Sadly relevant today.

Say what you want about classicist design and the architecture God likes but southsiders know the Chateau Busche' when we see it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

I heard someone say recently that synodality can't change that the church is hierarchical. I wanted to laugh. Read LG. The church is both hierarchical and synodal. It cannot un-be either. But we've overemphasized hierarchy so much for 1500yrs that every time someone says lets tend to this other...

A solemnity with its own liturgical color.

Extortion of an ally as foreign policy. archive.ph/otBtB

As I thought all along— they're not tough enough to handle our winter. Farewell, snowbird soldiers. Texas National Guard troops expected to leave Chicago and return home, source says | CNN share.google/IxzLX0qc0PH8...

For poor Italians, Germans, Poles, Irish, Bohemians For African Americans escaping Jim Crow For Venezuelans and Colombians fleeing for survivial. Chicago is a city of hopes and dreams. Maybe things will be better in Chicago. youtu.be/fbO4--793Y0?...

Mockery of Catholicism 'The Catholic Church Is Wrong': Tom Homan Responds To US Bishops Lamenting US Immigration Policies search.app/pZXg6

There's another, older, less inflammatory way to say this— Never cross a picket line Source: Business Insider search.app/My66W

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

Believing in the essential dignity of all human beings the way I do, I find it hard to call any person scum. But I am exploring an exception.

Friends, Commonweal Magazine has become an exciting place for Catholic readers. Not just Heidi Schlumpf, but now they also have added Antonio Spadaro, SJ as a regular contributor. Indispensable reading. subscribe.commonwealmagazine.org/CMW/?f=donat...

Well, there is only one honorable thing Durbin can do… Resign immediately and allow Pritzker to appoint a Democracy Warrior in his place… Someone who will fight with their last breath for our Constitution and Freedoms.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

Red-Blue thinking dominates media cvrg to tell you abt Trump or Dems winning/losing the shutdown. That's wrong. Trump inflicts pain to win. Dems holding out for healthcare or trying to get SNAP are abt the ppl of the US for whom we have a govt. This all is clarifying when you see it right.

A lot of things are wrong with this. What I want to highlight is that we *are* the richest country in the world, but that's meaningless if we are an oligarchy. For many or most of us, this feels little different from being the poorest country in the world.

I wish every diocese and parish, every bishop and pastor, every member of diocesan and parish staff professing bewilderment at synodality and hoping to quantify its actions, measure its effects could heed these wise words. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

A new collection of CTU stickers. Which one do you think is my favorite?

Listening to Democrats on @stephruhle.bsky.social talking abt Pope Leo and making Catholic arguments agnst MAGA. We're in a different place.

www.aclu.org/news/nationa... Lest we forget…

Really, Doritos?!?

A distinction could be helpful. Politics is the opposite of violence. "Political violence" is an oxymoron. The result here shouldn't arouse 'O tempora O mores' pearlclutching abt the youngs. It should tell you we have allowed politics to fail, and so politic's alternative is here to take root.

I'm a big fan @govpritzker.illinois.gov. But did dropping that F bomb move the needle in some way I'm not seeing? Shock and performance got us here. If we want something different, more of the same is a bad strategy.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼

The urgency of a 3d term is much like urgency of disrupting midterm voting— If there ever is an investigation reckoning with ICE, misuse of funds, God knows what else, the exposure a lot of ppl will have to jail time will be substantial. Keeping pwr isn't as much abt pwr as avoiding consequences.

Not quite on schedule, but not far off either.

Weird things to say. Dems voted for HR 1968 in March. Did GOP come to table in 6mos abt healthcare premiums? I missed it. So why would this time be diff? In Sept Senate GOP suspended filibuster for 48 noms. Why not do it again to fund govt? And I'm no progressive so go blow smoke someplace else.

The GOP theory of govt is reality TV. It's important to recognize this. Govt under this theory is not for the common good or public safety or making life better. Their constituents expect none of that. Under this new theory govt's only true purpose is one or another version of—

For those wondering what the new White House ballroom will look like, I recommend a visit to Alsip, IL.

Your occasional reminder that the greatest threat to constitutional govt isn't tearing down the East Wing or even ICE raids. Its happening in plain sight, and nearly no one sees it. But the POTUS is absorbing congressional power that will be hard to get back. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Democrats work for a future that resembles Star Trek. Republicans work for a future that resembles Blade Runner.

Those who wish to make a report can call the Secretary of State’s Plate Watch Hotline at 312-814-1730 or email [email protected]. Illinois Secretary of State issues warning after Border Patrol caught on video in Round Lake admitting to license plate swapping share.google/4FslTbsAWNg4...

Are we sure it's *Chicago* that has a gun crime problem? "bought seven handguns in Indiana" "bought firearms from Indiana suppliers" "In Indiana, only an ID or driver’s license is required" "Indianapolis suburbs" share.google/B43rKvRF5vdB...

With apologies to those who say we must "save democracy," the fundamental trouble here is the primary system because the voters and parties are the problem. Democracy's not bad. But it's not sufficient, either. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/b...

No irony at all.

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Your occasional reminder that the third branch was not designed or intended to save the Republic from the voters' terrible choices. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump Fury at Dems Grows as Brutal New Shutdown Poll Hits As Trump’s anger grows amid another poll slide, Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg explains why Trump’s deep unpopularity should give you solace—even if beating him long term will be a brutal slog.

omg! "Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House... "Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"If you cannot trust the NYT to be honest about the POTUS posting a depiction of himself dropping a load of literal shit on the American people, you can never trust the NYT to fully detail Trump's misdeeds. This is not a complex tax proposal about which it is difficult to draw...

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From Tom Iarossi on Facebook: 1. It's a cease fire, not a peace deal 2. Without a sovereign Palestinian state, there will always be conflict 3. Biden negotiated a cease fire in 2023 that allowed for the release of over 100 hostages by Hamas.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

there is no one on this earth you should respect less than a politician who claims Canadian cities are terrifying war zones. like awwww, are you afraid of Halifax, Nova Scotia? it's okay, little buddy, that cannon they fire downtown is a show for tourists, it isn't real