Leonard Pierce
@leonardpierce.bsky.social
Marxist, wife guy, union man, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. CPS, DSA, THC. Crime, baseball, communism.
http://immortal-science.com
http://immortal-science.com
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Still waiting for the people who call themselves anti-fascist, but also say that it was not just necessary but a moral imperative to continue supporting a genocide, to explain exactly what it is about fascism they don’t like
Sometimes I wonder what life is like for people who live places where it doesn’t become incredibly difficult to lock and unlock your doors four months out of the year because the extreme cold has caused your door and your doorframe to warp into different shapes
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Sometimes I wonder what life is like for people who live places where it doesn’t become incredibly difficult to lock and unlock your doors four months out of the year because the extreme cold has caused your door and your doorframe to warp into different shapes
TV shows asking me to watch a podcast about the show I am about to watch is the thirstiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen
February 13, 2026 at 7:35 PM
TV shows asking me to watch a podcast about the show I am about to watch is the thirstiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen
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Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
February 13, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
This is very good
The Outdoor Industry Needs Workers, And Workers Need Unions | Defector
Work in the outdoor industry long enough, and you’ll learn that only certain jobs in the U.S. are allowed to be taken seriously. Spending your days emailing about nothing is a “career.” Drafting sloga...
defector.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This is very good
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Mocking socialist reading groups is so funny to me. Fuck educating yourself !
Those silly people should accept the interpretation of socialist texts that’s been shoved down my throat by capitalist pedophiles like I did
Those silly people should accept the interpretation of socialist texts that’s been shoved down my throat by capitalist pedophiles like I did
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Mocking socialist reading groups is so funny to me. Fuck educating yourself !
Those silly people should accept the interpretation of socialist texts that’s been shoved down my throat by capitalist pedophiles like I did
Those silly people should accept the interpretation of socialist texts that’s been shoved down my throat by capitalist pedophiles like I did
Wim Wenders is catching hell over his comments at Berlinale, and it’s well-deserved, but there’s plenty of blame for this gutless stance to go around. Ewa Puszczyńska’s comments were even more cowardly and she produced ZONE OF INTEREST! Apparently without having absorbed its most crucial lesson!
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Wim Wenders is catching hell over his comments at Berlinale, and it’s well-deserved, but there’s plenty of blame for this gutless stance to go around. Ewa Puszczyńska’s comments were even more cowardly and she produced ZONE OF INTEREST! Apparently without having absorbed its most crucial lesson!
IMMORTAL SCIENCE is taking the long weekend off, but before this brief hiatus, it’s almost Valentine’s Day, and Rebecca Moraine’s thoughts have turned to matters of love. Let’s check in and see how her date is going.
No Fatbots - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
“Your hair is very nitid by the candlelight, Rebecca Moraine.” “Uh…thank you.” “Did you know that your surname indicates an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by...
immortalscience.pika.page
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
IMMORTAL SCIENCE is taking the long weekend off, but before this brief hiatus, it’s almost Valentine’s Day, and Rebecca Moraine’s thoughts have turned to matters of love. Let’s check in and see how her date is going.
Good afternoon! It is February 13th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. Promote the well-being of the whole people!
We celebrate the mallard, anas platyrhynchos.
Grant Wood was born on this day in 1891; Waylon Jennings died today in 2002.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. Promote the well-being of the whole people!
We celebrate the mallard, anas platyrhynchos.
Grant Wood was born on this day in 1891; Waylon Jennings died today in 2002.
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Good afternoon! It is February 13th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. Promote the well-being of the whole people!
We celebrate the mallard, anas platyrhynchos.
Grant Wood was born on this day in 1891; Waylon Jennings died today in 2002.
Today we commemorate Public Health Day. Promote the well-being of the whole people!
We celebrate the mallard, anas platyrhynchos.
Grant Wood was born on this day in 1891; Waylon Jennings died today in 2002.
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Yesterday Wim Wenders, the director of the Berlinale film festival, when asked about Gaza said "we have to stay out of politics." In 2024 he said "the Berlinale is the most political film festival. It always speaks out." Liberal values are a lie
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
The Illusion Of Liberal Humanitarian Values
All of western liberalism’s much-vaunted institutions, its legal, political and cultural, have collapsed in on themselves to protect a genocidal, apartheid ethno-state.
open.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday Wim Wenders, the director of the Berlinale film festival, when asked about Gaza said "we have to stay out of politics." In 2024 he said "the Berlinale is the most political film festival. It always speaks out." Liberal values are a lie
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...
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Pictured: this headline's operating definition of "across Chicago"
February 13, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Pictured: this headline's operating definition of "across Chicago"
I like it when people are said to be “awaiting” something. The rest of us dumb assholes are just sitting around waiting for shit but these classy MFs out here awaiting
February 13, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I like it when people are said to be “awaiting” something. The rest of us dumb assholes are just sitting around waiting for shit but these classy MFs out here awaiting
I think of myself as being way, *way* too online but then I’ll listen to a podcast or see a post that says something like “Did you see Tro-Bunk got flatzapped by the KLEBS guy” and realize that if anything I am extremely not online
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
I think of myself as being way, *way* too online but then I’ll listen to a podcast or see a post that says something like “Did you see Tro-Bunk got flatzapped by the KLEBS guy” and realize that if anything I am extremely not online
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I'm sure corporate deals like this have always been the norm but it's still pretty galling to announce you're moving money around so plainly like this
NVIDIA CORP. WILL LEASE A 200-MEGAWATT DATA CENTER IN NEVADA FINANCED PARTLY BY A $3.8 BILLION JUNK-BOND SALE LED BY TRACT CAPITAL, WITH JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. AND MORGAN STANLEY MANAGING THE TRANSACTION.
February 13, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I'm sure corporate deals like this have always been the norm but it's still pretty galling to announce you're moving money around so plainly like this
I had an absolute shitpile of a day, I could use a reminder that I don’t have to hate myself all the time
February 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I had an absolute shitpile of a day, I could use a reminder that I don’t have to hate myself all the time
So you play RESIDENT EVIL? Interesting, because I have to live under PRESIDENT EV...
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
So you play RESIDENT EVIL? Interesting, because I have to live under PRESIDENT EV...
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
[someone immediately invents the technology to somehow literally pelt me with garbage through the internet]
Is it ironic that just as he plays a guy in a popular TV show who, in order to preserve his wealth and fame and provide for his family, gets in bed with an evil corporation that brings great misery to mankind, Walton Goggins has started doing commercials for Walmart?
I don’t even know anymore
I don’t even know anymore
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Is it ironic that just as he plays a guy in a popular TV show who, in order to preserve his wealth and fame and provide for his family, gets in bed with an evil corporation that brings great misery to mankind, Walton Goggins has started doing commercials for Walmart?
I don’t even know anymore
I don’t even know anymore
Hey, speaking of noir, here’s a review on IMMORTAL SCIENCE of one of my favorite weird little books hardly anybody has read: UK film critic David Thomson’s SUSPECTS, a noir film pastiche that isn’t totally successful but manages to be unlike anything else I can think of.
Working and Paying and Living and Dying - IMMORTAL SCIENCE
When you talk about noir, you also have to talk about all its offshoots and mutations: neo-noir, crypto- and quasi-noir, genre noir, action noir. There are noir novels, noir television...
immortalscience.pika.page
February 12, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Hey, speaking of noir, here’s a review on IMMORTAL SCIENCE of one of my favorite weird little books hardly anybody has read: UK film critic David Thomson’s SUSPECTS, a noir film pastiche that isn’t totally successful but manages to be unlike anything else I can think of.
Good afternoon! It is February 12th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Good afternoon! It is February 12th in the United Socialist States of America.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Today we commemorate Housecleaning Day. A tidy home is a happy home!
We celebrate the alpine aster, aster alpinus.
Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809; Charles M. Schulz died today in 2000.
Remaking CULLODEN so that it's about the scrappy survival of a colorful ethnic group and their earthy folkways and not about the violent destruction of their culture and their near annihilation through ethnic cleansing
February 12, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Remaking CULLODEN so that it's about the scrappy survival of a colorful ethnic group and their earthy folkways and not about the violent destruction of their culture and their near annihilation through ethnic cleansing
"You can't even do the bare minimum" is such a wild insult for liberals to use on leftists because they're openly admitting their approach -- vote for whoever your party leadership decides is the preferred candidate -- is the bare minimum of political activity
February 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
"You can't even do the bare minimum" is such a wild insult for liberals to use on leftists because they're openly admitting their approach -- vote for whoever your party leadership decides is the preferred candidate -- is the bare minimum of political activity
Gordon Lightfoot is probably the last person in history to make millions of dollars off of a song about a shipwreck
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Gordon Lightfoot is probably the last person in history to make millions of dollars off of a song about a shipwreck
Marimar Martinez has the kind of courage that is so desperately needed in this country.
A Chicago woman shot 5 times by Border Patrol plans to sue the feds as agent’s text messages released. blockclubchi.co/4aq7iX7
February 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Marimar Martinez has the kind of courage that is so desperately needed in this country.
I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about believing the PR hype shoved on everyone by the class the left despises and that has constantly lied about everything for decades
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about believing the PR hype shoved on everyone by the class the left despises and that has constantly lied about everything for decades
Communism: so self-evidently a failure that the biggest, richest capitalist empire has to use political force to get one of the poorest places in the western hemisphere to stop getting desperately needed medical care from its doctors
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Communism: so self-evidently a failure that the biggest, richest capitalist empire has to use political force to get one of the poorest places in the western hemisphere to stop getting desperately needed medical care from its doctors