All of God's children are special, beautiful beings, each in their own ways.

I might have just spent some time playing "Spanish Bombs" and "Stay Free" on the guitar. For reasons.

For what it’s worth, I have two tattoos – one is my Fender Telecaster and the other is based on the shoulder patch from my dad’s WWII US Army uniform. (I thought it was important to point out which side we were on.) No, I don’t live in Maine. Why do you ask?

"The Chicago Bears are 4-2" sounds like something AI would make up.

So, the No Kings protests were great, but the most uplifting thing for me was spending the evening with some excellent lawyers from and supporters of @lambdalegal.org in Chicago last night. Resilience, hope, and constructive action are unstoppable.

I used to really enjoy watching football but it's so cringey now. The commentators' nerdy obsession with stats and their hyper (fake) masculinity is so toxic that it's nearly unwatchable. These guys are humorless and annoying.

Fun fact: I saw Peter Tosh open for the Rolling Stones at Soldier Field in 1978, along with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and a highly overrated Bay Area band that shall remain nameless.

Chicago’s under siege, and I worried ICE would use the NKD protest downtown as a distraction to attack the neighborhoods. So I covered a rally in an immigrant neighborhood. It really encouraged me to see Chicagoans under attack celebrating their defiance to injustice.

Oak Park , Illinois, 18th October 2025. No Nazis, No kings ✌️☀️🌊💫😊

My hometown.

#NoKings 🤣🎯

I saw a picture of someone at a No Kings protest holding a sign that said "love and acceptance are now punk ideologies," and, as an old timer, I'm here to tell you that love and acceptance were always at the core of punk rock. That was the whole point -- to carve out a place where we belonged.

Posting a picture of my dad in his Army uniform from 1943 for no particular reason ...

Here's a thought. If a person mentions X and you're about to post "It's not X, it's Y," stop and consider whether it's *both* X and Y. Because usually it is.

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

His father literally wrote a children's book about the immigrant experience in New York.

Listening to these weird conversations about whether AI is becoming conscious and whether humans can have actual relationships with AI, it strikes me that it won't belong before AI is considered more real and has more rights than trans people, and that's really depressing.

1978 A great year for old-school punk, pop punk, gothic punk, and new wave. Do you have a favorite? The Feeding Of The 5000 – a masterpiece in itself. #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #newwave #gothpunkrock #poppunk #history #punkrockhistory

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier. t.co/joY390u4V0

Arby's will most likely win this (they've won similar cases in the past), but isn't it ridiculous that companies engage in deception in the first place? Their defense, basically, is this: of course it's deceptive, but everyone knows it's deceptive, so nobody's deceived.

I won't engage anyone who writes for the Atlantic, but never forget that Bari Weiss quit her job at the New York Times because people rightfully objected to the Times publishing a pro-censorship, anti-free speech op ed by a sitting US Senator (an error of judgment that looks even worse today).

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

JD Vance swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same” So … lock him up?

As they do every year, tens of thousands of runners ran 26.2 miles through dozens of Chicago neighborhoods without incident, and I guarantee you that not a single journalist in America will comment on the fact that the city didn't need the National Guard to pull this off.

This does not appear to be good baseball.

You might be cool, but you'll never be as cool as Johnny Cash taking a break during his 1968 Folsom Prison concert.

Good morning: This week, judges blocked the Trump administration from deploying Nat’l Guard in Chicago … blocked federal agents from assaulting peaceful protesters & journalists … ordered ICE to take down the fence in Broadview … And a grand jury refused to indict a ham sandwich >>>

After I heard about that WSJ article on Johnny Cash I had to go back and listen to his cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Johny 99" and dear God, it's even better than I remember. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04Y...

It bears repeating: I like my popes from the Southside and my baseball from the Northside.

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

I'm no baseball wonk but I don't think you're supposed to strand three runners when you had the bases loaded and only one out.

We've decided to call him Dabney Swanson from now on.

I like my baseball on the North Side and my popes on the South Side.

80+ years ago, my mom was the girlfriend of an antifa guy. When my dad was in the US Army, 66th Infantry Division, kicking Nazis asses in France.

The reverse of this is Goethe Street in Chicago.

People love to post things like "[NAME] is the only [POLITICIAN/TALKSHOW HOST, etc.] who's standing up to Trump" and it's only because [NAME] is the only one they've paid attention to.

University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Northwestern University.

The worst thing about this Cubs-Brewers series is that I can't even make snide comments about people living in Milwaukee because it's a pretty great city. Their baseball team is Satan's spawn, but their city is pretty cool.

Team Chicago now and forever.

From Larry Heinemann’s book, “Black Virgin Mountain”:

After careful and thorough analysis, I have determined that the combined number of undocumented migrants on Medicaid AND the ACA is zero. That means if we stopped spending the money on that, we would save zero dollars.

It's cake season! Cake season runs from October to March and is one hundred percent something I made up

Cake season is when you bake cakes and tell yourself you're going to give cakes away to your neighbors because holiday cheer and whatever but instead you just eat all the cakes yourself

Here’s the longer version of this thread: www.stevevladeck.com/p/181-courts...

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

If you are someone who believes love will win, if you are someone who WANTS to believe love will win, @lavernecox.bsky.social and I got something for you over on Prime. Presented by the late, great Norman Lear. Watching "Clean Slate" is certified self-care and whatnot.

Okay, who forgot to stuff Stephen Miller back in his locker?

"Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own ..."