We’ve all got bullseyes on our backs.

Just yesterday NLG folks were discussing Mary Kaufman, NLG lawyer whose prosecution of IG Farben at Nuremberg was sabotaged by the US government. That got us on the subject of Gravity’s Rainbow, and paranoia.

We shouldn’t take it personally. It was just an inconvenience.

Asymmetric warfare is messy, and swarms are indiscriminate, so collateral damage is almost inevitable.

Congrats to Tim Cook, whose obituary will feature extended quotations from the president's uh praise

We have video evidence of two unjustified shootings, one fatal, by ICE here.

O'Neill Burke wouldn't denounce Trump because she wanted to 'maintain' relationship with feds, emails show The emails were referenced in a new court filing by a coalition seeking a special prosecutor to investigate Operation Midway Blitz. The coalition argued that Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neil...

Burke doesn’t want to upset her core voter base in the cop ghettos, who support Trump and ICE.

The Volkswagen logo is a nice touch.

Francis, for instance, was calling for a cease fire from the get-go in the current phase of the conflict.
He was right.

I don’t know if my church is part of the solution in Jerusalem. They try. But most neutral observers would acknowledge it’s no longer part of the problem.

Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, wearing stole with Jerusalem Cross.

My Church got out the the crusader business after Saladin kicked Richard the Lionhearted’s sorry ass in the last Crusade. Since then then the church’s facilities there have been in the custody of the humble Franciscans.

I don’t know Steyer’s intent in getting that tattoo. But it’s probably innocuous. Most uses of that symbol are. And, unlike swastikas, for instance, I don’t think the fash will succeed in hijacking’s the symbol.

Dude had exactly what I wanted, but he wasn’t ready for a fucking tourist bargaining with Maxwell Street skills. I really pissed him off. But it worked out when I just paid him his original ask, not what I’d already bargained him down to: “Sorry, Sir, that’s how we do it in Chicago.” He smiled.

My want was specific, a purple stole with green Jerusalem crosses to match a green chasuble with purple Jerusalem crosses given to me by a Witch, who assured me she had removed the taint of its origin in a Magdalen Nunnery.

So my trip was reduced to a religious pilgrimage. Saying it was tense on the streets is an understatement. I should have accounted for that before employing bargaining techniques I learned at Maxwell Street, a storied street market on the West side of Chicago.

My long-planned pilgrimage to Jerusalem for Pentecost got complicated when Rabin got assassinated, and Netanyahu was first elected PM while I was there. Things were kinda wild, and my trip to the West Bank to meet with local lawyers was squelched by the Israeli blockade.

30 years ago I almost got my roommate stabbed driving a hard bargain for a stole with Jerusalem crosses on it in the Souk in Jerusalem.

I guess it’s notable that this noxious weather vane shifted with the wind on this issue, but it doesn’t make him any less toxic at the ballot box.

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

And if we take Congress in the Fall, it’ll be largely due to the Abolish ICE movement.

It’s weird how folks give the benefit of the doubt to cops, say the bad ones “aren’t representative of most officers.” Trump is *literally* representative of cops — they voted for Trump to represent them.

I get the toxic masculinity of cops and prisoners. The Orthodox Jewish immigrants puzzled me, but a Jewish friend explained that Putin is perceived to be relatively friendly to Jews for a Russian despot.

In Chicago the only precincts that went for Trump are populated by cops, Orthodox Jewish immigrants, and prisoners in our County jail.

Cape felt attacked, in the safety of his lair, by a fucking bird. I told him “Relax, buddy, that’s more about me than you.”

My current cat is oblivious to my relationship with the crows. He was freaked out when a crow perched on a power line outside my window, staring right at us, scolding.

I ❤️ crows. My alley crows scold me when I harbor a cat, but forgive me when I’m between cats.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

It's 4-20: Remember to burn your British flags. Image of burning British flag.

Don’t forget!

He at least gets the point that the path to victory is found by energizing turnout, not triangulating your base.