James Fritz

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Dick Cheney’s preferred candidate wouldn’t have started a war in the Middle East.

Heard the unbiased legitimate down the middle mainstream news call a 13 year old child victim of a global pedophile ring a “young woman” for the one hundredth day in a row tonight.

Stacey King deserves so much better man. He and Adam Amin are the best broadcasting team in the league and they have to watch this shit year after year. It’d be like the city of Chicago strapping Roger Ebert to a chair and making him watch Porky’s every day.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

"This is the Epstein class in all its glory. It’s an elite that schemes to remain as unaccountable for sexual crimes as it does for corporate crimes. It has its own hierarchy of friends and foes, and it will defend those friends no matter what they do, while the spoils of privilege flow."

RIP Jesse Jackson. He saw y’all promising your vote to Gavin Newsom two and half years from now and was like I’m out

I find some hope knowing somewhere in this vast country there’s an all female hardcore band forming right now called Bondi’s Burn Book

Dear Pam Bondi,

I’ve had better JFL auditions

Replacing Rosie Perez dancing in the opening credits of Do the Right Thing with Kid Rock in those little cutoffs to stick it to woke.

Layoffs Under Trump Rocket to Worst January Levels Since Great Recession Trump said just a few weeks ago that the economy is the “greatest economy in the history of the world.”

But Trump said we’ve stopped all the immigrants from coming in now? You know, the ones who were taking all our jobs.

Weird.

www.thedailybeast.com/layoffs-unde...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

“Not at all”

For people out here believing Homan is some sort of savior, and acting like anything anyone in this regime says can be counted on

YouTube video by 670 The Score Dan Bernstein remembers Terry Boers: 'Every time you think of the damn guy, you're laughing'

To be remembered this way. Boers and Bernstein was literally the funniest radio show in Chicago and it was a sports show. RIP to damn legend.

youtu.be/Ear3mq7pb8s?...

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

I keep reposting this article, but statistically and historically it's basically a given.

: JAG

ICE sucks so bad that CBS doesn’t even have a prime time drama about it

these are.... confessions

This is just like how I won Best Stand-up in The Chicago Reader in 2011

You are now legally allowed to read garfbert.com

JUST NOW: Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social arrives at the start of the new Tennessee legislative session with a huge “ABOLISH ICE” flag

Gavin Newsom has terrible political instincts. Cozying up to racists like Charlie Kirk. Attacking trans kids. Defending billionaires. When left to his own devices he always picks the wrong path.

I heard his Dogbert found the body

this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them

Have already done a brief run through photos/videos from Chicago to see if we happen to spot the agent who killed someone in Minneapolis today. Don't think we recognize him in any footage, but there's more to comb through.

If you believe you recognize him, our Signal is unraveled.66.

How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids? The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon.

www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...