Right now, in the middle of the north side of Chicago. This is a night heron looking verrrrry sketchy. HELLHOLE!
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Right now, in the middle of the north side of Chicago. This is a night heron looking verrrrry sketchy. HELLHOLE!
Clearly that conflict is not over yet.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
He may well have said the sky is blue. Both are equally obvious and equally indisputable. I only wish more people were comfortable enough in recognizing this publicly.
Yeah, and I wouldn’t mind kicking some of those Alpha Flakes in their Alphabits.
I would not welcome being on a treadmill that long, either. But, damn, that would sure intensify the film. The book was gripping and unrelenting. And the characters had to walk 4 miles an hour, not three, or they would be ushered out of the book, so to speak.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Thanks. It’s easy these days to think you’re going crazy.
These lame weasel words seem designed to avoid saying the obvious: This wannabe dictator has been gleefully shredding the Constitution; he is Framers’ worst nightmare and the sort of autocratic figure “conservatives” used to denounce open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I’m sure Trump would love to have them commandeer people’s homes and set the first precedent in challenging the Third Amendment.
Am I wrong that governors are commanders in chief of their state’s national guardsmen? And if I’m not wrong about that, then doesn’t this amount to an invasion?
Pretty damn good campaign launch video from Paige Cognetti.
Thanks. My wife is a good photographer.
Trump has a history of breaking deals. So anyone who signed an NDA with him should not feel bound by it. Break the deal. Make him prove in court that he did, in fact, rape women and girls. He can't say you violated an NDA unless what you are revealing was covered by it.
Listen to the victims tomorrow!
You're talking about Trump and "Mein Kampf," right?
Oh, yeah? I went walking through a park the other day, and I was veritably ASSAULTED by people samba dancing to a live gang of samba musicians. And others just sat around and watched! HELLHOLE!
We need to shift the focus of the CDC from the prevention of disease through immunizations to the prevention of disease through... um,... what, exactly?
Lovely, but the continual captions rather detract from the experience. I would prefer that viewers be trusted to know how to feel on their own.
You paid us 21.7 billion dollars, to pretend. Arguably the most expensive theater act you have ever watched.
Nobody tell him that the CDC still says otherwise. www.cdc.gov/mpox/causes/...
I agree with your general sentiment, but I disagree with your framing of healthcare and education as free. Taxpayer paid healthcare and education is the broad recognition that education and healthcare for are vital to a prosperous society. They are not free. They are an investment with a huge return
So RFK Jr. is confessing to be a narcissist? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Yeah, I always said it was a mistake to make Michelle Obama HHS Secretary. She isn't even a doctor!
That's because you aren't believing hard enough. It takes us all to believe so completely that the resultant power of our collective mind makes the economy great. Just like that.
"Walking" blues? Damn! Lightning couldn't keep up.
There you go, calling us Boomers slacker again, with only 69% of job growth in our time. Is it OUR fault that Republicans weren't always incompetent and evil?
Yeah, yeah, we read all about it. You make the rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous alike. But the unrighteous currently think they are the righteous, and they want control over all the rain and everything else. Oh, and they think Donald Trump is you.
“Trump fails to understand…” You can make a true statement out of whatever you put after that.
Who?
👇👇
Huh. A long, stupid tweet. Dang. I was kinda hoping to wake up to read the words, ding dong.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places let’s post the 25th Amendment
This truly sums up this American moment.
Woke nurses! All they care about is CARING for people. They have no appreciation for how people need to be punished in order to subjugate them more efficiently.
Is it the place where they hammer jagged tree stumps up people's bungholes repeatedly for eternity? Oh, please, please, please tell me that's the place.
What. A. Dick.
Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
Who?
The color work is beautiful.
He is busy crafting trade deals. Busy, busy, busy!
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Umm... coincidence? Crazy, weird, statistically near-impossible coincidence?
Please clarify.
By “following” the science, I believe he means “lagging.” By a century or two.
If we didn’t have mass shootings, it would be harder to maintain mass hysteria about crime. Without the hysteria, people might be able to see through Trump‘s bullshit. And, Lord knows, we can’t have that.
Which is my point. People will rationalize their bigotry with whatever system of power they have at hand.
Shh! If the CDC hears that, it will be banned.
Under Mao’s formally atheist rule in China, homosexuality was suppressed and prosecuted. Same in the Stalinist USSR, also an atheist regime. Hating gays is not a Christian thing. It’s an authoritarian thing. But, yes, it does feel like more of a betrayal from people who call themselves Christian.
About 20 years ago, I met an old guy who used to work for an old and storied political machine. He had been a precinct captain charged with stuffing ballot boxes. He talked about paper ballots. He laughed and said, “There was no excuse for losing a paper ballot.” I’m sure Trump‘s people know that.
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
In the barrel.
CHICAGO…
Paying people to fortify their buildings creates permanent reminders that they should be afraid. All the time. They don’t want to make people safe. They are funding fear. Because fearful people are easier to control.
To. Do. What? What exactly do they hope to accomplish? Have they thought this through beyond a one or two or five year horizon? It can’t be for pride; Benedict Arnold will thank them. Hitler will welcome the company. Their children and grandchildren will live with the shame. So what is it?
This one is not even about power. It is pure psychosis.
Lie, lie, lie. He will burn in hell and celebrated for that one fact in the history books.
Quick! Show a bunch of brown people on the video!
Wow, that’s tellin’ ‘em.
Dead body hung from a girder? Now that is such a cruel thing to say… and get our hopes up like that.
God is listening, but also watching. Watching what we do, and seeing if our words are empty or true.
Trump will put a stop to that with higher tariffs. A cleaner, safer, more sustainable future is a threat to the self-esteem of all backward thinking people.
Presumably these same mitochondrial challenges and inflammation are causing mass shootings. Maybe he can look into that.
The cop who pulled the trigger was literally standing his ground against a violent mob. He was defending the Capitol and his own life. It’s funny how the gun loving MAGA refuse to honor that.
You seem to have no respect for the thrill of power that causing millions of people to die can bring. Helping people is difficult and it takes a long time. Hurting them provides a near instantaneous rush of power. That’s irresistible to some.
Yes, never forget that “Trump the Builder” promised infrastructure in his first term. It goes without saying that he failed. It was Biden who made it happen. So it also goes without saying that Trump will now take credit for it.
I see what you did there.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
But what is a military for, if not to protect our feelings!!!
He even wants to rig a civil war.
And let’s not forget that so many cities are run by Democrats because white Republicans fled to the suburbs as a reaction to civil rights and fair housing legislation. With their belongings, they also took the tax base away from the cities, which precipitated decay. Remember the whole picture.
We need the national guard to protect us from fascist police. Imagine selling your soul for Trump.
ICE sneak around to side and behind peaceful protester—suddenly rush and blindside tackle him. Agents then literally drag him over the concrete by his arms and legs. Is this what we want in america? Legalized gang members?
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
‘Band’ is just another word for ‘gang.’ So what do you have here but roving jazz gangs blocking the streets and taking over Chicago neighborhoods. Send in the National Guard!
It’s crazy how such a little thing can be such big news. And very, very good news. Thank you!
Reposting this for some reason.
I can smell it.
Spotted just this afternoon in that hellhole of Chicago. Only one man can put a stop to it!
Frost: He knows they can't win, so he wants to cheat. The same thing he's done his entire life. But I'll tell you something else I feel really good about, is what California's doing. They're saying we're not gonna let you do this without a fight.
“I’m only speculating.” Is that the new “People are saying “?
To answer the question: I would listen to them.
It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Think of all the spineless patsies it takes to execute a crime like this. Is there not a single backbone left in civil service?
“Syphilitic dementia.” If you recall how much Trump has likened himself to Al Capone, who died with syphilitic dementia, and then Trump‘s famous obsession with VD and bragging about avoiding it, plus his habit of lying about his insecurities, then jokes like this seem like credible diagnoses.
People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.
The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life. Crank it! 😀 🎸
I am not taking back my words. 👇
You stuck the landing.
Citing Calvinball in a SCOTUS opinion is brilliant.
Younger generations, you need to dust off this Bob Dylan song from 1964 because it's just as applicable now as it was then. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7a...
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's OBSESSION with him
The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.
All good, but… tenets. Not tenants.
