Today marks the Chicago Grand-Slam for me: Covers + Feature Piece/Top Story in each of the Tribune, Sun-Times, Reader, & DNA/Block-Club.
Beautiful 2-page spread in the Sun-Times. Grateful for the opportunities 🙏 I believe in Hard Work.
#Chicago
@nytopinion
@Emma_Pike_
She looks like a TikTok influencer talking about French onion soup at the new brasserie in the old warehouse district.
Just a totally bizarre set of facial expressions and body language.
“Like, are you ever a total mess about the prospect of nuclear annihilation!?”
@mamoun_linda
@UCLA
“Waving bananas like settlers waving machine guns.”
You’re not going to pretend that you didn’t start laughing when you wrote that, are you?
@LauraPowellEsq
This is the culture and substandard level of education our universities have fostered and encouraged.
Enjoy the kids you coddled and bottle fed and to whom you told feelings were not just facts but license to do whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.
Are we fed up yet?
@havivrettiggur
Why, yes we are, in fact.
She's a 34-year-old chasing a PhD in Marxist interpretations of poetry.
This is a failure.
Though I'm guessing her family is so wealthy that it doesn't really matter to her either way. No one who needs a job does what she's doing.
So Clayton Harris won by 3% points in the city, while Burke won by 8% in the suburbs.
But Harris has won approximately 61% of the mail-in vote, shrinking Burke’s lead from more than 8,000 votes to just over 4,000?
Now four days after the polls closed the CBOE announces they’ve…
@StanleyRoberts
Perfect demonstration of what filthy little liars many of these radicals are.
Listen to these drama-kid screams and claims of torture and compare them to the actual gentleness of law enforcement.
They really are without pride and without shame. Anything for the show.
@MadisonPayton2
Diseased thinking.
The Literary Canon is not an argument for or against any identify. It is the greatest repository of shared human existence captured across the ages. It is timeless & deathless.
I pity your students. I hope they’re bright enough to seek out the great works.
Chicago did it, the city’s voters knocked out a progressive crime/criminal apologist who was sponsored by the Cook County democratic machine & CTU.
Great victory for the city.
I’m honored to be the Democratic nominee for Cook County State’s Attorney! Congratulations to Clayton Harris on a hard-fought campaign.
There is so much more that unites us than what divides us. I promise to work tirelessly to help build a safer, stronger Cook County together.
@krmaher
Just when
@uberliner
wrote a substantial piece about why NPR’s audience has contracted to mostly white ultra-liberal women & ultra-liberal people overall, NPR hires the living avatar of Den Mother Progressivism to run the show.
I used to think it would be tragic for NPR to go…
@meganhawkinsabc
Do any of you stand up and ask her WTF she's talking about, or what evidence she has?
Why let this pathological liar who raised two scumbag young men who attacked and murdered a police officer stand up and grandstand like that?
@eyeslasho
I came up in the newspaper & magazine business in Chicago. I was freelance, no J-School & no connections, & started at little print weeklies to work my way up.
Over a decade I got to know and work with, or around, or by proxy, almost every full-time print journalist in the…
@sfmcguire79
People sometimes tell me I’m too hard on the sweet spirits of Gen Z.
I’d argue I’m nowhere near hard enough.
They’re naive & sheltered as a rule, & one of the most consistently obnoxious things they do is rebrand common things as though they discovered them & expect praise…
@ebruenig
@conor64
The (intentional or not) dishonesty of that comparison is absolutely perfect. It’s in microcosm why massive blocks of citizenry consume their own side’s media & rarely venture out of their own reality. I know which side burned, looted, & destroyed small businesses in my hood.
@ProfDBernstein
Saying no to these requests can have consequences.
UCLA Professor Gordon Klein was suspended for refusing to grade black students more leniently b/c George Floyd died in police custody.
He was exposed to a public struggle session before suing UCLA.
@doctor_cabral
LMFAO
Bud, you’re going to be miserable wherever you go. It’s built into you.
Imagine how much more miserable you’d be if you couldn’t perform on social media.
@HMDatMI
@CityJournal
I talk and tweet about this regularly.
A frequent placeholder for the movement that I use is Den Mother Progressivism. It's like being ordered around and scolded by a pack of aggressive kindergarten teachers.
Almost the entire thing to me looks, sounds, and acts female. The…
@TheArthurLong
@UChicago
Salute to all of you.
Right to protest for your beliefs.
No right to occupy property, vandalize our infrastructure, or agitate for the destruction of our nation or way of life.
@coldxman
That may’ve been true at one point but many elite schools now are selecting for other characteristics.
They have classes full of test-optional admits who got in essentially on an identity ticket of some kind, despite being particularly unqualified.
Do agree on lack of common…
@RepJimBanks
Make the good straight case for it, don't sensationalize it or turn it into some clown show.
NPR does not deserve tax dollars or protection, it should compete in the open market w/other publications of its type like Mother Jones and The Nation.
If you do it straight you'll have…
While some schools in the US are removing Newton from Newtonian physics b/c of Newton’s skin color & ethnic heritage, the Chinese have public statues of Newton and proudly teach his physics as the foundation of everything that comes after.
@9mm_smg
The best part about this is that he begs for a moment to tell her that her jet skis were at fault, and when she finally gives him a second to explain he says: “The speakers blew out.”
If you can’t get the tunies going the jet ski will automatically flip over. That’s true.
@OmarJimenez
She was sitting listening to a police scanner while her brother, armed w/a handgun that he was about to fire at police, drove around a high-crime part of the city?
That's super weird.
@andrealongchu
We also don’t need drinking or smoking ages, ages for licenses to drive, ages for statutory rape, or anything else—once you’re born you ought to be able to do whatever you want whenever you want.
In fact, why do parents raise their kids anymore? Turn ‘em loose, they’ll figure…
@peterboghossian
Are you driving up your revenue-share check here?
B/c, if so, my hat is off sir 🧢
But if you’re seriously judging people who’d rather not be led by a man who eats his own shit—you’re likely heading down a lonely road.
@Dharmapurinerd
@eyeslasho
Also, how far back do you want to take this? Greeks? Romans? Turks?
The Arab conquests of the 7th-8th centuries?
Not only has this thing been ready to be settled for 80 years, the Palestinians have had deals on the table giving them more than they’d asked for and turned it…
@kane
This is true.
I'm friends with and in social circles w/many progressive lefties. It's annoying as hell but when they're not grandstanding about politics/social issues most of them are good people.
As a group they talk about their protected groups like children or abstractions.…
@embernic
LMAO
These always read like confessions. This woman is identifying herself as a lightly regarded partner w/emotional-cognitive-esteem issues that cause her to pursue the kind of men she hates. She can’t break the cycle.
If men didn’t have to have sex as part of their…
The entire thing is disturbing. This was a low turn out county-level primary that should've been counted & completed w/in 72 hours.
@maxrbever
is a hyper-partisan communications man for the
@ChicagoElection
board. Five days after an election ended he claimed to have…
I think it's important to know who Max Bever is and what he believes. I reviewed his X profile and unearthed the following posts. I find it troubling that a person with this "Defund" or "Abolish" the police worldview is now saying that he "mistakenly" left out additional ballots…
Copy of the emailed letter sent to
@NPR
:
You had a courageous reporter named Uri Berliner—one of your own for decades—who called out and identified what every honest news consumer has known for years, that NPR has a serious credibility issue that stems from its ideological…
@senategabe
Yes, providing an ID to vote is one of the most shocking coups in world history.
Do you people even listen to yourselves.
Your party or movement or whatever you are deserve whatever you get for brazenly lying like this.
@Deggans
What the hell Berliner piece did you read?
He laid out a general culture, made specific critiques w/examples, and then you guys hired to run NPR the exact person he described in his piece.
He couldn’t have been more on the nose.
You need to take NPR to the private market to…
@GovPritzker
He was murdered in a state and a city that has diminished, undercut and degraded the critical role of police officers in our society.
Police, the enforcement of laws, & criminal justice are fundamental to a safe & civilized public square. Stop valorizing & protecting criminals…
@itznashaax
@MrErnestOwens
It’s in fact a ludicrously small percentage of Americans who live on social media & attempt to start fires all day every day for profit & attention.
Imagine, in an American melting pot, trying to purify where each cultural bit came from. Actual insanity.
@thedailybeast
Why is trust in media at near zero?
Here’s a great example—b/c you tell obvious lies in service of your political beliefs.
Ilhan Omar’s aspiring-terrorist daughter is wealthy & extremely privileged. Mummy will have her in a cute little condo on the West Side in five minutes if…
@realchrisrufo
Please get
@uberliner
's gutsy, prescient piece that called out this decayed culture at NPR w/incredible precision and timing back out into the algorithms.
The new NPR CEO is exactly they type Berliner said was destroying the outfit's reputation, and he is right.…
@wanyeburkett
A 30-year-old woman w/a degree from a top 30 university who was working in neurobiology shouldn't be held responsible for threatening to murder members of the government if they didn't vote for a war policy they have no control over?
No, I think she needs to be punished.…
@ABC7
@abc7chriscristi
The police?
Is that organization many in media supported defunding? The group that has one-sided unfair ridiculous slander written about them when they step in and take care of scumbags?
Today you’d be writing about how brutal they were to the mostly peaceful terror-commies.
@LauraPowellEsq
One of the most effective weapons the feminine-progressive movement has is reputational destruction.
Clearly they're deploying that here. It's a good thing for the professor there is video, (though no guarantee), b/c in a state like CA her feelings about what happened are…
@CBHeresy
C. is a primary problem in contemporary journalism.
When you show a progressive editor or reporter evidence that trust is plummeting b/c readers believe they’re getting told what to think & not what happened, they’ll fire back instantly that those people can’t stand the truth.…
@UCLAchancellor
UCLA, 2008.
I look forward to contributing to the civil rights lawsuit against UCLA.
You’ve been violating civil rights for years w/your hiring preferences and tore down UCLA’s blind, merit based admissions policy to intentionally include the undeserving and exclude the…
@tiffany_caban
You can guess who these people are before checking to confirm.
Flat out commie. Why do these people hate law & order? Why do you people elect them?
Catch & punish every fare runner. Society starts from the ground up. You don’t break small laws, you don’t break big laws.
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
Burke was +8 in the suburbs while Harris led by about +2 in the city.
Burke had a 9,000+ vote lead when the counting strangely became delayed.
If the mail-in votes suddenly go +16 (58%-42%) for Harris the fraud will be undeniable.
@JoyceCarolOates
Welcome to the party, Joyce. This has been underway for about half a decade.
They've completely compromised themselves and their reputation for integrity.
They've joined the Culture Wars as a partisan fighter.
@krmaher
Counterintuitively, this comment gained NPR several thousand additional white-leftist listeners.
@NPR
’s audience now is 89% white-leftist and, of that, 83% are female or female adjacent.
It’s the diversity of conformity that NPR so treasures.
Tony Preckwinkle, one of the lever pullers inside the Chicago Machine, showed up at the Machine's candidate for State's Attorney's election-night gathering and laid out a vision for victory.
After noting that she won her first election by just 109 votes, she said: "The party…
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
So Clayton Harris won by 3% points in the city, while Burke won by 8% in the suburbs.
But Harris has won approximately 61% of the mail-in vote, shrinking Burke’s lead from more than 8,000 votes to just over 4,000?
Now four days after the polls closed the CBOE announces they’ve…
@RepMikeLawler
That bill needs to be halted immediately.
Flagrant 1st Amendment violation. As bad as I’ve ever seen. Words are not violence. I profoundly doubt American Jews want this bill.
This will backfire badly and is going to end up in the courts immediately.
@susanamendoza10
How about we stop letting the executive, legislative, & judicial branches lie about these pretrial release and ankle monitors and all these diversionary programs being good for the citizens instead of the truth, which is that they're good for the violent criminals?
Horrific…
@Channel4News
Sounds like England is being bullied by a group of citizens that does not hesitate to use violence and murder to get its way. Scary stuff.
@jadler1969
Good for you. Thank you for showing courage and independence in a group that's not known for either.
I think most of us hope that the radical professors do refuse to turn in grades and open up a clear opportunity for discipline or dismissal.
Feelings or political positions…
@Kurt_Steiner
@banjopatterson4
Don’t recall him saying “everything” . . . .
But the reality of the sceptered isle is why the British built the super navy & set out for the land of others. They knew the home front didn’t have all that they needed.
@Suntimes
Spooky how Tony Preckwinkle showed up and said "The party does pretty well with mail in ballots."
Burke is a democrat, too. What "party" is Tony talking about?
@CWBChicago
That's the truth.
Kim Foxx has done, and continues to do, everything she can to ensure that the most violent and dangerous criminals in Chicago are not arrested, detained, tried, or locked up after terrorizing the city.
Her objective is to delegitimize & undermine American…
@YayAreaNews
Americans went to a public campus that had been taken over, vandalized, graffitied, & turned into an ideological purity encampment by terror-commies & their sympathizers.
The terror-commie encampment had no right to take over that public campus, & the Americans that showed up…
@MayorOfLA
Start w/the encampment and building occupations, which is the fountainhead of the issue.
That campus does not belong in any way to those occupiers & they cannot restrict the movement of a single person for any reason.
Fordham laid out the plan. Use it.
@usatodayopinion
When you prove yourself totally untrustworthy you lose the trust of the people.
From bogus claims, to suppression of truth, to shifting narratives, to telling people to take to the streets by tens of thousands for one movement but to STFU for others—they totally earned it 💯
@BullMarketGod
@elicalebon
Not only is that ludicrously inaccurate, if those were indeed the terms that made Israel illegitimate, Palestine is an equally if not more illegitimate modern nation state.
You'd better re-research the case and come back later to try again.
@polanskydj
He’s suffering from a punishing case of Stockholm Syndrome inside one of the most toxic subcultures in American society.
Consider the insanity of dedicating your life to a subject-field and profession you’re eminently qualified for but also talking yourself into the rightness…
@CAgovernor
@GavinNewsom
@UCLA
Hey buddy. You get caught up on a wine country tour w/your pals the last week?
Totally understandable. Why else would a person get into politics and leadership?
@MsMelChen
There's a growing stack of thoughtful literature, much of it written by women, analyzing & expositing on the feminine traits powering progressivism and its enforcement arm, cancel culture
Not that all cancel culture is female—many, many men participate—but that its ethos and…
@BenBradleyTV
We should describe BCH more accurately. It was an attempt to get a loosely monitored slush fund into the hands of the people running this city to do with what they pleased.
It was also a development killer and a guarantor of rent increases for the people who work.
Ironically,…
@KevinKileyCA
UC Riverside always has been the red-headed step child of the UC system.
Why they hell did they discontinue that study abroad program?
That's going to tangibly hurt its university & make it a provincial backwater.
The UC Regents should step in on AT LEAST that one.
@RFlashenberg
@VinceCoglianese
@seanspicer
Why not delete your account? No one knows you or answers to you or owes you anything.
This person was extremely polite to put up that link.
Is NY Times good enough, or is that right wing news?
@Halalcoholism
Most online Trad’ers (Chad Trads, maybe) are old-fashioned losers.
Women don’t like them, generally (& they may not even like women, if we’re being realistic), & they’ve found a way to turn it around on women & blame them.
If you’re a man how do you not love the way women…
@eyeslasho
Vapid, value-less, unctuous sleaze. Errand boy for the wealthiest, wokest, most of touch savior-industrial complex contingent in the U.S.
The kind of guy who literally sleeps w/the wives of his campaign people.
He’d do great moving to Canada & opening a boutique B&B & winery…
@JillFilipovic
You don’t understand how this person got into Columbia?
Have you not been paying attention to anything over the last decade or, more specifically, the last five years?
Elite schools are violating civil rights law to select for exactly this kind of kid.
@ChristinaPushaw
@GovRonDeSantis
@libsoftiktok
Such an old media trick. Put on maximum pressure by reducing space to respond or rebut before “X” happens.
Then you simply write: They were contacted but did not respond or declined to comment.
Great way to keep potentially strong anti-voices out of your piece.
Ron DeSantis controls not only the climate and the US's nuclear energy program but China and India as well so this likely is a fantastic argument.
I'll never know, of course.
But we all pine for the good old days when South Florida in May felt like New England in October.
@realchrisrufo
@eyeslasho
There’s no cultural subgroup more out of touch w/reality than that of the pure academic.
Everything they do is intellectual and theoretical. They’re always seeking perfect consensus & idealized messaging. Spell-casting change from the heights of the proverbial Ivory Tower.…