ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

I think many people are unaware of this.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

It wouldn’t be hard to rebuild the walkway to connect Ogilvie with the green line Clinton stop
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"Pope Leo made an urgent plea for the world to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis' strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies."

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

I was glad to see a lot of multifamily housing construction in the past 5+ years around a lot of the BNSF stops.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists."

The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

in Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder & bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo,[..] & the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy & peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock- Weiss’ 1st editorial pep talk

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨 #PlowTheSidewalks Action Alert! 🚨

After MONTHS of political games, a hearing has finally been scheduled for Friday about the pilot program – and to vote whether to give it the green light.

We urgently need you to take action! ⬇️

So, here's our vision for the 'New Vancouver Special':

Existing owners redevelop their lot, building 6 "family size" flats, and keeping 2 for themselves

4 additional families buy in as co-developers

City provides "outright" zoning so the permit can be had in the same timeline as a house

The war on wikipedia by the fascists will only intensify as they seek to entrench their power in every information ecosystem.

I believe we ought to support and protect wikipedia, its community and mission, as one of humanity's greatest libraries of knowledge.

RIP Jane Goodall. There's so much to say about her career, her activism, her science. Primatology was the home of so many bigoted approaches to race, gender, and animality when she arrived and the field became more humane because of her. A truly transformative figure.

RIP to an absolute legend.

One of my favourite lines from "Headlines from Academia", Volume 9, by @shomir.bsky.social

- Trace Amounts of Eduroam Detected on Moon

#headlinesfromacademia

Cities make America great

In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo stops talking about Jean Valjean's escape during an attempted revolution to GUSH about the Paris sewers--past, pressnt, & future--for 15 pages. He considered improving it in his day to be like curing "the disease of Paris" and it's workers civic heroes.

Due to its inability to build housing, California is on track to lose at least 3 congressional at a time where control of congress rests on a knife's edge.

That can at least be partially averted if Governor Newsom signs SB79 into law. Call him and urged him to sign it.

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