the real problem of making art for a living is you also have to have a job

California joins the nation in recognizing Disability Employment Awareness Month — a celebration of the 7M+ adults with disabilities who call California home and enrich our state. Together, we can keep growing an inclusive workforce for the fourth-largest economy in the world.

This morning, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.” “That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity www.bbc.com/news/article...

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.

Final fall garden update:

ICE Facility Illinois 😂 Robby Roadsteamer

Broadview police are investigating.

Yeah, but my history book didn’t tell me that Taylor would drop a new album and sell merch at Target while kids are zip-tied together in Chicago and the Army is sent to Portland and coffee is unaffordable to the masses and I would still need to make supper every night…

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

While the program will indeed be made permanent, it will also stay the same size - 2000 artists. Is it great? Absolutely. But some people out here acting like *all* artists in Ireland are about to live their best lives. Details are important. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Congratulations to this year’s Nobel Physics laureates — all 3 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation & possibility, California is proud to dream big & deliver even bigger. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

🚨🗳️🚨 Tennessee Congressional District 07 — Today is the day to vote! 🗳️ PLEASE, do not sit this one out! Get out the vote! Share, even if you don’t live there. We have to vote like never before.

Air traffic controllers are working 60-hour weeks with no pay—conditions that led to a breaking point during the last shutdown.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

A good heuristic for "is this opinion bullshit?" is "did Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett write it?" (Holds quite well for any case that a layperson is likely to have heard of, lol)

Once a quirky feature in the Netherlands, living roofs on top of bus stops have been popping up across Europe, Asia, and North America. www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/why-...

For the first time, doctors say Huntington’s disease, one of the most devastating hereditary neurological conditions, has been successfully treated. www.optimistdaily.com/2025/10/hunt...

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates? Look around, friends.

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?” BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡 (That’s a yes)

Keep speaking out! Thank you, Jamie Lee Curtis 💙🌊🩵 @ladybug014.bsky.social @kwguzak.bsky.social @andreadevon.bsky.social @jamesrogersbush.bsky.social @trifid73.bsky.social @soldierhobo.bsky.social @clarkpowers.bsky.social @hbbengal.bsky.social @candycemv1.bsky.social @teamnation.bsky.social

Blumenthal to Bondi: "He has been transparent. In fact, 5 days before the indictment of Comey, he put this post up as instructions to you. He didn't mince words. He was very open & public that you should indict Comey and&others because they are 'guilty as hell, no more delay, now.' 5 days before"

God they’re such weird edgelord losers.

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Federal sgents in Oregon knocked down an 84 year old who was peacefully protesting www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal? BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

"In keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation. Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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.

This Election Day may seem unimportant because there are no “big” offices on the ballot but many states hold their nonpartisan municipal elections in off years. Races for city council, school boards, county judgeships are VITALLY important to the day to day functions of your community! Participate!

Today's Oarfish comes from kaaaakun0150 on Twitter! They make tutorials about folding origami on YouTube! #underwater #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife #drawing

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

#deltas #rivers #blueskymonday #photography #scape

Have you ever seen anything so adorable and so FURIOUS at the same time?

This sums it all up. I feel that many of the ICE thugs spent many years feeling powerless and now need to make up for that with legalized violence. It's going to their head.

They set Greta Thunberg free. She looks like she's ready to rumble, and honestly, I'm right there with her. Keep the comments civil, folks.

The fire at Judge Goodstein’s home underscores growing fears of violence aimed at judges and their rulings.

Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" [via @theguardian.com]

Stephen King and censorship: 87 books removed from US schools

Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to limit time for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) during her Tuesday Senate hearing after he inquired about investigations into threats against federal judges.

Tropical Storm Jerry formed in the Atlantic east of the Caribbean, becoming the 10th system in the 2025 hurricane season.

The combination therapy may ‘significantly prolong life expectancy’ for men with gene mutations that make normal treatment less effective

Quilted desert landscape. ART - deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/col... #art #ayearforart #buyintoart #wallart #homedecor #artforsale #artist #blueskyart #giftideas #lifestyle #colorful #artwork #artprints #digitalart #desertlandscape #landscape #sonorandesert #cactus #mountains #quilting

"Singers". 2013. Watercolor on paper. By Cori Lee Marvin, a contemporary Canadian artist and painter, born in 1980. Private collection. #art #painting #illustration

woof~ 🦴 #art #oc #wolf #autumn

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