if you’re not Catholic, let me real quick tell you about the breathtaking audacity of bringing the monstrance with him a monstrance is a big bedazzled gold ornament with a round glass window in the middle where you put a consecrated wafer, usually the bigger ceremonial one and not the bite-size

Connections Puzzle #853 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

My favorite thing about being a renter is telling my property manager is there is a roof leak and them scheduling an HVAC maintenance appointment in 2 weeks. I have the ability to contact the owners. Do you want me to do that? All this is bullshit but I am renting above my pay level.

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

KEXP is counting down the most something something songs. It is enjoyable

Just in case anyone is wondering. Spirit Halloween doesn’t carry frog costumes.

I picked up supplies to carry on a local anonymous Halloween tradition that last Halloween didn’t happen and I am so fucking excited. I don’t know who had been doing it, and I don’t want to talk about it till Halloween. But it made a huge impression on me and last year I was sad. *happy dance*

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning. A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

sherman, for the love of god!

Goood morning and happy Friday. Connections Puzzle #852 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟨🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 ICE must be destroyed.

I watched the Onion’s Bad Pedophile and… it is a swing and a miss.

RIP. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

I knitted slowly today but I knitted. I am starting to feel more like myself. Like a clock, 25 hours post vaccines the chills stopped and my disposition improved. I fucking love science.

Some things I saw recently that I think are cool (Native American jewelry edition): — Neil Zarama. New Ralph Lauren collab coming (IG whirlinglog_and_arrow) — Troy Oviedo (IG troyoviedo) 😮‍💨 — Falcon Trading Company (IG ftcjewelry) — Samuel Sumpter (IG nabaahii_bizhiil_creations)

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year: Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

My best friend told me that the only war in Portland is the war on Rhythm. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

When parakeets cosplay

I am making jack Italian Beef Sandwiches for dinner tonight. But I have the right giardiniera.

And on the fourth day God said if you cut the penis your sons will know so many facts about whales

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office. Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

I am glad I planed on being somewhat miserable today. I didn’t plan on doing anything other than knitting, watching undemanding television, drinking tea, and making a crock pot dinner. Cuz holy fuck. Miserable indeed. Generalised malaise. Alternating chills and being too warm. Go immune system go!

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

I didn’t expect purple to be purple. Connections Puzzle #851 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Good morning. I survived the night.

I love that about Portland.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

This how you do it, give them no quarter.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Starting my 4 day weekend with a double shot. One Covid and one shingles. #genXparty

There are some anxious mariners fan in my life right now.

Thank god

I have been up since 1:30am. I have my Covid and 2nd shingles shot scheduled for after work today and I have a 30 patient day. I full expect to be asleep by 7pm. Connections Puzzle #850 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Rewatching SENSE8, which, if you missed it when it first came out, is a Netflix show from the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski that's like if National Geographic made a sexy sci-fi soap opera.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

I love this paragraph: “One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

I will absolutely riot if Dolly Parton dies. www.wwnytv.com/2025/10/07/d...

a very good thread if you need a reminder on why newsom sucks

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week (via Matt Storer on IG)

A new affordable housing development with nearly 40 apartments for people with disabilities is open in Lakeview two years after breaking ground. blockclubchi.co/4nEvUkj

have i mentioned today that rich people have more money than they know what to do with and need higher taxes?

Connections Puzzle #849 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Goood morning. Get your flu shot! Get a Covid booster! If it has been 10 years get a tetanus/pertussis booster.

I got my flu shot at work today which was my annual reminder to schedule the kid’s flu and Covid boosters.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her