Having a grilled cheese sandwich.

The sun just came out.

Listening to jazz on the AirPods.

And BOOM, now I have tears in my eyes for no discernible reason. I miss my dad. It's been two months.

This is what everyone talks about: grief being a glitter bomb that just goes off, huh.

LOL.

I asked AI who the 49ers should draft in the 1at round and one of the 4 players it suggested is a projected 4th round pick

I would not say “the cool thing is you dont need to be an expert” if my job was, essentially, to be an expert

Tiffany Henyard admits to living in Georgia while holding office in Illinois WGN Investigates confronted Henyard in April 2025 and asked why she missed every public meeting since losing the election, even though she was still being paid.

Tiffany Henyard admits she lived in Georgia while she held elected office in Illinois.

The revelation came during a residency hearing as she fights to stay on the ballot as a republican in a race for a seat on the Fulton County board of commissioners. wgntv.com/news/wgn-inv...

Tired of being an expert? Good news! …

THE U (WCIU-Ch. 26) will air the SKY’s two preseason games:

- April 25 vs. Mercury, 3 pm (Sioux Falls, SD)
- April 29 vs. Dream, 6 pm (Wintrust Arena)

The U’s regular-season broadcast schedule will be released later.

Defamation of a Public Figure vs. Private Figure - Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC: Ohio Corporate Law Firm. Defamation, in general, is designed to provide individuals with a remedy for false statements that harm their reputation. The level of fault you have to prove against the speaker of the defamatory sta...

This seems relevant today.

I note this primer (posted by a law firm) suggests that a public figure must prove they have suffered monetary losses in order to win damages.

bdblaw.com/defamation-o...

I mean…at least put on some of those swirly hypnotizing glasses, my dude. Nobody’s buying this nonsense.

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) praising a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer research, calling it "the best of America" and noting that lead researcher Dr. Balachandran is the son of Indian immigrants and works at Sloan Kettering. He quote-tweets Ian Weissman, DO (@DrIanWeiss...), who reports that an mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine showed lasting results in an early trial, with nearly all responding patients still alive six years later.

Science leads to amazing breakthroughs. Immigrants lead to amazing science.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

My father survived a year with pancreatic cancer but it was a year of terrible suffering. This is very encouraging news.

www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...

The image is a page patch of bloomed tulips. Most of them yellow, peach, or red, with green leaves filled in

Tulips galore

Today in the Tulips. The start of Sunday in Chicago’s South Loop.

Vintage tile floor with patterned center & border in salmon, black and white.

Auditorium Building, 1889.

Never change, football fans 😅

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

American science is shrinking.

A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not For the attorneys who helped fuel the president’s efforts to remain in office, the consequences have been severe. Take John Eastman, for example.

And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him...

Eastman: disbarred

Giuliani: disbarred

Chesebro: disbarred

Clark: facing possible disbarment

Ellis: law license suspended

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Goldfinch courtship
#Birds

Oil company founded by DOE chief Wright paid no US taxes last year Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.

"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."

www.eenews.net/articles/oil...

I don't even know 95 people!

We got the video of the parachuter at Virginia Tech. They have rescued him at this point and he’s down off the scoreboard. Working to get more info.

Five Minutes After You Leave the House. Dog looking out the window and saying What If they never come back?! Cat says, Who?

#FridayFunDay and early #Caturday

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A Tornado Warning has been issued for Lake (IL) and McHenry counties until 9:15 p.m.

More information: wgntv.com/weather/chicago-weather-...

I’m so mad. My mom is 80. She can’t see very well. One of the few joys she has in her life is watching basketball. But now, the playoffs are only available on Amazon Prime. She’s a state away, and I can’t explain to her how to watch. Nor does she have Amazon Prime. 1/

🤗🤗🤗🐶😋💙

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

If this doesn’t end with four of her seven children dead before the age of 5 and her own death from pneumonia at the ripe old age of 31, I’m going to be very unimpressed

Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) capturing a Senate exchange in which Elizabeth Warren challenges IRS Commissioner Bisignano over whether tax cuts for Meta were paid for by cutting healthcare coverage. When Bisignano says he doesn't see the two as correlated, Warren presses: "Did you not follow that?" The embedded video shows Warren in a blue blazer gesturing at a Senate hearing.

She's so good at this.

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BREAKING: Illinois guard Andrej Stojakovic has announced that he will return to the Illini for his senior season.

STORY: www.wcia.com/sports/your-illini-natio...