Well done

i was a nurse with Dr. Diane DiMaggio a long time ago, and in less-distant years enlisted her as our boys' pediatrician: she's the best, and her frontline witness to the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases is an imperative read. those with knowledge need to be heard above the din of the madness.

A Battle with My Blood: Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay in the @newyorker.com is the most beautiful, wrenching piece I’ve read in forever. And, oh, it cuts mighty close to the bone. You are in my prayers, fervently, Tatiana. From someone who knows this terrain.

Sometimes I think they spend all their time thinking if new ways to be depraved. No; scratch that. I think they do that almost all the time.

The @chicagotribune.com has been home to plenty of American icons and journalism legends, and some mighty fine humans as well. Ron Grossman is all of the above, and this column confirms that in indelible ink. Love to you, sir. Farewell, and thank you www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/v...

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

Clips like this are political gold

another powerful piece from the @chicagotribune.com , this time from Andrew Carter. almost an essay on the essence, the resilience, that is Chicago in the face of the Midway Blitz: digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...

my nightmares aren't this horrifying......

Nothing new here. Trump got in epic battle with @kaminblair.bsky.social years ago. Kudos to @chicagotribune.com staff for stirring trump’s wrath. That’s how journalism works.

by a long shot, @chicagotribune.com staff is telling the most compelling stories of this whole ICE horror show. so proud of their tireless work. if you want a close read of what's happening in Chicago, the place to turn is the Tribune. here's the latest on Broadview's hellhole:http://bit.ly/3Xcdv2B

when war games are played on your streets pullupachair.org/2025/10/31/w...

@chicagotribune.com reporters doing great job telling the stories of ICE's Midway Blitz. huge kudos. digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH...

can someone explain why these four "events" would be tucked in among the whitehouse.gov historic timeline of the white house?? pure filth. ours is now a pigsty.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

breathtaking. this is what democracy looks like.

scenes from NO Kings! Evanston, IL; crowd estimated at twice as big as June 14 No Kings!.....of all the signs, maybe the dark heavens and the colorless stripes and stars make their point most hauntingly....

"under-babied"???? sounds like a commodity you pull from a shelf. i know the grief of miscarriage, infertility; i never considered myself under-babied. that grief belonged in the realm of the sacred, not a commercial enterprise to be remedied by those who show little regard for the sanctity of life.

Dear Karoline Leavitt, You really should take off that crucifix when you stand there spouting lies, condemning swaths of humanity, and spewing the seeds of evil hatreds. I don't know God personally, but I do know God must be weeping.

"One particularly gruesome video shows a group of masked fighters, some of whom are wearing green Hamas headbands, killing 8 blindfolded people in a square in Gaza City while large crowds are watching" www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/m...

holy holy crap: EXPOSED www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Thoughts/prayers to the TIME photo editor today.

From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”

JD Vance has no idea what he's talking about. He just spews non-truths. One atop another.

The two most urgent questions in our politics: Will the administration succeed in picking off enough of the opposition such that resistance seems useless? Or will civil society hold firm against a regime that wants to center all power on itself? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

I’m running out of f bombs…

This is sick, sick, sick. “Maximal lethality.” No God I know so subscribes. Maybe the drought is God’s dried up all God’s tears.

"just kill em....."

Insane isn’t the half of it…

the department of war under trump (previously undisclosed failed 2018 mission off the shore of N Korea, results in evil, kept secret, per NYT): "The SEALs killed the men on the boat, punctured their lungs with knives so the bodies would sink, abandoned the mission, and returned to base."

Everything Jeneen Interlandi says:The Public Health Disaster Everyone Saw Coming www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

sickness and cruelty without end.

in which i join the chorus of those mourning the loss of fanny howe: among those unafraid to ask the unanswerable pullupachair.org/2025/07/11/a...

Robert Reich draws our attention to the demonic truth at the essence of the cancer metastasized by Musk & his ilk open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Please share far and wide. ICE thrives in darkness. A spotlight on Kelvin could potentially halt his deportation.

these people have no soul. and must have been doped half their life to not know there is no such thing as stage five cancer. why in the hell would you find the cruelest possible question in the stupidest possible way?

Watch the number of deaths per shooting incident rise under Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

A decades-long effort at Cornell University to build a medical device to save the lives of babies with heart conditions was thrown on the trash heap by the Trump regime. There's a death toll attached to the recklessness of Trump and Musk.

Attention to the natural world, Barbara Mahany tells readers of The Book of Nature, provides evidence for God’s immanence in our world. Even more consequentially, that attention is how we find and restore “shards of holiness” infused throughout creation.

Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science

NEW: Trump Administration kills grant for PBS children’s shows www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

seven clinical trials stopped, including advanced lung cancer. (not letting these go quietly.) and metastatic head and neck. can you imagine anything more awful?

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.

am i wrong in noticing that of the withdrawn grants mentioned in the NYT story, all are to Black, Brown, Indigenous playwrights, musicians, ensembles? do they think we don't know how to connect dots? to put our thumb to the pulse beat of their bigoted cruelties?

how does someone with any brain cells -- to say nothing of lacking moral compass -- find it in themselves to put breath to such insanity. and this is a cabinet member. spare me.

i've never been good at asking for $$, but this isn't for me, it's for cancer. given the drastic cuts + shutdowns of labs doing lifesaving work, i jumped at @americancancersoc.bsky.social's swim challenge. i swim for my lungs, 3.5 mi/wk. my kid was 1st to pony up. he inspired me. gofund.me/5a2fdd1c

the words that came out of my mouth when i read this are words that would have gotten my mouth washed out with soap back at Holy Cross grade school, where the nuns taught us to "love as you would be loved," and to fight for voiceless. www.axios.com/2025/04/25/f...

For Il Papa, Jesus was a man of flesh: “made of passions, emotions and feelings, words that challenge and console, hands that touch and heal, looks that liberate and encourage, flesh made of hospitality, forgiveness, indignation, courage, fearlessness; in a word, love.” lithub.com/the-most-lit...

how are people living with cancer supposed to read these things and not weep?