He came with the receipts.

Bovino's BS is distracting us from the Chicago budget turmoil, as a large group of alders are blocking Mayor Johnson's budget with a bad alternative

The milk of human kindness is always curdled—and often has clumps.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

NEW: Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who is running for Congress, confronted Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino today:

House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

EU must use frozen Russian assets to pressure Putin, Merz says

Now listening to (and enjoying thoroughly): www.audible.com/pd/B0DT1L5WG...

US Relied on Illegal Sanctions to Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker truthout.org/articles/us-...

The thing to note is that even as it does finally just become open fascism and looting, nothing changes: much the same people in power and on TV, saying much the same shit and continuing to roar denunciations at the same people. Which tells us things about what their actual job is, doesn’t it.

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

[The Purpose of a System is What it Does] Bluesky's most recent features: - "Give me your Driver's License forever" - "Can I see every contact in your phone?" Purpose; Extraction of data.

Yes but the cracks are easily paved over.

Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience. If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.

This account is a pro-Henry Wotton account. I will hear no blasphemy about the greatest character in literature

I know that everyone is like “oh the whole point of this is to destroy CBS, they actually want to run it into the ground” and I’m sure plenty of folks will be happy if they do but David Ellison and Bari Weiss don’t want that! they really think they’ve got something! they are just very bad at this

This Nativity Scene at a church in Charlotte

I have no disdain for popular culture—it is, after all, *culture*. And it is my fundamental view that without popular culture, one has no high, middle, or low culture. What I disdain is popular kitsch. Kitsch is the enemy of culture and one mode of expression commercialism indulges in.

This summer, the Amtrak Police Department ran a plainclothes sting operation in New York’s Penn Station bathroom, cruising to coax the queers out of the woodwork. Many of the men arrested were handed over to ICE custody.

We are told capitalism is natural and logical, that it breeds innovation and healthy competition. Meanwhile we are watching merchants foist failed tech onto unwilling customers, while claiming the tech is the future 😭 Whose future?

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Wiles must be leaving. This story is insane. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

> Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul. unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...

We've got to seize this opportunity because humanity won't get another chance. The earth won't survive billionaires

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

This doesn’t seem politically promising.

Why should other countries sign deals with the United States when this president is breaking **his own deals** after less than 6 months? www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"See that pig?" the father whispered to his daughter in the theater. "He represents Trotsky." "The one shaking his butt to the Smash Mouth song?" "That's the one."

James Madison too! If the president had the right to dismiss any appointee, he could have just fired Marbury. But Madison, who was the guy Marbury sued, never even tried to make that argument which would have made the case go away. Madison obviously knew nothing about original intent.

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we

More nonsense from cad-fad fascist rag known as Compact Magazine

One of the things that always strikes me about reading these right-wing diatribes against diverse hiring in media is it's always just a given in them now that white women were also wrongly (in their eyes) given too many opportunities. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Watching House, smoking a cigarillo and drinking a Heineken—what a beautiful life

LIVE SOON: Governor Newsom makes announcement with former CDC officials. YouTube: youtube.com/live/O8MmwEJ... Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/14105... X, IG, Twitch: @CAgovernor

Proud to be in our capital city to announce another major success in our work to reduce homelessness here and across the state of Illinois. Today's $2M from the Home Illinois program will go directly to supporting permanent housing — saving lives and transforming Springfield.

Trump: “I’m suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth literally they put words in my mouth. They had me saying things that I never said coming out. I guess they used AI…They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn’t say.”

Ghana bans mining in forest reserves to curb environmental damage reut.rs/44qHSGH

The State of Texas continues to make a list of transgender Texans, per @lmcgaughy.bsky.social: www.kut.org/politics/202...

"His directorial run from 1984 to 1992 is remarkable; I literally cannot imagine anyone pulling off anything like that today, particularly in such a compressed period of time. These films are all foundational texts." lnk.thebulwark.com/3MEHyOs

Meet star CBP agent Luis Uribe. When he's not rounding up innocent immigrants, he's sexually abusing and robbing women at gunpoint. One of Kristi Noem's finest.

Not to mention sweet fucking CHRIST that the scripture isn’t about how awesome and amazing America is . It’s FACTUALLY JOHN WINTHROP WARNING AGAINST THE STORYFICATION OF THE PURITANS that whatever happened the sins and horrors would be magnified and shone as a result of its choices

American conservatism needs classical liberalism for balance — and vice versa. Fusionism remains essential not just ideologically, but in mood and temper. | Dan McLaughlin https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-american-conservative-mood/

I rather enjoyed this movie. Not without its flaws but I had fun watching it.

Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:

No you can't. Telling a computer to paint something for you is not remotely the same as painting something yourself, what is wrong with these people