Cheryl Ziegler

Let’s go Tennessee! Make them regret their gerrymandering!

Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder Painted figures haunt an empty building. A boy leaning on a pair of crutches. A father and son wandering a barren railroad track. A nuclear family at a picnic table. These poignant scenes were painted...

“Is it frivolous to worry about art when the world is on fire? The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration didn’t think so. In the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic calamity in the country’s history, FDR’s New Deal invested in culture as essential to a more “abundant life” for…citizens”

Burrowing Owl on the right saying in a speech bubble, "There's no way they can see me..." Burrowing Owl on the left saying in a speech bubble, "They can totally see you." Credit: Wendy Miller photographer

My cousin lives in this community and told me this outrageous story last night. I hope it will be widely shared.

Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

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"Remember: all the congressional machinations are only to force the release of the files. He could release them himself any time he wanted to."
-Heather Cox Richardson

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Broadview evidence “irretrievably” obliterated by common practice

the biggest babies. chasing warmer weather because they're weak, sad men.

"Leaf Town Forever celebrates community in a most beautiful way."

hanks to @lhertzel.bsky.social for this lovely review of Leaf Town Forever by @bethrooney.bsky.social & me & illustrated by Betsy Bowen in the @startribune.com!

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I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.

This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

Senators @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov, please hear Governor Pritzker. STAND TALL FOR HEALTH CARE. Do not give in!!

Dear @schumer.senate.gov:

Dude…no. I mean…c’mon. Read the room, man. Don’t make me write something unkind about you. Because I’ll do it, man. I am good at newspaper-appropriate insults. Stand strong. This matters.

DO NOT CAVE!

Close up of a print called Urbs in Horto (text is in a tree form in print). Multiple colors create a modular take on the city of Chicago.

Wrote about the complex process of building a 7-color print from metal type & ornament. www.starshaped.com/blog/2025/11...

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.”

— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis

I'm really looking forward to the time when I can visit NY again

Julia Fine Takes Readers Behind the Reality Show Cameras in “Honeymoon Stage,” Writing as Margaux Eliot For anyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the making of a reality show, Chicago author Julia Fine provides a look at the off-screen drama in her new novel, “Honeymoon Stage.”

In my first article for Newcity magazine, I spoke with @finejuli.bsky.social (writing as Margaux Eliot) about Honeymoon Stage, her "MTV reality show book" 🎬🌴💄

More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!

ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.

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In Belmont Cragin on Chicago's northwest side this morning, a rally is opening in support of day laborers outside the Armitage/Cicero Home Depot.

Activists are calling out the corporation for continuing to allow ICE and Border Patrol to stalk and attack immigrants in their parking lots.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Englewood To Celebrate Its MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow, Tonika Lewis Johnson Kennedy-King College’s Center of Equity for Creative Arts will host a Nov. 7 event, which will include a live discussion, an art activation and a screening of Johnson's "The Folded Map Project — The M...

This makes me so incredibly happy! Tonika's work is "genius"! Looking forward to seeing her next projects. Englewood To Celebrate Its MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow, Tonika Lewis Johnson share.google/FgRFlz2nNHdf...

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after. And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too. Saw this & thought I'd repost

Reposting with Alt-text:

When ze says “beautiful”, it’s really true. And they feel so smooth and silky in your hands! Go check out Nora’s jewelry and set aside a bit of money for one or two things.

10:45 AM - Two U.S. Citizens were kidnapped by ICE after patrolling the area and learning of immigration federal agents present at Allen Elementary School, Aurora, IL. One of the patrollers was pepper sprayed and assaulted by federal agents, and were transported to Rush Copley Hospital, Aurora, IL. They were forced to leave behind their young child, who was in the arms of an officer from Aurora Police Department.

What's happening in my community (Aurora in the Western Chicago Suburbs - a heavily Latino area) is devastating.

Here's what our local Rapid Response team posted on social media: