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New Trier area parents (and taxpayers), just in case you didn't think New Trier School Board member Avik Das considers your kids to be budding racists, think again! (And you're welcome, Evanston Now, for the copy editing. It's "Avik" not "Azik".)
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Our office Wi-Fi password has been the same for six years: "Jessica2019."
Every new hire asks who Jessica is.
Nobody knows. Except Tom, the IT guy. Tom set it up. Tom refuses to change it.
We found out from the receptionist. Jessica is Tom's ex-girlfriend. They broke up in 2019. He set the password the same week.
For six years, 80 of us have typed his ex's name about 20 times a day.
Last month, Tom handed out wedding invitations to the whole office.
We opened them in the kitchen.
Then everyone went very quiet.
The bride's name was...
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Jessica.
The same Jessica. They'd got back together in 2024. Quietly. Tom hadn't told anyone.
At the wedding, the best man told the story. Our whole office was at table 9.
He said, "For six years, 80 people at his work typed her name every day. He says he never stopped hoping."
Jessica cried. Tom went red.
Our wedding gift from the office was a $200 router.
On Monday, the Wi-Fi password changed for the first time in six years.
It's now "StillJessica2026."
It took 80 people about four minutes to log back in.
Nobody complained.
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On the night of our "White Guilt" screening at @NewTrier203, high school students from Trevian Club America confronted Cindy Fey, a Wilmette community activist, about calling them "Hitler Youth" and "Nazis." She denied it. Here is the video and it's stunning.
Some of you may remember Fey from the original post where she was outraged that we were showing the film at all. We showed it to nearly 400 people, who received the film enthusiastically and with gratitude.
Most of you would think a school would never invite onto its campus a community activist who called its own students "Hitler Youth" and "Nazis." Well, there aren't many surprises left in this world. In my essay, linked below, I wrote:
"In her original video, Cindy Fey made one false claim after another about a film that she refuses to see. She accused the film of platforming Nick Fuentes and supporting the Great Replacement Theory and being Islamophobic. Over the next month, she posted videos and screeds on TikTok and Facebook about the film. In her videos and posts, she called the students hosting the screening 'Hitler Youth' and 'Nazis.' She calls herself an antiracist, a community leader, an educator. She ends her videos with 'I love you.'
"After the reported racism and homophobia at the football game (on October 16), she led a protest on the New Trier High School campus. She was then invited in by the school administrators for a conversation on hate and racism. This is astounding. In the middle of its investigation into alleged racism and homophobia, the school invited in Fey, a community activist, who had spent weeks publicly calling its own students 'Hitler Youth' and 'Nazis.' Some of those students are Jewish."
Usually the best response to people like this is to ignore them. But my father, Shelby Steele, who grew up under segregation in Chicago, and I have dealt with this behavior for decades, and this video gives you an eye-opening example of what it's been like.
This woman is furious that a community group in the leafy north suburbs of Chicago, New Trier Neighbors (@NTNeighbors), is screening my new documentary, "White Guilt," at New Trier High School on November 5.
In the video, she blasts @NTNeighbors for hosting Charlie Kirk (they actually did not but probably wish they could have) and calls Kirk one of "those disgusting white boys, racist, misogynistic white boys," and smiles as she recounts how she found out he was shot. She then attacks me, my racial identity, and falsely accuses me of platforming Nick Fuentes. She calls my film a "stupid movie that is full of Islamophobia" and "a continuation of the great replacement theory." Then she says she feels "really bad for the workers of color who have to clean up that vile auditorium" after we leave. The kicker is the end of the video when she claims that reading Ibram X. Kendi gave her wisdom and authority.
She hasn't seen the film. But truth is not her objective here. Her only desire is to brand me and the film as racist so her neighbors fall in line. She is already trying to drum up support for protests to intimidate people. That's white guilt intimidation at work. We owe nobody an explanation. The film will be shown as is and we invite all, including this woman, to see the film for themselves.
If you're in the Chicago area, buy a ticket before we sell out: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/wh…
Brian Glashagel is @IHSA_IL Coach of the Year. No one needs to vote, and whatever IHSA says later is irrelevant. He is Coach of the Year, and Antioch should recognize this years' Sequoits for years to come.
For context, Antioch's game-winning touchdown at the end of regulation was nullified by an inadvertent whistle. In an untamed down following that play, it appears Antioch's intended receiver was victimized by a DPI no-call.
It's a horrible way to end a great season, and yet, Coach Glashagel forgave the official for an honest mistake, congratulated Sycamore, and taught his team how to accept an unfair result with class.
I don't live in Antioch, never have, but I have a new favorite high school football team. – at Morton Grove, IL
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The effort to paint Ron DeSantis, who founded the freedom caucus and was the biggest pain in the ass for leadership in Congress, into some “establishment” guy is so lazy and dumb.
With all due respect, the number of times I spoke with Paul Ryan from my election as governor through the 2024 campaign: zero.
And Mitt Romney was attacking me back then because we beat Disney on gender ideology and he is a corporatist.
Try demonstrating a little more discernment next time someone is peddling bullsh— to you.
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🚨INCREDIBLE: A 3-year-old was kidnapped from a public library. 48 minutes later, he was on a city bus crying next to his kidnapper — and no one knew.
No one except the bus driver.
In Milpitas, California, driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert earlier that day: Missing 3-year-old boy, city-wide search underway.
Then a man boarded his bus with a small boy who wouldn't stop crying. Something felt wrong.
Tim looked closer. The face. The clothes. The description. It was him.
But he couldn't scream. He couldn't confront him. One wrong move and that little boy could be in even more danger.
So Tim came up with a plan.
He got on the intercom and told passengers: "Someone reported a missing green backpack, I'm going to take a quick look."
He started walking the aisle, pretending to search for a backpack — but he was really getting a close look at the child.
It was the missing boy.
Tim quietly radioed dispatch, alerted police, and then did the hardest thing of all — he sat back down, stayed calm, and kept driving like nothing happened, with the alleged kidnapper sitting just feet behind him.
He kept that bus rolling until police intercepted it. Officers swarmed the bus, arrested the man, and scooped that terrified little boy into safety.
That child is home with his family tonight because one bus driver trusted his gut and stayed cool under pressure.
He's not a cop. He's not a hero who was supposed to be there.
He's Tim Watson — a bus driver who saw a child in danger and refused to look away.
This man deserves to be recognized.🙏
Of course he doesn't but the courageous Dems had to keep quiet about it to get the House Dems campaign money! #unprincipled – at Harwood Heights, IL
Published on our Capitol News Insider page this morning: Speaker Welch may not have the votes to be reelected even if his caucus gains seats Tuesday.
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Make Common Sense Less Lonely in Springfield, Vote McLaughlin.
#IL52 #returntoreasonable #voteMcLaughlin
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I've started asking ChatGPT to write the most unhinged replies to every AI-generated cold email I get, and honestly, it's low-key my favorite part of the day.
I don't edit them. I just send as is every time.
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Internals in this race must favor the Republican. No one wants to get caught holding the bag
BREAKING: A lost letter of the Federalist Papers has been found, believed to have been authored by James Madison. The founders were very prescient.
THE FEDERALIST, No. 86
On Certain Qualifications of Future Senators
To the People of the State of New York:
In defending the appointment of Senators by the several State legislatures, we must consider circumstances which, though unfamiliar to the present age, may reasonably be expected in the progress of popular government.
Let us suppose that, in some future Commonwealth beyond the Ohio, a lady should aspire to the Senate principally upon the strength of her dancing.
The supposition may appear extravagant. Yet we must not frame a Constitution merely for an age in which candidates are expected to explain themselves.
I foresee an ingenious apparatus, small enough to be carried in the hand, upon which moving likenesses shall be exhibited. Through this instrument, a candidate may enter every household without the inconvenience of answering any person within it. A tune shall play; the candidate shall perform several prescribed motions; and the spectator, having witnessed the whole, shall be invited to conclude that the commerce, credit, and security of the Union may safely be committed to her care.
That such an exhibition should establish fitness for the Senate will be evident upon reflection. The ability to follow a succession of movements must surely imply an equal facility in following a succession of bills. Whoever can turn promptly upon a signal will scarcely be embarrassed by a change in the party’s position.
It may be objected that dancing affords no evidence of legislative judgment. But neither does legislative judgment afford any assurance that a person can dance. The objection therefore proves nothing.
Suppose further that this lady occupies the second office in her Commonwealth, under a Governor possessed of a fortune exceeding a thousand millions of dollars. Suppose that this gentleman employs a portion of his wealth to recommend her advancement.
Here, again, the uninstructed citizen may discover an imaginary difficulty. He may ask whether a candidate so promoted will exercise an independent judgment. But surely a Governor who has expended so much upon the selection will take sufficient interest in the result.
The arrangement also relieves the candidate of much unnecessary labour. Her benefactor may provide the advertisements, his associates may provide the arguments, and she may devote herself to those movements by which the public affection is secured.
Should questions arise respecting the administration in which she serves, the apparatus offers a convenient remedy: another tune.
Now consider the danger of submitting such a candidate directly to the people. A farmer may demand an account of taxation. A merchant may inquire into trade. A mechanic may ask what she has accomplished in office. None may possess the education necessary to perceive how these questions have already been answered by a well-executed turn.
The State legislatures, accustomed to the distribution of offices, will labour under no such confusion. They will understand the Governor’s wishes without requiring them to be set to music.
Thus the proposed mode of appointment supplies a necessary safeguard against the people’s imperfect appreciation of superior talents. The citizen sees a person dancing. The legislator sees a Senator.
Let it never be said that the Convention neglected the qualifications of our future rulers. We have provided for their selection by men capable of distinguishing a command of public affairs from the far more useful accomplishment of knowing who calls the tune.
PUBLIUS – at Harwood Heights, IL
Cognitive Dissonance in a front yard.
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Just two supportive parents still supporting their benchwarming son! Attn @AbdulElSayed
Happy Halloween 🎃
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The Brewers World Series win and celebration brought back a few Milwaukee memories. From local product Mike Myers to Bill Pemstein-led groups with @tjbrown. martymaciaszek.substack.com/…
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In case any of you were wondering wondering what an 88-84 high school football box score looked like in print: @IHSA_IL @IHSASID @qhsfootball @ViewFromWestPod @mikeclarkpreps #IHSA
Quincy 88, Chicago Goode 84
Score by quarters
Quincy 13 46 15 - 88
Goode 22 38 12 12 -84
Scoring summary
First quarter
G-Caron Williams 25 run (Aeden Cleveland run), 8:06
Q-Noah Wells 13 pass from Bryson Little (kick failed), 6:41
G-Gabriel Chambers-Crosby 38 run (pass failed), 2:38
G-Chambers-Crosby 62 run (Chambers-Crosby run), 1:22
Q-Sawyer Harshberger 49 pass from Little (Connor Kelley kick), :59.5
Second quarter
G-Jordan Boston 76 run (Cleveland run), 11:45
Q-Harshberger 8 pass from Little (Wells pass from Little), 10:54
G-Dorrell Reis 65 run (Chambers-Crosby run), 10:44
Q-Braxton Williams 31 pass from Little (Harshberger pass from Little), 10:13
G-Reis 25 run (Cleveland run), 9:13
Q-Williams 18 pass from Little (Dairean Brooks pass from Little), 8:49
G-Cleveland 73 run (Reis run), 7:40
Q-Little 44 run (Little run), 7:26
G- Cleveland 30 run (run failed), 4:54
Q-Williams 19 pass from Little (Harshberger pass from Little), 4:09
Q-Williams 12 pass from Little (kick failed), 1:52
Third quarter
Q-Brooks 19 pass from Little (Harshberger pass from Little), 9:36
G-Daniel Pacheco 2 run (run failed), 6:18
Q-Williams 6 run (Kelley kick), 5:39
G-Cleveland 38 run (run failed), :45.1
Fourth quarter
Q-Little 6 run (Kelley kick), 8:52
G-Cleveland 57 run (run failed), 8:18
Q-Harshberger 85 pass from Little (Kelley kick), 3:58
G-Cleveland 45 run (run failed), 3:42
Team statistics
First downs-Quincy 27, Goode 20
Rushes-yards-Quincy 12-89, Goode 52-676
Comp-Att-Int-Quincy 36-51-1, Goode 1-4-2
Passing yards-Quincy 675, Goode 14
Total yards-Quincy 764, Goode 690
Fumbles-lost-Quincy 2-2, Goode 1-1
Penalties-yards-Quincy 7-80, Goode 12-61
Individual statistics
Rushing-Quincy, Williams 7-55, TD; Little 5-51, 2 TD; Team 1-(-17). Goode, Cleveland 22-322, 5 TD; Chambers-Crosby 10-137, 2 TD; Reis 8-107, 2 TD; Boston 6-92, TD; Williams 4-28, TD; Pacheco 1-2, TD; Kaleb Bryant 1-(-1).
Passing-Quincy, Little 36-51-1-675, 9 TDs. Goode, Boston 1-4-2-14.
Receiving-Quincy, Harshberger 13-261, 3 TDs; Williams 10-194, 4 TDs; Brooks 5-100, TD; Cole Burgess 5-80, Wells 3-50, TD. Goode, Cleveland 1-14.
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That's how you know this is a man who sees the entire world in group stereotypes rather than unique human individuals.
El-Sayed went on this bizarre rant against Pete Hegseth -- claiming that Hegseth "rode the pine" in "whatever sport he played" in high school.
He invoked Hegseth's mother (moms are fair game now, huh?), and claimed she was "the type" who would have worn her son's jersey to games.
*Hegseth was an all-state point guard in high school in Minnesota, set various school records. He played college ball and got some floor time in the 2001 NCAA tournament. El-Sayed played club lacrosse at Michigan.*
Here's El-Sayed's animosity-filled diatribe against Hegseth:
"You know he would have rode the pine. He probably got to start 2 games his entire career, playing whatever sport it was."
"His parents came and cheered so hard for him."
"Bro, I feel bad for you. Somebody told you you're a lot better than you really are."
"There's something about being a brown kid whose parents...no matter what you do you're never enough."
"For him, the very fact that he made the team: his mom was making cake, she was wearing his jersey, she had a cap made for him. You know the type."