Not the outcome I wanted

Watching game 7, so for once I’ll understand the sports skeets

One political thing I haven't reconciled for myself is, how do we move forward knowing that more than half of our country's voters chose what's happening right now? Do we shun and avoid people? Or are we supposed to act like it's all okay even if it might happen again?

How many victims have been lured to the Capital One Café

And sadly it seems like he really just wanted to belong to something

Life in 2025 feels as if Debbie Downer became one of the Fates and everything is the worst possible version of itself

Godfrey doing his Trump impression with Dr. Dre in the studio 🤣💀

If the future White House will have more square footage for the ballroom than the West Wing, does that mean Trump's priority is entertaining over governance? If Trump and his supporters are macho, manly men, why is the desire in Trump's heart of hearts to build a ballroom?

I haven't always been a fan of Brittany Howard's voice, but I just heard the Alabama Shakes song "Another Life" and thought she sounded really good

I actually am disappointed that the times I went to DC I was unable to get a tour of the White House. And now part of it is just gone

I haven’t paid much attention to basketball or baseball in recent years, so when I saw people talking about the NBA this week, I had a momentary blip where I wondered, “Wait, it’s not the finals, right? It’s the preseason?”

It's been interesting to see people say, "What did the No Kings protests actually accomplish?" As if the protest was going to fix everything overnight. That's not how it works! Realistically, following our norms and laws, it's a waiting game until the 2026 midterms and 2028 election.

The funny thing is that Charles Krauthammmer helped pave the way for Trump. His whole career, all of his columns, culminated in Trump getting elected. Not his intent but it was the effect

Why am I better at buying things than using the things I buy

When I said, “If Trump gets re-elected, we’ll be lucky if the White House is still standing after he’s done,” I didn’t mean that literally

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Was somewhere where they were giving out free shots of pumpkin spice Malört. I survived.

Didn't have getting rejected by Spider-Man on my Saturday night bingo card

It’s time #NoKings

There are so many people, Chicago is going to have to invent an even lower Wacker drive

George Washington didn’t fight a revolution So Donald Trump could destroy the Constitution

Now I want to see a 30 Rock episode about a new parade for “New York Day” where each float refers to a different New York-based movie, TV show or cultural icon/institution

Credit to Trump where due, but it’s weird to see him celebrated while the United States is falling apart at home. The government is shut down, he’s firing government employees again, ICE is terrorizing people, and all this time it seems that his attention has been focused outside of the US.

hell yeah

A lot of takes on this piece, but mine is that the word “We” should be replaced by “I”, as the author/headline took his personal experience and wrongly assumed it was universal. That would fix 90% of the problem

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

SLUGGO’S WEDNESDAY SPECIAL

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Texas can go to hell

I think that people generally view SNL as speaking truth to power through sketches about political figures, but I think the net result is to soften the images of those political figures and make icons of them. Last night’s Trump impression was funny and entertaining and it served Trump’s interests

This is like the Nazis searching for the von Trapp family in the Sound of Music

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to watch these shows

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Zach Woods is his opener

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Those WhatsApp Adam vs. Adam commercials are like those Mac vs. PC commercials where Mac was supposedly cooler but PC was secretly better

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

So this one is a bit different than the other books I have scanned, in that it is borrowable in many ways but, my copy was falling apart so rather than have it exist asa spine on a shelf I decided to tear it down and make it available online. This is The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comic

These posts were next to each other in my feed, and I had to take a minute to process that “deadly fettuccine” was not part of a joke

B&W version of my cover for The Terminator: Metal #1

Mainstream political media is not equipped to communicate the basic realities of life to people whatsoever because it prioritizes power's interpretations of reality over verifiable facts.

Hoping I don't get raptured today before I can watch Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue

The incomparable Dr Matthew everybody, from the introduction to her new Penguin Edition of Pride and Prejudice ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I don’t use TikTok but TikTokers should know that the right is going to change the algorithm to manipulate them. Our reality is defined by the information we take in and social media is a part of that

#TeamKimmel #TeamColbert #TeamFreeSpeech

It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.