Ed Wenck

These chuds literally want to have friendly conversations with an actual N@zi in order to destroy the "vile ideas of the left" — y'know, stuff like health care, a living wage, enough food for the poor, taxing billionaires, a secure retirement, consumer protections, LGBTQ+ rights, BODILY AUTONOMY ...

TERMINALLY ILL Trump will be lucky to be around three more months, much less ascend to some fictional third term three years from now, so can we PLEASE stop talking about it?

📌Monday, this lumbering lout bragged to a bunch of fawning reporters, “I got an MRI, it was perfect.” This was significant news that as usual didn’t get the attention it deserved.
MRIs aren’t handed out at alleged routine medical checkups like lollipops. “Let’s take your height, weight, and a MRI.”

We did this bit on the radio in the ‘90s, lol. Great phoner!

Wonder if you’re familiar with Ray Smock? Director emeritus of the Byrd Center (and relative of mine via marriage). Great guy to boot.

Give crowns like pins!

Bari Weiss' most underappreciated quality is that she is dumb.

Immediate grounds for removal from his office

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

YouTube video by #DogShirtTV Valeriia Vovk and the Ukrainian Retro Revival

This happened over the weekend.

I want you to watch it.

I want you to understand that wiping it out has been a major Russian imperial objective for literally centuries—under the Tsars, under the Soviets, and now.
youtu.be/5XSBK81UeYU?...

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

It’s so fucking funny that he thinks that dementia progression tests are IQ tests.

By proceeding with the loading of my groceries in the car before seeking approval from alleged "cashiers," I forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

This is AI.

Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech. You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

He can’t make law. Or grant mythical federal immunity.

Hey, dude defending the boat bombings … thats the decor choice you went with, huh?

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

Fave Dan story: When I had my NUVO gig, he pitched a great piece about Japanese folks from Indy who'd been in internment camps. I had to cut it down for space, and I was SUPER nervous. I gave him the edits, and all he said was "Looks good! When do you send checks?" 😄

We love to drop in and get a burger when Nora's serving! (And I really miss Dan Wakefield, man)

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

YouTube video by David Dean Burkhart Palehound - Eye On The Bat

Some songs ya just keep coming back to. For example: youtu.be/fsBfsB-OEP0

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Working (with a slightly different twist) for burlesque in Indy already www.instagram.com/gurlhaggard/...

It's remarkable how not ever having been President has aged me.

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer. Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back. One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground. All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb. "I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.