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Blue is my favorite color. Dogs and cats rock. And the sun will shine long beyond today's latest crisis. NO DM's!
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Being joyful is a radical act of resistance

Like a dog looking for their favorite ball, be relentless in finding moments of joy in the midst of the chaos and cruelty

Our world needs your joy 💙🐾

'Found It' Mixed Media on Wood Panel
Available for purchase. 10x20"

#dogs #art #resistance
July 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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I need this book! Lol 😅🤣😂
July 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.
June 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Sister Rosemary Connelly, a powerhouse nun who led Misericordia, has died at 94. blockclubchi.co/3HOsT0M
June 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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If you know Chicago at all, you know Sister Rosemary Connelly. She singlehandedly built the Misericordia Home into a model of modern care for special-needs people. This obituary doesn't skimp on the fact she was a steel-spined politician - chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...
Misericordia's Sister Rosemary Connelly has died at 94; 'She saw our kids as people, not as disabilities'
She built Misericordia into a model residence for Chicagoans with developmental challenges.
chicago.suntimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Sister Rosemary Connelly, the longtime head of Misericordia Heart of Mercy, who helped bring dignity to special needs community, has died.
Sister Rosemary Connelly, Misericordia head, helped bring dignity to special needs community
Sister Rosemary Connelly, the longtime head of Misericordia Heart of Mercy, who helped bring dignity to special needs community, has died.
www.chicagotribune.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A good thing to keep in my pocket today.

Who knows, I might have the opportunity to do some dramatic reading.
June 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I am flying my American flag today. It is my flag, today is Flag Day and I honor the United States Constitution. A sad day for the U.S.A. to have to even think these thoughts.
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.

When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
June 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.
At Chicago baseball stadium, Pope Leo makes his first pitch to America
Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his historic path.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Melissa Hortman has been fighting for gun sense laws in Minnesota.

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🚨 Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman has been shot in her home by a man impersonating a police officer. She tweeted in 2023 about gun sense laws: keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them,” and “We want everyone to feel safe at home, in school, at work, and in our public spaces.”
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.

We the People.
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Golden Rule, 1961. Oil on canvas, 44 1/2” x 39 1/2”.
June 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I don’t like to get too personal on social media. But today is my sweet baby’s birthday…she would have been 29. She had a rare terminal illness and she lived till she was almost
13. She wasn’t given a year. I was her caregiver…she couldn’t use her muscles…or speak. But she was funny and her
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Love this.
Good people stepping up when the system fails our kids.
June 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I prefer Senators who don’t tell people fearing losing their healthcare that they’re “going to die.”
May 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Scrolling endlessly? Maybe this is what you were meant to see.
It’s okay. You’re okay. And you’re not alone.
May 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Ravens are my favorite bird.
April 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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That's Senator Booker to you.
April 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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If this ain't a goddamn perfect eulogy, I don't know what is.
April 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Oh my god. At the exact moment Trump announced his tariffs the market crashed in real time.

CNBC is SAVAGE for doing the side by side.
April 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This isn’t hard 🔥🔥

Live and Let Live 🎯

#SheShed
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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This is a United States Senator

MACK: I was laid off from HHS and now people aren’t getting social services, especially people with disabilities

BANKS: You probably deserved it

MACK: Why did I deserve it?

BANKS: Because you look like a clown
April 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
April 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM