Mike Check

This is a big one nab what you can

Dril tweet, "issuing correction ono a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

I think IPI has enough help normalizing their extremist nonsense

It's a big deal when a live event worker has to stay home to recuperate. We don't get paid a salary; every day we can't work is a day we can't earn. It can take time for remuneration to kick in too, so a lot of these workers are relying on gofundme campaigns to bridge the gap

Since I posted this last week there have been even more freak accidents among my local colleagues. Every day the increase in reportable incidents comes up in conversation among my peers, we all see it. Some of the best folks are getting sidelined by preventable workplace injuries.

I get the sense that someone in Enten's orbit called him out for his fawning over Trump's political instincts and his declaration that the biggest presidential scandal of the century so far was a "nothingburger"

Anyway, never forget this dude got his start working for N8 Silver...

Opinion | What A.I. Really Means for Learning

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

I know I’m not telling anyone anything new here, but this is a massive “Show me who you really are” moment for America’s mainstream media institutions: Faced with a naked authoritarian power grab, the Washington Post has decided to look for ways to normalize rather than oppose the regime.

One of the most influential figures on the right openly calling for martial law and authoritarian seizure of federal power.

Democrats need to directly attack and pressure institutions for caving to Trump. As in, they need to give speeches and call out - by name - companies, universities, and law firms that have acceded to his illegal demands. If they don't, the path of least resistance will always be acquiescence.

why are you presuming they are stolen, @marcfisher.bsky.social ?

In an age where accountability is scarce, why do so many people want to let the antagonists off the hook?

Jon Stewart Floats the Covid-19 Wuhan Lab Theory With Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart discuss the Covid-19 Wuhan lab theory on 'The Late Show.'

Yeah I was really shocked when he did that www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I have a lot of respect for what Stewart has done off camera, and I think it's good that he can surprise us with takes coming from angles I wouldn't have considered, but the lab leak thing is a rubicon I can't cross.

I'm never going to vote for anyone who promoted the lab leak conspiracy, sorry.

Happening now: Despite heavy rain, protestors are posting up outside CBS News in Chicago, as part of a protest against Israel's killing of Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif and other Al Jazeera journalists on August 10 - as protestors approach, the news station closes the window blinds.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Donald Trump: Chicago is a hellhole, a pit of despair. A a wretched hive of scum and villainy!

Chicago: Have a double rainbow.

Paul Durica or Sima Cunningham

I suspect there would be a great many luxury vehicles in the impound lot as soon as my edict took effect. 200 dollar ticket, impound fees, and you can't get your car back until the plate cover is removed and discarded.

They're already illegal in my state! It's just never enforced.

What are two seemingly incongruous values that you hold equally dear?

I'll start:

I think law enforcement plate readers are overdeployed and should be banned outside of high security environments

and

I think tinted (or even non-tinted clear) license plate covers merit immediate impoundment.

A maple grows relatively quickly, and thus cannot withstand the same forces that an Oak can survive.

Worth noting he inherited this, along with many other structural problems he is either blamed for or derided for addressing. MBJ is flawed for sure but he's the best mayor Chicago has had in my lifetime.

Appeals court reverses course, upholding Arkansas's ban on trans medical care for minors The law has been on hold since 2021, but, after June's Supreme Court ruling addressing a similar Tennessee law, the Eighth Circuit upheld Arkansas's law.

Here's my full report on today's Eighth Circuit ruling at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/appeals-co...

Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia

They already did, 147 years ago

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_C...

YouTube video by NPR Music Mekons: Tiny Desk Concert

Mekons + Tiny Desk =
youtu.be/iSwIW7UKjCw?...

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

When it's going extremely well

Rita Moreno
Alexandra Billings
Jessie Buckley
Audra McDonald
Carrie Coon
Hong Chau
Kathryn Hunter

Federal funding cuts and allegations of mismanagement prompted the closures of most operations at Weiss Memorial Hospital, while West Suburban Medical Center is facing a similar fate.

State Rep. Hoan Huynh talks more about the alleged mismanagement.

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