Full ICE whistle assembly line over here.

Will the book be available to buy at all at the Space show?

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Yes! It’s something that I used to do when I was in my 20s, without knowing that was what I was doing.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

A federal judge has ruled that ICE agents in the Chicago area who aren’t undercover must wear badges or IDs. blockclubchi.co/4ohSEGQ

Hello, Friday! It's #Scape day!

Tisha Mark ©2025, They Just Knew, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/they...

#art #painting #bsnm #TraditionalArt

Spin Cycle: A rufous #hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) shakes off raindrops while perched on a barbed wire fence along a farmer’s field today in rural southwestern #Oregon #birds #photography #wildlifephotography

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing

I forgot the term, but in @alexanderchee.bsky.social ‘s past substack post, I recall that he described a process where you pick a random page in a random book for inspiration/direction.

Image is from the Gordon Parks book, a random page. It is strangely telling re: recent thoughts today.

You may have already seen this, but it’s from an interview with the Portland Chicken talking abt the Portland Frog. Yes, humor can be a mighty sword.

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

I just got off a call with a group of young people who were seeking some guidance for a project they have launched in their community. Folks, I can tell you that we are blessed in this generation. They are smart and importantly so damn compassionate. ALSO, they know more than we did at their age.

Hi, I googled it and found a description… see screenshot! Scroll down the page from this link for text of image.

www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Ja...

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

I didn’t know Gordon Parks, the photographer, was also a poet. I recently found this book in a local used bookstore. Copyright 1971.

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
-Baldwin

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.