Sandi U

It's now again.

My boy Johnny Murphy could have shot some masterpieces this morning out here but this will have to do. Cherokee Park shamelessly showing off this morning.

To emphasize how immaterial the $445M Musk has spent on the midterms is for him, he’s lost 178x that just today!

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

Crisp Chicago. This morning's temps in the 40's with the autumn colors in Hyde Park. Sunday in Chicago.

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

Imagine losing your spouse to a war nobody wants and now you have to listen to this empty void of a human talk to you like the manager of a UPS Store that lost your package

"By the end of this baseball season, Ms. Strub had attended games with about 30 strangers and found that the people she connected with needed her as much as she needed them." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

As Trump’s war of choice in Iran eclipses seven months with no end in sight, the crowd of thousands roared as Isbell intoned, “What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody’s Hollywood war?” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Marathon Morning. Good luck to all the runners dashing thru the city streets this morning for the 48th Chicago Marathon.

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay People you care about will be feeling like the speaker in this poem. Check in on them. #AskTwice If you are feeling like the speaker reach out for help What we need most is love & what we need to do most is give love #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth

Kentucky’s own Eric Deters! Welcome to your national spotlight! Anybody have a WSJ gift link?

A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social

Was that really unnecessary roughness? No sound where I’m watching but didn’t look like much. #Ravens

Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up

The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.

Took a (very) rainy walk through the Loop tonight. I was absolutely soaked, but my camera stayed dry enough.

Taking a break from football on a rainy Sunday to watch a baggy old man skulk down a hotel hallway (?) while a voiceover of him saying the word "globalists" in a Master Shake voice plays. And what's this, I also paid for it? Nice.

I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.

President Trump is 0-2 against pools.

this week has gone on long enough tbh

It will come as no surprise to anyone that the KY GOP is on a witch hunt, but read this and see the “professor should be fired or worse” implications for yourself.

The latest on the signs that Trump is planning on having installed around the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. A dozen signs for $84,000—cheap as far as propaganda goes, but ruinously expensive in terms of the national disgrace and embarrassment. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.

The drop in SNAP enrollment in Kentucky just from July to August is huge — and more than 15k of them children The USDA is also contributing less and less. We’re talking millions fewer pounds of food going into local food pantries

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [ridiculouslye wondirful lute riff] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Ah, Rock Hall…

Yesterday’s bbq raid just following tradition.

Suspected measles outbreak in Christian County

PERFECT IN PENS AND WE'RE MOVING ON IN THE PRINX TIRES USL CUP 🤩 #TBRvLOU |

"Let's just try to be patriots about this."

Commentary: The Supreme Court has a message for Kentucky on surveillance: Get a warrant kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/12/t...

Interesting article with a strong Louisville angle, says 24,000 bourbon industry jobs in the state (> 5 times the number of coal mining jobs). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/s...

The risks section is 14 pages of very small font; it also includes swine flu, civil unrest, and collapse of the Australian dollar. WHAT ELSE DOES TACO BELL KNOW??

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: This chill cover by A-ha of their own hit "Take on Me" strips away the original's ironic catchiness. Lead singer Morten Harket is very exposed here, so you can really appreciate his extraordinary falsetto and how well it suits the melancholy lyric. See you around.

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.