The reason why the government shuts down like it did today is because Jimmy Carter's second Attorney general; not the supreme court or Congress but one (1) attorney general decades ago, decided that it does when a budget deal is not reached. God bless democracy.

It was an honor to join the “We are not numbers” reading tonight at The Channing Murray Foundation. We must continue to tell these Palestinian stories. #veteran #palestine #gaza #community #peace

Some of the best events I've been to let people just freely walk on some streets closed off to traffic

Of course Americans and our car culture would be perfectly fine with car shows, if it was a train show instead people would make rude comments like "aaaah, why did you derail the train, you're destroying everything trying to park it on the street, please stop!"

Stepson bonds with stepmother watching her favorite movies with her

Heroes Wiki? Fine. Villain's wiki? Fine. But I just learned there's a Neutral Character's wiki, are you KIDDING me?

I had a good dream stopped because my arm was in an awkward position, I woke up, and my dream did not continue. If elected president I will ensure wonderful dreams won't get canceled just because you wake up for a moment and that they will continue, Make America Dream Again.

In Illinois, Unilever stock can't be invested into state government employee pensions because of Ben & Jerry's resistance to Israel. There are concrete stakes here and Unilever will not be judged well by history.

My hot take is that Kash Patel is a really cool name that was wasted on HIM

Something about Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani is their honesty historically appeales to some Republicans despite being seen as far left Who do you trust; a liar who is obviously saying what you want to hear or somebody who usually opposes you but when they agree with you, you know they mean it?

"And God will delight, when we are creators of justice and joy, compassion and peace. Yes, God will delight, when we are creators of justice, justice and joy!" - Refrain of the hymnal "For Everybody Born a Place at the Table", 1998

Growing up as a boy, I had adults trying to bully me to becoming an emotionally detached stereotypical man I am not; I view my right to be the silly emotional man I am as the same of trans people to be who they are They're the same basic gender expression right; we're all in this together.

My live reaction to first learning of this information

Plant-based meat has gotten *really* good

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

Happy .818181818181... Day everybody!

I put some time into "diversity of thought" research in grad school and The research makes it clear you *have* to kick out toxic voices blocking out many others so you can have so many voices talking There is no healthy open conversation without us exploring why people are glad the racist is gone.

Statistics fun fact: We use words like "improbable" and "unlikely" and try to avoid "impossible"

Correlation implies causation

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

It’s really that simple.

Fun Undertale/Deltarune fact: Creator Toby Fox was raised Episcopalian; I feel like it shows in Undertale's message of being a good person, his openmind towards of LGBTQ+, he corrects you if you call Kris "him" instead of "they", and even showing church in an RPG in a completely *neutral* light

*sobs uncontrollably* no

Fun fact: The main building for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is located in Springfield's mall which is still hanging in there but has lost key anchors over time I suppose that's one answer to what to do with malls as they lose businesses

One of the funniest nerd memes is "is that the bite of '97" for FNAF because it wasn't It was the bite of '93.

Checking out the local Fae Folk Art Festival and if anybody asks, I'm here as an FBI informant

Doing a dodge pose from now on when people compliment me so I can dodge the compliment and it misses me

My hot take is I want Trump to win this battle so instead of inevitable increases to the "defense" budget more people get mad when politics propose increases to the "war" budget

I'm looking up laws Illinois passed this year and one protects non-citizens being detained by ICE and applies specifically to counties with over 3,000,000 people with them, geez I wonder who that is for.

This took me a second to process because today is Sunday. Those fuckers tried to deport scared children (illegally, even) over the weekend hoping they'd be all done by Tuesday (three day weekend in the US), those absolute monsters

I fucking love democracy for giving us a choice

First time headed into a big city in a few years but it's in a conservative state please pray for me as I dodge people trying to stab me on the streets.

He's dead (referring to Chunky Kong)

It's messed up that a lot of people around the globe have a positive view in Kentucky just because of Kentucky Fried Chicken propaganda

If Trump really did die That means he's dead. Really makes you think

Look, we'll know for sure it happened when they accidentally add a journalist to the "EMERGENCY POTUS DEAD" secret Signal chat

I don't know how to put it but I really like spicy things that make you feel like you have fire breath, this doesn't mean as spicy as possible not all spicy things make you feel like you have fire breath, just I eat or and it feels like a power up that gave me fire breath

Conservatives don't see cutting you off for being LGBTQ+ as being political. Everything in politics makes sense when you understand most people don't understand how much is actually political and there's differences in what people think is political or nah.

A more accurate version of Jesus Christ's name would be "Joshua Josephson". Given this information I must conclude JOshua JOsephson was a JoJo from JoJo's bizarre adventure and his "miracles" were the work of his stand, "Hallelujah".

The realization that Deltarune's dark and sinister "Weird Route" is literally the player forcing queer kids to live a toxic cishet relationship instead of the lesbian getting a healthy relationship with another lesbian like in the normal route has me GOING NUTS It's made clear you're a monster

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

This message is for families across America. I know many of you are scared. I stand with families in Chicago, throughout Illinois and across the United States. #USPOL #chicago #nationalguard youtube.com/shorts/4K3wz...

Things that aged badly: "I really like that grad school in Illinois but, the politics are awful. Ah well, I'll put up with their awful government somehow" - Me, 2019

Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. Just looking around a house, found bullets behind a picture frame, a gun until a pillow, had to look into a child's popular knapsack

Oh looks like I was slightly off well can't win them all

It was honestly funny seeing people's reactions to learning who made the Staten Island ferry free but also really helped show how even his free bus overall concept is nothing new and was implemented on the ferry

... OH I WAS WONDERING WHY HE ANNOUNCED IT THE DAY BEFORE "Oh a beautiful day", they weren't gonna have the hunt *today* if there was a hint of bad weather were they? Clever Zohran.