their employer’s terrible record on the subject.

“Hating on Darth Vader is ableist.”

Alito signing the order is the biggest “Don’t start this six months before midterms, you idiots” signal imaginable

These chumps give Christian smokers a bad name.

Unpopular opinion: I think the White House needs a Baal Room.

It’s like Christianity and other religions in that regard. You just don’t lightly break kayfabe.

released on this day in 1988 and as relevant a banger as anyone has ever dropped

Blame belongs to the supporters of war, but we all have responsibility for it. It’s a lot harder to make that distinction under fire.

america is so stupid, dude. how do u take any of this shit seriously. a political movement based entirely out of fear of emasculation. it's castration anxiety all the way down

Stranded delivery robot along the May Day march in Chicago.

May Day: Whenever I cover an action at Union Park I stop and pay my respects to Himself on my way in. 💚✊

If you remove the Warren Court from the conversation, then where are we? I don’t think we’re left with a body that has been adequately protecting minority rights—depending on what you consider as belonging in the realm of minority rights.