Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying them for sex. I feel this needs to be emphasized much more than it is.

I thought it would be fun to take a look at Stony Island Avenue in the run-up to the Obama Presidential Center opening when I bumped into this tidbit. There was a "female physician" named Mrs. A J French at Grand Crossing in 1884. She made the news because her carriage was hit by a train. 1/n

Exactly one year ago today:

The mallards were checking out the Spiderman exhibit.

For awhile anyway, I'll post what's in bloom in the Osaka Garden/Garden of the Phoenix in Jackson Park on my webpage and put the links around. So people know when it's a good time--but I think it's always a good time! patricia-morse.com/2026/04/16/o...

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

THIS kind of "intimate" relationship between Paramount and Trump is the reason why I am testifying this afternoon before a Senate panel against the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros., which owns CNN www.thedailybeast.com/new-cbs-boss...

The heat is pushing the cherry petals to drop. There’s enough to be pretty for a few days. #JacksonPark #Chicago

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

This is good, and a rebuke to Trump & Vance. But there needs to be a reckoning with the fact that the GOP has chosen to do their CPAC conference in Hungary for the last decade+. Opposition to democracy in the GOP goes much deeper than the current leadership. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

I love the Public Domain account. How can you beat this for pointless trivia? The Pre-Raphaelites were into wombats. publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uomm...

Mark Ruffalo, Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Kristen Stewart, JJ Abrams, Katie Phang, John Leguizamo, and over a thousand actors, writers, directors, journalists, producers, composers, and Hollywood executives have signed a letter against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger: 🧵

Yet I alone, alone do me oppose Against the Pope, and count his friends my foes.

Two part look at the Masque of Youth in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. patriciamorse.substack.com/p/ida-noyes-...

A new kind of event in Nichols Park celebrating kids and our sometimes annoying local ecosystem engineers. That's why there are wire cages throughout the Japanese Garden.

Jackson Park cherry blossoms and MSI reflected in the Columbia basin this morning // #Chicago

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor). You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Coming soon in the Japanese Garden will be the azaleas. Stunning color throughout the garden. The heat is pushing them early too. Some bushes are already starting to bloom.

Another shout out to Victor Glover as Artemis II's pilot. While coming back in for their re-entry, NASA mentioned repeatedly how clean and perfect their trajectory was.

Americans don't know the reasons Iran hates the US. In 1951 Iran's democracy elected Mohammed Mossadegh. The CIA & British intelligence staged a coup, installed a dictator who tortured and killed people. It goes on from there.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

Bruce the band perform "Purple Rain" in honor of "The Maestro" Prince for the opening night of the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 31, 2026. Filmed by Chris Hilson Edited by Thom Zimny & Sam Shapiro Recorded by John Cooper Mixed by Jon Altschiller

This weekend will be the last to see the Jackson Park cherry blossoms. They are starting to drop and the coming week is hot, high wind, and storms. #chicago

Truly tired of all the winning.

thou art false in all, And art confederate with a damned pack

Source: The Guardian share.google/pJMM5bmYEQTE... Sadly, as an RN I will never see this help my patients in the USA. Why? Insurance Companies would rather patients die, or suffer than spend money on new technology!

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

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Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

A three-decade long study of chimpanzees has revealed a primate version of a bloody civil war. It's now at risk of getting eliminated due to cuts at the National Science Foundation. My story here (gift link): nyti.ms/4mhr5NQ

Hi everyone. If every single one of you seeing this post considered clicking “follow” on our new account/movement, @urbantruth.bsky.social, our work would start regularly reaching a BIG audience, and that’s KEY to us having the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have. Thanks for considering!

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Today I met an elderly woman who lost her husband unexpectedly, has an autistic son, no financial cushion, no life insurance. She was begging by the side of a shopping center parking lot. I gave her what I had in my wallet. What are we even doing in this country?

I think there’s definitely another week of good blossoms and he last group might make it to two weeks. By the way there are QR code signs with a lot of information including the history of the Japanese pavilion.

7) Local shoppers in Chicago can get copies at Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op, where it is featured on the paperback Front Table. (They also ship books, if you're looking to support local and small businesses from a distance.)

Every sensible government will spend the coming months accelerating the deployment of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and EVs, especially for lower income households. It’ll be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run than subsidising fossil fuels the next time prices spike, which they will.

The Delphic Oracle told King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacked Persia "a great empire will fall." He saw this as a prediction of victory and attacked. It was his own great empire that fell.

Read @jvl.bsky.social on a subtler cost of Trump's Iran War: the US's ability to borrow on the cheap "If petrodollar system were to change, then America’s ability to finance debt as cheaply as we do would be imperiled. And so our ability to sustain Social Security & Medicare would be imperiled, too"

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

I love science 🌗

A recipe fell out of the recipe boxes that belonged to my grandmother and her sister. They both had Palmer method handwriting so can't tell by that. Mushroom Sauce: finely chop 1 pound mushrooms & 3 onions. Saute lightly in 1/8 pound butter. Add 1 1/2 pint cream. Simmer for 2 hours to reduce.

Oh look, it’s another Market Manipulation Monday

On this day in 1891, Ellen Martin went to the polls in Lombard, IL & demanded to vote. Martin noted that the town’s charter did not explicitly limit voting in town elections to men. The election judges reluctantly agreed with Martin, who reportedly became the 1st woman to vote in Illinois. #WeTheMen

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.