Brian O'Neill

Books, White Sox, Great Lakes flotsam, Midwest errata. @NecessaryFic @southsidesox, @fullstopmag, @clereviewbooks others. Big fan of rivers and such. He/His

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

Literally no one cares on this no-traction account, but if this keeps going down this path, I'm out. I have really liked a ton of you and maybe I'll see you on Bluesky or whatever. It was a moral mistake to be on this fash oligarch app.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@edroso You're really smart and I trust you. Is this just hope?

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

Yup. This country has, if not decisively, but declaratively said it likes fascism.

[Himbo President 🇵🇸 @himbopresident]

This is worse than 2016 because people have lived through this shit for a decade and decided fuck it, Arby's being $5 is all that matters. This is an evil fucking country man and it doesn't even deserve the small cushion a Dem house might provide

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

A key tell that Trump isn't in touch with the working people is: his entire fucking life.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

A key tell that Harris wasn’t in touch with working people was a NYT profile of her friendship with Steve Jobs’s billionaire widow Laurene Powell Jobs mentioning the two share the same celebrity dermatologist.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

This will barely be a fucking story tomorrow.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@chrystal_ok Almost entirely in Black areas. It's absolutely terrorism.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@flannelGoddess I actually just turned the other way

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@1DanMoran I'm actually wintering in the wilds of Lake County, on the McHenry border. It's a bit woolier up here.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

It's gloomy today, which could temper my optimism, but I find strength knowing that the same rain which falls on me falls also on my enemy (the old guy who rides around on a big weird tricycle with Trump flags).

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@LemieuxLGM It would be so easy for them to say "We were shocked at this inappropriate unapproved remark, and deeply sorry" but they are incapable of even feigning decency. Their main response was Vance saying people are just offended so easily these days.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

If Anthony fucking Weiner derailed us in 2016, I am totally fine with a comedian I've never heard of being the finish-line story in 2024.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump rally speaker: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico”

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@edroso 2016, perhaps a bit purplish.

https://t.co/obJakV40HY

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@dianegreco @TimothySnyder “The Naval Academy...must publicly explain the rationale for inviting Dr. Ben-Ghiat to speak on a politically charged subject weeks away from elections,” Sadler said.

If you think authoritarianism is "politically charged" then you support it. It's madness.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

Business leaders, media outlets, even service academies -- they're all already molding themselves to Trump's hatreds to (try to, foolishly) protect themselves in case he retakes power. Imagine what will happen if he actually does.

[Jayne Miller @jemillerbalt]

Naval Academy disinvites historian @ruthbenghiat from a history department lecture under pressure from the Heritage Foundation--founders of Project 2025.
Intended lecture was what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule through history

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

Remember the common thread in all stories about Trump: he's a gigantic asshole with no redeemable qualities.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@north0fnorth Absolute best seat on any train, your own little backseat of a station wagon

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

And this progress sparked the fire of the conservative movement, which continually metastasized until its final form, pure anti-democratic white supremacism.

The Civil Rights movement is the history that Buckley was thwarting atop of. A straight line between him and Trump.

[Sanho Tree @SanhoTree]

Never forget that for first 2/3 of the 20th century, access to the ballot box in 1/3 of the United States was controlled by racist death squads. Only AFTER the Civil Rights movement could this country be considered an actual democracy.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

One thing that blows my mind in @SGJ72 Indian Lake trilogy is the way he captures the mind of a very smart but sometimes inarticulate young woman, who is so wounded and loves so ferociously, without seeming like the author's voice. No condescension. No small feat. Bravo.

[Brian O'Neill @oneillofchicago]

@salamiquestlove @MrDelicious13 For YOU to even backhandedly compliment Kaplan...