23 years ago today, one of the greatest died In memory of Joe Strummer 🖤 ... gone but not forgotten... 📸 Anthony Saint James #punk #punks #punkrock #punklegend #joestrummer #theclash #punkrockhistory #history #otd

Crickets from the free speech bros on this, of course.

I just said to Jennifer, "If he's a Harbaugh, he's mad."

Val's Halla in Oak Park, IL and Record Service in Champaign.

In a recent visit to the Illinois Holocaust Museum, our tour guide reminded us that the Nazis first attempted ethnic cleansing before turning to outright genocide.

Well, I guess that was a fitting way to end this game.

So the Bears pick up a point in the standings, right?

The Wieners Circle remains undefeated.

I work with generative and agentic AI every day in my job and I have a very clear understanding of its benefits and limitations. This is absurd. No serious person thinks AI is better or more accurate than human research. It's a time saver. It can help you get started. That's its value. Period.

Releasing the files like

Republicans still think the rest of us will defend Bill Clinton, which shows you how out of touch Republicans are.

Okay, I have mixed feelings about this.

Spider Stacy, NA Beer, and Personal Vindication elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/18/s...

*Sings badly and out of tune* I believe that children are our future ...

I wrote a thing about our current obsession with non-alcoholic beers. And the Pogues' Spider Stacy, who turned 67 this week. elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/18/s...

Conservatives generally have no idea what "talking to each other means." They think it means "lecturing people and ignoring what they say." They want an audience, they don't want a conversation.

Happy Birthday, Paul Simonon; Feral — or Not So Feral — Cat Update elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/17/h...

Every day on this app young people make up fictional old people to be mad at and it's totally insane. Somebody was raging about how 60 year olds email. Okay, weirdo, we were using email before you were born. We kind of invented it? But rage on.

Happy Wednesday. Great morning for a walk in the snow.

Spider Stacy of the Pogues just turned 67 and he posted a reel on IG where he’s drinking a Guinness Zero, so I feel vindicated.

Did someone give him a Miranda warning?

Over here, we’re deeply saddened by the loss of Joe Ely, a singular American singer, great musician and great artist...

Raul Malo a week ago. Joe Ely today. Like Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone, I think they were, in part, trying to go back in time and find that essential spark that makes music what it is.

Dick Durbin is one of them and he already announced that he's not running for reelection when his term ends in 2027, which is good, but what was he thinking?? I mean, you should *always* do the right thing even if it will cost you, but doing the right thing would have cost him nothing!

Happy Birthday to Paul Gustave Simonon, co-founder of the punk rock band The Clash, bassman, punk icon and ballad of 'The Guns of Brixton', born on this day in 1955, Brixton Photo by Pete Still #punk #punks #punkrock #paulsimonon #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Three generations of billionaires is enough.

When I was in high school, @93xrtchicago.bsky.social played "Train in Vain" and the Clash's cover of "I Fought the Law" in regular rotation, and nothing was ever the same after that.

"What did you do today at work, babe?" asks the trooper's wife. "Well, hon, I stood outside the women's room telling ladies to prove to me they were born with vaginas before I let them pee." Not all fetishes are fascist, but all fascism is fetishistic. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...

I'm old school. We smoked pot in a cemetery before going to see Christopher Reeve in Superman.

I’m so glad we finally got these knuckleheads in our house where they are safe and warm.

A story about a t-shirt and a singer's genuine goodness. RIP Raul Malo elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/12/r...

I was a sophomore in college when this album came out my friend Mark, who lived in the dorm room next to me, bought it at a record store in Champaign. We listened to it for hours. “Washington Bullets” will always be one of my favorite Clash songs.

Every unhinged rightwing belief ends up like this.

45 years ago today Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English punk rock band the Clash, released on this day in 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #sandinista #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Major radio stations unite to boost Jamaica Strong Benefit Concert The Jamaica Strong Benefit Concert — slated for Dec. 12 at the UBS Arena in Queens — has blown into a full-scale movement in the US, according to Bobby Clarke, CEO of Irie Jam Radio. www.caribbeanlife.com/radio-statio...

The fight for human rights is ALL our fight. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼   Every LGBTQ+ person deserves to live in a world free from discrimination.     This Human Rights Day, share this post to show your support for protecting the dignity & advancing the freedom of all LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV.

I want the ghost of Joe Strummer to haunt these guys for the rest of their godforsaken lives.

I am too heartbroken to share coherent thoughts right now. May you rest in everlasting peace, our beloved Maestro. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

I wrote what I could about two very emotional concerts in honor of The Mavericks' Raul Malo over the weekend. Dancing the Night(s) Away with the Mavericks and Friends elvisatedynamite.com/2025/12/08/d...

and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

One. Thousand. Percent. Kids are not our vanity projects and they're not our property.

This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

I literally do not know a single person who was “angry” about immigration. And what kind of effed up phrase is “illegal migration” anyway? We’ve been over this before. Coming into the US without jumping through the bureaucratic hoops is not a crime. Your editors are terrible.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Tom Waits is 76 years old today. Fun fact: "Diamonds on My Windshield" taught me that even-numbered highways run east-west and odd-numbered highways run north-south ("the eights go east and the fives go north ..."). I also learned the expression "colder'n a well-digger's ass."