Gina

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’”

@apnews.com #Chicago
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Sorry if we're a little extra territorial these days.

Tiny Tim

chicago is under a federally funded terrorist attack and we are just supposed to ignore it, keep walking, go to work & shut up

Since its FOIA Friday, I’d be interested in the rental car receipts for these vehicles they’re plowing through traffic all over the country. Wonder if DHS is springing for the damage waivers or paying out huge bills on insurance claims from the rental companies.

Gilda was sleeping next to a radiator when I left this morning. Highly optimistic!

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

I’m just past that far bridge! *wave*

Photo of border patrol boat on Chicago River

Where’s Dave Matthews when you need him?

While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:

Remember the West Wing episode after Bartlett was shot and CJ listed *all the other people* shot that day and closed with “lest anybody think a gun would have prevented these crimes, let’s remember that the President was shot while surrounded by the best armed bodyguards known to man.”

same

Yes, and... Shakespeare's Pizza in Columbia, MO.

A quiet sidewalk lined with trees on one side, brick buildings on the other. A woman walking in the distance and a Chicago flag mounted on one of the buildings.

Greetings from the killing field.

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

Is there anything more snowflakey than wanting to remove art and history that gives you a sad? www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

I guess I'd better finish reading my Erica Chenoweth book before the storm troopers get here.

My colleague @NicoleCollier95 is being locked up in the House chamber by petty Texas Republicans because she demanded flood relief and stood up for her district.

LET HER OUT. #txlege

Oh no!

National security in this regime is a joke. Not a good joke, but a joke nonetheless.

The only reason someone would be tossed out of all those places is if they don't know how to behave like a civilized human.

Is Vegas running odds on Maxwell getting a pardon and then disappearing from the face of the earth?

Excellent alt text.

Tiger Chair by Max Brooks
Civil Resistance by Erica Chenoweth
This Is The Honey edited by Kwame Alexander

Is there an exception in the oath of office for swag?

Agreed.

two women are sitting in a car looking out the window . Alt: two women traveling in a convertible with the top down, bopping to music

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

Yeah, that's tricky.

You should see the shelves of incandescent bulbs I have stashed at work. When a product that I use in A Christmas Carol were discontinued i bought all that our vendor had in stock.

It's always good to have extras. I have early NanoLeaf LED bulbs that I love but the company doesn't make bulbs any more. Luckily only one has failed in 10+ years of use.