Emily Pela

nooo whet, it's a vomit train for passengers!!

why don't we just let Planter become the Joe Rogen of the Left and then find another candidate under the age of 70, boom fixed it

If you want people to believe something, you should say it clearly, directly, & repeatedly. If you’re saying something else, you are failing to move people in your direction. Even worse, you are moving them in another direction, shifting the Overton window away from where you want to be.

When you give time and attention to something, you are teaching people that thing is important. That doesn’t mean you should never tackle an opponent’s strengths, but you need to do it thoughtfully, in a way that doesn’t just emphasize how much worse you are.

hmmm, yes and the rhythm guitar and the background vocal walls??? but it's probably time also for me to revisit Full Moon Fever

I always felt like "I Don't Live Here Anymore" was giving "Hysteria"

the worst person you know has made a good point

absolutely. it's too about itself. the Main Character has just been "Blue Sky" every day for the past week, same as it was last year

I'm struggling to find even those critiques tho.... what have you been reading?

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Broadview mayor says ICE is ‘making war on my community’ after latest protests at immigration facility Federal officers again fired rubber pellets and chemical irritants into a crowd of protesters gathered Friday outside the fenced-off compound.

“On Friday, west suburban Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson had a clear message for Russell Hott, director of the ICE Chicago field office: “It has to stop.”

I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation

We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him

It's such a strange, revealing argument. Why should any of us give a shit about protecting people in Epstein's files? Why do they think we do? Since when is the most sacred tenet of society "privacy for relationships of the rich & powerful with the pedophile child trafficker"? Reveal them all.

people used to read magazines to learn about cool and interesting things from
people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than
themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious

if you are looking for solid on the ground reporting in Chicago, I recommend:
- @unraveledpress.com
- @mulchy.bsky.social
- @pgoyette.bsky.social

please do not amplify people who have no record of posting accurate or timely information about events in Chicago

hiii - will there be showings during the day on Thursday 9/25?

this is so Twitter After Dark coded -
incredibly fun but tomorrow we are most likely??? going to pretend like it didn't happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

really good piece by three of my favorite reporters. when you cut funding for services temporarily a lot of them don't come back

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I'm scared about the virtual queue era. a skilled KJ who can manage the room is worth their weight in gold. not everyone will be clutch like y'all, there will always be an Adam, from whom you might even enjoy the downer song sung badly - but Adam all night is a horror show with clown shoes

3 icons and a new classic, songs everyone can sing along with you! this is how you do it (this is how you do it)

drop the playlist my friend!!!

with both wife guy and dudes rock - it has an "ok hell yeah buddy lol" tone, where you're into it and not ironically, but you grant there could be a potential downside

People act real shocked when they learn Mississippi has Buddhist, Hindu, and Sikh temples, highest % of Black people in the US at 1/3rd the population, native Choctaw communities, Chinese and Vietnamese communities that go back generations, and LGBTQ Pride events in several towns across the state

You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom

if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you