It's happening again!

Almost everything now happening at the federal level now has a direct antecedent in Wisconsin GOP politics under Scott Walker & Robin Vos in 2008-25. The lying. The defunding. The violating laws & norms. The demonizing some people as not being part of the Herrenvolk. It was all here first.

We learned from Chicago and Portland. Yall learn from them plus Minnesota. All you fascists bound to lose.

I, maybe naively, thought there was a chance a new regime could backtrack on some of the shit Disney has done the last 6 years. But looks like that's not gonna happen, huh?

Je'von needs to be pushed better, starting yesterday. Just look at that. No one else does that. He needs to be working with top talent like the other call ups are.

Borders aren’t real, migration is not a crime.

jfc this is really bad! we should not be doing this!

They’ll try to outlaw ALL trans care next.

The binary mindset that we either get a Netflix/WB or a Paramount/WB is *completely untrue*. Warner Bros without its dying cable channels can be a profitable company, as it was this year. All of these merger offers are illegal, and state AGs can challenge them and win.

And then there’s a world here where movies like Sinners and One Battle After Another don’t even hit our biggest screens, or they do only in major cities on the coasts. Further instilling that the movies are no longer for everyone now, just those in the right place with money.

I gotta ask, how did we end up with so influential people who are Fucking MARKS!!! Trump famously thought McMahon died when his limo "blew up", and last year asked the Undertaker, on camera, if wrestling was real... Trump's been in a WWE match! How far does this go!

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.

The story of this week is that millions of Americans were told in 2024 their lives would be improved if trans people's lives were made worse and I'm glad they're finally waking up to the fact that was never true to begin with--but trans people's lives are still getting worse

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence. I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE." No. ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

People are so brainwashed about Chicago being a crime infested hellhole that they assume white people and single family homes must be in the burbs. This is in the city.

When this era is done, I don’t want to hear anyone saying “Let’s move on.” We deserve ACCOUNTABILITY.

Went to Broadview ICE today. All I'm gonna say is... what I want is for whistles & neighborhood lookouts & text chains & the rest not to be necessary. I want the war on us to stop. I want no one--except those who are doing this--to hear the racking sobs of someone whose loved one is inside Broadview

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Hey, @jay.bsky.team. As a disabled person, it's disheartening to see one of the foundational pushers of alt text, a Black STEM voice, a queer advocate, and a huge voice for the disabled community gone over a poor taste joke. Having Link here is good for so many people. Please reconsider?

We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy. The two are antithetical.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

FWIW, Trump focusing on autism is not a distraction from Epstein. He has been obsessed with autism ever since his friendship with Bob Wright, the former head of NBC Universal and the founder of Autism Speaks. Wright was also the person who put him on the Apprentice.

Yes give me money to actually make stuff, instead of just being the dude who sees all the patterns of Bad Things™ and gets yelled at for pointing them out instead of ignoring them.

Kenvue, which owns Tylenol, is issuing mildly worded statements when they need to say “we are going to sue you into the middle of next year.” There is no scientific basis whatsoever for people with zero medical expertise telling anybody to not take Tylenol, cut and dried interference-with-commerce

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

Trump: "Finally, to help reach the ultimate goal of ending the autism..." Their goal is very clear.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

1984 broke mainstream Democrats brains, and 1992 was when they reset the break incorrectly, and they’ve been unable to function correctly as strategists ever since.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

I've seen a lot of people repost Jon Stewart's Daily Show segment from last night. But Colbert brought back "the other guy", from the old show and did The Word. It's great but it got posted on YT after midnight, so not as many people saw it. youtu.be/ATxL1dLkPnY?...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

While this is a win, the regime still moved the 300 ICE agents, they brought to LA, to Chicagoland. In fact ICE killed a man yesterday, after attacking protesters on Friday. It's just been less cinematic so there has only been independent reporting on it. bsky.app/profile/unra...

Cannot emphasize enough how attached our local fascists were to Kirk and how much danger protesters in Chicago are in right now. There's already an off duty cop stalking out the ICE facility and harassing them everywhere they go It would be cool if literally fucking anyone cared

'Flow' cost $4M. 'Hundreds of Beavers' was shot in 12 weeks and cost $150,000. Artists rethink what movies are, techbros rethink how to shaft the people who make them. www.theverge.com/news/773584/...

Thing is NYC was at its best that day real ass people on the same team trying to survive everyone was so proud to be American that day and then Congress and Bush used that sense of togetherness to wage war on people who weren't responsible for it and it led to this stuff today and, well, shit.

Our country’s most powerful official is our country’s greatest enemy.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

If our fascism was normal and rote then we would have to admit we allowed it to happen and could have done something to stop it. So much easier to convince ourselves it’s unique and unknowable so we can wash our hands of responsibility.

The team owned by socialism has seized the means of the NFL's most valuable defender from Jerry Jones

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.