MisterJayEm

When I'm drowning in darkness or despair, I remind myself of the following: 1) I didn't predict us getting to this, so what makes me think I can predict how this all ends 2) Chicago has stepped up to a degree and with a speed that I would have believed literally impossible

Hear me out...

Well played

Brewers in three.

"Police did not say what the incident was, why federal agents were involved or whether anyone was injured." The incident is under review by the FBI’s Inspection Division.

Someone tell that stupid bigot about our numbers

He was set up to fail and he failed.

I'm a fan of Alex and I'm a fan of his work. And if you give him a listen, I'll bet you will be, too.

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

ICE vs the clergy

The police panopticon isn't confined to visible wavelengths.

Hear me out...

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.

If these two (people whom we've never heard of) can't make it what hope is there for the rest of us??!

Nothing about this currently on the homepage of the NYT; a brief article appears elsewhere. The Washington Post hasn't run anything at all. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Whether it's Democrats using a police gym to play basketball or Republicans imprisoning people without due process and sending them to black sites, both sides abuse police resources to achieve their goals.

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

Setting aside that B-block uses the gym for 2.5 hours earlier in the day and the facility shuts down at 10:35pm, their entire actionable complaint appears to be "they had to move chairs for the next day to accommodate the gyms usage"

Good.

Trump said today that he has no intention of acknowledging his losses next week www.reuters.com/world/americ... He is refusing to recognize the Brazilian election based on ZERO evidence. He will have the same evidence to refuse to recognize his losses here.

"What you’re doing while you’re touring is creating goodwill. You put that good karma out there for a lot of years and it pays dividends when you need it. I’m not going to lie. There are times I get pretty emotional about it."

Wild chain of events: An artist on FB asked who the subject of a painting was--she'd painted from a photo. A friend alerted me. I was able to tell Shannon Burch that her painting of a woman protesting at Broadview ICE... was me. Honored, to say the least. Abolish ICE www.instagram.com/p/De48EQUGYSF/

Rude.

Vance has the alpha male physique of Poppin' Fresh.

Damn, Dot. What did I ever do to you?

*there are going to be people running for Congress who

"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Your work is not bullying or yelling at the same people the right is targeting, unless you're a fucking fascist.

There's so much to unpack but I want to focus on one detail I don't see anyone else pointing out: She spends time conscientiously citing how they didn't use AI "to make people say things they didn't say" while glossing over how they used AI to make people DO things they DIDN'T DO. That's not better.

"Elon Musk’s Grok-powered Odyssey has arrived, and it’s ready to strap on its bronze armor and charge forth in a heroic bid to save Western civilization from the dastardly forces of the Woke, the Feminists and the Historically Inaccurate Presence of People Who Look Suspiciously Black."

But maybe if he *triples-down* on that horrifyingly inhumane campaign ad...

He has left his earthly vessel.

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

A: No.

This is why Black parents cannot trust white people around their children

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

This is why Black parents cannot trust white people around their children

Looking forward to her Mar-a-Lago surgery.