Cheryl Ziegler

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Do they know something we do not?

I have a friend who has mailed me a batch of 3 - 4 cut out cartoons every single week since 2018. I can't tell you how this kindness has seen me through a number of bad times. Bob will love it.

30ish years ago, Jesse Helms sponsored a similar bill to the one that Mary Miller is offering up now, trying to limit what information about sexuality and gender available to young people in schools & school libraries.

I wrote my exp as a school librarian for a comp zine and share it here.

DePaul Art Museum Closing In June: 'It's A Huge Loss' The museum's final exhibits will open March 5. The decision to close was made "to ensure long-term financial sustainability for our university," DePaul's president announced Thursday.

Closure shows “there’s not a priority for the arts or the humanities” at DePaul, especially when the university is investing & developing other divisions...City Council approved DePaul’s plans for a $60 million basketball & athletics practice facility in December blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/d...

The American Library Association strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation proposed in Congress. Call your Reps. Tell them to oppose H.R. 7661. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 American Library Association, Show Up For Our Libraries

"Parents, not politicians, should guide their children’s reading. In our school, campus, and public libraries, materials are selected by trained literacy professionals who understand child development and community needs. Their work is grounded in one clear purpose: helping young people become lifelong readers. H.R. 7661 isn’t fundamentally about protecting kids. It’s about giving politicians broad authority to restrict whose stories are allowed on the shelves. That should concern anyone who believes in the freedom to read and the right of families to make decisions for themselves.” - ALA President Sam Helmick

"Rather than targeting librarians and teachers, Congress should invest in them. The Right to Read Act offers a better path, supporting well-staffed and well-resourced school libraries, strengthening evidence-based literacy instruction, and protecting the dedicated professionals who help young people discover books that open doors and expand horizons. When we trust families, support educators, and protect the freedom to read, our young people thrive.” - ALA President Sam Helmick.

NEW: ALA strongly denounces new federal book banning legislation introduced in Congress, HR 7661.

As ALA President Sam Helmick said, "Parents, not politicians, should guide their children's reading." Call your Rep and tell them to oppose this new bill.

More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/02...

It’s a Wonderful Life bank run scene.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Suzanne...? LOL.

World's Largest Chair in Casey, Illinois

And chair!

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

The cardinals are tuning up their love songs ❤️

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Welcome, friend.

Carrots and celery. Nawww...just kidding. A bowl of German chocolate cake frosting.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

DHS buys El Paso warehouses for $123 million ICE mega detention center as deportation capacity expands nationwide El Paso is a strategic location for the Trump administration because of Biggs Army Airfield, from which deportation flights have increasingly taken place. The mega facility is among several nationwide...

"“El Paso must stand firm. There will be no concentration camps here..."

elpasomatters.org/2026/02/06/e...

Families in hiding and defiant observers: What it’s like in Minneapolis in wake of Bovino’s exit and immigration ‘draw down’ | CNN Even with the so-called “drawdown,” many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they’re preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable af...

ICE is still abducting people. ICE is still arresting peaceful observers. ICE is still gassing people. ICE is still showing up at grade schools.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/u...

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

It's all connected. We all need to resist however we can. www.pbs.org/independentl...

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Looking forward to this show. I was so surprised when I fist learned about Viollet-le-Duc's idealized and occasionally fantastical architectural restorations. It was the first thing to open my eyes to the complexities and responsibilities of preservation/restoration.

What’s the Churchill line about Americans always doing the right thing after exhausting all other possible options?

These vast new prison camps would allow for the detention of 80,000 more migrants, more than doubling Trump/Miller's capacity for deportations. Yet resistance is breaking out in red Virginia, reddish parts of New Jersey, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Utah, and more. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2060...

NEW: @rokhanna.bsky.social is calling for Congress to haul in every person who emailed Epstein about visiting his island.

He says he won’t rest until those who committed these crimes are held accountable.
#EpsteinFiles

It’s day 65 of the ICE occupation of MSP.

Today Homan announced a “drawdown” of 700 agents. Which leaves 2000 agents still in the state- a number that was unprecedented just 5 weeks ago.

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This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

Thank you to WGN’s Spotlight Chicago TV for inviting us to the studio yesterday. We appreciate the chance to talk about the work we’re doing across environmental justice, small business advocacy, transit safety, mutual aid and civic engagement.