A Self-Respecting Fish

YouTube video by WGN News Video: ICE agents clash with Forest Park cemetery workers attempting to help man in Des Plaines Rive

Some people do. It didn't go well for anyone involved, but there are people out there who help. Cold comfort, I know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtE...

Don Craven was the guy I'd call 20 years ago to talk me through FOIA disputes and Open Meetings Act violations. He'd take the time to explain the law precisely and exactly to a dumb kid in his 20s just because I was a journalist and he cared about journalism.

This is a disaster.

I’m going to take some time off this app, so any DMs are going to go unseen. But that’s only like two people who DM me (looking at you, Bill) and they both know how to get in touch with me other ways.

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

So just to be clear, we all haven't forgotten that the current President whipped up a mob and tried to have them murder his political enemies at the Capitol, right?

Oh yeah. I read a book about the founding fathers on a lark a few years ago. Had to reread that page a few times to make sure it was the same Franklin family.

I mean, his brother ran such a vile anti-vaxx campaign that someone tried to firebomb Cotton Mather’s house, so he had some idea.

Oh yeah, I can just DO that.

Queen

I just want Rosty back. He can have all the chairs and stamps he wants.

if u see this quote with the energy u bring to Bluesky.

Why *wouldn’t* you want nobody nobody sent? The double negatives make it a confusing piece of political lore.

I’m not like *serious* serious, but this last eight months has truly eroded the standards. I look at the old local corruption cases I used to fume over and think, fuck. Why WOULD you want nobody nobody sent?

I literally spent 4 years running an anti-corruption walking tour but this administration has broken me. I want to fucking unleash Chicago. Gerrymander the state blue. Ghost payrolls? Fine, just bring in the votes. Alderman wants new basement floors in for an aye? I’ll spackle the fucker myself.

This photo looks like the album cover for a string quintet that plays classical covers of modern pop hits.

Insanity inducing number of reports and sightings rolling in, including—you guessed it—agents over at 31st/Cicero again.

A car window smashed near Roosevelt and Cicero. Sightings in Wheeling, southwest side of Chicago, more in Cicero, Melrose Park, Blue Island.

The ring of fire is burning

YouTube video by Vitamin String Quartet Portal - 'Still Alive' - Vitamin String Quartet (Official Music Video)

Two of my wife’s friends are classical musicians who, as their gift, offered to play us down the aisle to any song. We walked up to the Magnetic Fields’ “Book of Love” and recessed to Bright Eyes’ “First Day of My Life,” a decision I never regretted.

Until today.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yScT...

Hi

ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

I want to print this panel up and frame it on my desk, but I think the researchers I work with might get pissy.

Full comic: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/invest...

ICE agents fatally shoot man after traffic stop in Franklin Park A federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in northwest suburban Franklin Park Friday morning after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle.

A federal immigration agent fatally shot a man in northwest suburban Franklin Park Friday morning after the agency says the man tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer with his vehicle.

“I am so sick of all the software I use for work functioning efficiently and meeting all my needs!”

*email from software company about plans to incorporate AI*

“Thank god.”

“He’s only mean behind people’s backs” is not the winning argument some people seem to think.

They fly the flag at half-mast whenever the ice cream machine breaks.

I can’t believe we’re only 233 days into this presidency.

Damn the actual author responded to your post so he might see my comment. To repeat, it is an excellent essay. I just don’t like that one word.

It’s a very good essay, but I don’t know why he keeps saying endpoint when a lot of his argument is that the violence will continue and likely worsen. And on a more literal note, we still have 75 years left of this shitty century so that’s not an endpoint either.

I know it’s a silly, three-year-old McSweeney’s post, but there’s literally a Bluey episode that had been out for a few years at the time of the article based on trying to recycle kids’ art projects when they’re not looking. And one where they forgot Easter. And one where they’re hung over from NYE.

Larry Gies Makes Transformational $100 Million Gift to Illinois Athletics - University of Illinois Athletics Gies Name Added to Memorial Stadium in Memory of Army Veteran Father

Counterpoint: Fuck this guy for thinking at this moment in history what a research university needs is more money for sports. fightingillini.com/news/2025/9/...

The question is how high was Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston?