This seems extremely not good: chicago.suntimes.com/business/202...

While Bad Bunny has focused some attention on the electricity grid, I'll once again bring up this InSPIRE Research Study: Innovative Solar Practices Integrated with Rural Economies and Ecosystems that Democrats got done in their two years. Coffee agrivoltaics, cool 🔌💡 www.mtsolar.us/coffee-farm-...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

@rsasch.bsky.social recommends Redtwist Theatre's production of "Confederates" By Dominique Morisseau for @chicagoreader.com! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

My vote for MVP goes collectively to the stage crew that set up and took down that insanely great halftime show.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

That was fun!

I love that every single mention of this Olympic backflipper today has been dogged by Surya Bonaly historians - as they should be.

people who say that all creative endeavor can be replaced with AI probably need to reckon with the fact that all televised sports events with human athletes could easily be replicated by high-definition computer-animated simulations….and yet we don’t do this and no one seems to want to.

Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"

reasons to read the @chicagoreader.com instead of crain’s: 👉 the reader is free and available in print 👉 our political analysis is deeper than “fat people can’t be president” 👉 sometimes we say fuck

Early returns in Louisiana’s special election: The Dem candidate is leading 58.5% to 41.5%. That’s with a third of the vote in. Context: this is a Dem-held seat but in a district TRUMP carried by 13%, so has been a big/obvious GOP target. Stay tuned.

Let me just interject here with the ‘the Democrats had 4 years to release them but didn’t’ gaslighting. The Ghislaine Maxwell investigation, trial and appeals were ongoing throughout the Biden presidency and the final appeal, the one to the Supreme Court, wasn’t over until October 6, 2025. 👇

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals

As someone who often has had talent for the things I do: Let me tell you how it doesn't get you very far. It'll get you to maybe an intermediate level at best. To actually get good - really good - talent isn't remotely enough. There are no shortcuts. You have to put in the work.

YUP

@psalmone.bsky.social RECOMMENDS Tina Fakhrid-Deen's "Squat" with MPAACT for @chicagoreader.com this week! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

Trump, 2024: IT'S A TIME FOR PUNISHMENT! I'M GONNA MAKE PEOPLE PAY! IT'S RETRIBUTION TIME! DADDY'S COMING! Trump Voters,2024: YASSS DADDY! MAKE THEM PAY! SPREAD THE PAIN!! Trump: Ok! YOU get some pain and YOU get some pain and YOU get some pain!!! Trump Voters, 2025-26: WE DIDN'T VOTE FOR THIS!!!

Taraji P Henson: This is what’s in Project 2025. Kamala Harris: This is what’s in Project 2025. Barack Obama: This is what’s in Project 2025. Hillary Clinton: This is what’s in Project 2025. Trump voters, and the media: WHY DIDNT ANYONE TELL US ABOUT PROJECT 2025???

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

Mental illness doesnt make you racist. Being racist makes you racist. Taking Ambien doesnt make you racist. Being racist makes you racist. Drinking doesnt make you racist. Being racist makes you racist. Having dementia doesnt make you racist. Being racist makes you racist.

3: girl cannot fucking cook bsky.app/profile/thoc...

You can criticize Trump’s racist meme without reposting it. I believe in you. And you might want to think about the people whose face you’re shoving it in.

My @chicagoreader.com review of "Mary Jane" at Northlight Theatre. chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Kinda aggravating to see how many people who refused to vote in a way that would have stopped an adjudicated rapist from taking office are NOW screaming "DO SOMETHING!" at the Dems re: Epstein. You already told us rape isn't a dealbreaker for you. Sit down, assholes.

Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.

Speaking of Texas, I don't know if you've seen this, but @charlesgaba.com has put together an Unlikely Heroes page for Texas. SD09 happens to be part of that page, and I really do think we need to give the Dems in red districts (especially progressive Dems) some love here. bsky.app/profile/char...

Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

One time Biden said “million” instead of “billion” and it was in the news for 2 straight days

"None of us figured out how to avoid being here." IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."

I *love this.

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

Aw. Westminster had a tribute to Catherine O'Hara. Right before the terriers came out, of course.

"I have done something so bad that you cannot find an unbiased jury, therefore I am innocent. QED."

Watching the dog show and think the working group should be renamed "the drooling group."

House passes bill to end shutdown. Now, all of the govt EXCEPT DHS has funding through end of fiscal year DHS funding runs through Feb 13. At that point, we're looking at DHS-only shutdown Importantly, ICE & CBP continue to operate w/ pay. Not much leverage, but this is least bad leverage option

The @edweekunion.bsky.social voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first contract! For the first time, EdWeek is establishing a minimum annual salary & and all members will receive general 3% wage increases each December. Congratulations to the EdWeek Union members! wbng.org/2026/02/03/e...

We shipped somewhere around 20,000 whistles *today* (850 of those were mine) and literally the only thing we need are some coils of plastic to turn into a fleet of whistles. Help out! linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

I had hundreds of comments on a post today that are really disappointing.. Folls with degrees amd authors saying the most ridiculous shit I have ever heard in politics. Now, I clearly know why we are here.

Robyn Hitchcock For No Reason, because there never needs to be one. (I saw him perform this solo at Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago about ten years ago, and the intro was just an incredible piece of loopy performance art.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR_7...

Just wait until they find out the Feds will sacrifice them & that qualified immunity by calling them contractors not employees

Days like today I wonder if I should temporarily unblock the person who tried to follow me here years AFTER telling me I was bad for questioning Tulsi's progressive cred because she endorsed BERNIE! and was from Hawaii, a blue state! Yes, those were her only criteria. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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lol, the idea that it costs more to buy groceries than to eat out is so fantastically untrue it is basically all by itself a marker of intellectual depravity.