Tim Probst

Hey ICE! Take your masks off, you cowards!


President Trump calling up 300 Illinois National Guard ‘immediately’ to protect ICE, buildings for 60 days

Let’s see if Trump is a quick learner. Everyone knows that you don’t mess with Chicago, and I’m afraid this really isn’t going to go well.

Trump authorises National Guard deployment to Chicago

Americans, your own government is lying to you.


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Let’s all hope that our military leaders have more honor and respect for the Constitution than our elected and appointed civilian leaders.

Live updates: Trump, Hegseth hold meeting with generals in Quantico – The Washington Post

Wouldn’t it be great to live in a country where you had faith and trust in its leaders to know that this investigation was closed because there really was no wrongdoing?

Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan – The Washington Post

So much for that not worshipping other gods or false idols thing.


Trump will lead high-profile lineup honoring Charlie Kirk at Arizona service

Americans, do you have your eyes wide open?

The White House Peace Vigil, after standing for decades, is dismantled – The Washington Post

Those of us of a certain age will remember thumbing through records, cassettes, and ultimately CDs at stores like Musicland in the ‘80’s.

I distinctly remember these hearings and eventually seeing the labels on CDs at the store. I can confirm that t... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/09/13/9774/

These women were having nun of it!

Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps

Of course Russia intentionally launched their drones into Poland. All of NATO needs to come down hard on Russia and their allies with debilitating sanctions not only to send a message but also to hopefully prevent a much wider war.

NATO responds to Russ... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/09/13/9767/

Do you all remember that one kid growing up that always cheated to win games because they weren’t good enough to win fairly? Everyone hated playing with that kid and eventually stopped playing with him.

We now have a president and an entire political ... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/09/13/9763/

Thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, I happened to be listening to WXRT earlier today even though I live in a radio wasteland here n St. Louis. The DJ (yeah, they actually still have those) played an incredible new song by Mavis Staples called Chicago... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/08/31/9692/

Vaccines work. They have saved lives and prevented illness for generations at this point.

Knowing the president does seem to care about his family, this can all be solved very easily with a few questions asked every day until he gets rid of RFK Jr. once... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/08/31/9687/

It seems we’ve hit that time in history when cars update like smartphones.

If you’ve been holding off on that hiking trip in a national forest, now’s the time to stop waiting. That dream hike is not going to look the same after these goons get done destroying our forests.

Trump officials plan to remove protections on 2 million... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/08/28/9674/

Seriously one of the dumbest things this administration has done, and that’s saying something.

Trump administration to paint US border wall black to deter crossings | AP News

I am so excited to see what my team is able to do with these new models in Azure. I am especially excited to see how the model router functionality benefits our solutions and ultimately our clients in both experience and in cost savings.

GPT-5 in Azure ... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/08/09/9579/

I have been putting iPadOS 26 through its paces, and there are some really nice advancements that will make the iPad even more powerful than it already is today.

Any Mac (or Windows) user will appreciate the new menus at the top of the screen for the ac... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/07/30/9517/

My first favorite baseball player, and my favorite all-time Chicago Cubs player.

RIP Ryno.

Ryne Sandberg, Cubs icon and Hall of Famer, passes away at 65

Thank you for speaking up, this is a win! After growing bipartisan pressure, the Trump administration has agreed to release $1.3 billion in previously frozen federal funding for after-school programs across the country.

Let’s all remember that without public television, there would be no Wayne’s World. What a sad world this would be.


Support your public television and radio stations!

News Flash . . . This United States government is lying to all of us around the globe!

Alligator Alcatraz housing migrants with no convictions | Miami Herald

Immigrants are literally the cooks in our kitchens. Perspective is important. We are all ultimately from somewhere else.

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Let’s all remember that Andreesen is the product of a state-funded public university (University of Illinois), and his wealth is the byproduct of his work at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the same university.

The U of I is a ... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/07/12/9385/

Missouri voters, how does it make you feel that the same people you voted to represent you are now directly and blatantly overriding your will as a voter by repealing a law for which you as a whole voted in overwhelmingly numbers?

I cannot stress enough... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/07/12/9381/

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It seems that we are slowly but surely trending back to the days of land lords.

Investors snap up growing share of US homes as traditional buyers struggle to afford one | AP News

Let me direct you to the following quotation from the linked Washington Post article:


To offset the bill’s cost, Republicans proposed steep cuts to Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance program for low-income individuals and disabled peopl... https://www.timprobst.com/2025/06/29/9286/

Something tells me I am going to have this album on repeat for the foreseeable future.

As a lifelong Cubs fan, it’s strange to hear Chip Caray calling a Cardinals game. On the other hand, it’s nice to hear Chip Caray calling a game again.