Thursday Timeline Cleanse

It’s so unfair Democrats don’t like a guy who attacks Democrats.

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Read this thread then read it again and then again

Gosh did ANOTHER woman in the Trump administration learn that being a Pick Me for the patriarchy won't protect you? Too bad. So sad!

Really enjoyed talking to the creative team behind "Out Here," Court Theatre's brand-new musical (an unusual programming choice for them) for this month's @chicagoreader.com! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Typical NYT: One side had very strong answers, the other side had laughably weak answers, but the Times balances it out by saying both sides were asked tough questions.

The Pod Save guys are by no means the Democratic Party. They're *wishcasting* themselves as such. And that's why Platner's campaign must be crushed.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Matt Simonette recommends the world premiere of "Modern Gentleman" with About Face Theatre for @chicagoreader.com this week! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

White Dem, Swing State, loudly vetoing anti-Trans bills. Both Parties are not the Same.

"Every soft apology has come with a caveat. Every explanation redirects the blame. When questioned, he remains unwilling to take responsibility."

The NYT freelancer fiasco is brutally depressing to me because LLMs (and the writers who use them) have already destroyed so much public trust in the integrity of writers as artists, historians, journalists — even if we don't use it — and I don't think that toothpaste is ever going back in the tube.

By that (lack of) logic, Mamdani's nomination wasn't legitimate either because he didn't crack 50% in the 1st round. IL doesn't require a majority to win the primary & if Fine & Simmons didn't run, their votes would've gone to Biss, not Kat. She was a shitty candidate & lost. Just take the L.🤦🏾‍♀️

Apologies are not get-out-of-consequences-free cards. Absolutely no one is required to accept your apology, when your actions have caused untold harm. If you want forgiveness, it is entirely on you to work for it. You did decades of damage; it’s gonna take a minute for you to work that shit off.

Interesting solo show about a woman I'd heard nothing about beforehand, Giulia Tofana, starring Sydney Genco, who is best known to me as a great high-camp actor with Hell in a Handbag. Here's my @chicagoreader.com review of "The Posthumous Trial of Giulia Tofana." chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

I really don’t want to hear about how The Democratic Party needs to “get back to basic issues that families care about.” You mean the shit they’ve always done? Why don’t you just say “Can you please center white folks, specifically men, & tone down the black, LGTBQ & Jewish stuff?”

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it’s so depressingly, outlandishly gender

this is just Gender

Great and enraging essay.

okay so this what I'm talking about when I question Platner's dedication to his current progressive talking points.

Graham Platner has an ad tying Maine hospitals closing to "Big Pharma." As a person who follows health policy closely, I have no clue why and how he thinks Big Pharma is related to hospitals closing. No one with health policy expertise would say that's the cause of hospital closures. 1/ #mepolitics

It anger me to no end that while thousands of hardworking local journalists and journalists of color have been laid off, credulous dumbass Jeremy Peters stays employed because white men of a certain socio economic class are only allowed to fail upward.

Today, I was notified of another death that occurred in ICE custody, bringing the total to 45 deaths under the second Trump administration. These are not just numbers, they’re people. It’s devastating and we can’t let it continue. We need accountability & we must dismantle ICE.

Alex Grelle (AKA Grelley) delivers another fabulous homage/send-up/WTF look at celebrity in "Grelley Duvall Best Actress." Here's my RECOMMENDED @chicagoreader.com review! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

I'm sure Harper's Letter II will drop any minute now.

Totally. Welcome to consequences.

Nothing succeeds like spending the better part of two decades in the wilderness, and surely getting pasted in four consecutive presidential elections would have been just the thing to drive the Democrats further left.

You can’t go around excusing voters for the fiasco we’re currently enduring while at the same time asserting that come November voters can pull us out of the fiasco we’re enduring. Voters got us here. Only voters can get us out. Looking at you, my fellow white people.

I love this lady" The "reporter" was asking her these loaded racist question and she handle it perfectly. He really wants Black people protesting. 👏 Good for you lady. 92%

I definitely write about theater more than dance, but it was great to talk to a few women leaders in Chicago dance for this column for Women's History Month. Without women, dance in America doesn't exist. Full stop. (So we should pay them all better, for starters.) chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

also I'm fucking tired as shit of this one part sexism, one part antisemitism "Schumer recruited her!" as if a sitting governor running for Senate isn't totally normal and frankly expected it frames her as a witless woman who needs a man to tell her what to do and Schumer as the Jewish puppeteer

The fact that “character attacks are not persuasive anymore” is at the heart of our present crisis in this country.

Honored to be one of the nominees for the Lisagor Award from Chicago Headline Club this year! headlineclub.org/2026/03/27/t...

Stop. Giving. All. The. Benefits. Of. The. Doubt. To. Inexperienced. Unqualified. Mediocre. White. Men. While. Giving. Zero. Grace. To. Everyone. Else. He hasn't proven he's grown and changed. Empty words prove nothing. And he is unworthy of a U.S. Senate Seat. Maybe he should start smaller.

Black women warned what would happen if Trump got to fill the SCOTUS vacancy. Black women warned PA voters about Fetterman. Black women warned what would happen if "progressives" didn't vote for Harris & handed Trump a 2nd term. And now Black women are warning about Platner, but will anyone listen?🤦🏾‍♀️

Pssst! It's World Theatre Day. If you're in Chicago and want to see a show or two this weekend, here are some reviews from @chicagoreader.com to help you make your choices! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

"Platner says he wears his Blackwater baseball cap just to get a rise out of those who remember the controversial contractor for its heavy-handed tactics." "Heavy-handed tactics."

I hate seeing people prognosticating in much any way on the 2028 presidential race, but the worst thing I see already is people just out and out dismissing the idea of a candidate who is a woman. Don’t do the opposition’s job for them. Don’t eliminate possibility before we even get there.

I had a great time talking to just a few of the MANY women leaders in dance in Chicago for this @chicagoreader.com piece (coming in just in time for Women's History Month). chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.

War Crimes Graham just loves committing war crimes! Loves it! War Crimes Graham, they used to call him. He grew to hate the nickname though so he thought one day "man, what kind of tattoo can I get that will earn me a new nickname overnight..."

It’s a way of handling comms and politics if you think what swung the election was low info voters’ complaints about culture who have to be won back to the Dems and not people who were mad about inflation who wanted 2019 back

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

"What if we didn't suck" is a question that goes both ways.

AIPAC didn’t win! AIPAC spent more money vs Biss than vs her, she got crazy amounts of free nat’l press, & she outspent Biss by 50% She didn’t lose bc of ratfucking done against her. She lost despite ratfucking done _for_ her. And bc she wasn’t the best candidate nor did she run the best campaign

My longstanding dream of having David Byrne wave to me while I was shoving an appetizer-sized bruschetta into my mouth came true tonight. #BucketList

FWIW, here's what @janetmillsforme.bsky.social has actually ACCOMPLISHED on improving healthcare for Maine residents while Governor: www.maine.gov/governor/mil...