"... I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it." - Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)

Very rare: Life Is A Rock (But CFL Rolled Me) Reunion youtu.be/ZbeV7hmcvME?...

stare

Yesterday's snow totals in the vicinity.

Today’s Snow Porn #Chicago #snow

@profanity.accountant hello! I'm giving you a spin.

Visitor from up North.

Winter on the Illinois River. Starved Rock lock. 📷 Christopher Fausz

Morning people of Bluesky. How you doing?

My FB timeline is almost entirely snowy owls in Chicago. I'm not complaining. I love it. ❄️🦉❄️

Chicago

In his letter to Unitarian Minister Harrison Blake on December 6, 1858, Henry David Thoreau said, among other things: "I am grateful for what I am and what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.... My wealth is not possession, but enjoyment."

The Witch of November is prowling tonight, may God protect anyone on the Great Lakes and guide them to safe harbor.

Textbook.

Bro sent me this a few min ago! Buckle up!

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Current* conditions near Algoma, WI:

DTX continues Gale Warning for Michigan Waters of Lake Erie from Detroit River to North Cape MI [LE] till Nov 28, 4:00 AM EST Link

The Great Lakes are turbulent tonight, my friends. (I'm not there, but I'm following along online.)

Post a movie where you are from

Jimmy Cliff, rest in peace.

US Senator Mark Kelly responds... 🇺🇸

Positively 4th Street, Johnny Rivers version youtu.be/YR6wtzIUtcs?...

"What shall we do with a man who is afraid of the woods, their solitude and darkness? What salvation is there for him? God is silent and mysterious..." ~ Henry David Thoreau, Journal (Nov. 16, 1850) Henry obviously didn't appreciate the virtues of life in the city or city dwellers.

From @justsecurity.org back in 2018: "What the Law of Military Obedience Can (and Can’t) Do–What Happens if a President’s Orders are Unlawful" www.justsecurity.org/55743/law-mi...

The video that set off Trump tells members of the armed services and intelligence agencies to not follow *illegal* orders. The president said that message is "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" Again, the message is about ILLEGAL orders. www.youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...

"I consider it my patriotic duty to keep Elvis in the 90% tax brackets." - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager and an immigrant

Be skeptical.

Need.

Book Collector w/ Six Cats (one hidden) Edward Gorey

welcome to the club, wolves

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Toferky, sweet potato, casserole, cranberries, pumpkin.

1982 Marginal tax rate 72%. According to Forbes, the USA had 13 billionaires. 2025 Marginal tax rate 37%. There are over seven *hundred* billionaires now. Reagan and the GOP created the parasite class.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I never thought leopards would eat MY face.

the psychic and his friend had never attended a baseball game in person before the friend said, "I'm hungry, what do they have to eat here?" the psychic thought about it for a moment and then said, "I am

Pawel Pawlak Art

Some New Original Art

On Friday night decision time is now: Partytown or Funkytown?

DAILY DIRT: Those remakes of the 1980s were truly special muddyrivernews.com/opinion/dail...

Cat in Window Observing Night Moon Edward Gorey

"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? ... While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?" Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Very interesting. Going to San Nicolas Island, California.

Visited a remnant of the last ice age in NE Illinois! Volo Bog is the southernmost open-water quaking bog in North America, created in a kettle hole left by a receding glacier about 10,000 years ago. Now a rare habitat for carnivorous plants!

In honor of Veterans Day... I Can't Write Left-Handed, Bill Withers youtu.be/O4RyYtkifTM?...

Grounding on the Detroit River of Canada Steamship Lines Hon. Paul Martin Nov. 6-7, 2025. And ungrounding. youtu.be/nriYsc7U3go?...

But it does make one ask, since branding and royalties are Trump's thing, what of the government is Trump profiting off of in the form of royalties?

Trump is disgusting, as is everyone in his administration who carried out this travesty at the Netherlands American Cemetery. The Heritage Foundation is disgusting. It's none of their business, anyway.