support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

‘Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, “I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.”’ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Fun! The guide description of 60 Minutes still has the description of the deleted segment.

FYI for everyone who donated for the Albany Park free Santa photos today: at least 28 families got to take home photos with Santa, all the kids in attendance got toys and treats, and the setup looked super cute

My parents had 60 Minutes on at their house tonight. We watched and commented on a relatively upbeat piece about Everest. Wish they could’ve seen what the US is doing to people.

This rebranding predates Charlie Kirk’s death and was intended to sanitize Turning Point USA for schools. Then TPUSA had a name recognition crisis when they were in the news nonstop. So now I guess they’re rebranding again? Point is: same hard right politics packaged for children. Same fascism lite.

An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes

Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison

Oooh we got one of the little CRJs converted to have storage closets

The Milwaukee airport is somehow even cuter than I remember

There’s a guy here very reluctantly wearing a Bears hat, as if he lost a bet. Should I walk up and ask him “homie, what set you from?”

Whenever I get mad I think of this tweet and it takes a lot of the bluster out of me

Went to a neighborhood bar in Cudahy

Does anyone feel like they’ve solved the whistle lanyard problem? I’m almost thinking doing a bulk order from one of those convention swag vendors and getting the local hotline number printed on them would be the best call, but I haven’t looked into it to confirm.

in this house we cherish the holiday classics 🎄

If you’re in a city under attack and want to get connected to someone distributing whistles, I might also be able to put you in touch. They really do work and it’s so easy to have a few dozen on hand to give out.

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Y'all we have one more day to make 19 presents happen. Please help if you can.

Psst...we're hiring an editor in chief! www.injusticewatch.org/about/editor...

Jesus. He was detained illegally, treated inhumanely, and allowed to die in custody for the crime of overstaying a student visa decades ago

My therapist was right again. Putting all my decorations on the tree was good for my mental health

I thought this was Tim Onion doing a bit but I got the same message

The minimum acceptable position for Democratic Party candidates MUST be: • abolish ICE • empty CBP • round up these motherfuckers and prosecute them to the fullest extent possible

This might be the definitive piece on grassroots activism in Chicago this fall. Melissa captures so many pieces of the experience and ties them together into a clear impression of what it feels like to try to help in a city under occupation.

"More and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic and spontaneous—and some of it is—it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure..."

"these people are organized while we are not" is not just selective pessimistic bullshit, it's bullshit that serves fascist narrative frames. This is the actual aesthetic failure: invalidating the aesthetics of struggle cause one thinks only the aethetics of the powerful are significant.

they put up The Tent at the TPUSA conference lmao I want a pic under it soooo bad

Makes me proud every time! Did you know we’re shipping whistles anywhere in the US? Email whistlerequests [at] proton [dot] me for your free 3D printed whistles. We’ve sent over 30,000 so far in December!

jfc if that dude winds up killing one of my neighbors

I have no vested interest in where the Chicago Bears may move to next, but when it comes to what happens to Soldier Field I have a lot of ideas. For instance, imagine turning it into the city’s largest Small Cheval

So the thing is we could probably find $50 million in transit funding in the city budget just by cutting way back on cops on trains

I went out to move my car this morning and the wind actually brought tears to my eyes

This list gives you more good ideas of things you can do from your computer at home other than doomscrolling

So we got a lot of donations and I think we’re in a good place with our whistle printing group. If you’re doing whistle distribution and could use some funds or supplies, let me know!

I lost points on the disparate impact item on an exam in 2015 because I advised the mock client that anything that mathematically looks like it’s bad for white men could open them up to nuisance lawsuits and EEOC complaints

*twirls hair* is there a Mrs. Dumpster Daddy?

Gonna drink a Spotted Cow tomorrow and a Grain Belt on Sunday

We basically only put up the tree for Garth

I didn’t realize that multiple Teslas have that stupid headlight configuration, so I thought I was being followed up and down the expressway last night by the Ghost Cybertruck of 294

awake but at what cost

Oh no I somehow accidentally unmuted alt NPS

now isn't the time bro we just have to throw one more group of people under the bus bro trust me bro we'll find some convictions later bro

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

"accused of assisting..." In the same way that the offensive line is "accused of assisting" the quarterback

So we got a lot of donations and I think we’re in a good place with our whistle printing group. If you’re doing whistle distribution and could use some funds or supplies, let me know!

I didn’t realize what I needed was a novelty dinosaur band’s novelty Christmas song, but I heard Manosaur’s “Happy Holidays Humans” on @chirpradio.org and I’m fully on board youtu.be/5Xr2gveIwAs

Here are the Dems who voted for this trans healthcare ban: Cuellar (TX) Davis (NC) Gonzales V (TX) Perez (WA)