Scotty Hendricks

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty or that of progress or improvement.”

— John Stuart Mill

RHETORIC - You -- against the atom, the charm and the spin. Where the whole world failed -- matter failed to bend to human will; human will failed to get out of bed and tie its laces -- you alone, single-handedly, will rebuild the dreams of the working class. You are The Last Communist.

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd.

There were many bad reasons to support (or anti-anti-) Donald Trump. But none with as much willful denial and reality inversion as yours.

Both Stratton and Kelly have their shortcomings but Raja is awful and if he gets in we’re gonna be stuck with him for life.

We can’t afford to fuck around on this one.

If Julianna can beat him we should back her.

Please don’t throw your vote away on Robin Kelly.

No one ever talks about it. They just do it. And you go on with your lives, ignoring the signs all around you. And then, one day, when the air is still and the night has fallen... they come for you.

A strange game, the only winning move is not to play.

Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources.

We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available.
#EconSky #NumbersDay

Lisan al Gaib!

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

“Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.”

— Hannah Arendt, “Interview with Roger Errera”, The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978)

The Mighty Khan calls his accountant.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

Robin is great but we are in a first past the post system. I voted for Julianna. I intend to be Very Annoying about Gaza at her. If we get Raja, it's just going to be six years of suck.

Start pulling accreditation.

Jaime Andrade's campaign just push-polled me by phone with this outright lie and nothing else.

When confronted, the caller admitted she was with "Friends of Jaime Andrade" and hopes he can earn my vote.

So... that's how desperate the IL-HD40 incumbent is with only 26 days remaining on the clock

Our own @aaronsojourner.org and @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social of North Star Policy Action have published an analysis on the economic impacts of Operation Metro Surge.

Let 'em leave. The Chicago media market will bring in somebody more appreciative before too long.

Dark gritty reboot of philosophy wherein all the philosophers are reimagined as depressed and barely coping with things, as their fragile ability to order their thoughts is of little help in ordering their lives or the world around them.

The 3 Laws of Robotics, Enshittified

One can't defeat white supremacist politics without tackling wealth concentration.

They are flip sides of the same coin.

Wealth buys a lot of media, politicians, & influencers to scapegoat immigrants, women's careers, & DEI for pain caused by wealth concentration.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Helldivers adding millennials as the newest enemy faction

PSA: Do NOT Buy Ring

Ring forces facial scanning on all devices. You cannot opt-out.

They relay your location without the need of a warrant. Add your face for profiling. Have had security issues where randoms accessed private cameras.

Here's the Trib editorial board saying that ICE requiring a warrant signed by a judge before arresting someone is "going through the bureaucratic hoops"

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Tweet from new England patriots: The haters said I couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters.

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

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