"The billion-dollar question is: amid all the noise, will Jackson’s message be heard?"

They talk of dangerous criminals? Arresting elected officials, arresting citizens, throwing smoke bombs out car windows, Blackhawk helicopters, trashing apartments of citizens, arresting reporters, leaving children without parents: THIS is domestic terrorism. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Portrait of a snarling, vainglorious incompetent Col. lecturing generals and admirals, in four images captured by AP photographer Andrew Harnik. Bonus shot of his dark soul again spewing to the service, by Getty's Celal Gunes

Hundreds marched through Downtown Tuesday to protest President Trump’s latest threat to send troops to Chicago as well as his administration’s immigration enforcement operations. blockclubchi.co/4nU7XFb

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A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

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A lot of states have taken steps to chill academic freedom - but they’ve mostly couched their “reforms” as “anti-indoctrination.” TX seems to be taking the next step: simply banning ideas it dislikes.

Why is it so hard for most Democrats to come out and say this?

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A detail of the cast iron railing atop the Iron Bridge (Thomas Farnolls Pritchard and Abraham Darby III, 1779), Ironbridge, England. #Ironbridge #England #Architecture #Engineering #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: entertainment movies. They are the most political films because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine… a continual advertisement for things as they are.” - Wim Wenders

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 Approaching the Ostflügel (East Wing) of the Barockschloss Mannheim (Mannheim Baroque Palace, 1720-60), Mannheim, Germany. #Mannheim #Germany #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Gazing up at the black Vitrolite panels - edged in chromium - of the Daily Express Building (Ellis & Clarke with Sir Owen Williams, 1932), London, England. #London #England #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Because this administration thinks everyone believes the rules only matter when it helps “your side” (like they do), they are counting on Comey’s unpopularity to normalize this. Don’t let it. Whatever you think of him or his actions in the past, etc. this indictment is dangerous and an outrage.

"Those who accept must report for duty on October 6 after what amounts to a seven-month paid vacation, during which time the GSA in some cases racked up high costs — passed along to taxpayers — to stay in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or were allowed to expire."

As I was saying…

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A close-up of one of the weathered transmission towers which carry power along the Mississippi River within the St. Anthony Falls Historic District, Minneapolis, MN. #Minneapolis #Minnesota #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

I wrote about the School of the Art Institute of Chicago selling artist Roger Brown’s Home and Studio at 1926 N. Halsted in Lincoln Park, and the potential demolition of the historic property. chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/p/the-future...

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 An Art Deco light fixture at the Santa Fe Depot (1934), Oklahoma City, OK. #OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 A space betwixt at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Frank Gehry, 1997), Bilbao, Spain. #Bilbao #Spain #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

crescent moon, La Salle Street Bridge

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

Love to see badass legitimate CDC scientists @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Dr. Susan Monarez speaking truth to power in the HELP hearing. You can watch here:

Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A study in light and texture at Paul and Linda DeBruce Hall (Hufft, 2020), Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO. #KansasCity #Missouri #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A detail of the beautiful dome in the G.A.R. Rotunda at the Chicago Cultural Center (originally the Chicago Public Library by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, 1897), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

Rothschild's Cut Rate Liquors, 63rd St., Chicago

What happened at Utah Valley University was a tragedy. No human being should ever have their life taken from them by another. But honoring a man who spent his entire adult life disseminating vile and hateful rhetoric makes my blood run cold.

📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Looking through Jonathan Borofsky's sculpture, Man with Briefcase (2002), at the First on 7th (originally the First National Bank of Fort Worth by SOM, 1961), Fort Worth, TX. #FortWorth #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

This is an excellent piece. Especially because (but not only because) of @pbump.com 's first-hand experience.

Everyone needs to watch this because it's perfect. youtu.be/2XoHVYbZocI?...

Tens of millions of voters have had their information run through the tool — a striking portion of the U.S. public, considering little has been made public about the tool's accuracy or data security.

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A detail of the brick and terra cotta exterior of the Lecture Theatre Block (Captain Francis Fowke, 1865), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. #London #England #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

During his first term, Trump launched so many failed "Infrastructure Weeks" that it became a running joke. Now he's taking credit for infrastructure projects he opposed. His whole life, Trump has taken credit for things he inherited — starting with his own personal fortune.

“I knew that it was predetermined. That it was a play. It was theatre. I did not want to play within their rules.”

Projection. He simply cannot resist.

📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A detail of the cast iron façade of the Vajen Exchange Block (1872), Indianapolis, IN. #Indianapolis #Indiana #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Looking up from the “Living Room” on Level 3 at the Seattle Central Library (OMA/LMN, 2004), Seattle, WA. #Seattle #Washington #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday

Yet another transparently partisan act of disenfranchisement. The GOP will simply not rest until they have completely hijacked the democratic process here in Tarrant County, TX.

They're right. RFK Jr. is a serious threat to public health and our lives. He is undermining vaccines, boosting dangerous conspiracy theories, and decimating lifesaving research. Resign or be fired. He needs to go.

POTUS and the oil industry. Congenital liars.

Home sweet home

I don't do this often, but I am begging you to read and share this article by @chipmitchell1.bsky.social on the state of Chicago crime. www.wbez.org/news/2025/09...

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 An inscription at the ruins of Holyrood Abbey (13th century), Edinburgh, Scotland. #Edinburgh #Scotland #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

"Eighty-six per cent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion."