‘She was always thinking about other people’  - Wednesday Journal For Kathy Julian, the most remarkable thing about her Aunt Faith was her care for others, even in her final months.

His daughter just died. She still was living in her parents' home here in Oak Park.
www.oakpark.com/2026/03/31/i...

Percy Lavon Julian - Wikipedia

Yams! I assume you are familiar with Percy Julian?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_L...

he'd be deported away from his wife and child. This country is becoming a nightmare.

My SIL is French, a retired nurse who had worked and lived many years in both countries; suffice it say that she did not move here for the health care system. Her son-in-law was a DACA kid who in Feb. finally got his green card after a long (12 year?) wait. They were terrified for a while that/

Must have been for love, as no senior in their right mind would ditch the French health care system for ours.

She probably was in a long con to get some of that sweet, sweet for-profit health care for the elderly.

As opposed to the universal free care she'd receive in France.

French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days

Met as teenagers; kept in touch; married when widowed; applied for citizenship; husband dies unexpectedly.

Step-son reported her to ICE, 16 days in prison, droped off at Charles de Gaulle in orange prison garb and a stained holey sweater. "Signs of violence."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

Can't diss Spencer Grammer, the grammar dispenser.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

A shirtless Patrick Swayze sitting behind a dirty Demi Moore looking into one another's eyes while she throws a phallic object on a potter's wheel.

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It's a bot, judging from its incoherent posting history. Blocked.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Why are we allied with these people?

Trisha Pasricha: How to Get to Poophoria, Making Your Bowel Movements a Joy! Dr. Trisha Pasricha has the answers and a new book

Not having your phone is one of the rules from Trisha Pasricha discusses with Eric Topol:

erictopol.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

Mr. Hamill, please delete the AI and/or photo-shopped pics; there's enough real evidence without having to muddy the waters.

This is an actual exchange between Kernen and the head of Ireland's investment agency in 2014. www.thejournal.ie/ida-bizarre-...

A press office that can't spell.

Seems about right.

True!

So many punchable faces, so little time.

Kushner was my go-to smackable face, but this guy wins going away.

👇👇👇

Menominee Co., and Indian Reservation, is heavily D and voted 72% for the liberal SC Justice. It's right-ward swing was tiny.

I hadn't! Thanks!

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Center on Conscience & War CCW advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war, including military members.

Resources for people in the U.S. military who wanna resist.

GI Rights Hotline:
girightshotline.org

About Face –– Veterans Against the War:
aboutfaceveterans.org

War Resisters League:
www.warresisters.org/gi-rights-re...

Center on Conscience and War:
centeronconscience.org

Vertebrate Republicans are only slightly more common than Ivory-billed Woodpeckers.

That's understandable, considering.

There was an Iran specialist in the State Department that knew this, but she got DOGEd.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

That was a terrific article! It provided me with a little reminder of the potential beauty of humanity on what's starting out as a grim day.

Thank you much for writing it!