i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Caleb made one of the best throws I've ever seen today. Again. Wow.

It's very clear from the commentary exploding on the timeline right now that hardly anyone outside Chicago knows ICE shot and killed a man in his car here in the fall. It's probably not your fault—too much news. But if you're choosing to jump in & *report* today, please contextualize. Thanks.

Why are we using human behavior to train AI? We suck.

My feelings as a #Bears fan are in uncharted territory. That was a dominant game against the Eagles.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

I'm very much looking forward to this. www.poynter.org/from-the-ins...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

"All I knew is that I was fucking taken. No one told me what I was there for. I thought no one knew––that I was literally gonna just disappear in there and never see my fucking kids again." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

"Chicago has a fair number of Poles, some of whom are in the United States illegally. Will ICE start staking out delis in Jefferson Park and waiting to see who buys a kielbasa?" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Tough guy didn’t even leave their name.

The Chicago Police Department’s criminal homicide tally for June, July and August is the lowest in 60 years. And overall violent crime remains near its lowest point in more than four decades. trib.al/f4O8yRs

"Which Way Western Man," a book by white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, has a chapter titled "The Necessity of Eugenics" and a section calling for the creation of a "pure race." ia800609.us.archive.org/20/items/9Ne...

This buyout offer represents a moral, business and civic failure by Tribune ownership. We should focus on building readership by investing in strong coverage, not cutting staff to satisfy short-term greed. Shame on Alden Global Capital, always.

Isabel Allende: “Soldiers are not made to shine in times of peace. The coup gave them a chance to put into practice what they had learned in their barracks: blind obedience, the use of arms, and other skills that soldiers can master once they silence the scruples of their hearts.”

“Over the past five months, in many hours of many conversations with multiple people who have lived under dictators and autocrats, one message came through loud and clear: America, you are running out of time.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As a paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell was in high demand, studying ghosts, the Loch Ness monster, crop circles and appearances of Jesus, including one on a tortilla. Nickell solved hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of mysteries. He has died at 80.

When it's 4/20 and Easter

Breaking News: Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

The educators at Finkl elementary helped protect @mannycam.bsky.social and his classmates amid pockets of conflict in Little Village when he was growing up. They still have one more lesson to teach him —that guiding children through school requires community.

Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Melanie Krause informed her staff she is leaving the agency amid internal chaos and the exodus of several senior IRS officials, according to several sources.

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

I like this guy. chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...

I loved my local #library. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

Really good reporting illustrating how difficult it is to move around in a car without creating a trail that can be followed.

Thirty employees of the Chicago Sun-Times — around one in five on its payroll — have agreed to resign under buyout terms the paper’s nonprofit ownership offered in hopes of stanching persistent financial deficits. chicago.suntimes.com/money/2025/0...

Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan’s apartment – prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody – the student is disputing the Trump administration’s account of her story.

“Goddamn it, if I had a wartime consigliere, a Sicilian, I wouldn't be in this shape!”

I’m very late to this but I cannot believe the #Lakers have Luka. LeBron and The Don. It’s crazy.

I had to say goodbye to this guy yesterday, and I’m gutted. I can’t even really describe the anguish I feel right now. It really hurts, and I miss him so much. Love and hug your dogs. It goes so fast.

"Older Brazilians carry the scars, in many cases literal ones, of their fight against dictatorship. This fight for them is visceral in a way it isn’t—yet—for Americans." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

On Monday morning, TV sets at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development played the seemingly AI-generated video on loop, along with the words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.” Read the full article: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say. For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story. Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."

After 11 years, my time at HuffPost is coming to an end tomorrow. Last week, I learned HuffPost would be ending its dedicated coverage of energy and climate change. So, I took a buyout.

Hey thanks for the plug Gutfeld. You’re as bad as Hannity. Don’t you guys have anything else to cover? That’s right. You can’t say anything critical of Trump or Musk! Sad! Hear my response later today on the show.

You don't want to tell your children that all you did during this time was post. You should be podcasting too

"If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows." www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

hey question, is this bad?

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...