HGTV has a new show called “Cheap A$$ Beach Houses” and…I have to respect it.

top notch mascottin'

We’re watching Weather Channel - WINTER STORM BELLAMY!!!- and guy said “this is a storm like your parents had in the 1970s” and…first of all who do you think watches The Weather Channel?

Going for 1980s Midwestern core Christmas

The Chicago Way

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

I know it's a slow news day for those of us in legal education, but please be advised that there is now a "Private Equity Legal Alliance" to connect law firms and funders.

We took advantage of Opt Outside Day today and visited the Indiana Dunes State Park. The nature center has some reptiles on display and this sign was on the enclosure of a rat snake. I have never felt more seen.

Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur

So do we think another Lizza drop is happening late tonight?

I second the motion to adopt this term.

What’s the deal with pickleball? Is it a cult or what?

Also, Nuremberg references are a great way to remind people that in the 1940s SCOTUS justices thought their job was to PROSECUTE war crimes, not enable them. The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.

Assuming a pardon, next time he travels internationally someone should pick up hegseth, assert universal jurisdiction, and put him on trial.

They definitely need to be tried in The Hague. They should be terrified of ever stepping foot off US territory. But they should also be prosecuted in the US. They need to spend the next three years terrified of what will happen when the administration changes.

Trials. Trials. And more trials. And the Dems thinking abt running for President need to start chanting “trials!” YESTERDAY. Put the fear of future trials in them NOW, so they stop doing this TODAY. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s feed should just be pics of Nuremberg Trials over and over again.

The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.

She might be married to him but he married to the streets

What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun

I’m mindful today of those for whom this is their first Thanksgiving without a loved one. I’m praying for a measure of peace and the comfort of beautiful memories.

I have spent much of the last decade writing articles about corporations and private equity using access to justice as a pretext to enter the legal market (especially high-margin sectors). 2025 seems like the tipping point. www.ft.com/content/4746...

WHAT

CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers

is everyone else in chicagoland having this wind????

once again, never become so trad cath that you're like "you know, Martin Luther had some good points..."

You’ll be visited by three spirits The three spirits

I tell you what, y'all motherfuckers will argue about anything.

this sandwich was THE BOMB and it's my fast good RETVRN

this local bakery has been sharing adoptable pet pics for some reason and I DO NOT NEED TO ADOPT A 2.5 MONTH OLD TERRIER but her name is PJ Sparkles 😍 (yes, this is the cocaine cake bakery)

Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league? There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets. Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.

once again, getting a little "L'État, c'est moi" up in this bitch

Shout out to the guy taking one last giant drag off of his cigarette before going into Y to work out.

Commentators still underestimate the importance of MAHA to the Trump coalition. Cassidy is afraid to cross it.

I like weekends in autumn where I see increasingly unhinged and desperate posts and have to wonder “is this about current events or football?”

This is…brilliant.

Being interested is being interesting.

I like how my dad can’t walk and is kind of clingy unless we’re at a train swap meet in which case he shoots off faster than i can catch up as soon as we enter and I have no idea where he is except for brief glimpses across building

At a model train swap meet with my dad and it’s nice to not be the most autistic person in the room.

So Yesterday...is RFK deeply damaged because his dad and uncle were assassinated and he was raised in hands off manner in a chaotic environment OR has the Kennedy family been trash since appeasement/prohibition and that got masked over because we felt bad about JFK and RFK being killed?

Started today’s bluesky session by not really deeply reading posts but instead first quickly scrolling and trying to get sense of emotional scarring of user base from post or topic which seems like indicator of healthy normal society.

Every now and then I have to step back and appreciate where we are at as far as open-source availability... The Ford CSG was geolocated using publicly available 10m imagery a little under 3.5 hours after the imagery was taken.

I feel like there was an SNL sketch were someone realized that the milk in their fridge was spoiled and everyone was like "really? let me taste and see" and then spits out in horror. This is about that RFK/Nuzzi blog post.

Not the main point, but absolutely, 100% true: "I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over." We need to live up to their care as Tatiana will, so sadly, not be able to.

decades of watching incredible women reporters be accused of this kind of bullshit while they struggle to get recognition for amazing work meanwhile this hack was actually doing it and being called a generational writing talent for it

JFK's granddaughter (who is only in her 30s which seems so young considering how in the past he seems) just announced she has terminal cancer. people.com/caroline-ken...

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason