Wilson Shmeep

Current view outside the Broadview, around 50 or so people with lawn chairs, yoga mats sitting a listening to speeches from Jane Goodall.

Lemme get this straight. Trump was chosen by God to lead America, or so says a good portion of Christians, but even he admits he's not getting into heaven. Think this audio would be funny to run as an ad on Sinclair stations

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

He's got the Grim Reaper looking over one shoulder and the Ghost of Epstein Past looking over the other

Screenshot from ruling, which reads in part: “Here, there has been no showing that the civil power has failed. The agitators who have violated the law by attacking federal authorities have been arrested. The courts are open, and the marshals are ready to see that any sentences of imprisonment are carried out. Resort to the military to execute the laws is not called for.”

Her most important contribution may be this paragraph here, setting out, by my lights, an objective standard for federalizing the National Guard.

To wit: It’s a last resort. If the civil power hasn’t failed and the courts remain open, the president may not call forth the guard.

This is purely about the visual, example 1 million www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Trump: "Literally, you walk over from Iran to Qatar. You can walk it in one second. You go, boom, boom, and now you're in Qatar."

Qatar and Iran do not share a land border.

A guy who is tired of the perfunctory nods for his base and is done pretending

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

The Trump Administration Says It Has Begun Mass Firings, Cutting More than 4,100 Jobs After weeks of threats, OMB Director Russ Vought announced that Reductions in Force across federal agencies have begun, with the White House calling them “substantial.”

The Trump administration says it has begun mass firings, cutting more than 4,100 jobs.
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Hours after posting that "there seems to be no reason" to meet with President Xi, Trump now says "I would assume we might have" a meeting after all

Trump believes that Portland, Oregon, median household income $91,478, is a shantytown.

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state’s militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

he's glitching again

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Thank you Mr. President

I genuinely don't get it. If Biden had tried to implement a unilateral 100% tariff on China he would have been 25th'd immediately and the cabinet would have been right to do so. But the GOP is just going along with the whole thing. It truly baffles me.

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

it's important to always remember that every single humiliation and atrocity since January has happened because they either actively or passively enable it

I am old, tired and jaded. I gave up my place to those younger and better equipped, I told myself.

So why did I just buy an inflatable frog costume?

Michael Dezer and his son Gil Dezer built six Trump-branded properties in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, which is now known as “Little Moscow” due to all the luxury condo buyers — people who found themselves suddenly mysteriously filthy rich.

“Russians love the Trump brand,” Gil Dezer said in 2017.