"We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." Justice Louis D. Brandeis

A monarch was born in my yard, the native plantings have paid off! 🦋 #butterfly #pollinators

jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal

The right to a trial by a jury of ones peers doesn't mean finding twelve draft-dodging, overweight, pedophile, deranged, narcissistic sociopaths your father would consider peers.

Jane Gooddall was on of the best humans on planet earth. Her ability to recognize & appreciate that our animal brothers & sisters are sentient, feel deep emotion, and have beautiful inner lives is a testament to her advanced humanity. In that respect she is one of the few true humans to have lived.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

A lot of things may suck right now, but we have an absolutely perfect day for Cubs postseason baseball, so at least there's that.

Trump just called us "the enemy within" Those are LITERALLY the words Adolf Hitler used to describe Jews in Nazi Germany. Literally the same words.

The president is a stark-raving lunatic. Invoke the 25th Amendment FFS.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record 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 this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

The President of the United States ordered the military to fire on U.S. citizens because he was watching years-old B reel on Fox News, then promised everyone sci-fi medbed cards. And the cowards and ghouls in the GOP just sit there instead of invoking the 25th & wheeling him out in a straitjacket.

ICE is here in Chicago, clearly going after the worst of the worse, or as they apparently call it, "Adorable families with small children attempting to enjoy an early fall day at a park." May shame follow those participating in this cruelty for the rest of their lives.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Can someone explain to me the difference between chasing and arresting people because they have brown skin, and chasing and arresting people because they have a yellow star on their clothes.

What's your sign?

This seems like a pretty nuanced flavor for an animal that licks its own asshole

Sir that is no way to talk to the Supreme Court

“The function of freedom is to free someone else. If you are free, you need to free someone else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower someone else.” - Toni Morrison

9/27/25

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

You could give this man an existential crisis by showing him the bottom half of a muppet

Here is the Chicago portage, where for thousands of years native Americans traded for copper, obsidian, and shells and crossed between two great continental waterways. (According to the sign right out of frame.) Lots of leaves suddenly on the ground

They do not have enough popular support. So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition. And that’s where we are. Pushing back has never mattered more.

I think we are well aware where the president's head is currently located.

When does Trump post an AI video promoting Soylent Green?

Cape Cod Evening - 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103844

Def Antifa. You can tell by the mask. #WarRavagedPortland

Trump's out there yellin’ about immigrants and felons like he didn’t marry one and become the other.

This is what America is about. Never let the sadistic thugs in the current administration convince you otherwise.

I came here to hunt whales, not my commander’s vengeance.

The watcher. One of a pack of coyotes I met the other morning while out on the kayak. This one kept a close eye on me from it perch on the cliffs. #mammals 🌿

Well don't I feel stupid

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If rebalancing and reforming this MAGA #SCOTUS is not at the top of the agenda of every Democratic candidates running for federal offices (including the big one) - not sure what are we even doing. And it needs to be more than an issue page - they need to be campaigning on it.

Brave Americans died at Omaha Beach to fight fascism, only for craven Republican lawmakers to rubber-stamp a dictatorship 8 decades later.

We’ve only crossed the “billion” threshold 1X before, in Oct. 23'. Last night, we rejoined the Billion Bird Night Club in spectacular fashion. Migration soared past 1.2 billion, marking the largest single night of bird migration ever recorded by BirdCast. Learn more: birdcast.info/news/a-new-r...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, is the former U.S. attorney who put crooked Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in prison.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment

The colors are already starting to turn in the Chicago area. Peak autumn colors are predicted to arrive in less than 3 weeks.

From around the garden today. I'm really digging the yellows and purples this time of year. 🌱

Why does ESPN always have one too many guys in the broadcast booth and why is it always Eduardo Perez?

Where have I heard that before

Stop disappearing people with no criminal record, stop threatening their children to lure them into being captured, stop encouraging citizens to rat each other out, stop censoring comedians and academics, stop weaponizing the law, stop whipping up hate at the most vulnerable. Then maybe.

In a sane world, there’d be a family intervention and deployment of the 25th amendment.