Timothy Mellon: US businessman, chairman and owner of Pan Am Systems, and major political donor

Pan Am Systems operated regional freight railroad network in New England, adopted the name and logo after buying the bankrupt airline's brand in 1998. Railroad operations were sold to CSX in 2022

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

It's not even 11am yet, and federal agents have gassed the northwest side of Chicago twice this morning.

Just before 10, NWSRR reports they detained two people in Irving Park, one of them known to be a US citizen: www.instagram.com/p/DQPKhmDEd4W/

Of course the donor of $130 is a MAGA billionaire nut Trump supporter, RFK Jr. supporter, and anti-vaxxer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

He is also the Senate Majority Leader...

Republicans in Congress are spineless.

Hunger in America makes Page One in Knoxville, Tenn, ..

.. Indianapolis, Boston, Milwaukee ..

#SNAP #Shutdown

Our top story, from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

The Great Crypto Grift: How Trump & the Broligarchy Are Scamming America

Trump & the broligarchy are grifting America through a corrupt Crypto scheme that has made them billions of dollars but threatens to destabilize financial markets & crash the economy.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

I am fast becoming a single issue voter. And that issue is prosecute every one of these motherfuckers.

gonna keep banging this drum: Chicago area folks, if you sign up for Know Your Rights training with @icirr.bsky.social
it’s only 90 minutes & through the org, you can be connected with people who are trying to protect our communities. Other ideas: find local food pantries or Mutual Aid groups 💚

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey.

It is at redshift 1.24 (lookback time 8.81 billion years) with coordinates (215.10711, 52.99216).

110 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Thank you, Chicago.

In the long Republican tradition of harassing people, especially non-white-people, who might not vote for them.

www.npr.org/2024/10/31/n...

His mother was also there and no one is sure whether she too was taken. They were both thrown down. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/l...

Amazing to hear people speaking like this without the slightest hint of awareness that they sound exactly like the newsreels at the start of every disaster horror movie ever made

My dryer literally won’t turn on if the lint trap is too full. I’m good about cleaning it regularly but my mom was about to have conniptions one day and was equal parts delighted and annoyed to learn about this feature in real-time. LOL.

It’s a pretty neat, if sometimes annoying, safety feature.

CBS been cooked

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.31 (lookback time 3.63 billion years) with coordinates (150.12919, 2.08890).

52 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Same!

Go Jays!!

“.. it was crickets on the Bari Weiss-controlled former home of Walter Cronkite.”

@deadline.com $PSKY
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Anti-abortion is not a pro-"family" policy. You know what's pro-family? Paid parental leave. Free childcare. Universal healthcare. Living wages.

MAHA’s out here all smug with their lies about vaccines and sat fats while the same administration cuts nutrition benefits for children.

Talk to me about removing food dyes when every kid in the U.S. has enough to eat.

We are the richest country in dollars and the poorest in humanity.

Great news! The courts have declared that Rubén Torres Maldonado was illegally detained by ICE and a bond hearing to secure his release must be held by Oct 31st.

I am proud to be part of a coalition fighting to ensure that families remain together and the rule of law is upheld.