Robert Walikis

Jeffries ends his nearly 9 hour speech by quoting MLK and saying, "We're gonna press on until victory is won. I yield back."

"John would've been proud," Terri Sewell tells him.

‘No State’ Can Afford To Mitigate GOP Budget Cuts, and ‘That’s the Point’ When issues such as abortion were raised on the 2024 campaign trail,...

‘No State’ Can Afford To Mitigate GOP Budget Cuts, and ‘That’s the Point’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/no-stat...

Speak on, sir

My 3 year-old was reading the Times when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why did the senator ask mean questions to the nice plastic surgery lady?" And when I told him "because that lady pledged to liberate LA from socialists," he started crying.

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

Facebook banned @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this essay, "Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence."

So, make sure to read it and share it!

"The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence."

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

Remapping LA Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.

LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history.

I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/

History’s playbook for climate action The secret to social change with historian Dr. Emily Pawley

I had a newsletter about this a few months ago! By a historian. We have so much to learn from the past. www.talkingclimate.ca/p/historys-p...

I can tell some of you people have never watched the WWF/WWE.

Elon is doing a classic “heel turn.” This builds tensions and keeps ratings high.

By Electomania 2028, liberals will try to tag Elon in, but he’ll refuse. Then, when Trump is about to be pinned, he’ll bit Dems with a steel chair.

The front page of the Chicago Sun-Times, featuring the pope waving under the words "DA POPE!" Subheadline says, "Chicagoan Robert Prevost, known to many on the South Side as 'Father Bob' and now to millions as Pope Leo XIV, becomes first American pontiff. The best coverage of Chicago's pope, pages 2-10."

Today's front page.

Latin sign in front of Wiener’s Circle in Chicago: Canes Hostros Ipse Conedit

Latin translation: “He has eaten our dogs”

An image of a priest with an italian beef sandwich over a font and the caption says I will now ask for my beef baptized and not just dipped

I haven't gone on middle aged South Side Catholic facebook but i'm getting regular images from relatives (there's a LOT of Italian Beef imagery obv)

The new pope dressed in a cassock that has a Bears logo and also sunglasses and there is Chicago Bears logo in the corner of the image

the vibe in Chicago right now #PopeLeo #NewPope

Sufjan Steven's Illinois with Robert Prevost over the Superman drawing in the original album cover

Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may...

By "Inheritance of Equals" I'm drawing attention to 1) the central role of economic equality in liberal socialism, distinct from most other liberalisms, and 2) the idea that the economic institutions of liberal socialism are the birthright of all.

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.

The Hitler tariffs, announced on Friday, February 10, 1933, stunned observers. “The dimension of the tariff increases have in fact exceeded all expectations," a newspaper reported. But Hitler insisted they would help restore German pride and honor.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...