Just thought I should add: I’m *not* rooting for a shutdown, which would be awful. But Dems simply agreeing to whatever bullshit Thune puts in front of them would be awful as well. There’s no good option here for Dems, only degrees of bad options. Terrible things will happen either way.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

One thing that's absolutely f---ing unbearable on this site is that if you dare to point out that Trump is not actually successfully oppressing all of us on every conceivable front, that not *all* is irretrievably lost, a parade of doomers materializes to denounce you. It's counterproductive. Stop.

Surveillance footage shows a Starbucks worker did not write “Loser” on a drink ordered in honor of Charlie Kirk, despite a right-wing activist generating outrage over the incident that led to the coffee shop's temporary closure

Cowards in uniform

Kimzyn Campbell of @chicagoreader.com RECOMMENDS "Abby Paj Tries to Stay Alive" at the Neo-Futurists! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

In good news, the Trib picked the correct front-page photo today:

Earlier this week, Sinclair said it would replace "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a documentary about Charlie Kirk during the Friday time slot that Kimmel occupies on its ABC affiliates. Friday evening, Sinclair pulled the documentary and aired "Celebrity Family Feud" instead.

i think a good criterion for if someone is a good debater is “is their stance on stoning people to death easy to parse”

I think two things can be true at once: 1) the Trump/Miller plan of a splashy military invasion was foiled, expertly 2) they are using their ICE Gestapo to extract terroristic revenge

Any rich dems want to fund an independent science news and commentary outlet, hmu (climate, vaccines, energy, public health, biomedical research, assults on science writ large, etc)

I say we all change our profile pics to George Floyd on October 14.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

If anything, these assholes are making it MORE likely that I'll be getting a cardio workout doing some grave dancing in the years ahead.

I haven't seen it framed quite this way before, but yes.

Holy shit. Trust me you want to watch this.

October 14 is the 25th anniversary of my father's passing so I know who I'll be remembering that day.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Fuck Cox and fuck Klein

Governor "Thank God it wasn't one of us" wants to pull our politics back from the brink?

They saw the "Don't obey in advance" signs and went, "Nah, I like getting status from people in power, even if they're the worst fucking examples of humanity around."

@rsasch.bsky.social recommends the world premiere of "Rabbits in Their Pockets" at Lifeline Theatre for @chicagoreader.com! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

federal agents are getting increasingly violent as the morning goes on and the crowd of protesters outside the broadview ice facility grows. i’ve seen multiple people pushed and thrown to the ground. dhs is now playing a dispersal order warning of arrests and the use of chemical munitions.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

olivia nuzzi should not have a role in journalism, since she breached norms so badly with her affair with RFK Jr. she has proved herself an unreliable source with bad judgement. this is a hire that will come back to bite @vanityfair in the butt.

more social media video shared shortly after 7:45 a.m. today shows an ice vehicle almost hit a person on a scooter as agents fled from a home depot on 47th/western in chicago. the person who was almost hit by ice told @unraveledpress.com he is under 18 years old and was on his way to school.

at the zenith of RFK Jr. breaking medicine, science and trust forever, Olivia Nuzzi is named West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair.

Lavina Jadhwani was one of the brightest, fiercest, warmest of artists in Chicago theater and beyond. It's deeply unfair that she's no longer with us. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Brian Kilmeade got what he wanted.

Yup. Get it right, people.

Chicago playwright James Sherman's "The First Lady of Television" at Northlight is set in 1950 and is the timeliest show in town right now. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

What I can't get over is that they're bending the knee to this guy. Like, this fucking guy specifically. Not a military genius like Caesar or Napoleon or a psychopathic god like Hitler or Mao but this fucking rube. I don't understand how democracy can work in this country if this is all it takes.

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

Well, as each day goes by, I feel better and better the company I am in of people who speak the truth and are punished for it.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

And from the perspective of the regime, this was a much more offensive thing to say. Not criticizing Kirk, nor misstating anything about the details of the case, but calling out the censorship crusade itself as bullshit. First rule of censorship is you have to censor talk about the censorship.

people generally understand that when Obama says things like "we disagree that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake" that's a shiv, right?

However stupid and spineless you thought this mediocre white man is ... he's much worse.

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Using deliberately technical language to deride poor people having better access to healthcare as insignificant, but leftishly

The Midwest newsroom at @propublica.org is amazing. Fantastically talented, hard-working, good-hearted people who do this work for all the right reasons. And so much fun to be around. I love being part of it. Come join us! This is a **solid-gold journalism job opportunity.**

For @chicagoreader.com this week, I talked to the writer/star and director of the U.K.-based autobiographical play "Gangsta Baby," opening in its U.S. premiere at Open Space Arts. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

The campus killing that this country SHOULD be up in arms about is the Demartravion “Trey” Reed hanging from a tree in the middle of DSU campus in Mississippi.

That's not Ken Martin's job, as the DNC doesn't run elections. That's up to your state's board of elections. Ask them about it:

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.