This morning's sunrise was glorious. Everything after that however... #DawnIsAFeeling

I do wonder about the effect on rank and file local police forces when top federal officials say on TV their entire force is incompetent and dishonest, a bunch of left-wing America haters, and even assert that patrol cops were in the street chanting "Kill ICE!"

The city of Chicago hosted a Marathon today with 50,000 runners from all over the world, and countless spectators lining 26 miles worth of city streets. Meanwhile, these wannabe-soldiers, guns drawn, are acting like they're in the middle of Fallujah.

West Ridge loves immigrants and hates authoritarians. Fuck Trump, Fuck ICE #UnitedWeStand #TheKidsAreAlright #Chicago

My Merlin Bird of the Day for today was the American Crow. I was lucky to have a pair moving around at Indian Boundary Park. Really gorgeous birds. #MerlinMoment #Birding #WildLifePhotography #Corvids #ChicagoBirds #Birds

Friday I was a bit stressed out at work, so on my lunch walk I kind of ended up laying on the ground just of the trail to take pictures of these flowers

Very cool we’re now doing “hide people from the nazis” Gotta be coming up on Underground Railroad very soon

For a day that turned out so shitty it sure looked nice a sunrise. #DawnIsAFeeling #Sunrise

On such a rainy day I thought this photo was appropriate. This was from someone's sprinkler this weekend in the late afternoon. #StormyWeather

On my morning walk today I first heard and then spotted this juvenile Northern Cardinal. Love the sparce baby Mohawk. #Birds #Birding #BirdPhotography

Some more fireworks fun! #DynamicPhotography #LongExposure #Fireworks

Ooh, I'm pretty sure this is an Orange-Crowned Warbler I spotted in the brush in Indian Boundary Park yesterday. Wasn't a fan of sitting still out in the open. This was the best shot I got. #Birding #BirdPhotography #Warblers #ChicagoBirding #ChicagoParks #birds

Triple the fun with this burst of fireworks! #DynamicPhotography #LongExposure #Fireworks

I haven't posted much if any about my fitness journey here. Last year I felt so out of shape and depressed, tonight I finally broke a 10 minute mile for the first time in at least 8 years. It feels so good!

@govpritzker.illinois.gov needs to get the Illinois State Police out of Broadview immediately.

WTF @govpritzker.illinois.gov

These two were some fun and interesting fireworks. #DynamicPhotography #LongExposure #Fireworks

Crazy busy morning for me, but the skies were reward enough for being up this early. Glorious. #DawnIsAFeeling #Twilight #DramaticSkies #GoodMorning #sunrise

Looove this!

A beautiful day for an M365 deployment... #DawnIsAFeeling #Sunrise

I really liked these two. The first I think looks like a sea anemone, and the second a beautiful flower. #Fireworks #DynamicPhotography #LongExposure

Yay, I got to shoot fireworks again this weekend. So... yeah you might see me flooding fireworks pictures. #DynamicPhotography #Fireworks #LongExposure #FullManualMode

"a green jay mother and a blue jay father" ! #birds www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Went to shoot fireworks last night. Waiting to start I had an epiphany. The techniques I use for my fireworks photos can be applied to any long exposure of discrete point sources of light. So here are some boats out on the river and the bridge spanning it. #LongExposure #DynamicPhotography

Great sunrise this morning. #DawnIsAFeeling

Love these beautiful Japanese Anemones. #Flowers #FlowersOfWestRidge

It's late in the season, but the pollinators are still hard at work. #Bees #Pollinators #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography

I've been bad about posting photos recently. Here are some flowers to try and make it up. #Flowers #LowKeyLight #StopAndSmellTheFlowers

The senate UNANIMOUSLY passed this resolution. A national holiday to celebrate a fascist who spewed nothing but white nationalist hate speech. www.foxnews.com/politics/sen...

@durbin.senate.gov What the fuck? How could you participate in giving unanimous consent to honor this Christofascist bigot? There is nothing honorable about this hate spreading propagandist. Glad you won't be running again, this is contemptable. cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

@duckworth.senate.gov What the fuck is this? Unanimous consent from the Senate Democrats to honor this Christofascist bigot? There is nothing honorable about this hate spreading propagandist. What a betrayal to your constituents. cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

Good morning little spider friend who was lurking on my bathroom light switch plate this morning. I am glad I didn't squish you fumbling for the light. #MacroPhotography #Spiders #Arachnids

Good morning my sweet Biscuit, do you see the light of hope in the dawn sun? I pray that is something we can all see. #SunbeamKitty #DawnIsAFeeling #Cats #LowKeyLighting

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be. Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Holy fuck, holy fucking fuck. These fucking Nazi goons on prime time TV wanting to incarcerate or kill people who are unhoused.

Stephen Miller, NAZI Graffiti Artist Extraordinaire.......

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons

I need people to understand that MSNBC is a corporate entity first and foremost and them panicking and firing Matthew Dowd to protect their bottom line because to avoid the ire of Donald Trump doesn't surprise me at all. Corporate Media is not our friend.

Feel like it's important to note that while Trump has backed down on deploying the national guard here, immigration raids are very much still happening.

What a shame! They made their reality.

👆 This administration from top to bottom, along with Kirk and his ilk have far exceeded all of the worst left wing bloviating in quantacy and quality when it comes to disgusting rhetoric.

I can't take anyone seriously who claims to be disgusted at all political violence in the wake of the gun death in Utah, but also celebrated Kyle Rittenhouse's political violence. He killed twice as many people as did the shooter in Utah.

Remember when Charlie Kirk platformed, celebrated, and defended the right wing's favorite little domestic terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse? A radicalized youth who crossed state lines to seek out civil unrest so he could play soldier and live out his fantasy of killing protestors, and he did!

I'm not celebrating with these sorts of posts. I'm rage-posting. I'm angry Kirk was shot. Those fucking little fascist twerps have worked to dismantle a peaceful, civil society so they could gain political power and now we all have to survive in the world they made. Fuck.

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.

Goodbye Charlie Kirk.

Save any empathy you were about to give Charlie Kirk, the TPUSA founder, double it, and send it towards Evergreen High School instead. Three kids in critical condition…. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

So I have gotten about 200 death threats since Kirk was shot. Seems a lot of rw folks are blaming the trans community, and they're lazy so that's me. So they're saying I'm a man and they're going to rape and kill me. Seems I'm all over X too. So if I'm not around much the next few days, that's why.