Toni Preckwinkle Urging Cook County Prosecutors to Pursue Criminal Charges Against Federal Immigration Agents Preckwinkle urged Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke to act “swiftly, proactively and transparently” in order to ensure accountability after agents have repeatedly used “excessive force...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is calling on prosecutors to pursue “all available charges” related to the killing of Silverio Villegas González, a suburban father who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents outside Chicago last year. https://to.wttw.com/4aPqhM0

A storefront in Hollywood glows during the golden hour. Some palm trees line the street it’s on. Circa 2005 maybe? They used this building on Beverly and Gardner as the Peach Pit in the newer version of 90210. I drove or walked by it every day so would see them filming. One day while driving by, they weren’t actively filming and I saw Tristan Wilds. I leaned out the window and yelled “yo Omar’s coming.” He liked that so he smiled and waved. I don’t usually take pictures within the city, but the last one seemed to be liked so here goes. I’ll be back to mountains, rivers and oceans soon enough I suppose.

Slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black history. - Malcolm Jamal Warner

Pic of the day

#photography

🐾💙🐾. WOODY 💙🐾💙

Siberian husky / German shepherd mix. People friendly. Please read & repost his bio. If interested contact the shelter.

👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇🐾👇

www.petfinder.com/dog/woody-95...

Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue
Wantagh, NY, 11793

This is yellow brain fungus! This parasitic brain-like fungus feeds on wood-rotting fungi such as rosy crust fungus. The best place to see it is in woodlands on deadwood branches of deciduous trees.

A pair of Bald Eagles perched on a leafless tree branch

This shot gives you a pretty good idea of how much larger the female Bald Eagle is. The female is Hannah and the male is Mr. Majestic! #LakeCasitas #Birds #Raptors #Nature #Photography

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

At child D's request: bacon and onion quiche which a herb short crust pastry
#hobbybaker #homemade #bakesky #foodie #Whatscooking #quiche 🍽️🍜🥧

Creek walking gold in our back woods.

A lush stream by Anderson's Cove in East Sooke

#lush #flowing #EastSooke #photography #nature #VancouverIsland #WestCoastBestCoast

A crow eating some treats on a fence post

Day 1323 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and we do the same paths so often in Clumber Park NT that this crow comes along and sees us every time now

PS "My name is Maximus"
#IYKYK 🤣🤣

#inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

It's Judy Blume's birthday. She's 88 today.

Back in 2013, she said, "It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."

The Kyiv Independent
Feb 13

A new range record for Ukrainian drones was established yesterday when Ukrainian drones struck oil refinery in Russia’s Komi
Republic , SBU source says

Following the strike, a fire and heavy smoke were reported at the facility

Who discovered the greenhouse effect? John Tyndall set the foundation for our modern understanding of the greenhouse effect, climate change, meteorology, and weath

Joseph Fourier (1824) proposed that the atmosphere acts as an insulator & Claude Pouillet (1836) suggested H₂O vapor & CO₂ might be responsible for trapping heat. John Tyndall's research on CO₂ (1859) was published after Foote's 1856 paper. www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856) The first paper to link carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and earth heating.

Please forgive me, but I'll "one-up" ya' - lol - even though I don't think Foote was the first but she was certainly among the first... publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

Yes, preaching to the choir, my friend.

White mushroom.

Brown mushroom.

My first time seeing mushrooms this close. It was a magical experience, I felt like the main character in a fairytale.

After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...

Sickening.
#ICEOUT #MN
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Separate ICE from DHS and end it. No survivors, no captives, leftoves, no touchbacks.

Leaves hang down over the River Cam as rowers on the opposite bank get ready to take to the water.

Rowers on the banks of the Cam, watercolour and Indian ink
#rowing #watercolour #Cambridge

My 70 year old dad, whose favorite band is The Righteous Brothers, just informed me that he enjoyed the Bad Bunny show bc even though he didn’t understand the words, “it seemed like everyone on stage was having a good time!” So there ya go lol.

A quick minute of #scarf #knitting on 2/11/26. #knitsky

Taste of your breakfast sandwich pour le chat si vous plait? I'm a bi language type catto 😸 Hump day pals. Get thru today & it's almost the weekend. Family sends love. Hugs ❄️💙❄️

You know who can also testify as to what was happening with Epstein and don’t need clemency?

His victims.

An expressive watercolour painting of an Eastern Bluebird

Continuing with my American birds series, this is a painting of an Eastern Bluebird I painted, such pretty birds!

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

A large mountain in the Columbia Icefield region in Jasper National Park in Alberta. Evergreen trees, green grass, and a roadway can be seen below the mountain. The sky is clear and bright blue.

Mount Athabasca, Jasper National Park 🏔️
#JasperNationalPark #MountAthabasca #CoumbiaIcefield #IceFieldsParkway #Alberta #Canada

The GOP has made it illegal to grow food in my community.

Members of Seattle Democratic Socialists of America cooking dinner as part of their Solidarity Kitchen program

We feed our community, no questions asked!

To volunteer for a cooking or serving shift, follow the instructions here: bit.ly/solidarityki...

We are also looking for financial supporters. It costs just $2 to feed a hungry neighbor. Support here: bit.ly/solidaritydo...

The sun went away this afternoon 🙁 Sooo I decided to post one with a bit of natural lighting. ☀️😎

📍 #Oregon

#mushrooms #fungifriends #fungiphotography #naturephotography

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

#waterfallwednesday #nature #hiking #peace #landscapes #publiclands #wyoming #love
Scalding water surfaces on Boundary Creek in Yellowstone National Park.Bannock Shoshone for "straight down" dangerous thermal waters mix with the cold creek in several places downstream of 110' high Dunanda Falls