Chris Becker

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

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"Dad, were you on the side that tried to help people snatched off the street or the side that shot priests?"

“One thing is crystal clear: Chicago was not a war zone when Operation Midway Blitz began, but DHS and ICE made sure it became one. As author and activist Kelly Hayes put it, ‘The president is waging war on our city for welcoming those he wishes to expel.’”

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

See also: people who say we must "restore trust in higher ed"

I keep waiting for the powers that be in media to grasp the concept of bad faith, realize how often "restore trust in news" and similar statements mean "stop doing journalism, lie more in ways I like," come from people ideologically committed to destroying trust in news, and can never be satisfied.

Ratboys, Plural | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame The evolving indie band that began at Notre Dame keeps its ‘variety show’ on the road.

Chicago-based Ratboys is the most prominent rock band to come out of Notre Dame in more than 20 years.

By Mike Jordan Laskey ’08, ’10M.A.:

magazine.nd.edu/stories/ratb...

"Democratic strongholds" in this militaristic context makes it sound like we're terrorists or insurrections or warlords. I cannot express how angry I am at American journalism for enabling this moment.

A lot of speculation about how things got so Stupid and Evil and I think one reason is we've collectively been too tolerant of Stupid and Evil for too long

It’s cool that the highest paid journalists in America don’t have any famous articles or accomplishments they can cite as qualifications. The resume is “Someone yelled at me once.”

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

It works; it also makes an enormous difference when we're talking about a media environment driven by short clips and news programs that heavily utilize b-roll. Saying "this is what the protests look like" and showing silliness undercuts the WH narrative.

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Bari Weiss is so clearly David Brent. But a worse dancer.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Launched a thousand masters theses, should academia survive.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Same. But I knew I had read about it today, so I went to a mass shooting tracker website to find it, which itself says a lot.

2 killed, 5 injured in shooting at Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino, officials say A person is in custody following a shooting at the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass that left two people dead and five others injured, according to the Eagle Pass Police Department.

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Life in 2025:

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*cries in Lina Khan*

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