the great khan of the plains is undefeated. he spreads his protection and his bounty across the land
Former Marylander, once Chicagoan, current Evanstonian, always Coloradan, but every now and then you can catch my original Texas drawl. Discovering joy in a new place.
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the great khan of the plains is undefeated. he spreads his protection and his bounty across the land
They didn't even acknowledge the children in Colorado... Pause and really think about what's going on here. Collective grief is a sacred, spiritual act—especially for peoples whose grief is required by an unjust society. Be weary of lending your light to the darkness.
Good morning from the ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, where protestors were just standing off against federal agents in military kit. Local police have blocked off the street leading to the facility.
Following a horrible act of violence, President Trump is acting more like the leader of his faction than the leader of the whole country (via Bloomberg Opinion)
Adultery is still a crime in Maryland. It’s punishable by a $10 fine.
The boat is it stuck yes. Yes! The boat is stuck,
The other shooting in America. A 16-year-old boy who shot two students and then himself at a Colorado high school "appeared to espouse white supremacist views online"... "with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views".... www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
I can’t think of a worse way of spending my 20’s: www.wsj.com/business/ent...
This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...
My fellow parents of kids with disabilities, we had A Win here today and it just feels incredibly good. I hope you and yours get A Win soon.
Saw a minivan today in a far west suburb of Chicago sporting what I thought was a massive Trump flag on a pole, but it was a F* Trump flag streaming in the wind. I was shocked.
Missed this last wknd: Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, the Mexican man the US sent to South Sudan in July, is back in Mexico. He said Sudan treated him well. Mexico pledged no “torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, or undue prosecution.” Only 1 country mistreated him. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...
Bagel isn't forgetting Bleptember #DailyDoggo
Illegal vape sales. Yeah, that's definitely a reason to send in the National Guard.
Plume of smoke rising from the Pentagon, taken with a primitive digital camera from the balcony of my old apartment in Washington's Woodley Park neighborhood 24 years ago today.
You don’t have to platform Ezra Klein. Hate clicks are still clicks.
Short thread by Brian. The beauty of that day is forever linked in my brain to the tragedy.
Sister Vassa Larin is an American nun who is best known for teaching about the Eastern Orthodox faith to thousands of viewers on YouTube.
Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Chicago River becomes eco-friendly again, and is about to welcome swimmers back into its course for the FIRST TIME IN OVER 100 YEARS! It took over 40 years to clean.
The mute and block features on this website are so clutch
The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to repeal a Biden-era rule that sought to protect millions of acres of public lands from the twin threats of climate change and industrial development.
Prob not great that big media keeps firing analysts for telling the truth esp in light of what right wing media is doing.
U.S. army veteran who served in Iraq was detained and held by ICE for three days and nights, "and was not allowed to make a phone call, see an attorney, appear before a judge, or take a shower to wash off pepper spray and tear gas that the agents had used." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
California has more Hispanic-Serving Institutions than any other state, including six UC and 21 CSU campuses. The federal cuts will do “irreparable harm,” said CSU Chancellor Mildred Garcia.
The policy change comes after a series in The New York Times that included a story about an Oregon firefighter who got sick with cancer at 24.
Some reporter should ask if any federal agents are being pulled from Chicago to work on the Charlie Kirk case
you’re not gonna believe this but somehow we’re still both running an NSF-funded center that makes concrete predictions to stop pandemics AND working on the scientific basis to count global deaths caused by fossil fuel companies. believe it or not… we’re still doing all that baby
Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
maybe it is all the guns
And a huge shoutout to hero Judge Sparkle L Sooknanan and her clerks who put a stop to this cruelty in the middle of the night. www.dcd.uscourts.gov/content/dist...
Honored to be sworn in today to represent VA-11 in Congress. Fairfax families will always come first. Grateful to my wife Yvette and our son Mateo for their love and support every step of the way.
Read @mdoukmas.bsky.social’s latest to learn more about the Cook County Circuit Court’s new chief judge www.injusticewatch.org/judges/court...
just finished this book, which was really lovely
timeline cleanse: look at this goofy little guy
ok time to reset the timeline 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 BIG BOAT STUCK 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯
There's a chipmunk that likes hanging out on these rocks near the beach. (OK, it could be different chipmunks — but I've seen one at this spot on two different days recently.)
Here's what I think is happening in Poland. Thank you all for being patient. Gifted. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Good news for Chicagoans: Life expectancy is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels
A colleague on campus today asked me why I’d forgo office w/a window & I reminded her I get active & credible death threats. When I ended up on the Turning Point professor list I got them for a month. We have got to raise better humans & change our gun laws. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
"The country is full of loaded guns in shaky hands, swinging back and forth, from target to target." www.discourseblog.com/p/the-americ...
Maggie Astor is the New York Times reporter I trust:
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday said he’s “glad” President Donald Trump is signaling a shift away from sending the National Guard to Chicago — at least for now. trib.al/OTzByEc
somewhere in the United States, the worst op-ed you can possibly imagine is being prepped for publication. And just a reminder: you can always go out and buy an Italian combo instead of reading it
Ocracoke residents filled the Community Center on Wednesday for a meeting that presented sobering findings about the future of N.C. Highway 12 and the island’s long-term resilience. islandfreepress.org/outer-banks-...
Timeline cleanse: Here’s a photo of my dog looking very happy during our walk around Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. Hope that helps!
I remember someone posting here post-Hortman shooting about having worked with both parties regarding processing political violence. I don't suppose it's too much to hope that person is still here and interested in talking?
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Dear god please make it stop
The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. Political violence has no place in this country and should never become the norm. I’m sending my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.
note this was written before 30 minutes ago
I'm just shocked and horrified to learn of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Violence is immoral and never solves anything I've been working all day on a column about the rapidly worsening climate for free speech on college campuses. This is only going to make things 1,000 times worse
Do this, condemn all political violence, condemn all gun violence, no exceptions.
I happened to log on right when the first graphic video went out. I would suggest not seeking it.
I’m sorry, Wendy
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Utah has enough armed fundamentalist cultists who think they speak directly to God to make it *way* too early to jump to conclusions about the possible assassination motives here. It might be someone from the left but it might just as easily be someone way off the deep end of the far right.
Goodbye to the divine Polly Holliday. ❤️
Yes, we all dislike Kirk for the various harms he has helped inflict on this country, but there is nothing good that will come out of an assassination.
Violence: all too easy to unleash, an absolute devil to contain. Heaven help us.
Related: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
A 13-year-old boy who police said appeared to be fixated on school shooters was arrested on charges of unlawful firearms possession and making a threat after they say they found social media posts about intentions to kill and seized 23 guns and ammunition from his home.
My most Free State-pilled opinion is that the Maryland flag kicks ass.
Ever since Kelsey first said this, I think of it often.
the Discourse is going to be so bad
It’s the guns. It’s always the guns. No one deserves to be shot.
if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media
You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers in the United States of America to prove that you belong. All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.
Hey everybody, we found the politicization of the FBI and the weaponization of law enforcement!
A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame and alarm" @alexhorton.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
As a therapist, this is horrifying.
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Von der Leyen not mincing her words in State of the Union: "The central question for us today is a simple one: does Europe have the stomach to fight?"
Just for context, the Barrel Jellyfish that have been causing the nuclear power plants to shut down, and are on the coast of France much longer than normal because of global warming are this big:
Today, I had the opportunity to meet with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and other leaders to support their critical work during this uncertain moment. Let's stand together and we'll get through this, Illinois.
Since Trump is firing as many smart AUSAs as he can, it's kind for the criminals to commit crimes that even Trumpist dipshits can prove www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/d...
Governor Pritzker meets with immigrant rights groups amid ICE crackdown in Chicago
My neighborhood jogging route takes me around Lincoln Park in NE DC. You’ll generally see people walking their dogs, pushing babies in strollers, and a few families holding picnic. And now we have all that… plus a few national guardsmen prowling around with long guns.
Every Apple event
He is so going to drop the suit against the @wsj.com because there is no way he's opening him self up to deposition and discovery
You send troops to occupy my city and I’m not gonna yield, any more than they did at Concord.
I'm in a room full of MD union leaders and MD Gov Wes Moore just said Congressional leaders are so bent over they can't see what's in front of them.
First: To hell with his rapey "just let it happen" language Second: Violates Posse Comitatus, 1878 Third: Red States have higher per capita violent crime rates Fourth: Troops aren't needed, it's a manufactured crisis by the GOP Fifth: Putting the military in Blue States is a prelude to Martial Law
El Grito, the popular Mexican Independence Day celebration, is back on for next Monday in Pilsen despite the threat of ICE action, with one organizer saying that "canceling is not an option." trib.al/cUK8xHN
In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."
Time is running out, the $7,500 EV lease credit ends September 30. You must take delivery of your Rivian by then to qualify. What happens to pricing after is anyone’s guess. riviantrackr.com/news/7500-ri...
ChicagoTok is so wholesome A baby beaver in a local park
From @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com (cartoon from the archives)
I’m standing up for my residents and I will NEVER back down.
Exclusive Boris Johnson approached Elon Musk on behalf of London Evening Standard owner Lebedev, we can reveal Former PM’s private office forwarded business proposal from peer to owner of X in June 2024, the leaked files suggest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
BTW, this a buried detail in here, but: it's actually kind of a huge deal that at least 55 faith-based organizations — including 15 *entire religious denominations* — have already sued the Trump administration in its first year. Not sure there's much precedent for that.
I predict some realllll White House reaction.
The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.
Sabine is the best and most perfect little owl cat. She likes to follow me around and watch every single thing I do, chirping the whole time.
i’m simply going to vote for anyone from now on that provokes this type of response.