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There is only one side in American politics that consistently supports and endorses political violence. People need to stop being afraid to say so.

submitted 16 hours ago • 74 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 6 days ago • 381 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 6 days ago • 263 comments

Megan McCardle is a black hole that swallows intelligent thought. I actually think she’s worse than the guy who was at the trib forever and wrote the same column 300x about The Machine and Mike Madigan who thought he was Royko and was really just a joke to anyone with half a brain

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“… this is a Government of law, and not a Government by caprice of an individual.” — Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld’s message to President Grover Cleveland, protesting the sending of federal troops into Illinois during the 1894 Pullman strike. Graceland Cemetery.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Hey Chicago! Tix are going fast, so grab yours now and come see Hot Doug, Jim DeRogatis, Mindy Segal, Toni Preckwinkle, @kleonard.bsky.social & Beverly Kim and Johnny Clark talk Chicago & music! Proceeds to benefit @chirpradio.org

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

so gun control works is what i’m hearing

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

ICE raids Poconos pizza shop. "It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy." www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

Nothing more punk rock than putting Beach Boys tickets on layaway.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

submitted 18 days ago • 78 comments

The CHIRP Board is raising money in connection with our event Sounds Like Chicago on June 11 featuring Jim DeRogatis, Mindy Segal, Toni Preckwinkle, Hot Doug & more! Tix at chirpradio.org/soundslike And if you can’t make it, please consider a donation here: chirpradio.rallybound.org/barryowen

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

submitted 19 days ago • 135 comments

wtf

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot stress enough how much of a Def Con 1 moment this is. Federal judges fear that the President of the United States will stand down security for judges in retaliation for adverse decisions. This is such a huge story.

submitted 20 days ago • 124 comments

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

submitted 21 days ago • 66 comments

This is not just Trump. This is the GOP. The party and its voters are responsible for this. In a healthy, truly representative democracy, the racist, billionaire-beholden GOP would never win the WH or congressional majorities ever again.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

submitted 23 days ago • 503 comments

The Nike missile system’s greatest contribution to America was building a nationwide network of defunct missile and radar sites for annoying local history guys like me to be insufferable about

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

submitted 24 days ago • 61 comments

Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

submitted 26 days ago • 105 comments

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

submitted 26 days ago • 1225 comments

the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 26 days ago • 128 comments

Hey Chicago! Please come out for Sounds Like Chicago - conversations about music and life in Chicago hosted by Jim DeRogatis with Toni Preckwinkle, Mindy Segal, Hot Doug and more! www.chirpradio.org/soundslike

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"If the media were going to put their thumb on the scale, they ought to have done so in defense of democracy," writes @sulliview.bsky.social of past election coverage. Instead they opted to "sanewash" Trump's extremism, drawing false equivalences, while normalizing his fascist tendencies.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Tomorrow, go into the studio with Wilco in the intimate doc I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART! Closing Night screening of the @chirpradio.org MUSIC FILM FESTIVAL, featuring a pre-show raffle of signed Wilco items. Sunday May 18 at 7pm Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Whether it was Joe Biden with his halting pauses or Donald Trump with his repeated promises to destroy our democracy and plunge us into a world of tyranny and economic collapse, both candidates gave voters plenty to worry about

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

Really blown away by Brian Eno and Eno film @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social tonite. How about we do this every year on 5/15 in celebration of Eno’s bday? @chirpradio.org

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight! Part of the CHIRP Radio Film Fest at the Music Box! Be there!! Special celebration for Brian Eno’s 77th birthday! www.chirpfilmfest.org

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Chicago! Come out this weekend for CHIRP Radio’s 3rd Annual Film Fest at the Music Box. Opening night on Thursday features the groundbreaking Eno - this version of the film will never be shown again! And Sunday night finishes off with the Wilco doc! blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/14/c...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I haven’t read the “new” Biden stuff. Seems like a cheap stunt to sell some books. The problem with the whole blame Biden angle is that recent voter data seems to show that Trump *barely won with new maga a-holes, not because an unusual amount of people stayed home or voted differently

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One-tenth of the NSF total pre-cuts budget, in one month

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 34 days ago • 1077 comments

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

submitted 42 days ago • 626 comments

The White House is a white supremacist house.

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

Loving album Electric War by Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto. These dudes all absolutely rip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-MI...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I was sent this link by an 60yo+ relative who watches the markets closely, reads newspapers daily, and is politically engaged. He seems concerned about AI. youtu.be/wrESBnPYoZU

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment