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Proprietor of the Picayune Sentinel newsletter. Mincing Rascal. Emeritus Chicago. Tribune columnist. Fiddler. Heterodox liberal. ericzorn @gmail .com
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39 years ago this month, the great Rob Warden at Chicago Lawyer took the measure of the man.
Merry Burkesmas to those who celebrate.
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Has anyone checked on Kass to see if his head’s exploded?
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I am embarrassed on behalf of my current and former colleagues that
@chitribopinions
still regularly runs the tedious, offensive and, here, sanctimonious drivel of a man whose only qualification for writing a column is that he’s rich and thinks he should be an elected official
Willie Wilson: On Easter, President Biden issued a proclamation recognizing International Transgender Day of Visibility. I do not have anything against people who identify as LGBTQ+, but this day should be kept sacred.
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Amusing little passage about Ald. Jeanette Taylor in
@royalpratt
’s new book. "The City is Up For Grabs"
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That’s it, dude. Your time on the Tribune Editorial Board —where the long-advanced position is that Illinois is a disaster from which decent people are fleeing — is now over before it even really began. Tsk. 😀
Massive Illinois exodus? Think again. Report finds population stability in the Prairie State, with more educated and better-paid newcomers replacing rural and lower-income folks who've moved
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Yeah, because Trump has so much more love and concern for Muslims than Biden. 🙄
Muslim community leaders from across the country will rally in Chicago on Saturday, calling for voters to drop their support for President Joe Biden because of his administration’s refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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A terrible idea. Educating children benefits not just them but all of us. That’s the idea behind universal public education. Consigning them to ignorance is counterproductive, cruel and malignant.
Ugh
Think tank with ties to Trump lays out plan to deny free education to undocumented students
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As long as tiny
@John_Kass
keeps spewing his lies, I will keep directing readers to , which explains why so many of his former colleagues hold him in such contempt. Spoiler: It isn’t his politics. It’s his character.
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🔥
@MarkJacob16
has compiled a list of 200 reasons to vote against Donald Trump and has allowed to me share it here repost and share with the persuadables in your life.
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Am I retweeting this post? Or is a rogue assistant? Perhaps a hacker. How can anyone ever know? I am surrounded and besieged by devious people, you must always keep that in mind if temped to judge me harshly. Whoever "me" is.
NEWS: Paul Vallas’ Facebook account liked posts criticizing Chicago as “hell hole” and attacking Democrats; one read “defund CPS.” He denies involvement, like with offensive Twitter likes. Our story
@chicagotribune
with
@byaliceyin
and
@rap30
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You know it, Chip. Conspiracy mongers like John Kass who are now railing about fraud will go dark when EOB is declared the winner. Then they can go back to fat-shaming JB Pritzker
Funny, I tweeted the day's election news, showing O'Neill Burke regain some ground for the first time since Election Day, and all the trolls went silent. What's up with my anonymous (cowardly) detractors? Is election fraud a menace only when their candidate's lead is shrinking?
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Good lord, he’s fuckin’ crazy. Everyone who supported Biden should be "subject to criminal indictment."
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The moral amnesia of the Trumpers is remarkable. These pious hypocrites screech about their family values while embracing the most amoral man ever to be president.
Darren Bailey blames churches for loss. “Our churches have got to show up and vote…. Well if the church wants to ignore and not talk about politics, then we’re going to continue to see a rise in this moral behavior, abortions. We’re going to see a continued attack on the family.
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Moscow Tucker is a spectacularly dishonest, craven hack — a traitor. This clip ought to make your blood boil.
Q: In your interview with Putin, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations
Tucker Carlson: Leadership requires killing people
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Well THIS ought to improve the image of the CPD and enhance the trust of the community! Re-Electing a polarizing MAGA goon to head your union ...
Chicago police union President John Catanzara won a second term Friday, weathering a challenge from Detective Robert Bartlett, who argued that Catanzara’s confrontational style hurt the union’s public image and effectiveness.
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Class act
Can’t say thank you enough to the city of Chicago for taking me in and embracing me. Thank you to the entire Bears organization and ownership for allowing me the opportunity to be part of such a historic franchise. But most of all thank you to my all my brothers that I played…
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Requesting permission to speak ill of the dead.
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Republicans, why are you not fucking horrified by this? You who for so long preened about your patriotism and exploded with indignation when Kaepernick knelt during the anthem?
The most un-American person ever to hold our highest office.
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I wonder if these mendacious POS have a tally of Trump’s golf trips.
Biden retreats to Delaware for yet another weekend vacation — his 67th trip to Delaware since taking office.
He has spent 309 days — 40% of his presidency — on vacation.
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Every 28 years, like clockwork, the Democratic National Convention comes to Chicago
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THREAD: The irony here is that
@John_Kass
was responding on a thread in which I was *supporting* his claim to be the first person to have used the word "dibs" in print to describe placing household junk by the curb to reserve parking after a snowstorm.
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Kudos to these student journalists.
Northwestern has parted ways from Pat Fitzgerald, sources tell us.
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Oh, no one tried to "silence" the diminutive, self-pitying, mendacious drama queen. The record and the timeline speak for themselves.
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Thrilled that my blue check mark has finally been removed so no one thinks I am paying to be here.
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Diminutive
@John_Kass
is not too busy to call me "little" and engage in his favorite hobby of name-calling, but is too busy to respond to my point-by-point takedown of his appalling dishonesty. Because he can't. And his fawning supporters don't care!
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For about the last half of my time at the Tribune I refused to get a CPD press ID for just this reason. It smacks of licensing journalists, and I was disappointed that so many in local media meekly went along with it instead of issuing their own credentials.
Police requiring journalists to register in their system and provide their registration papers in order to attend a *public press conference* at a *public building* during work hours is petty, overly restrictive and undemocratic
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No, no, no, Associated Press, they are 18 inches square, not 18 square inches.
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This is the dumbest take ever. The obsession over whether you should call stuffed/deepdish "pizza" or not is as annoying and pointless as the ketchup/hotdog debates. It has elements of pizza in different proportions than you’re used to. It tastes good. Grow the fuck up.
This guy and his hatred of deep dish pizza will be hosting The Daily Show on Mondays starting Feb 12!
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Nah, I only think about him when he throws shit at me or when he advances his self-pitying lies about the Tribune. I don't say he's insignificant or irrelevant, just that he's too much of a dishonest coward to respond to being exposed with anything other than insults.
@EricZorn
@John_Kass
@John_Kass
just keeps living rent free inside your head doesn’t he
@EricZorn
This was a pretty long rant about someone you pretend is insignificant and irrelevant.
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I was wrong when I predicted Vallas would win the mayor's race, and I hope I was also wrong in my estimation of Johnson's ability to do the job. My mind is open and, as far as I'm concerned, his slate is clean.
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Good Lord, Sen. Tom Cotton is the fucking worst.
Sen. Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No."
Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Chew: "No, senator. Again, I'm Singaporean."
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Bailey’s butt-kissing buffoonery was insufficient to sway the party’s biggest buffoon, thus this display of ingratitude? Or did Trump simply not want to back another loser?
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@MarkJacob16
Well, the supervisors were cruel but fair. If attendance edicts are not followed, there must be consequences.
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I’m not a big believer in online petitions, but I know a lot of people who voted for Brandon Johnson who are not happy with indications that he will dump Dr. Allison Arwady. Here’s a chance to let him know
#twill
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"Sometimes people mistakenly believe newspaper coverage is allotted based on importance — were that the case, half the stories would be about global warming, and we'd never cover another baseball game." …
@NeilSteinberg
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Am I being That Guy when I note that the Last Supper was on a Thursday?
Judas: still on for Friday?
Jesus: Friday?
Judas: yeah, the last supper
Jesus: the what?
Judas: supper. Normal supper with the fellas
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Wanna feel old?
𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟑
John Paxson drains a three from deep to clinch the first Three-Peat for the Bulls!
thirty fucking years ago
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How big of a fool was
@LoriLightfoot
to put this in writing?
I've been telling people how excited I am about
@royalpratt
's book on Lightfoot.
Who is Greg Pratt?
(To be clear, he's also one of the kindest journalists I've ever met.)
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Local man
@petersagal
nominates one of the most inspiring songs in music history as the Tune of the Week
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Vibe check. Does this make you more or less likely to support or sympathize with their cause?
Video posted by the anti-Israel protesters showing a closer look at the blockade for O’Hare Airport.
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The special prosecutor wrote that Biden would be too sympathetic to jurors to expect a conviction, not that he was unfit to stand trial. Kass, like Trump, is not a truthful person.
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-- tell
@John_Kass
: Bro' isn't it time for you to offer a detailed response to "The truth about John Kass’ dispute with the Tribune and the Tribune Guild" in which your relentless lies about what happened at the Tribune have been exposed?
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@JakeSheridan_
Reported attendance 10,412. Must have been a lot of people at the concession stand / in the bathroom / in skyboxes.
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Not a great time to be asking for public funds to build a spanking new ballpark.
The Chicago White Sox' 5-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday featured another lackluster offensive performance as the team was blanked for a major-league-leading fifth time this season.
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He’s lost his mind! He’s demented! Go online and search for flypaper.
And what is with this raving maniac and his bronzer?
While discussing the deaths in Israel, Trump is distracted by flies… he proceeds to talk about how you can’t buy fly paper anymore
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This person did no work! I hope even "dibs" enthusiasts will throw a penalty flag on claiming a spot just because you were parked there before it began snowing
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If so, correct the record,
@John_Kass
. I'll fuckin' print it. Or I'll link to it in my newsletter along with the link to "The truth about John Kass’ dispute with the Tribune and the Tribune Guild" Traffic in facts and ideas, not immature insults. /thread
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Very classy. But it WAS the right call.
“Everybody can make a big deal about that one single play, but not one single play wins or loses a basketball game,”
Paige Bueckers
Winners respect what it takes to win.
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Oh FFS
@CWBChicago
, a 61-year-old is not a "senior citizen."
"Look what you made me do!"
Prosecutors say a man with no criminal history shot a 61-year-old in a rent dispute.
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"Airwaves,"
@Suntimes
? It’s fucking cable, where one can say "fuck" if one so chooses.
White Sox Hall of Famer Frank Thomas let an F-bomb slip at the beginning of NBC Sports Chicago's pregame show Saturday for the Tigers-Sox game. It's the latest blunder to make the airwaves in Chicago sports media.
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The moral rot of evangelicals on full display. Behold the transactional hypocrisy.
News: Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom plans to spend $62 mil turning out evangelical voters for Trump. Would give Trump a financial boost as he faces a cash gap vs. Biden
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Doesn’t matter that this nitwit will vote for, oh, I don’t know, some fellow nitwit like Jill Stein maybe. Illinois is a blue state and will go for Biden. And now we know we never have to listen to
@JaymalGreen
about anything ever again.
Let me clarify, I will NOT be voting for Biden. As an independent, I will be looking at our independent options this election. Joe Biden’s ego and terrible policies is going to sabotage the party.
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She uses "Dr." because she’s a PhD in English. Outside of academia this is a vain affectation aimed at conferring extra credibility. In fact, of course, she is a flaming ignorant kook.
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Weasel
"I want you to answer my question. Three times I've asked it. What did Donald Trump do that was 'downright abhorrent'? It's your words."
I asked
@VivekGRamaswamy
about his old tweets & writings, him criticizing Trump, and it got a little heated.
Watch:
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She is a morally obtuse, loathsome opportunist. What a surprise.
Nikki Haley is running for vice president. Maybe she always was.
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Here's an idea
@John_Kass
. Discuss it publicly on your podcast with me as a guest. We can go through the entire narrative -- and you can tell me where I'm wrong. But you won't do that. Because I'm not wrong. And you're a coward as well as a liar.
@FredButt6
@EricZorn
Eric is a sad case. He’s always been seething w jealousy. When Royko died and he was not given the column he consumed himself w envy. I should probably discuss this publicly w
@JPCarlin
on the Chicago Way podcast
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The "pro-life" party, ladies and gentlemen!
New: South Carolina Republicans have introduced a bill that would allow women to be executed if they have an abortion. The bill is also vague enough to potentially include miscarriages.
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If Biden mistook Hungary for Turkey, right wing media outlets would lose their shit howling about dementia.
Hard to keep your illiberal pals straight in your mind
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This is so cool!
Tom Skilling's name appears in
@chicagotribune
almost 30,000 times.
In the first story the Tribune published about him, Skilling talked about forecasting the weather — as a 15-year-old!
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No need to use old-fashioned technology to vote in the Picayune Sentinel's new Tweet of the Week poll.
Finalists:
@TheFishpants
@RickAaron
@naanking
@RodLacroix
@WilliamAder
@sixfootcandy
@CooperLawrence
@JuliusIrvington
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Time for a revival. This is amazing.
The Lindy Hop scene in Hellzapoppin' (1941) in full color.
-History Of The Lindy Hop Dance-
On May 21st 1927 the Lindy Hop dance was publicly introduced to the world. The Lindy hop is an African American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City.
On that date, the…
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your self-pitying deceptions. Politics is not the reason so many of your colleagues detested you at the Trib -- many of us were friendly across the political divide. Civil. Respectful. I lay out only some of the reasons in "The Truth..." Did I get anything -- one thing-- wrong?
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Well, this is an image in my mind that I can never unsee. Where was the trigger warning ???
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CTU President Jesse Sharkey at the end of the Chicago Teachers Union 2019 strike, via my book The City is Up for Grabs (available for sale and preorder now online and in stores)
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Any in particular come to mind?
I see in comments where those who were shrieking fraud on social media and certain blogs are now shifting to claiming it was their shrieking that prevented the fraud.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Clayton Harris' concession in the Dem primary for Cook Co. State's Attorney's must be a huge letdown ... for those who were crying that the election was being stolen for him
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The same children whose mother he butchered?
On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer.
He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace.
-The Simpson Family
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I have! And I note that they don’t consider ostentatious public prayer and chesty displays of their putative patriotism to be "virtue signaling" because they are not just rude, but obtuse.
Have you noticed that only rude assholes use the term "virtue signaling"?
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What a disappointing weasel Brandon Johnson is turning out to be! Do better, your honor.
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Allegedly!
I may not have my shit together, but I'm pretty sure I could pay off a porn star without committing 34 felonies.
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Does this guy have a "wait a sec…" person on his staff? It does not seem so.
Or if he does, Mayor Gamer isn’t listening to that person.
Johnson doubles down, appoints official negligent in Little Village dust-storm debacle to run Buildings Department
@brettchase
@bylaurenfitz
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This video really amplifies the question, how in the fuck did they see he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt?
How do investigators know Dexter Reed fired first?
Why is there a discrepancy in the number of shots fired by CPD?
Why didn't COPA mention how many shots Reed fired?
How did reporters get a private letter sent from COPA to CPD?
We decided to find out.
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The politics here I get. IVF is wildly popular. Opposition to it is seen as rank extremism. But help me out.
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The entries in the current Tweet of the Week poll are, well, you know.
Finalists:
@benedictsred
@RickAaron
@SJKSalisbury
@SvnSxty
@dmc1138
@Angel_squeezy
@ThisLocalHater
@golubeerji
@fozzie4prez
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Tweet of the Week finalists!
@benedictsred
@GianmarcoSoresi
@simoncholland
@SJKSalisbury
@kelly__le
@Tommytoughstuff
@ddsmidt
@erinh5995
@MartinPilgrim1
@whingewine
Vote here (or say you did)
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Our secret is out! 😡
At Trump Doral, Prophet Amanda Grace warned of technologically advanced “mermaids and water people” spreading perversion and told the crowd, “we are meant for hand to hand combat.”
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