Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Absolutely beautiful

A Donald interview on my beloved Lions game? Fuck Fox Sports all the way everyday.

Donald hates Christians. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

FREE LINK. Bezos has turned the opinion section into a skidmark and their star reporters have split for other jobs, but the WaPo's kids in the newsroom are by god fighting back. They're the first corporate newsroom I can think of that's hammering Don Snoreleone. wapo.st/4oTia5k

Here’s WHY she did it. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

Posting this for no reason.

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

Some of the supposed “narco-terrorists” killed by the U.S. government. apnews.com/article/trum...

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

No money for food and healthcare but plenty for this nonsense. It’s astonishing that people buy this bullshit to begin with. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

What a fucking baby. “Look! It’s a peace prize! Please stop crying!” www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Cheney rightly came to decry Trump’s abuses of power, but many of Trump’s actions grew out of a contempt for congressional, media, and judicial oversight that was fostered by Cheney and other “normal” Republicans of his generation. bit.ly/48YtqZA

Oooh, that karma is a bad, bad thing. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The Heritage Foundation & the Claremont Institute often seem to operate in lockstep. Both of them, for example, recently published articles by Scott Yenor that take aim at contraception, specifically, birth control pills. Here’s the Heritage piece from 10/29/25... 1/ www.heritage.org/life/comment...

Blah blah crime ridden hellscape blah. Or is it that Chicago is made up of wonderful people determined to mitigate the damage Dementia Donald is inflicting? www.wbez.org/politics/202...

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

#jennycohn has been reporting on this group for a long time. I'm glad to see it getting attention elsewhere. There's a screen door between these people's world view and antebellum slaveholders who viewed themselves as benevolent. Rich guys gonna rationalize bullshit. FREE wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

Gift link. Great piece with F. Scott money quote: “…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

That’s pretty much all New Yorkers need to know. Zohran landslide?

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means! Lots of fresh info in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

Now we see what the anti-Tylenol nonsense was about. Christ. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Donald and the Republicans continue their war on Christianity.

Shocking I tell you. “A list released last month by the White House of more than three dozen donors omitted donation amounts, as well as the names of several individuals and companies that collectively have billions of dollars riding on the outcome of administration policy decisions.”

“84% of detainees have no criminal convictions.” nbcchicago.app.link/ZGWPeshTWXb

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

In addition to the obvious immorality, it’s important to note that this is from the party that bitches incessantly about paper straws limiting their by god freedom. But telling people how to raise their children is just fine.

“I think it’s an approach that can safely be described as tactics without a strategy,” said Jonathan Czin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who previously analyzed Chinese politics at the C.I.A.

Read the whole thread. It explains why oligarchs are so obsequious with Donald and how neither they nor he give a damn about voters in this Pennsylvania diner.

Do they typically award Nobel Peace prizes to someone who murders people every day by blowing up their boats while claiming they deserved it for transporting drugs, but doesn’t give them due process, a fair trial, or present any evidence or proof of guilt to anyone?

A reminder here that these men and women have jobs, lives, and families they’re away from.

Very stable genius newrepublic.com/post/202409/...

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.

My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

1. Here are some facts about the guy, Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million so Trump could pay the troops during the government shutdown. 🧵

For an effective tariff rate that's now at about 9%, pass through to consumer prices has been somewhat muted. But if you listen to earnings calls, that's a mirage: Businesses are saying they'll have to keep raising prices to make up for the new costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...

This is insane. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/f...

1) Huh. Bret Kavanaugh assured me US citizens had nothing to fear. 2) “Among those taken into custody were two street vendors and a man who left his home to do laundry.” Worst of the worst, right MAGA?

OK, all sorts of obvious dunks here about NYC getting safer now that the criminals are leaving. But worth noting that NY-3 - the district Santos represented... does not include any part of New York City.

Paywalled. Trib’s rundown of several (not all) No Kings events in Chicagoland. A reminder that in addition to the massive downtown event, many thousands more rallied in the suburbs. This was a big deal. Nice job everyone!

More Americans are struggling to make their monthly car-loan payments, one of the clearest indications that low- and middle-income families could be starting to buckle, even as the U.S. economy on its surface has appeared to hold up relatively well.

MAGA

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

That is gorgeous

Greetings from Donald’s favorite place in the whole wide world.