Spot on.

“…these men feel like most people (including the “mass media”) don’t take the time…to understand them or where they come from. Valid or not, this seemed to compound their feelings of isolation, which in turn bred a lack of curiosity on their part, furthering their own intolerances.”

Mainstream media

Stop scrolling and post 2 characters that bring you happiness…

A three-star general serving on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff has been pushed out of his position following months of sustained tensions with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to people familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/47fz601

Lewis & Clark College Divests From Weapons Manufacturers https://bit.ly/3LyNCHC

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

@coachkatjack.bsky.social and I have been actively boycotting companies (e.g., Amazon) actively working against Americans and our way of life. Yeah, it makes things more difficult, but we’ve found it saves us money and we CAN do this. Remember when we lived before the internet and smart phones?

Indiana University Alumni Pull Donations Over Student Newspaper Censorship https://bit.ly/3LvA0ge

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Food Pantries Prepare As SNAP Deadline Approaches

I don’t need nor want every single piece of software I use to offer AI.
I can:
- summarize an email
- write a thank you note
- write an article

WITHOUT:
- wasting water
- losing my skills
- diminishing my cognitive capacity.

No. Thanks. And stop asking!!!

I’ve been regularly volunteering at a food bank for about a year and please, if you want to help, consider donating cash.

For $3, they can provide 15 meals and what they can do with the money you might spend on a few cans can be converted to vastly more in fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, or meat.

🔥

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

'I promised my dad – now I've got a PhD at 69'
#academicSky

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What’s interesting is the response to these jarring & chaotic incidents by many of the high income residents who have managed not to witness these things yet (by design). Other areas have seen ICE, but not tear gas, and caused people to finally understand this is in all of our neighborhoods.

Konstantin Sokolov, head of Chicago-based private equity firm IJS Investments, is among the 37 donors helping to fund the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House.

Seeing reports of ICE active in Addison, IL (a town a little southwest of O'Hare Airport) this morning.

Video shared online around 10 am depicts masked ICE ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) agents breaking a car window outside the La Huerta supermarket and detaining a woman.

John Updike’s private correspondence was extremely John Updike. Adrienne LaFrance reads the author’s newly published “Selected Letters”:

Did the U.S. Dept. of Labor resurrect Norman Rockwell for their propaganda…errr…marketing?? What do you think they are trying tell and sell to us? #unitedstates #jesustakethewheel #jobs #propoganda #stfu

I loved Lost in space. RIP, June. 🤖

Done with Spotify and Amazon.
Shopping directly from vendors and left finding stores.
Now it’s a habit, no research needed.

#newyork #nyc

Finding #joy is critical right now. Tonight @fantasyyeti.bsky.social and I left the house to celebrate our friends 50th birthday. Lovely gathering of people from all across his life. Loved the #bourbon cocktails at Remedy in #Bucktown, #Chicago. #weekend #saturday #happyhour #emptynestingisawful

Actor June Lockhart, beloved TV mother on “Lassie” and “Lost in Space,” died Thursday. She was 100.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2025-10-25/june-lockhart-dies-mom-on-lassie-and-lost-in-space?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_