Carrie

Reminder that if you are interacting with law enforcement in Illinois, this IS a stop and ID state. Also, aside from identifying yourself and asking if you're free to leave, the ONLY thing you should say to law enforcement, state or federal, is:

This one goes out in honor of Jane Goodall for her work in conservation and moving science forward in the understanding of other species on this planet
🌊🌊

Soon as they start the journalism, I will follow with my 💵

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

Bookies starts FAIR Fund As owner of Bookie’s New and Used Books, Keith Lewis has seen firsthand the disappointment of children when they walk away from their school’s book fair empty-handed.

FAIR Fund Chicago is a registered 501(c)(3) dedicated to ensuring that ALL kids can walk away from their school book fair with books! No one leaves emptyhanded. #books #booksky #literacy #nonprofit #indiebookstores #bookfair #schoolbookfair #dogoodthings

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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

They're grabbing journalists in Chicago tonight. @peoplesfabric.com is half of @unraveledpress.com. The work they do is critical and unparalleled. He needs to be released immediately.

The wonder of the universe keeps me going.

Graphic: Enrollees making above 400% of poverty will lose all financial assistance without the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits

Your health care bill is about to explode.

The notices will start arriving next month.

A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.

Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.

We need to fix this. Now.

I’m in agreement

Help me help public media! $1 per sticker sold goes to NPR & PBS! #npr #pbs

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Maggie the Undying by Ilona Andrews

Why isn’t there a Dem billionaire??? /s

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:

• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Under Donald Trump’s economy:

Coffee is up 26%
Beef is up 14%
Oranges are up 17%
Bananas are up 6%
Chicken is up 6%
Chocolate Chip Cookies are up 5%
Potato Chips are up 4%
Milk is up 4%
But average worker pay is only up 2%

Trumpflation is eating up your paycheck.

My hands are spicy just from roasting red peppers. What?

For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star.

It looks like a painting.

So…I’m rereading some shifter romances. Does anyone have any newer recs?

Powerful new Banksy mural on the Royal Courts of Justice building shows a judge hitting a protester lying on the ground with his gavel, with blood splattering the placard.

This new #JWST of stars being born just dropped, and it is GORGEOUS

The series just makes me smile and laugh.

Driver 8
Fall on Me
Nightswimming

I can appreciate the death watch stuff, however, in my experience, rotten people just live longer.

College football isn’t for being a fan of a team, it’s for hating several teams for inscrutable reasons

I think they are targeting Mexican Independence Day

The Government response to pretty much every disaster since Katrina

Yesss! Love my Governor!!

View looking east from the Skydeck at top of the Sears Tower towering over the Loop, Millenium Park, Chicago Harbor and Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-08-22 05:06:44 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 67.56 F | 19.76 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: NNE at 5.346 mph | 8.60 kph // Humidity: 90%

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