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Maybe contact the CEO of the bank that lends its name to the high-profile studio sponsorship while you're at it. His office apparently welcomes letters. bell.bank/contact

Goddamit I should have known it was too good to last. Some senior editor decided to both-sides it after all. Cowards! Charlatans!

Also a major sponsor of Cubs games on Marquee Network

Chicago! The Bob Loquercio Auto Group's executive VP says the murder of Alex Pretti "is EXACTLY what I voted for." Please take your business elsewhere and let them know that you are doing so. www.blautogroup.com/

Sunday Moose

Cook County has been upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning until 4 PM today. Storm totals as high as 6-12" possible near the lake. Totals are already in the 4-7" range.

They find it inconceivable that you could believe in anything and act on it without getting paid because if there wasn’t an endorsement deal to hawk fake supplements or straight up cash for podcasting, these people wouldn’t even muster the effort to log on.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Will never understand, after watching Rahm absolutely shit the bed as Chicago’s mayor—from closing public mental health clinics to all the shady stuff around Laquan McDonald’s murder—why people keep going back to this callow, craven, soulless person for anything about effective politics.

And that's enough Palace for this week

conor just wanted legislators to dictate what’s taught at state universities, not for anyone to get hurt

Even the Barstool bros (whose founder Dave Portnoy voted for Trump three times) are lambasting ICE for their execution of Alex Pretti. This is breaking containment

You know it’s breaking through to the normies when sports shitposting forums are flooded with anti-ICE memes

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Melissa Joan Hart is a legit card carrying conservative republican we are through the looking glass.

Remembering some Twins

From now on, every time I hear from some small government turd about how privatizing the post office would save money and improve efficiency, I'm going to share the time I ordered a shirt and the seller chose UPS. It's arriving between 11am and 3pm today, they say, as I type this at 4:20.

Minnesota Vikings play-by-play announcer Paul Allen pushed the paid-protestor conspiracy during Friday's episode of his radio show (bit.ly/4k0Ky4f) "In conditions like this, do paid protesters get hazard pay? Those are the things that I've been thinking about this morning."

The NBC News free channel anchor is going through it right now. "This is supposed to be the happy show. The fluff show. And our producer saw the video and started screaming."

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

at the moment this is very much beside the point, but on the list of arguments that won’t work, “Would you know how to buy a gas mask?” is a legitimately insane thing to say to a FOX audience

If they're going to keep saying the people they murder have intent to harm them then theyre setting up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Without fail, people will abandon peace when you convince them it doesn't matter

Guess the lady in pink did not get rounded up, because her video is up now. Victim is restrained on the ground after being beaten. He is shot once. There is a pause. The goon decides "fuck it, in for a penny, in for a pound" and empties his clip into the victim with nine more shots.

i can't pretend like this isn't in the back of my mind all the time these days

“Let’s do the fucking news”

And at the exact same time they throttled a huge wave of southern and eastern European immigration (Jews, Poles, Italians, Greeks etc), inspired by eugenics

Every time my rep posts a thread like this (which is all the time) I scroll to the bottom to see if he has an actual plan of action and he never does. Sorry Sean but I didn't vote for you to be mad online. Lead or step aside for somebody who will.

One upside of living through the Bush-Cheney years was learning never to believe Republicans when they say they believe in anything. All you need to know is their ideology will pretzel to reinforce hierarchy and power no matter what. It’s actually fine for the government to kill you if you’re armed

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Feeling lousy (actual illness, not just The Horrors) but here's Saturday Moose

Let's also heap contempt on the centrist idiots who saw Nick fucking Shirley's video and engaged with it on the "merits" instead of recognizing what it was and doing what they could to discredit it. We need fewer credulous dipshits in this fight, or rather we need our dipshits to be less credulous.

I'm sure this happens in other departments also, but it is well known in CPD that when an officer does something bad, a white shirt will gather every officer at the scene to "get their story straight." This is the feds rounding up civilians and ordering them to "get OUR story straight."

O'Hara refusing to step away from the scene is something to keep an eye on

I am well aware of the constraints of reporting and journalistic ethics when it comes to breaking news, but I think that makes my brain break even more to see this "heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who" framing when the video is here there and everywhere.

Started thinking this back in 2020 but everything since Broadview has affirmed it: Democratic governors and big-city mayors fear their police forces. They know they can't control them but also cannot say so out loud, because that would collapse their elected power and the cops would let it all rip.

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

Agents beat the victim into submission in the street. Suddenly they all back off the victim, who is still on the ground, and that is when an ICE goon fires multiple shots into them. Mad about us kidnapping a 5-y/o? Now we'll kidnap a 2-y/o. Mad about Renee Good? Here's a gangland execution.

Funny, this Far Side comic was in yesterday’s calendar in the office kitchen and it captured how I’ve always felt about an apocalypse situation. You don’t want to be Sylvia.

2 WEEKS AGO: Great news, Google will use AI to help manage your inbox! TODAY: The Gmail spam filter that's worked fine for 19 years is broken

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*King Missile voice* Bisexual Forecast

god, another great bit from the pilot, where they land in a world where the Soviets won the Cold War & Rembrandt is sent to a kangaroo court to be tried & convicted, which, being Communist, is called The People's Court, and it's the actual People's Court with Kommisar Joseph A. Wapner

I won't accept 10% off, sir. This is what I was promised

the funniest little free library in chicago is at wolf point—those kirkland & ellis lawyers are going THROUGH it