𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜

Sometimes I look back over at Elon's X.

Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all my darling When autumn leaves start to fall

Some thoughts on the public apologies issued by some Catholic bishops after last week's Oval Office photo. I expect I will be writing more on Substack and less in the usual places, so please consider subscribing and sharing. millies.substack.com/p/two-words

Easy to laugh at Rogers. And go ahead. But also—this is what happens when a party unquestioningly embraces a moron simply because his stupidity gets votes. Eventually the bill comes due while we all suffer. And I say again. Democracy works just fine. This all is a failure of leadership.

A costly consequence of seeing elections as epic climactic battles is the tendency to act as though winning means history stopped and there will never be another election. Good politics is like selling cars the right way—not rob everyone blind, & leave town. Sell a dozen cars to someone over 30yrs.

@usccbofficial.bsky.social

It is. And you're a fridge magnet if you think otherwise.

To say the least— Not a good look, @usccbofficial.bsky.social

I'm a professor in the humanities. I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for corporations like you.

I have outlined a book called What Politics Is. Its first chapter is called "What Politics Isn't." I am enormously grateful to JD Vance for this chapter epigraph. abcnews.com/Politics/van...

AI was invented by capitalism for capitalism. It's an engine of profit. AI has some uses, and I would be more impressed if its developers made it available to researchers in labs and on campuses. But they're pushing it as a consumer product. That's the tell. We don't need it. We're made to want it.

Dawn's early light, here in the neighborhood.

Reversal of Fortune

We have friends everywhere.

The wealthiest nation in the world. Little wonder Trump does well in places like this. Can a 2028 Democrat get out of the culture wars messaging trap to speak to these basic political questions? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/u...

There are only bad reasons to do these military demonstrations at sporting events in the first place. www.dailymail.com/sport/colleg...

This is so spectacular that I'm a liitle suspicious Tommy is an El-Sayed campaign plant.

A very good one. They Too Go Round - Image Journal share.google/5EUuYnXb5eZ7...

I'm so young. I'm so God. Damned. Yoooooo-ung.

Say more. What do you mean by "brought with them"?

The Cook County juror orientation video contains at least two errors.

Look. The real story of Columbus Day isn't Columbus, it's a mistreated underclass of Italian immigrants hoping to announce they belonged in the U.S. So a lot of the anti-Columbus Day stuff always low-level irritates me. But "towering" "virtue"? That's just dumb.

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

Dear friends, I felt it necessary to announce that I am NOT running in this year's Chicago Marathon. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

See you in '28 boys.

He's telling you he would give away parts of the USA if we were invaded.

Faust & Darling can crow about Williams all they want ... as they are doing. But Williams has allowed a walk. Sean Burke has let nothing thru. So... whatever.

Today was one of those days that makes you grateful to experience autumn in Chicago.

uh oh, Trump reread Kojeve’s lectures on Hegel and figured out that recognition from the mastered is an empty thing

Let's go go go White Sox!! share.google/vDldhsjxzp4S...

Politics is about building. Tearing down and dividing is something else. It's not politics.

Endorse. Impeaching Trump just gets you Vance. Force them to defend Hegseth, Mullin, Patel, Bessent, etc. Impeach around the rotten heart of the Administration. It's not even about removal. It is about using sunshine to cleanse and put them on a back foot for 2yrs.

White Sox haven’t won a game since this tweet btw

I have a different take on livestreamed execution. It's done in our name so we should be confronted by it. Every American should watch. Whether we cheer as a nation or recoil will only report who we are, not change it. Let's remove all the drapery and see what we are. Truth itself is cleansing.

In THAT tan suit? Dad's clearly a beta.

"Every Chicagoan is diminished in some way with Mike Ditka not here anymore." Lemme reframe this, Rick—"Mike Ditka, dead at 86, still a jerk." 'Da Coach' Mike Ditka embodied Chicago, the city he adopted - Chicago Sun-Times share.google/6ZJbjTFq8LWR...

Mike Ditka made noises abt running for Senate after Jack Ryan dropped out in 2004. Sen George Allen as NRSC chair flew to Chicago, met Ditka, explained financial disclosures. Ditka plotzed and didn't run. Ditka was made for MAGA. We were lucky it was 2004. This Chicagoan isn't mourning.

I know Scott Singer and I'm proud to know him. He's a good, honest person who was disgusted by Trump from the beginning. You'll find my book Good Intentions is dedicated to him and his wife Mary Ruth. The book arose from conversations with them, their bafflement at fellow Catholics for Trump.

We had a ball last night at the Commonweal Benefit Dinner, where we honored Rev. John Jenkins, President Emeritus of @notredame.bsky.social, with our Centennial Award. It was wonderful to see so many friends old and new!

Reminder, Trump had gutted CDC and NIH surveillance and response before COVID, and those agencies are in worse shape since DOGE. You really do need competent people in government, and they need to be left alone to do their work. www.the-sun.com/news/1710342...