The modern Republican party is, and will be for the next 40+ years, the party of naked racism, open Nazi glorification, antisemitism, rape, and murder.
If you're Republican and not a fan of that, you're probably not *really* a Republican any more.
Journalist @laurajedeed.bsky.social put together this informed guide in June. She’s got years of boots on the streets experience & is a thoughtful journalist as well.
As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.
we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.
I'm so proud to have colleagues like Tom Bowman -- who in this opinion piece lays out why the new Pentagon press restrictions are so dangerous. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
I enjoy it. I like your odd work a lot. I have all the Automata comics up on my walls. That first one still moves me in a way that is hard to describe after all these years.
From what I read and please take this with a healthy dose of salt, it looks like he went all in and wasn't expecting the entire portfolio to take a substantial hit and so lost everything.
I looked up the cross margin thing and it looks like it is a margin investment where you use your entire portfolio as collateral in order to help offset losses in one or two margin investments. The risk is that if the entire market has a sharp drop, your entire portfolio can liquidate to cover.
It's always interesting to see the divide between people who embrace the act of creation and it's difficulties as the reason *to* create and the people who only think that *having* an end product is the reason.
It's kind of Kantian, ends in themselves vs means to an end.
Aaaand there it is. This isn't about paying the troops, this is about taking away the budget authority of the legislative branch with the bonus of making the military dependent on Trump and only Trump to get paid.
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine
I may be incorrect on this, but it seems like Fox News hasn't exactly been showing footage of the protests either because they're so absurd to look at and then listen to Trump's rhetoric.
