maureen

Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'

shout out to all my females going crazy at the feds 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Ready 2 Help - the FEMA card game

owl - the theme of the day - eagerly awaiting a new Perch on my work bookshelf.

really important thrift store finds today: FEMA the game and a new pal.

Just my iPhone 14 and Nocs binoculars pushed together and then zoomed in quite a bit. Isn’t perfect but I’m too much of a minimalist for more tech specs than that.

Chicago skyline from montrose harbor

best city in da world

two peregrine falcons swooping on the snowy owls 🥹

I’d be on that monthly

I’ve just got my wee phone and nocs out here but I’ll always appreciate the folks out here with stadium level telephoto lens to look at little guys just hanging out.

two snowy owls along Lake Michigan

Hanging out with some celebrities this morning

Hinterland by Phil Neel since I’ve gotta get that back to the library by Monday.

when I was in college a famous novelist was a guest professor for a year and immediately became notorious for her scathing comments to undergrad writers, including, “it’s not that you need to be a better writer, [name], it’s that you need to be a better person”

anyway, thinking about that today

what is this new theme of haunted nba floors

hahahahahahhaha a grifter to the end

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

It was further related that on 12 February 2003, the night before Ms. ______ was to leave for a trip to Florida, Officer Catanzara repeatedly called her cell phone, but she did not answer. She then found a bag containing a red bikini and two White Castle hamburgers from Officer Catanzara on her patio. Officer Catanzara called her later that night, and told her that he had left her the bag. She told him that she did not want the gift. Officer Catanzara told her that if she did not want the gift, she should return it to him or give him the $97.00 that it cost. He told her that if she did not return the gift or give him the money, she should not show her face again in Illinois, because he would embarrass her.

Wait you mean the tough-on-crime woman endorsed by FOP president ex-girlfriend stalker Catanzara is not going to go after the feds??!!

Features writer Katie Prout (@katieprout.bsky.social) estimates that at least 26 unhoused Chicagoans have been kidnapped by federal agents since September—but there's often little record of disappearances, making it difficult to tell just how many people have been abducted.

I’m seeing it everywhere too so I don’t think you got taken per se! it’s also understandable to take some appreciation of action like that. I didn’t know this reporter Ali Bradley before googling and seeing how many wackadoo claims about caravans and human smuggling she’s made over the years.

I haven’t seen it confirmed beyond one singular line in a NewsNation piece by a reporter who’s very chummy w CBP, but not in any of the state propaganda press releases. And the article itself doesn’t even source where they got that detail from:
www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

DHS claims since September people did slash tires at Broadview. Emphasis on claims.

tfw you’re no longer the nyc mayor darling of the White House

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?

MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes

TRUMP: surely they ate him

MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't

TRUMP: Unbelievable

House votes on dumbass resolution condemning socialism, meanwhile the DSA's Lisan al-Gaib rolls the truculent child brain president like a pair of socks

Yes that is another one that’s gotten a lot of attention too, rightfully so.

wholly unsurprising that these bros are drinking as a coping mechanism for how much people vocally hate them - ie the Long Beach arrest of CBP agent Isaiah Hodgson for fighting with local police and ICE agent Guillermo Diaz-Torres who drove into a bush after a 12 hour shift based out of Broadview.

"The program has the support of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling."

Outrageous.

All three of them.

there’s so much in this opinion it’s natural to focus on the particularly brutal elements that did happen but I keep personally remembering that the feds were authorized to kill Chicagoans if they felt they had to for a safe exit.

finally some affordable real estate

Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee in MD, says the administration flagrantly and repeatedly defied her orders to provide regular updates about the man’s return. But she stops short of finding contempt. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you read the article here, what seems to have happened is that the FBI had direct access to a person who was in the group. It doesn’t say whether the person was an infiltrator or whether the FBI got them to share info some other way.