JKS

The only time I thought it was cool that Blackhawk choppers flew over my house was during the funeral for a veteran pilot I helped coordinate.

Today's flyover was unsettling. I am so over all of this. Leave Chicago alone.

My last living grandparent died. I thought he was dead already. I never met him, and everything I knew about him was learned through decades of physical and mental abuse passed down through the family by the hands of his son.

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

If you have ever wondered what it's like to be a funeral director, I have been crying for 4 hours because the casket for my funeral tomorrow got scratched and now everything isn't perfect so yeah. That's... that's what it's like.

We have one chance to make things right, and I have failed.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others."

she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy."

when you're definitely the good guys

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties. Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go. “I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Chicago isn't a warzone, but it is attempted to being turned into one by the actions of the government.

This is horrifying. Anything you're seeing about rioters or whatever? It's not true.

Our neighbors and colleagues are being kidnapped, homes being turned upside down.

To what end?

Pope Leo speaks up on Dick Durbin’s behalf amid abortion rift "It's important to look at the overall work that a senator has done,” the pontiff said amid an uproar over a church honor for the Illinois Democrat.

Full context here.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Live your life in a way so that you never end up being written about by Human Rights Watch

"Haters said I couldn't do it" meme

Eric Adams

Real talk: I'm not actually a funeral director. Since I move here in 2011, I just die so much and am at funeral homes so frequently that they just put me on their payroll!

#NeverNewsom ever

Have you ever seen a beagle try to fight a coyote because, while it is terrifying, the coyote will lose.

Ray is fine, btw. Fucking insane, but fine.

I don't know how it will go and I really hope he loves it but I have a lot of mixed feelings because of course I do but I know it's what he really wanted more than anything since I have known him so I am incredibly happy for him.

Ok so I have been keeping a very big secret and I can finally tell you that BRAD GOT A JOB WORKING FOR A MAJOR PINBALL MANUFACTURER AND I AM REALLY PROUD OF HIM for sooo many reasons but mostly because after years of thinking he isn't good enough he finally went for it, and it happened for him.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Recommended reading: Rudolph Herzog's book about humor — what jokes were allowed, what jokes weren't, what jokes could get you imprisoned, what jokes could get you shot — during the Third Reich. It's sobering reading right now, as Trump attacks comedians, late night talk show hosts, and actors.

JD Vance said yesterday the Dallas ICE facility shooter was a “violent left-wing extremist.” No evidence backs that up. But then I remembered Vance admitted in 2024 that to help the GOP: "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention...that's what I'm going to do."

While I don't believe funeral homes are haunted, I do believe ghosts hang with us while their body is here and someone thinks it's funny to play with the door to the conference room today...

Brain tumors are jerks. Sending love.

Brad and I were playing video games and I didn't realize I was singing a made up song out loud to the music and he brought it to my attention and I laughed so hard I started sobbing so yeah, I'm doing much better than a few days ago maybe

Really hoping it's not actually rapture day because I finally found a local place with amazing fettuccine Alfredo and I have some leftover in my fridge so. Maybe tomorrow?