Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Exclusive: The Defense Department has barred photojournalists from briefings on the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed “unflattering,” according to two people familiar.

Arted with newsboxes in 2026 I just want to scream at everybody involved. #Journalism @nytimes.com @katierobertson.bsky.social

An 8-year-old is running a war.

Two with Gorsuch and one with Kavanaugh.

I saw an ad the other night paid for by Friends of Sara Feigenholtz attacking a candidate in somebody else's race by tying him to Brandon Johnson, and most of the commercial was about how awful Johnson was. Can't remember the candidate or find the ad, if anyone knows anything about it, lmk #Illinois

There's also this, the fundraising/PAC strategies in this race are a bit head-spinning.

Obviously I'm against threats to anybody, but this is also fascistic in its own way - leaders of a regime living in military compounds. (The regime, btw, that has unleashed political violence in this country.)

Here's this from yesterday if anyone cares, I know this really isn't the platform for this sort of thing, but I'm currently off almost all other platforms and trying to figure out a new social media plan. Putting on second pot of coffee now.

Remember, the Obama Foundation refused for years to sign a Community Benefits Agreement.

Everything in America is for sale - for hypersale - and that's the root of all of our problems and I blame Ronald Reagan and the people around him for laying the groundwork, though we weren't all that before him either. (Also, bigotry, which he and his cohort also deserves blame for)....

Again, I wish this came out sooner and I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more media pick-up - actually better ad material than her being a teenage conservative who loved Marco Rubio, no?

I found this to be quite an interesting episode, featuring the interview with former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, who often has interesting things to say. Someone more in touch with that era of Israeli politics can tell me if he really was doing sleazy financial deals while in office.

Where's Big Balls when we need him

I guess the donuts weren't in the skeet but the article. I wonder where they ordered their donuts from, because I'll be back in D.C. for a couple days in May. But yes, an absolute outrage.

"Hamilton" never held up as a portrait of America because it's not true: www.beachwoodreporter.com/politics/why...

Frankly I wish I (and the public) had learned this earlier about Raja. (Also one reason why I'm not fond of early voting nor the way news orgs have not adjusted coverage to account for early voting.) Rich Miller of @capitolfax.bsky.social raised the possibility yesterday that with the fighting ...

The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

I'm old enough to remember when he said he'd sell that restaurant if he was elected alderman because it would be a conflict of interest to own a business in his ward.

That's on Mars America, not Earth America.

OK, my posts and quote posts and reply to this got all messed up. Let's just say this: Raja can't remember being pulled over by a state trooper after telling his driver to speed to their next fundraiser, and then pulled the "don't you know who I am" schtick? Needs a better headline, though.

"Hamilton" never held up as a portrait of America because it's not true: www.beachwoodreporter.com/politics/why...

That's $512 per donut order.

"I don't remember a war Americans won in decades," a guest says on the Haaretz podcast I'm listening to. Instead, everywhere has been left in chaos.

"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."

So Kat Abughazaleh is actually a rich kid despite her working-class claims. #Illinois

It can pay a lot. But you have to post crap, right?

Obama's kicking out the poor people. We always knew it would happen.

As I said from the start of the U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois, none of the top three candidates have distinguished themselves as deserving of the office. But here we are.

Again, I'm not supporting any candidate, but at least one of these votes was a vote against antisemitism. The ICE language was trick bag from the GOP so attacks just like this - or for not supporting the bill - could be made: jewishinsider.com/2026/03/raja...

Plus, if I moved farther from my parents in Mpls my mom would probably have a heart attack. I work remote so I could take my laptop on the road for a bit. I dunno I've felt stuck in Chicago for a very, very long time & some of u r probably as sick of hearing me say it for yrs as I am of thinking it.

Like I said before, I'm a lyric person and I believe if you are "not a lyric person" you aren't really a music person or at least a song person, but I'm scared to look up the lyrics to this record which I haven't gleaned yet because I don't want them to be stupid and ruin it:

I read a post from a therapist on Reddit last night who said no matter how much he can give to his clients (they don't say patients?) he can't give them what so many need most: money. I've wondered for a long time: Do I really need therapy or do I really need money? I'm not a materialistic...

The 3 percent who opposed WWII are now running the country.

The first pot of coffee goes so fast so then I make another and then it turns out I don't really want anymore.

As I mentioned recently, I've become absolutely obsessed with Slowdive's 2017 "Slowdive." As I understand it, this is sort of their comeback record and they weren't necessarily received well with their first few offerings. I just started to go back into their discography yesterday and while ...

"Just because the world is about to end and everyone is a disappointment is no reason to be down, my friend." - Don Jacobson, Minneapolis

Use of the passive voice is the problem here. "Trump Open to Killing Khamenei ... " or is it actually a threat, "Trump Threatens to Kill Khamenei if He Doesn't Do What He Says"

Ben Shapiro: “A lot of Trump's critics today are pointing out this tragic incident with an Iranian school at which a 160 girls were killed. That is indeed tragic, and it's terrible. And it's also called collateral damage in war.”

It's becoming tempting. But can I be successful making up my own conspiracies instead of joining theirs? Because theirs are gross. I wonder how many subscribers and revenue I could get. For example, the green dye in the Chicago River once a year ...

"More than 200 journalists at Law360, a legal news outlet, and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company RELX drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security."

"In each of those three cases, administration officials accused the victims of endangering the officers before they were killed, and some of their characterizations were proved false once more information about the shootings became public."

"In the past year, federal agents in southwest Arizona issued more than 100 citations to individuals that included permanent residents, visa holders and international students under a 1952 provision enacted to track noncitizens."

The Trump administration has so radically transformed the (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration detention, deaths in custody and officers’ use of force are not being investigated, according to court records reviewed by the Guardian.

"LaFayette later trained Black youth to become leaders in the Chicago Freedom Movement and helped organize tenant unions." #Chicago

Will it be "Trump's United States of America" or "The United States of Trump" by the time he's finished?