My former employer, the Chicago Tribune, was mocked recently for an editorial saying we should be "happy" the Vances are expecting a baby. This thread recalls odd Tribune editorials of the past – praise for Mussolini, opposition to Black voting, a denunciation of 21-year-old Hillary Clinton. 1/14🧵🧵🧵

It Will Be a Lovely Day. Today's temps for the final Friday of February will be near 60-degrees. Enjoy the weekend...and a pint.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Walking husky/shepherd mix and about a block from home he poops and then terrified runs around me, wrapping the leash around my knees. I unwrap and look for danger, find none. Then see plastic scrap hanging out of his butt. Jfc I pull it out 4 inch strip and he dances with joy. Why u eat it tho?! 😜

Had a rough night but dreamed of the monster being Frankensteined out of office so there’s that. Good morning.

Just fyi- Trump claims he ended DEI...but literally last month we won our lawsuit, preventing him from cutting civil rights laws including the commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in schools. www.aft.org/press-releas... . www.aft.org/press-releas...

thank you Ray, got it

After considerable local pushback from Tennesseans and officials of both parties, ICE confirms to us -- (with just one minor typo) -- that they have abandoned plans to build a new Trump prison camp in Lebanon, Tennessee:

I’ll save you hours of your time: The State of the Union is not good. You’re welcome. Carry on with something that makes you happy and gives you hope.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Shame on anyone who told women they were silly to worry that, post-Dobbs, birth control would be next.

Chicago just named a snowplow "Abolish ICE" — here are the other winners: blockclubchi.co/4b6zwaQ

Meteorologist: we're expecting snow, sleet, and hail - boring - too detailed - just different forms of water Meteorologist: we're expecting a wintry mix - mysterious - excitingly vague - could include a yeti

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Relaxation tips: - picture a quiet forest - picture yourself wandering in the gloom - picture a mossy forest horror creeping up behind you - picture yourself becoming best friends with the mossy forest horror, scaring townsfolk together, and sharing tea & laughter

Go on…. 🤔 youtu.be/k8OMjEWOo_M

Trump is gonna spend the rest of his life dodging cartoonishly inept assassins culled from the deep bench of increasingly unstable weirdos who support him. We’re gonna spend so much tax money defending him from “foreskin truthers” trying to cast a stick of dynamite over the fence into Mar a Lago

Just came under a MASSIVE PSYCHIC ASSAULT at the grocery store

Ok just watched Wicked for Good and godDAMN it is amazing. Music and story and singing and all the feels. I’m not normally a movie reviewer but it gets all the stars I said ALL OF THEM Oh but definitely see Wicked first tho

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

One of the zillion of political ads on TV is for our Lt Gov Stratton (running for Senate, Durbin’s seat) where a bunch of people, even Tammy Duckworth, are saying Fuck Trump and WE ARE HERE FOR IT ❤️😂😂❤️

all eyes now turn to truth social, where the president is expected to respond from the toilet any minute now

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration requiring the DOJ to turn over records on an expedited basis about their efforts to compile millions of Americans’ sensitive voter data from states across the country.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Cold Friday Awaiting Apocalypse Mendelson Joe 2003

As ever, the conservative "solution" to any ineffective or flawed government agency or process is to remove it entirely. It's almost like... it's almost like that was the goal the whole time and all of the hand wringing about efficiency was done in bad faith...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

They should add chase dogs to all skiing and running events. Marathons would hit different if you were outrunning a pack.

Booooooooo boooo booo

How’s today looking for it?

Important addition here!

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

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My message remains the same a year later. We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.

Hattie Mae came today and some of our young guests caught a bunch of grasshoppers for her. 🥹

First ever attempt at skillet pizza. Kept it simple, cheese only.

The Dow is 30 companies. And equivalent indexes around the world have risen far more than the Dow during the past year by percentages. bsky.app/profile/atru...

DHS funding ran out at midnight last night, triggering a partial government shutdown. Republicans had a choice between supporting massively popular, desperately needed restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol or shutting down DHS. And they chose to shut down DHS. 🧵

Pink and Red start to St. Valentine's Day. Saturday sunrise in Chicago.

"Heartdangler Lizard," drawn in 2023 and tidied up in 2025 as the ivy creeps in

Democracy Docket=Started in 2020 to inform you about democracy and the courts. The Docket=started yesterday by NYT. Support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

he’s a self-identified incel who says he’s never been with a woman and buddy it shows

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

It feels like the world is moving too fast sometimes and staying in bed seems like a good option but work awaits and another day begins and I hold back tears for another day #mood