Scott Held

First day of early voting in Porter County, Ind. I voted!

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The Patriot Mobile ad that just ran on MNF might be even more awful than the propaganda Trump shit that run during yesterday's NFL games.

Not sure how long this can last, but piecemeal pitching has been a charm so far for the White Sox ... and Murakami is now officially a folk hero.

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

Aloha from Wrigley Field. As far as we know, Joshua Baez became the first player in MLB history to homer in his first three big-league plate appearances. About 40,000 other folks here today can say they saw it, too.

Ja Rule was scheduled to perform after tonight's Guardians-White Sox game. The White Sox announced midway through the ninth inning that Ja Rule would not be performing due to 'travel issues.' Dude must've gotten stuck on the Kennedy coming from O'Hare.

If you start your article or newscast with an unqualified “President Trump says…” what are you even doing?

Went to today's NASCAR race at Chicagoland Speedway. The race itself was as entertaining as we hoped. Everything else about today - parking snafus, no wi-fi (at a race sponsored by a router company, merch stands with no event-specific merch - sucked. NASCAR hates its fans.

Because the Ball State settlement wasn't enough for Indi-ssippi ...

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

A documentary about "Wishbone" currently airing on the Chicago PBS station is the best NBA halftime show ever.

/27 Anyway, once again, decent humans who are AUSAs now: get out. Get out now.

Wife and I went to the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago today, where there is a new exhibit about Anne Frank. It's very well done and worth your time. One thing that never fails to sicken me: The motherless Nazi fucks photographed and documented a lot of the evil they did. Motherless fucks.

Just played a CD.. All the songs were mixed to the same volume and, get this, no adverts at all. I'm telling you, this is the future.

What a surprise this "woo woo I was discriminationed against cus I'm white" guy turned out to be a dipshit

The Saudi royal family are repulsive people, yet they're also repulsive businesspeople who realize betting on Trump's brand, in hindsight, was really, really, really expensive ... and stupid.

"As prices soar for gas and groceries and everything in between, we in the Republican Party have listened to ordinary Americans. We will be providing them what they need and what they demand -- a tacky gilded ballroom where the president can do his little jerk-off dance to the Village People 'YMCA'"

We should be learning from other countries...

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

Charles Barkley is a good and great man, chapter 8 billion

Our intrepid FBI director* is so stupid he's letting a company sell his data while he twirls his meat.

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

Today in nurse stuff: Me (admitting a 60-ish lady with new-onset A.fib/RVR): "So you've never had this happen before?" Patient: "No. Well, my husband has A.fib. Do you think I got it from him?" This lady was as sweet as pie, but I needed a laugh this morning and she delivered like it was her job!

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

"That's the way it is," says the five-time draft dodger to our military families who fear their loved one in uniform could be next. What a disgrace.

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

When Republican lawmakers decide not to seek re-election and only then break bad on Trump, it tells us that GOP politicians have known all along that Trump is corrupt and dangerous but are happy to screw the country for a slice of the loot.

Got to see Nikola Jokic put up a triple double tonight at the United Center. It was a pleasure watching him work. Dude looks like a tall bouncer in street clothes, but he's got feet like a tango dancer and hands like a brain surgeon. Just, wow.

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

Trump is the biggest man child ever. His people destroyed the Kennedy Center so now he has to close it “for two years” because no one wants to go there. Shocking his sycophants still see him as powerful.

“When I was in prison, I read an article – don’t be shocked when I say I was in prison. You’re still in prison. That’s what America means: prison.” — Malcolm X

Fred Trump had dementia and his family set up a fake office so he could think he was in charge while other people made the decisions. Mentioning this for no particular reason at all. Not even sure what made me think of it.

Aloha from the United Center, which normally draws more than 20K a night whether the Bulls are good or not. Quite a few empty seats tonight ... though there's an old white guy in a William Perry jersey sitting right next to the scorer's table.

ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were made at her for not instantly following every order issued. The new ICE threat to protestors is: "Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."

Wild reporting from Bloomberg. Jeanine Pirro apparently freelanced the subpoenas and criminal investigation of Jerome Powell.

The Detroit River

Anybody else think Miami didn't belong in the playoff? That said, the bookies might have risk losing their shirts to get anybody to bet against anyone playing against Georgia the rest of the way.

If Netflix is going to shovel a ton of money at the NFL, the least it can do is insist the games it shows on Christmas day aren't absolute dogshit ... like both of those games were today.

youtu.be/7RhNXzG-OD0?...

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

Here's the U of M interim coach auditioning to never be a head coach anywhere else, ever. That said, U of M should fire Warde Manuel yesterday ... and into the sun.

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach