Winter interest #NativePlants

Good day for burn breaks #OldPlankRoad #prairie

#WakeUpDeadMan is the best one yet

#Bears causing stress

#LongRead but interesting thought exercise. In my own #NativePlants journey, I’ve slowly overcome concerns about tall plants in our small city garden. We now proudly grow some truly big bois (looking at you Scrophularia marilandica) with support/chop/etc. (1/2) #gardening 🌱 bplant.org/blog/38

There’s a moment in the classic film “Paths of Glory” in which an artillery officer, told to commit a war crime, asks for the order in writing. That is happening right now, in real life, among US troops in the Carribbean. Except in the movie, the demand kept the crime from happening.

Sure am glad Santos didn’t miss a field goal Oh wait

No where near my favorite #nativeplants but showing nicely this fall

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

"Federal prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Nor have they revealed any evidence showing that two immigrants arrested in the building belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang" just a meaningless photo-op to show toughness www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Getting my Green Drinks on

How it started (Saturday) How it’s going (snowy cold Monday)

Get yourself down to Conservatory Records conservatoryvintageandvinyl.com

Drinks and music at an #undisclosedLocation #pilsen #fuckICE

What he said: 💯 🎯

For those who don't know:

Elote coffee what?

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

“Game 7” may be the best But “Game 6 down 2 in the bottom of the 9th” is pretty hot

A boy and his favorite tree

Old Irving today - Trib photog catches the neighbors including a former Cook Co prosecutor in his Blackhawks pj’s reading the feds for filth —

Have to make it back here when the #prairie is going off

Chicago streets good for protests and street races #noKings

Stfu about Chicago #noKings #openHouseChicago

It's getting started! #NoKingsNYC #NoKings

the last few years have shown me that i cannot spell vaccine or fascist and i was much happier in my past lie not realizing that

The shingles vax is shown to reduce the onset on dimentia www.nature.com/articles/s41...

thirty-four people have been arrested outside the broadview ice detention center since illinois state police + the cook county sheriff's office set up "unified command" on oct. 3. charges range from misdemeanors, like resisting/obstruction, to felonies, like criminal damage to government property.

Wounded Knee #IndigenousPeoples'Day

View from the war torn Southside of Chicago Send reinforcements (another croissant please) #afroJoes

1. Scientists flossed mice. And delivered a vaccine through the floss! 2. This could mean people could self administer vaccines, something vital in a pandemic. 3. Ok but wait you want me to FLOSS!? Like let's not get wild here... www.sciencenews.org/article/flos...

Happening now: we're at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago. CCSO + Broadview police are telling protesters + press they can't stand on the west side of 25th Street for any reason. We asked what the precise public safety issue is. They just said they're anticipating cars coming through.

Did you get it right? 🗣️"Schizachyrium" i sure as hell didn't #nativeplants www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS7X...

Walking around Chicago on a pleasant day and ran into a celebrity

Some context that I think gets lost by calling people here "protesters." Strictly true that they were protesting. But this was neighborhood. Almost all of it was people who came out of their houses and pleaded to stop using gas because there were kids in houses/yards in the blocks off Kedzie.

Hundreds of people were at a community defense workshop at a North Side high school this morning, with the line to get in out the door. Chicagoans from all walks of life are coming together to resist ICE.

“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn." — Rabbi Hillel

Ordered sneezeweed seeds & the company accidentally sent me the wrong species. They quickly fixed it, but now I have 6 packets of Helenium flexuosum that I can't use because it's not native to my chunk of KS. Does anyone know of a restoration that would want them? Seeds from MO. #nativeplants

#praire Burn break season The dad day gift is a welcome addition #nativeplants

After distancing himself from Project 2025 last year, Trump is now citing it - and co-author Russ Vought - to threaten Democrats. Is this a bluff or another step in a budget-slashing plan? www.bbc.com/news/article...

An FBI agent is “relieved of duty” (fired?) for refusing to facilitate an unnecessary humiliation of a defendant. Reminder that as a defendant, Trump was afforded *every* possible courtesy (like allowing him to turn himself in). www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

-the absolute fascist insanity of 300 armed agents, some descending from HELICOPTERS, at 1am -the fact that they rounded up everyone in the building, busted down doors, detained everyone, held them for hours -that there was no warrant for this

That’s why I need to ask everyone in Illinois for a favor. Contact your elected officials TODAY and tell them to stand with the people — not ICE — for a press conference demanding transparency + legality this Friday at 1930 Beach Street, 9AM. Here’s a template: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

i can't watch the #mlb playoffs on #mlbtv without a cable subscription??

Your yard doesn’t have to be a sterile hellscape of turf grass.

So to be clear, the judge is not striking the complaint down because Trump has not made a claim. He is striking it down because it is incredibly long and argumentative.