Class War Luchador

I've been checking for a new episode every day. Looking forward to listening.

Such great advice in this era where nothing seems to matter unless it's posted on an app, no work at school matters unless there's a grade, unless it's aligned to standards.

YouTube video by chicagogo Phil Cohran on Chic-A-Go-Go

This show was such a gift. We had Kids Are People Too when I was growing up. Similar vibe here.

Cover art for Sun Ra - We Travel the Spaceways. Blue waves, red flying saucer, cymbol, and musical notes. Blue and white piano keys in the foreground.

Okay, going back to We Travel the Spaceways to do this by recording date as much as possible. I like this better once the singing is out of the way. "Tapestry from an Astroid," featuring beautiful trumpet playing by Phil Cohran, is a highlight.

Chicago Police Department Overspent Its Budget By $501M Over 5 Years: Data Allowing CPD to spend unlimited sums of taxpayer money is a “crazy way to run a city,” said Justin Marlowe, a professor in the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and the director of...

I tell ya, the problem with these cities is all the "defund the police" shit.

Body armor, gun, teargas, but somebody in Lakeview called you a jagoff. Sorry buddy.

These are the guys who will be like "they were shouting at me and standing in my way, and one of them had a sub sandwich!!! I had to use force!"

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Just in the last few weeks, brave officers have saved us from landscapers, a daycare teacher, and a girl scout food drive. Thanks 👍

This Houston crowd sounds 100% pro babyface, and I love that. Old school.

Blood and Guts promo, straight to the bell ringing, Thekla and Harley running straight into each other. Got me hyped. LFG! #AEWCollision

Screenshot from the Criterion Channel. Text: Blossoms Shanghai PREMIERING NOVEMBER 24 AT 8 P.M. ET In 1990s Shanghai, fortunes are waiting to be made—but not everyone can be a winner. In his first-ever television series, legendary director Wong Kar Wai (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE)

Gonna have to cancel another streaming service and start up Criterion. Wong Kar Wai's drama series coming.

"Sales have taken a dive. Let's reward him!"
And people still believe the capitalist system rewards innovation and success.

Introduce yourself:

One book - Cloudsplitter
One movie - Unknown Pleasures
One tv show - Twin Peaks
One album - Headhunters

Congressmen Gill tweet: America’s largest city will be governed by a Muslim communist largely thanks to mass legal immigration.

Rep Andy Ogles tweet: This is a photo of Mamdani's home country, Uganda. This is what New York will look like after he's destroyed it. DEPORT HIM NOW!

These reactions are funny. Uganda is a majority Christian nation with a capitalist system, even more so after 90s liberal reforms that included privatization. Pro capitalist drones never look at the actual results of capitalism as such.

Chicagoans hearing he's particularly annoyed by onions and mustard: 👀
Imagine all the Chicago dog fixins on that ballistic vest, coward.

So there actually was a drug boss on the boat? Well damn, guess Dems can't be mad anymore since its literally the same logic Obama used with the drone strike that killed Awlaki's American born son.

A Chicagoan's response (me): "oh, you're telling me you heard this daycare teacher was a scary armed threat so you needed a team of weak-ass armed Nazis to grab her at the entrance in front of the kids? Oh! What heroes! Thank you!"
I can be more sarcastic if needed.

a ruling class identifying the crime of wealth hoarding and labor exploitation, punishable by seizure of wealth to be redistributed among the people to meet their needs. My problem isn't with a nonspecific authoritarianism, it's with capitalism and imperialism.

Designating a group as terrorists can be a premise for torture, sanctions, and regime change. Claiming you've located drug traffickers can be a premise for fed kidnapping or extrajudicial killing in international waters. A ruling class will always find a premise to carry out its plan. Now imagine...

But, like ...

Debate moderators and opponents every few minutes in a US city mayoral election: "Does Israel have a right to exist, yes or no? Do you condemn Hamas, yes or no? Answer me!!!" Editorial: "This guy has a monomaniacal obsession with Israel."

In Los Angeles, agents handcuffed a disabled teen outside a high school campus, later releasing him when they discovered they had the wrong person. In Chicago, agents last month released tear gas that engulfed an elementary school playground where children had been playing.(2)

Run down of some particularly repugnant, evil shit: In July, agents confronted a man in the parking lot of his child’s preschool in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, with many preschoolers looking on. (1)

They grabbed her *at* the entrance and claimed to know she was undocumented based on her license plate. I don't buy any of this, they needed a warrant to enter, especially going in to question coworkers, but our laws don't work to protect us. We have to.

Happy to be wrong about Willow and Harley's first match in the tournament. Surely the witchy sisters are beating them next, though.

Yeah, I think it's best no one tries to explain the mechanics of the Hangman-Schiavone thing. #AEWDynamite

"Under socialism we would all be hungry" "820 million people under capitalism right now" An angry guy pointing at an empty fridge

Everything the haters say about communism is true right now under capitalism.
Every. Damn. Word.

By all accounts Cheney was a very influential, powerful VP. His policies helped pave the way for a lot of this, handing powers to Trump. A lot of iberals are already reminding us of their enabling role in fascism with defense of the guy.

Main event kicked ass, of course. That kid in the audience sure liked to scream.

So, we saw Eddie in a totally disposable segment with Hook. Okay.