“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:

This isn’t just about immigrants. This is an attempt to sabotage the infrastructure and economy of a major American city the regime doesn’t like.

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

I don't know which one of you underlined a half-dozen essays in this book I found at Myopic today, but THANKS. You probably saved me $20.

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

🧊 has opened a new website to trick ppl into giving up their personal info - please spread to your networks that stopice.org is an insidious scam made by 🧊 in order to further their harm

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Important interview with one of the frontline fighters for American democracy.