Mark Nikolewski

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

NYT Times link for a story “What is the National Guard?”

What are the stages of cancer? How does bankruptcy work? Is blood in my urine bad?

A sex offender registry but for people with loud motorcycles and instead of going door to door to announce they live there they have to have a giant air horn pointing at their house that neighbors are allowed to trigger once a day.

Serious question: if the Democrats have already folded under the MAGA authoritarian regime would it look exactly like what is happening now?

I mean isn’t this what performative resistance looks like?

We ruin everything.

this is what it comes down to: we have to fight for what's right. and with all the atrocities of the past 9 months, if we can't message THAT, we deserve to take the hit.

Here here.

Thanks for that update. Appreciate you sharing this insightful commentary and the details of your bold plan to counter this threat.

All due respect as my Senator, what exactly do you suggest we *do* in response? I think it’s a safe assumption that anyone who follows you here is quite aware of the hellscape we now live in under this administration. As an elected leader your job is to *lead* us.

"But if you attacked the Capitol police on January 6, you will probably get a Presidential Medal of Freedom to go along with your pardon."

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders.

we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

Denounce the guy who did Nazi salutes at your inauguration and we’ll stop calling you a Nazi.

I’m not sure about that. I have a bowl of freshly washed black grapes on the table. I can see the sun retiring for the day and how its leaving sends the clouds into bloom. I watered our plants today and said drink up, my dudes. I read a poem about thinking. I love, and I am loved.

This is why there's no point in highlighting their glaring inconsistencies. They gleefully argue in bad faith, knowing that doing so when the other side argues in good faith gives them the advantage.

The White Civility Council As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...

All right, I wrote about it:

Me too!

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Right?! I too find my regular NYT column much more personally satisfying than the hours each day I spend posting and responding on this website.

Alayna Treene @alaynatreene Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops to help with local law enforcement (without buy-in from the state’s governor) could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Now he’s going to Memphis W/ @HBRabinowitz https://cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

That’s disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself.

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Reminds me of last summer when my son who also knows about such things walked me through a detailed list of things that were wrong with Bezos’ wedding tux. Including evidence that it was bought off the rack.

I’m so sorry to hear that.

Music player screen on a smartphone showing Pat Metheny’s album “Bright Size Life.” The track “Sirabhorn” is playing, with the progress bar at 2:09 of 3:19. The album cover features a photograph of a lone tree in a field at sunset.

Some music doesn’t just age well—it keeps opening up. Bright Size Life is one of those records.
#jazzsky

So good.

This is seriously one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my life.

I saw Townes Van Zant with only a dozen other people in the audience.

A New York Times mobile app screenshot with the headline: “Motive Sought in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children.” The subheadline says seventeen people were injured, fourteen were children and three were in their 80s, and officials were looking at the suspect’s social media content. Below the text, an image shows a police officer in a brown hat and uniform being hugged by another person.

Motive is sought in writing this fucking headline.