Nancy Leahy

62 Modern Tree Houses Climb to Architectural Heights The arboreal designs featured in TASCHEN's new book, Modern Tree Houses, aren't your dad's Home Depot box variety.

Today's delight: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/mode...

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding. Reporter: Was it your brain? Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.

Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing

Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

Read about the life of Sharon Camp, the woman who turned hard-to-obtain emergency contraception into over-the-counter Plan B, and forever bless the women who get things done! 🎁 link

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

New DOJ Manual prosecutorial guidelines (tl;dr):

👉 If you lie to a federal prosecutor or criminal or congressional investigator and your lie is helpful to Trump, you get a cute puppy and nicer digs.

👉 If you tell the truth to a federal prosecutor or criminal or congressional investigator...

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

What Was the American Revolution For? Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.

'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore

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happy bday French artist Claude Monet, b.1840.

“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”

“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”

Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…

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Merrick Garland could’ve released all of Epstein’s private emails with Trump mentioned in there repeatedly. Everything else too. But the supposed “weaponized Biden DOJ” did nothing with it.

I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.

What someone is wearing is not an indication of who they are... how reliable, trustworthy they are...or how organized...or not...their inner world is; unless it's John Fetterman. Turns out...the slop he wears to work...is an accurate reflection of exactly who he is.

And it would help this effort if every Dem said something along the lines of "We *know* he rapes women. The only question is does he also rape girls."

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

this is what happens when an angry, incompetent lightweight freak is put in charge of the FBI

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/tuesday-november-11th-we-cave

Healthcare costs for millions of Americans are doubling. Angus King has a net worth of $22 million.

Our veterans deserve to be met with dignity, respect & the benefits they rightfully earned.

But Trump & Republicans have refused to extend vital healthcare subsidies, meaning 267,000 veterans could lose health coverage.

This isn't how we care for those who've served our country & communities.

My spouse and I both just went 6 weeks without pay for NOTHING and you want ME to send YOU, the party that FAILED us, money? 💀

The latest in an endless river of corrupt Trump pardons for wealthy and well-connected Republican criminals.

"I've been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, 'What's the point of standards?" one CBS News insider claimed. Weiss did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Could a quote possibly be more on the nose for Bari, the Ellisons, the Trump movement, or this whole era in American life than "what's the point of standards"? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."

They did their part.

The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.

They did their part.

8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.

They did not do their part.

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?