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I’ve loved Alex Goldman’s work going all the way back to TLDR, the side project of @onthemedia.bsky.social that sort of morphed into Reply All. He’s a brilliant storyteller and a dogged investigator, and his new show is incredibly good. Give it a listen, friends!

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i think Democrats can improve their image a fair bit if they stopped listening to him specifically. like, if i were to create a caricature of a liberal that is representative of everything people like me on the left hate about liberals and Democrats, it'd just basically be Matt Yglesias.

We’re two weeks away from Election Day and getting closer to a historic moment for Chicago Public Schools. If you’re still getting familiar with the candidates, now is a good time to learn more about the Public School Champions and the communities they represent. Learn more: ctulocal1.org/vote

Abdul El-Sayed faces a fracture Democratic base. Only a measly 95% of Democrats support him.

PAXTON: hey we're catching a lot of shit for holding our final rally at the alamo, the site of an infamous Texas doomed last stand TRUMP:

*placing a stack of papers on the table* Alright honey I think we can get through this in under an hour. Going alphabetically, do you disavow the Abdullah Azzam Brigades?

i have yet to see a non-loser explain exactly why we need to throw our trans friends in the garbage to win. it sort of seems like the losers who lost are the ones saying that

yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive

This guy is so good at this.

If we're going to get through this, all ICE employees must -be prohibited from owning firearms -be prohibited from associating with former colleagues -be required to undergo extensive counseling/deprogramming -be required to submit to regular drug screening -have all online activity monitored

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

i'd vote for that. sounds refreshing

Rest in piss Mike Ditka you dined out for four decades on a reputation for hard-nosed defensive toughness based the success of a team where you coached the offense. A dumb guy's idea of a good football coach

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

I really love Cory Doctorow's writing, and his thinking. His essay today captures in tremendous detail an idea that I've been saying for years: If the biggest political activity you do is voting, then you really aren't politically active. pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

There's a lot of great stuff here that is also Chicago relevant: "[School closure] savings are so small because buildings are not where the money goes. A school district spends most of its budget on people: teachers, aides, counselors, principals, bus drivers."

Someone just reminded me of this year and a half old comment, by liking it, and actually, I think it was a real banger.

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

As is so often the case, Cory Doctorow's words in today's essay are both very beautiful and very clear. Perhaps because my first degree was in engineering, this part really sang to me. But you should read the whole piece. pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/s...

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There’s not a single damned voter in Texas who was gonna vote for Paxton but changed their mind when they found out Talarico was willing to throw trans kids into the volcano

@iwriteok.bsky.social I kind of just described you as something like “Hank Green, but for history” and I hope you don’t mind.

What’s funny is, when the phrase “information wants to be free,” it *was* true. The model for the early Internet was biology: “thought is a virus” was an influential idea, and life finds a way. But capitalism has crushed that idea. Now, information wants to be monetized.

Hey, friends, If this weekend's election is Saxony-Alhalt is the first time you've ever paid any attention to an election in Germany, and it has you worried, I've got you. I've been following German politics for most of my life (started in the 1980s). Just ask, I'm happy to explain the AfD.

According to the FT, Orr is acting as a live-in-landlord-cum-cult-leader to Cambridge students including those under his own supervision, whilst receiving formal complaints about his behaviour, and boasting publicly how the university is a recruiting ground for the party he might be doing crime for

Any of my Chicago homies at the school board president candidates forum?

Damn, there isn't any music in this world that gets my mood up like a chaconne. (Tonight is date night, and we're watching a Baroque music concert, which just went into a chaconne, and damn, that combination of rhythm and melody is just unparalleled.)

my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d...

The predictable Discourse is starting and I'm going to take a strong stand here: you can both want to abolish ICE and laugh really, really hard at Milo Yiannopoulos getting arrested by ICE after a decade of stoking the ethnonationalist hatred that led us to this point

Even Trump tries to do something good once in a while.

democrats firing with strong messaging in the border state of iowa fuck missouri

Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.

Kind of funny that belief in free markets can't survive in a free marketplace of ideas, but there you have it.

This is a really good read. All my comrades should read it, because Moxon does a really great job of framing it. And then all my comrades should send it to the Evelyns and boomer moms in their lives.