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Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4mo ago

One more reason to live in Illinois! 👇🏻

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolute this! 👇

A lot of the push for consumer-facing AI seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the creative process by people without a creative bone in their bodies.

kenofseattle@kenofseattle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The sound bites for commercials for Democrats are just writing themselves! Are you paying attention, Dems?

"Biggest scam in modern political history."

Stephen King@stephenking.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I don’t know. I think a master horror writer could handle it as well.

Think about this: A retired game show host may end the world as we know it. Only a master satirist could write this scenario, but Mark Twain is dead.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo ago

Oh, how about we start by replacing the First Lady with a fembot, preferably the model that shoots bullets through its boobs.

Melania Trump on Wednesday appeared at the White House alongside a humanoid, A.I.-powered robot whose uses, according to the company that makes it, include carrying groceries and serving champagne. She told guests that she believes more children should be educated by "humanoid educators."

Rainy day in Batavia, but Sturdy Shelter Brewing is warm and dry. They always put on a great authors’ fest!

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 5mo ago

I’ll be there. Will you?

Over five million people protested against the regime in June. More than seven million people took to the streets in October. March 28 will be even bigger, with nearly 3,000 events already on the No Kings Day map. Be part of the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip? n.pr/3P8MHPY

Devotions in troubled times: because we need some uplift via the wings of birds

NPR@npr.org · 5mo ago

Surprised by joy: when you forgot that you planted daffodils last October! And you may ask yourself, well, how did they get there: when crocus pop up where you didn’t plant them, but they are a welcome sight nonetheless #plantlife #spring

David Sirota@davidsirota.com · 6mo ago

Your tax dollars wasted…

two headlines tell the story of America

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Just what I needed to read today! Which includes this brilliant nugget:

Meanwhile, Vance has had a Year of Boos. They boo'd him in Vermont almost a year ago when he tried to ski there, they boo'd him in Greenland, they boo'd him here, they boo'd him there, they boo him, boo him everywhere. They boo'd him big at the Olympics in Italy last Friday where he tried to glom onto the glory of the country's top athletes, poor things. Vance is supernaturally unlikeable and he does a lot to maximize that quality with his sneers, hate speech, and lies.

In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:

Tiffany C. Li@tiffanycli.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Jesus wept.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
7um Jing
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC@lauritadianita.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This poem breaks my heart every time I encounter it.

I’m thinking of Maggie Smith’s poem ‘Good Bones’ bc I’m hosting my daughter’s birthday party while thinking about today’s murder by ICE, & bc, while I engage my kids to protest injustice, I can’t tell them HOW much I have in common w/ the last 2 people ICE has shot & killed bc they worry about me.

The poem “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Never did I ever…

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Drew Sheneman, Newark Star Ledger