Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an order making city property off-limits to ICE. As federal troops deploy to Chicago, this is a bold stand for accountability and human rights. No city should ever be turned into a battleground for political power.

This Is the Real Reason Trump's a Disaster Merchant Declare anyone you like a national security threat. In fact, declare everything a threat to national security that only can be addressed by Draconian measures.

Trump is like the kid in “The Sixth Sense” except instead of seeing dead people everywhere, he sees national emergencies. But it’s not because he’s a hysteric. It’s part of the plan to be our king. My latest www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-...

Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

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National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

Miller, basically: "How dare you evil, America-hating communist antifa insurrectionist domestic terrorists call us bad names. And if you scumbag cockroach enemies of the state DO call us bad names, any violence that occurs anywhere in the country is your fault."

“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

Photo plate of Hubble's famous "VAR!" discovery. This is a photonegative plate of an image of the Andromeda Galaxy, with several small annotations made in grease pencil. One of them was previously marked "N" for "nova," but the N has been crossed out and replaced with an excited "VAR!" to indicate a Cepheid Variable.

VAR!

In the early morning hours #OTD in 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photo plate of M31 that showed a Cepheid variable star.

Using Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s distance-luminosity relationship, Hubble concluded that M31 is another galaxy outside the Milky Way. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Image: Carnegie Observatories

YouTube video by Save America Movement Amazing Grace

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.

youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

Gov. Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.

Welp. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

It's time to say:

What. An. Idiot.

I am being polite.

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.”

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Sunday Musings On rage, faith, grass, and trees

Today's psalm:

Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be jealous of those who do wrong.

For they shall soon wither like the grass,
and like the green grass fade away.

Refrain from anger, leave rage alone;
do not fret yourself; it leads only to evil.

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October 4, 2025 Today was unseasonably warm and I spent the day on the water.

October 4, 2025

For perspective on her politics, Judge Immergut was one of Ken Stars' attorneys investigating Bill Clinton, a US Attorney for GW Bush, and appointed to the federal bench by Trump

THIS!!!

Seriously if this is what he actually believes, then invoke the insurrection act, round up the governor, the mayor, and your own judge, and see how it goes. You're in charge now, asshole. Get the party started

Yes, it’s insane. The president’s most powerful advisor is attacking the entire constitutional order in order to invade an American city under false pretenses and it’s treated as non-news because hey, it’s just Trump, right?

He seems to have literally gone mad with power, thinking he can just bluster the country into some kind of Fourth Reich with the power of screechy Twitter posts written with all the forced bombast that an insecure dweeb imagining himself as Goebbels can muster.

At the link, the full extent of Baldwin's advice on writing (which applies to all creative work): www.themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/j...

Periodic reminder that a local DA could prosecute this.

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

Again, this is what the SCOTUS has sanctioned. On Sept. 10th @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I talked about Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion white-washing ICE raids in Noem v. Vazquez Perdomo. His fact-free opinion was either naive, lazy, or sinister. The Trump Admin read it as a green light.

Pushing the Republic Toward the Edge The administration has entered its most anti-Constitutional phase yet. But now is not the time to curl up in despair.

While we have arrived at a dire moment, make no mistake: Now is not the time to curl up in despair. My latest on substack.com/home/post/p-...