Threatening an academic with a battle of administrivia seems like a terrible idea, tactically.

The Crisis that’s brewing immediately is that state and municipal executives will, out of a sense of duty or political/physical survival, command their local law enforcement to apprehend ICE employees committing heinous crimes in their jurisdictions. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

this is your mission. roll up to this daycare in full tactical gear to harass some kids and teachers. when you get spooked by your own shadow like a panicked horse and start shooting your gun, our pedophile president will call the person you shot a terrorist. good luck soldier

Klob: I can't believe ICE are killing your neighbors. That's the job of the local cops.

if i worked for the new york times i'd get pretty sick and fucking tired of my hard work, honed through years of education and experience, getting shoved through the ag sulzberger ideology filter every single day. that is, unless i agreed with it.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

It would take considerable legislative effort, but it would be nice if both Castle Rock and qualified immunity were rendered null and void by Congress.

From Seattle WTO to Cincinnati 2001 to the Iraq war protests to New Orleans post-Katrina to Pittsburgh g20 to occupy to Ferguson to the George Floyd protests to stop cop city to college kids protesting in solidarity with Palestinians, the lesson that one can easily glean is "cops lie".

I honestly wish i were this stupid because knowing about reality as it actually exists is too fucking much sometimes

remember when Biden said, "maybe we can train cops to shoot people in the legs."

This is my blood

Arrest the murderer and arrest Bovino. Not complicated.

big black chevy suburban with IL LV plate 7153 is idling outside the shakespeare cpd station with a dude in there that in normal times would be dressed either for a funeral or a catering gig

If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped. www.facebook.com/commerce/lis...

It’s a “keep an eye out for chuds in rental cars” day here in Chicago. Grab your whistle, work near your window, take a walk at lunch

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration just allowed CDOT to remove the city’s first four-way protected intersection in the city youtu.be/UpKJjpkG9eU

Meanwhile, Chicago’s approach to active transportation:

me: life has been so hard lately my therapist, Glegbar The Blood Thief: how much blood do you think is inside your body

i like this take. j6, as stupid and funny as it was at the time, accomplished what unite the right in charlottesville was supposed to accomplish.

When people understand anticommunism is fascism we'll get somewhere

I know the guy didn’t actually tase himself in the balls and die but we don’t always believe things because they’re true, sometimes we believe things because they help us live our lives to the fullest

my head is in this photograph!

what a game

illinois state have never played like they weren't in complete control this entire playoffs

im on mood stabilizers to make me more depressed (too happy all the time due to being successful handsome etc)

this screams "feature not a bug" to me but i also think that anything beyond smarterchild should be used in a "will it blend?" demonstration

instead of having these things potentially derail metra trains in the west loop we should have them do oklahoma drills against each other in the spire hole for our entertainment

sharp pins covered “she don’t care about time” and ripped through the rest of their set. not bad for a sub-$7 ticket.

the steelers are the luckiest franchise in the history of north american sports

lmao sucks to suck

been awhile since i’ve been to a show where i was worried the opener was going to nod out

All decent Americans watching this game and the prospects of Aaron Rodgers making the playoffs

The contours of governance and discourse solidified on twitter during the Obama years. They're twofold: 1. Republicans believe it's illegal for you to make fun of them; and 2. Democrats believe it's illegal for you to yell at them.

Haven’t seen analysis to this effect here, but this post from Alejandro Velasco argues that this is essentially a coup and have been hearing that many in Venezuela agree with this analysis.

Maduro making fun of the stupid little double-jackoff dance infuriating trump to the point that he sent delta force in to kidnap him really does show that, for all the online trends and movements around trump, he really is just the first TCOT president. no indignity worse than getting made fun of.

some good advice going into 2026. the endgame of being a shithead is the hypocrisy so pointing it out is banal; the object is to change the behavior, not to merely point it out. don't say anything that would get you hauled in front of a jury. and for fuck's sake don't be horny on main.

If the block button was created on BlueSky at the behest of Matt Yglesias then it should be our solemn quest to remove it by all means necessary. There are 2 solutions to social media kerfuffles: 1. Banning all bigots and send them to the shadow realm. For everything else, it's 2. Make better posts.

Chelsea Manning only approached Wikileaks because she was ignored by NYT and WaPo. Assange was charged criminally for reporting on her source material. Quote tweet not at all related. bsky.app/profile/bnon...

dudes rock

The Chicago protest against the U.S. attack on Venezuela has stepped off to march through the downtown area. Hundreds have joined the march.

okay but this is literally just Trinidad Chambliss

military mom here. a murderer fell out of my pussy like twenty years ago

the shoot-and-cry memoirs and movies about this time period are going to be a real fucking stretch, man

apropos of nothing the subway at california and milwaukee up and disappeared without notice

The 3-year-old got a rudimentary marble run set but it doesn't have a mass-start gate or an ordered finish gate. Is Discovery Toys/Marbleworks the way to go here or is there a simpler/cheaper route?

Mexico should develop nukes