The simplest explanation of the slogan making the policy less popular and also being widely dragged is that the slogan sucks. People just don't want to admit the slogan sucks. They tried to smuggle in a nod to abolitionists, but the normies hated it because they hate police abolition conceptually.

That's a huge escalation in Russian aggression in the Trump era.

Politically disengaged red staters still think "they" tried to kill Trump out of fear.

They have their Horst Wessel.

Bears are wild animals. Do not dogsit for them.

Also true for the Trump federal criminal cases. There is no theoretical Biden AG that could outplay the Supreme Court. They make the rules.

There once was a man from Nantucket Who did Colombian blow by the bucket He knows how to sail And dust off a rail None of it's real so fuck it

No wonder it's so cool out.

Logan Circle is a strange name for a cop. Logan Square is more appropos.

There are still way too many shootings and murders in Chicago, but by the numbers this was the safest summer in 60 years. Great analysis by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

We got invaded PRIOR to becoming anti-Ru. Invasion _caused_ anti-Ru sentiment, which is completely logical and justifiable. Pic of dynamics of good/bad (blue/orange) attitude towards 🇷🇺 & 🇷🇺ns attached. Marked by arrows are Feb. 2014 and Feb. 2022 — PRIOR to killings on Maidan & full-scale invasion.

“Crime” is just a dog whistle. Trump’s been blowing that dog whistle on Chicago since we humiliated him in 2016.

St Louis suddenly a more attractive destination.

Get a look inside the Uptown Theatre in this great new video by Eddie Arruza. It features me and Andy Pierce talking about our book, plus owner Jerry Mickelson, building caretaker David Syfczak, and Ald. Angela Clay. youtu.be/t3oG3SeFWMI

A right jolly sheila and not at all stuck up.

Illinois, unlike every state that borders it, has reproductive rights, legal cannabis, and no ICE detention facilities. Free state!

A very unsubtle reminder that Russia is interested in a lot more than the Donbas…

There is so much to say, and at the same time, nothing to add. The reaction to Alaska by the Ukrainian artist.

I'm spinning gold here, folks!

Oh, he mean fight

Every time someone uses "land swap" in this context, the question is, "What parts of Russia might Ukraine gain in such a swap?"

The western leftists who have used this analogy to denigrate Ukrainian agency once again find themselves in the company of Putinist fash. Cc @jecboyle.bsky.social

Your German environmental group trying to high-hand Poland is called what?

Your German environmental group trying to high-hand Poland is called what?

Trump: in Scotland they yell Baw Bag a lot. Must be a relative.

I've plotted my top recommended bike routes starting at the south end of the Lakefront Trail in Chicago to make it easier to share some of my favorite routes! They all basically work in reverse, but I've also tried to include train connections at the ends. All have detailed notes. #bikechi

Excellent thread. Both Tsarist Russia and the USSR were very much imperialist and colonialist powers.

Hate migrants? Become one!

What if the family members of candidates are only relevant to the extent they will be employed in government?

Summer heat drives Parisians in Seine

First time I went to the US (15yo) I was super confused with the list of racial identity I didn't know that "Caucasian" meant white. I thought it meant from the actual Caucasus/eastern Europe. So I looked over the list 3 times and eventually checked "Latino" thinking that it referred to the Romans

Eastern European history, summarised:

Thorstein Veblen pointed to lawns as an instance of pecuniary signaling as it demonstrates the owner can afford to have land not under cultivation.

"Protective custody" was also the Nazi category for concentration camp prisoners. They were being protected from the righteous rage of the population.

Even if you start from the assumption that Democrats aren't "qualified to flip burgers," the focus *still* needs to be on the budget. More so. Some people are more interested in blaming Democrats than actually improving the situation, carrying over from 2024 (and 2016).

The smartest move is nonstop focus on the murder budget, not pointless impeachment votes.

Good lord! The ticks!

Read Cruz's @ as "s[c]ented Cruz" Mmmm, evocative.

Future Antipope Robert Barron of the National American Catholic Church. Our Patriarch Kiril is named like a Trump alias.

I maintain that “cringe” is a fascist affect. Something that mediates ideas about social decorum through the precognitive reflex of literally tensing your muscles so that you withdraw inward is never going to help work through the ideological contradictions of our authoritarian present.

I'm sure there's enough horse for everyone.

Keep your ugly fuckin' goldbrickin' ass out of my bleach community!

A bathroom bill worth supporting

A propos of nothing in particular.. Up through 2014, Lajos Simicska was not just one of Hungary's richest men, but a financial force behind Orban's Fidesz party. Snide voices would jeer that it sometimes seemed like he really ran the show. 1/

All the cops in the donut shop say "way-o way-o wayyyy-o" youtu.be/Cv6tuzHUuuk?...

It was headed to Washington for the parade.

Mad King goes after Governor Hairstyle but dares not challenge Great Khan.

Trump and Musk. Two sociopathic narcissists. Divorcing because of irreconcilable similarities.

Reminder: cops are allowed to lie