ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎 Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org #BeThere 👍

Treated myself to a new fountain Pen, an Asvine V200 Vac filler with a <M> nib. First fill this morning, so far I'm really impressed by the build quality and how well it writes right out of the box. Love the sleek design too (I have too many cigar shaped pens :)

Just as true in 2025 as it was then.

Germany especially needs to remember its history and look at US recent history. Anything we give to mostly benevolent governments will also be available to fascist governments and poking holes in crypto just endangers everyone.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack. As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all. Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Research impact? #highered #university

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What's up Saturday? #Caturday #Chicago #Curiosity

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A wholesome interaction between a chimpanzee and Jane Goodall. Rest in Peace, Jane.

A short educational and scientific video :) #cats #space #NASA #Hubble www.youtube.com/watch?v=34d5...

Gift Article/link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

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AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

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Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Portrait of Sra. Dona Elena Flores de Carrillo https://www.wikiart.org/en/diego-rivera/portrait-of-sra-dona-elena-flores-de-carrillo-1953

If you going to be a billionaire, be this kind.

Instead of a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, I will be observing a lifetime of speaking out against bigotry and fascism.

Seeing a waterfall form underwater.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Freedom is always a better choice, even if it comes at a high cost and sacrifice. Cowardice and fascism benefit the few at the expense of the many.

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

“There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.” -Seneca

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

This exchange says it all.

Only one country has more civilian guns than people. www.smallarmssurvey.org/database/glo...

COVID and Flu shots done - easy-peasy. Suck it RFK Jr.

Rainy Saturday morning in Chicago mood #Caturday

For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.   Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine. That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.

The US has some sort of strange gun fetish, look at the rest of the world, this is NOT normal. Nor is responding to all of the school shootings with "thoughts and prayer" ...

Moin aus Hamburch. #Streetart #Hamburg Artwork: marlix_art

Got lucky today :) #Wordle 1,531 2/6 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

'Twilight Landscape' by Victoria Crowe, contemporary Scottish painter #WomensArt

Diego Rivera, Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita, October 13, 1931 #museumofmodernart #diegorivera

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.