Chicago churches urge calm resistance ahead of expected federal intervention As Chicago braced for an immigration enforcement crackdown and a possible National Guard deployment, churches across the city turned up their response from the pulpit.

"Rev. Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family, and protest...

'You need to start telling people about your whereabouts, so you don’t disappear,' he said during Sunday services...

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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..."

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Opinion | Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State

My column: Israel’s Gaza Campaign Is Making It a Pariah State www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

J.B. Pritzker: "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."

This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.

Yes! Presidential candidate 2028?

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

So cool!!

Apollo 11.
Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969.
Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!

Opinion | The Fear Is the Point

Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force in the Biden administration: President Trump does not accept dissent and is using fear to try to suppress it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

Former military official warns Trump is promoting 'naked self interest' with latest moves A former senior Air Force official is warning Americans that the Trump administration is promoting "naked self-interest" among military officials by politicizing their roles.Frank Kendall, who was the...

Ex-Air Force Sec. Frank Kendall warns Trump is politicizing the military by firing top officers to install loyalists. Dismissing Gen. Brown Jr. and Adm. Franchetti without cause, 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢, 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 ❝𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩❞ 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙪𝙩𝙮. ↘ www.rawstory.com/trump-firing...

Opinion | Fear Comes to America President Trump’s administration has created a climate of menace and trepidation to try to stifle dissent.

During the Bush and Obama years, “we lived in a nation where we could publicly oppose the policies of our government without fear of what that government might do to us,” writes Frank Kendall, the secretary of the Air Force under Joe Biden. Today, he can no longer say the same.

Ex-Air Force chief reveals shocking retaliation as he defies Trump effort to silence him The leader of President Joe Biden’s Air Force slammed the Donald Trump administration Monday after he found himself blackballed for speaking out.Frank Kendall wrote in the New York Times that he’d bee...

Frank Kendall wrote that he’d been told by organizations and law firms that they want nothing to do with him — because he dared criticize the actions of the current president.

And he warned of the dire state of democracy in a country where that could happen.
www.rawstory.com/trump-retrib...

Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
#nokingsday

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In 2006, Brian Wilson invited Carole King to his recording studio for sessions that turned out to on his 2008 album That Old Lucky Sun. Among the B-sides on the deluxe version is their rendition of the Goffin/King classic “I’m Into Something Good.”
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The clearest photo of Mercury ever taken.

Crowds at the LA Football Club chanting Fuck ICE!

Music to my ears!

Released 40 YEARS AGO Today

Raspberry Beret (1985)
Prince & the Revolution

Happy Birthday Liberace!

From the Red Skelton show in 1968, performing the Simon and Garfunkel classic, Feelin Groovy.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Ripped to Shreds After Asking Followers to Venmo Her Son Beer Money Marjorie Taylor Greene is feeling the heat after her birthday tribute for her son on X (formerly Twitter) went south. In a since-deleted (but screenshotted) tweet, the congresswoman from Georgia share...

HEY GOP Rep David Joyce
Here is another GOP version of SHARED SACRIFICE

Margery Taylor Greene's net worth ballooned from around $700,000 before taking office to an estimated $22 million today. Her base salary as a member of Congress is $174,000
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JB, can you be “that guy”?

The Factors That Make Bird Sounds So Diverse Across The World An analysis of 140,000 vocalizations from 77% of bird species showed that beak size and geography play a big role in the way birds sound.

Birdsong is part of spring’s soundtrack as migratory birds return to their breeding grounds. Earlier this year, we spoke with a researcher who helped analyze 140,000 bird sounds to better understand what influences their calls and songs.

78 YEARS OLD TODAY 🎂 Happy Birthday

Ann Peebles

He has effectively grabbed us all by the pussy.

The current regime does not read.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

“They’re kissing my ass”???

Thank you, Lithuania. 💐