Hey, this is a week away (in Chicago) and a little less than that (in Minneapolis):

This. Anyone with eyes can see it coming. This is not a "call to arms". It is simply an observation that Trump thinks that chaos on the streets works to his favor and he and his admin are doing everything they can to provoke it. Humans, being what we are, means someone will eventually take the bait.

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

with Helen Money (Alison Chesley) at Acme Records in Milwaukee on May 10, 2025.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

I like how he’s like a little ‘Meet The Beatles’ head in this winter scene:

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

You’re The One will be a real treat to discover one day (and of course enjoyed reading all of this list).

“Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’… Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Was trying to remember the name of that one (and still haven't seen it)!

The dark, nihilistic PAUL BLART: MALL COP reboot

Smoking, man. Hard to see its toll.

Rick Kogan on Tony Fitzpatrick a few weeks ago: www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Albany Park. Like Rogers Park an incredibly diverse neighborhood. Many refugees have been settled in these neighborhoods.

ICE is tear gassing people on residential streets.

This is like a foreign occupation.

Farmer: You do the tomato art for the new sign?

Artist: Sure did, boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Farmer: what

god. I love Portland. Such an awesome American city. Iused to visit regularly but now I miss it, that amazing vibe.

It always looks silly from these guys but this basic logic where the most marginalized people are actually elites representing “the machine” is also the shared understanding people running newsrooms and universities believe as well.

squad goals

Everyone should bunt. Only bunting.

Which can sound like an insufferably exponential combination of wine guy and jazz guy, but add in that he's a Bay Area transplant from the Alice Waters era, aloof but casual, mix of salt of the earth and Berkeley, and it's all relaxed and neighborly; might say genuinely pretentiously unpretentious.

The wine shop with the eccentric owner who finds random cases from closed restaurants and changes in distributors and then marks them down often to $10-$15 a bottle also plays records that match the obscurity and quality of what he carries. Tonight it was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8seP...

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

Sartorial enough to think this was about cordouroy: