Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

In honor of a judge halting Trump's ballroom construction today:

Trump’s Ballroom Design Has Barely Been Scrutinized A stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.

President Trump’s ballroom design has rushed toward construction, with little time for public review of this major addition to the White House. Architects say it shows.

Cage fights at the White House! A gigantic arch! Trump’s gaudy plans for America’s 250th anniversary From minting coins featuring his own face to covering buildings with gold, the president’s proposals for marking America’s semiquincentennial say a lot about the country’s backwards outlook

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Perfection

The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

The courtyard of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Probably an ICE agent

Lotus Bloom. #lotus #garden #gardensofbluesky

The other photo sharing app labeled this a sensitive content. Ridiculousness!

We are a country of immigrants and the fact that we can unite together as one country is great. The current state of decisiveness can only lead to weakening the nation further.

Imagine the theme song to the first season of The White Lotus.
#pekingese #lotus #gardening #garden #TheWhiteLotus

Full Bloom
#gardening #roses #chicagobungalow

They are Petasites hybridus, also known as the butterbur, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is native to Europe and northern Asia.

Late May Garden Tour.
#gardensofbluesky #chicagobungalow #gardening #roses

Calcifer the King Charles Cavalier pup taking a nap. #puppy #CavalierKingCharles

We are not under invasion.

There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights.

Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

We should be grateful to the Lord to now be blessed with having an American on the world stage who embodies good and not evil.

This week, Trump lowered a tariff on James Bond's car while raising a tariff on James Bond's movies.

📡 Broadcasting a new signal
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of RFE/RL’s fearless journalism. Watch the full Dispatch video + learn more about Jacknife Lee and Mitch Easter RFE remixes
ffm.to/remrfe2025

Before and after #gardening #poppies

Atop London House looking West

Trump and Musk want to shrink the government by fiat without regard to who and what they hurt.

When Trump and Musk tout how much money they're saving by gutting cancer research and Social Security services, know this:

Their IRS cuts will cost $500 billion in tax revenue just this year. That's more than half the Defense budget.

None of their destruction is actually about saving money.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

“I have no idea what Signal is. I don’t care what Signal is,” Trump said on Saturday. “All I can tell you is it’s just a witch hunt, and it’s the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to talk about. Because it’s been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country.”

Trump says he doesn’t know what Signal is

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

Better tell that to Durbin!

👨🏻‍🏫 Attention class, today’s lesson- tarrifs.