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Chicagoan. Big fan of my family, democracy, the Cubs, and the $2 bill. We can't let this a$$hole beat us.
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If you’re looking for good news, at least the Trump administration has decided to try to unfairly and illegally destroy an institution that is definitely capable of defending itself in court. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

I guess Hegseth hasn’t been in the news too much lately, so he does this to remind everybody “hey, I’m a monster too!“ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

Extend PCA! now!! #cubs

Still incredible to believe that only a couple of years ago nobody knew that a live performance of The Beatles performing I Just Don’t Understand (and Anna!) existed from 1963. Thanks to @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social for helping unearth the Stowe tape, now we do! youtu.be/hmzvSinpRzI?...

I hear that this is The Orange Guy's new favorite performer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGj...

Well, Elon's PR team is certainly getting some publicity. Who says publicity needs to be good? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

lol

Hide all the ketchup bottles at Mar-a-Lago. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Trump is a character familiar to history, if only history were much dumber, more vulgar, and written in ALL-CAPS. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Science Schmience. It’s RFK Jrs opinion that matters wapo.st/43sc0Bz

Re-upping: If *anyone* *anywhere* in US journalism is planning a story this coming week on "Joe Biden's fitness," .. . ... Look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what is happening right now. Our problems, NOW, do not involve Joe Biden.

Enjoy?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/b...

Bats Shooed Out Of Nation’s Waterslide Tunnels In Preparation For Summer — theonion.com/bats-shooed-...

“I believe it is my duty as a survivor to provide testimony so that Blacks, Asians, and Native Americans, who have never experienced such hardship for themselves, can learn about the ethnic cleansing of whites, something that should never be allowed to happen again.” theonion.com/trump-shares...

This $1.5B golf complex near Hanoi & plans for a Trump skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, are part of a global moneymaking enterprise no family of a sitting president has ever tried. As the blitz makes the Trumps richer, it distorts how countries interact with the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

Political Group Wants Alderman To Apologize For Falsely Linking It To DC Shooting Suspect blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/23/p...

Everyone was focused on the charges Trump made to the South African president early in the week, yet few will hear that the charges have since been totally refuted. This is how he gets away with being the BS president www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morons trying to convince themselves they’re manly www.mediaite.com/media/tv/con...

I am surprised to learn that the president, any president, has “free time“ when apparently they are not president, and therefore able to accept million dollar bribes from crypto bros. Good to know.

Neil Steinberg chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

President Trump is refusing to release the guest list of his pay-to-pay crypto dinner, as his press secretary Karoline Leavitt argues that the dinner is in his “personal time." Personal time that brought in $147,586,796.41. https://trib.al/jEHleIz

theonion.com/teacher-asks...

My friend Cate Plys has a lovely, comprehensive tribute to Michael Miner in her Roseland, 1972 substack: roselandchicago1972.substack.com/p/mike-royko...

“The taste of human blood”, ep4 of series 2 of Poker Face is superb. Utterly bonkers, but the Florida jokes just keep coming, and the alligator mandalas are a wonderful left-field touch

We won’t defeat fascism by pleading with cultists who think J6 was a “tourist visit” and Mexico paid for the wall. They’re lost to us. The people who matter now are A) those who ignore politics and must be awakened; and B) patriots who must be persuaded to get more active now, while they can.

In case you were wondering, despite Trump’s nonsensical comment, there is no “stage 9” prostate cancer.

Trump Imposes His Will on Major League Baseball prospect.org/culture/2025...

Editors would make the paper less entertaining

Since every accusation Trump lodges against his enemies is actually a confession, I wonder how much he paid Kid Rock for his endorsement? I’m gonna guess $99.99. And a case of Bud Lite.

The people pumping this Biden story, five months after it matters, are really hoping you will pay attention to it and ignore the disaster that is already upon us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Heck of a job, Donnie www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/b...