wonderful. such a tonic. no notes.

My FIL died when our kids were preteen/teens. I invited my MIL to live with us and she gave me this odd smile, saying, "Thank you, no."

Stop scrolling & read this powerful @susanbarryschulz.com poem. Especially if you’re a dog person.

right about when they turn 30, yes.

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

Ugh, yes. We must register the danger here and not merely think, well, yeah.

Paraphrasing John Boehner when, after he left the house, he was asked about the always promised, but never materializing GOP healthcare plans: (Laughed hard) Plan!? Republicans don't have a healthcare plan!!

"Without urgent climate policy interventions, North American pension returns could fall by as much as 50% by 2040."

Come check out this podcast ep on Horror Joy!! Had a lot of fun with this one :)

And she was a family caregiver. Truly great.

well put

Trans people may only be like 1% of the population, but the percentage of people who love and support them is bigger. LGBTQ+ rights depend on solidarity and not throwing each other under the bus for acceptance from ppl who want us dead.

This station is owned by Sinclair, I think.

wait for it, he'll successfully claim disability and collect full pay

This panel of the strip is sold as a "Humorous Halloween T-shirt" on Etsy. If anyone thinks this is remotely humorous, they can all the way off and keep going.

"This claim of mass carnage from immigration has a very particular intent: the only way out of the crisis, the Labor Department states, is to hire many more foreign workers to pick U.S. crops at lower wages, a direct transfer of income from workers in the fields to their agribusiness employers."

Yes. That's why, throughout history, creatives always "get it in the neck."

I see trees in between buildings. Lovely!

ICE is now operating near my campus

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Trump's team "are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns.... [creating] the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely." -- Barbara Walter ("How Civil Wars Start") via @tombedsall.bsky.social

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

It shouldn't be surprising anymore, but it still is: "Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. That is an increase from 27% in the first quarter, and the highest percentage in the last five years."

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.