Jeff Nichols

Extremely funny to go "I can't believe the Poles didn't insitute reforms that would have upset Moscow" with a header image of What Happens When You Upset Moscow

In a time of rising antisemitism, we could use an organization dedicated to opposing it. Instead we have the ADL, which shrugs at Sieg Heils and anti-Jewish slurs at the top levels of govt to fixate on this. I grew up a few miles from Brighton Beach, and we called the area "Russian," not "Jewish."

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

My painting, "Capybara Among the Lilies"! My first in a series of Capybaras snoozing in water! #art #flower #capybara #sciart #painting

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

PSA Banana Republic at Old Orchard has mannequins for $50

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Told my husband that the vibe on Bluesky tonight can best be described as “Ewok party.”

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

In 1964, blue collar support for the dems peaked at 80%. After that, the dems pushed civil rights through, it dropped to 47% in 1968, then 38% in 1972. The workers left the dem party because the dem party first fought for civil rights for black people, then women, then latinos and then queers.

Early evening local history ponderable. Here's Bway & Lawrence 1979. Note that the Green Mill neon is orange & red, quite common as the gases that make those colors perform better in cold weather. Then in '81, here is the GM sign in 'Thief'. So...

Seeing photos/reports that the weathered, twisted tower of the derelict St. Olaf Church near Tioga in western North Dakota finally toppled a few weeks ago. It’s amazing it held on as long as it did. Glad I made it back out there for these photos earlier this year

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

Panel of wood (probably pine) with polychrome decoration in tempera, including an elephant Spain, c. 1400

Small-dollar donations to Republican candidates are just apocalyptic. Selected examples here. Our forecasting research found in-state individual contributions are a strong predictor of results. Way stronger than PAC spending! votehub.com/2026/10/24/2...

Ramaswamy’s team wanted to drop the Hag from Hell end later this week, much closer to Election Day, to prevent Dr. Acton from being able to fundraise off the backlash and deploy those resources. Oh well. I guess we will never know how that would have gone!

Last week, Blanche said the DOJ had no active plans to interfere in certification. The next day, he filed a lawsuit in Alaska to stop certification. He’s now demanding we all believe that Trump and congressional Republicans won’t try to stops Dems from taking their seats in Congress on Jan. 3.

No longer on X, but I would wager no one getting huffy about this joke has made the argument that Trump has transformed the White House from a stuffy office to a beautiful space.

The way pundits talk about "most Americans" is how an average Joe talks about zoo animals, extremely patronizing and also almost entirely wrong

I did not collect Garbage Pail Kids so that Art Spiegelman could make AI slop

📸 Chicago’s official drinking straw #Chicago #photography

Sam Alito: Nothing overtly racial about these statements!

This excerpt from a 1994 Spin magazine story about Soundgarden (written by the legendary Jonathan Gold) is all you need to know about Billy Corgan. We are all Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil.

This woman has been protecting a pedophile for so long she ended up looking like one.

PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN FOX NEW CINEMATIC UNIVERSE: wat

fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events,—as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi

Gambling raid at 501 N. Clark, Chicago 1965

First grade class at Melody Elementary, Chicago 1964

Reflections on the Chicago River, 1962

“also please do not google ‘working with cia in cuba history’”

Sun and fog this morning at the Montrose Beach Dunes

It's a Klan rally.

Today's ladle of Chicago history AI slop

highly recommended

Dr. Amy Acton testified before a Grand Jury at 12 years old about the horrific conditions and abuse her mother and stepfather inflicted on her and her brother. She had more courage at 12 years of age than ALL the Republicans combined had during both of Trump's Impeachments. #VetsAgainstGOP

Guys, KERRY WASHINGTON joined our door knocking event in Wisconsin today!!!! Be like @kerrywashington.bsky.social and help us turn the Midwest blue!

We need to have a conversation about how elite institutions have elevated contrarians. The idea that the Twin Cities should have let ICE ethnically cleanse their community unopposed as a means to hurt the GOP in Nov 2026 is original, insomuch as it is nonsensical and evil.

punkin dunkin

Kudos to the reporter here, who does something we almost never see: she interrupts Trump to try to make him and answer the question she asked, not allowing him to bloviate.

The race to replace Ken Paxton as attorney general of Texas is a contest that has way bigger stakes than you might assume from the outside www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...