Keith M. Judge

I don't know how else to respond to this sort of vile rhetoric other than by celebrating what is actually good and beautiful in simple terms. Having to listen to this lowest common denominator rhetoric sink lower and lower for the last 10 years has been diminishing on my psychological health.

Half of our medical doctors in Chicago are Arab-speaking. We would be so fucked without them. I eat Palestinian food almost every day. I would starve to death without my Arab-speaking brothers and sisters.

Rumi is a treasure.

The Arabic-speaking world has given us the number zero, mathematics and chess, for starters. That's just off the top of my head.

We must do what the country refused to do during Reconstruction: dispossess & banish those who organized & facilitated this vile & lawless regime.

We might get somewhere as a nation if we realize that each new calamitous Republican administration is an extension of, and not a departure from, the prior one.

honestly prosecute merrick garland too

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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

I'm really disappointed that no one stepped up to challenge Lopez. Last I heard, folks in his ward were irate that he proposed the bill to cede authority over CPD to DHS.

The colonization of the Black Hills by the U.S. government is one of the most well-known land thefts in American history. Since gold was discovered in the sacred lands of Paha Sapa or Ȟe Sápa, or the Black Hills, 150+ years of tragedy have followed.

I'm well known for always accepting apologies, but I 100% do *not* accept any apology given by anyone who was involved with this—because I 100% don't accept that they didn't realize they were giving a religious imprimatur to the American who's closer to Satan than any American of my entire lifetime.

MJ: In the last six decades, there’s compelling evidence that they’ve tried to rig national elections at least five other times – in 1968, 1972, 1980, 2000, and 2020. Most of these plots you know about; some you may not. open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

This is just straight up Klan shit. Fuck every one of them

The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

"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.

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."

I have zero sympathy for anyone involved in this grotesque farce. When you travel all the way to DC to go to the home of the most infamous fascist in US history and get ushered into his office alongside a videographer and photographer, you know *exactly* what vile game you're playing. Disgraceful.

Chicago 2027 Municipal Election Candidate List - Petition Deadline Update!!! Names in: Italics = Incumbents Blue = new additions missed in prior versions 140 Aldermanic Contenders 13 Mayoral Welcome to Silly Season ✨✨

Chicago mayor candidates who filed: Willie Wilson John Kelly Mike Quigley Matt Brewer Alexi Giannoulias Brandon Johnson Susana Mendoza Lisa Nee William Quinlan John Kitover Danielle Carter-Walters Maria Pappas George Cardenas Joe Holberg Zoe Ma Jessica "Jesse" Maronto.

Pretty crazy seeing my name up there! We'll see how this shakes out in the next week or two . . .

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

It’s as banal seeming as podcasts and livestreams and influencers and meanwhile we have no idea who’s paying to promote them, who’s paying them, whether audiences are real, why they’re promoted. It’s a literal horror house for critical thinking and demystification.

The internet and social media are incredible conduits for this kind of manipulation and obfuscation. And as they’ve evolved and as the agendas of their operators has evolved, we’ve been trapped in an increasingly strange and complicated hall of mirrors beset with one mystification after another

These Russian operations have driven an international authoritarian movement that has done incredible damage. But we are also inundated with this fake shit every single day in ways most people don’t even suspect and it affects our perception, imagination, and actions in massive ways.

It would probably be beneficial to recognize that the kind of social media and internet-driven perception and mis/disinformation campaigns people associate with Russia are carried out by nearly every monied interest, including nation states, corporations, oligarchs, and political parties.

“They are not crazy. They’re not making it up. They’re not being marketed into feeling bad. They really do have struggles.”

Hear hear!

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Rahm Emanuel has a long record of being the wrong man for every moment. (Published June 2020)

“Americans deserve a Congress that works for them, not for special interests or personal portfolios,” the Florida Republican said in 2025. Then the federal contracts started rolling in.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Apparently, a Waymo robot drove around a stopped ~half in lane Tesla robot to bully a Zoox robot that prob had the right of way to back up: Gibson by Congress, Austin, TX All 3 cos have telops, but did any engage? AV advocates say the best solution is more robots. OP: reddit.CautiousMagazine3591

Conversely: if you make people poorer, if you make them suffer more, you will prime them to believe in fascist propaganda, because fascists will tell them they will help, and they won’t, but they can’t be the only voice saying that they will. Fighting poverty & inequality is antifascism in practice.

My primary political goal above all others is to fight fascism, because if we lose to fascism we will lose everything else too. But I also believe that if you make people’s lives better, you vaccinate them against fascist propaganda. These two things go hand in hand. Anti-fascism and human rights.

503 signatures; I'm tapped. It was a rough day: I was almost assaulted by one of Marty Quinn's supporters. I'll present the signatures; let the pieces fall where they may.

What do you recommend we do, or how do you recommend we interface and address the presence of fascists in positions of power and violence?