At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

The few remaining fireworks before the floral night, when color sleeps within dreams of barefoot mornings, of rays falling warm on pavement before early waking. #nature #photography #macro #flowers

Kafka with chilling, timeless human insight on authority and free speech. #reading #books #literature #history #kafka

Coffee break

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

To rest the fragile body on the fringe of lightest petals, and cool the searching mind on the edge of drifting autumn breeze.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

Flame of the marshland. #nature #photography #macro #flower #plant

This is what life is about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-P...

These cowards destroy lives and families as they hide behind masks and jingoistic cosplay.

The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.

The preferable way to deal with tyrants who destroy the rights and will of the people.

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Sotomayor concludes her dissent with again saying just how TERRIBLE this decision is: "After today, [freedom from arbitrary enforcement] may no longer be true for those who happen to look a certain way, speak a certain way, and appear to work a certain type of legitimate job that pays very little."

This is wickedness by every human moral standard. Anyone who uses governmental power this way should be banned from office, along with anyone else who violates the constitutional rights of anyone under U.S. jurisdiction or detention. Citizenship is irrelevant.

I have a memory, now a whisper on your perfect wings. Please carry it gently to a place far away, to a climate of warmth and beauty. Leave it resting there in quiet safety, until the heart necessary for its recovery has been restored. #nature #photography #insect

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

Touch and vanish, its only trace — the departing summer wind, a fading warmth of weightless color, cool by quiet dusk. #nature #insect #photography

#reading #books #literature #fiction

Another observation from my 101-year-old grandfather, since he's tickled pink that people enjoy his points of view. He says he listened to Father Coughlin's radio show back in his youth and that nothing reminds him of that infamous antisemite and bigot as Tucker Carlson's commentary today.

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

Dissent is now virtue, and absolutely imperative. His ego is so easily shattered by criticism. This disease is the source of his incompetence, and is why he constructs an alternate reality where he is never wrong and cannot be challenged. This despotic freak must be removed before more people die.

There is no substitute. #reading #books #literature #booksky

To be clear, this is the ball game for Federal Reserve independence. If Trump can decide what constitutes "for cause" basis for firing, then every Fed board member can be fired until he has a Board that is completely acquiescent to his every demand. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Pay attention.

WTF 🤬 This is happening in Washington, DC

Tacos of the al Pastor variety. Lime and pineapple essential. 🍍🍋‍🟩🍋‍🟩 #cooking #foodsky #AlwaysBeCooking

August sunset #nature #photography #sunset

The television is finally watching its very own Presidency. Everyone just wants to feel seen.

“I grew up in Australia, but was immersed in American science and culture from an early age. Sesame Street taught me to count; Carl Sagan's Cosmos inspired a fascination with the natural world” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

A giant blue heron just flew out of a rainbow and zoomed directly over my head. The air was still and soft after the rain, the wings silent, flowing in rhythmic slow-motion toward the falling sun. #nature #birds

I’ve read Frederick Douglass, and my mind will not be censored by an idiot clown or the cowards who follow him.

STOP conceding that Trump can legitimately expand grab by deploying baseless claims of “emergency.” There was NO EMERGENCY to justify tariffs. There was NO “INVASION” to justify this migrant crackdown. And there is NO “EMERGENCY” that justifies military takeover of local law enforcement in D.C.

Stay a bit longer. Gather the warmth of August with your wings and soften my quiet foreshadows; the gray mist mornings, tumbling leaves, and cold, windy walks where speechless memories follow, tied together and untied again.

There’s no longer any pretense this has anything to do with crime (there are cities or parts of cities in SC and Ohio that have higher crime rates than DC — send the troops there!). This is about establishing a precedent for Trump seizing control of the nation’s capital when he wants to.

#reading #books #literature #fiction #BookSky

Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.

This is astonishing negligence.

Idiots have been yipping for decades about how the government should be run like a business. He is unequivocally the WORST businessman to ever live. We elected hate. Now we will collect the dividends.

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

This organization is a manifestation of the most vile aspects of American culture. It should be destroyed. I wish more people who listened to Guthrie and Dylan had actually paid attention to the lyrics. Regardless, the legacy will never die. youtu.be/OjGHf7OvglM

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Coffee dreams

“The feathers and wings of birds are still drier and thinner leaves. Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly. The very globe continually transcends and translates itself, and becomes winged in its orbit.” Walden Henry David Thoreau

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Brilliance of such an illuminating quality requires not a single further reference or comparison.