Tiedrich Sunday


the poet Carl Sandburg famously described Chicago as the ‘City of the Big Shoulders.’ he also called it

Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler

if old Carl were writing that poem today, he’d have to add a new line — because Chicago has now become the city of Go Fuck Yourself, Donny Convict.

oh look — America’s Mad King isn’t the only person who gets to sign executive orders.

The mayor of Chicago has signed an order detailing how the city will resist a potential immigration crackdown threatened by the Trump administration.

We do not need nor want an unconstitutional and illegal military occupation of our city,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson, a Democrat. The order directs city agencies on how to respond to possible immigration enforcement actions.

do not fuck with the Hog Butcher for the World, Donny. they’re busy Stacking Wheat and Making Tools. they don’t have time for your fascist bullshit.

good for the mayor. he’s making plans. he sees what’s going on in DC, and what went on in Los Angeles, and he’s getting all proactive. most importantly, Mayor Johnson has ordered the Chicago Police Department not to aid and abet Donny’s storm troopers.

let’s listen to some highlights from the speech the mayor gave yesterday.

“I do not take this executive action lightly. I would have preferred to work in a more collaborative approach. I would have preferred to do with work with our allies in the city council to pass legislation, ultimately — and we were doing just that. some of the leaders who we are working with are standing behind me today. but unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of time. we have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some type of militarized activity by the federal government.”

“our people have not asked for this. but nevertheless, we find ourselves having to respond to this.”

“I’m signing an executive order today that will launch the Protecting Chicago Initiative. this is a project that builds on the months of preparation we have done that has led up to this very moment. Protecting Chicago will ensure that every Chicagoan knows their rights, that every single family is prepared, and every part of city government is directed to protect the people of Chicago from federal action. this sweeping executive order directs our Department of Law to pursue any and every legal mechanism to hold this administration accountable for violating the rights of Chicagoans. this order affirms that the Chicago Police Department will no collaborate with military personnel, on police patrols or civil immigration enforcement. we will not have our police officers, who are working hard every single day to drive down crime, deputized to do traffic stops and checkpoints for the president. this order affirms that CPD officers will be directed to wear CPD uniforms, and refrain from wearing masks, so that residents can clearly distinguish them from federal agents.

“we do not want to see tanks in our streets. we do not want to see families ripped apart. we do not want grandmothers thrown into the back of unmarked vans. we don’t want to see homeless Chicagoans harassed or disappeared by federal agents. we don’t want to see Chicagoans arrested for sitting on their porch. it’s not who we are as a city, and that’s not who we are as a nation. my team and I have spoken to the governor, the county president, and with our federal delegation, and we are in complete alignment. the time for action is now.”

okay, that was pretty long — so if you chose to scroll past it, here are the bullet points:

      • City department of law are directed to pursue every legal mechanism, to resist unconstitutional efforts & hold them accountable
      • Demands Trump stand down from deploying the military in Chicago
      • Chicago PD not to wear masks or collaborate with ICE on patrols, arrests, or immigration enforcement

that last one is the biggie. Americans have a right to know who is legitimate law enforcement, and who is one of Donny’s goons.

we are through the looking glass, folks. this is what it’s come to: a mayor of a major city now has to protect his constituents from a lawless federal government.

our founders would be shitting their breeches if they could see what’s become of their grand experiment in representational democracy.

in the city of the big shoulders, Mayor Johnson’s are fucking huge right now. the mayor is a brave man, and he has earned our support.


hey, remember how, all through Joe Biden’s presidency, the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press treated Joe as if he were old and icky and probably already dead? for fuck’s sake, they even turned his shoes into a major scandal.

 

oh my god, a seventy-nine-year-old, choosing to wear shoes that provide additional support. the horror.

remember how in 2016, the Email Lady tripped on a curb, and the worthless scribs pretty much wrote her obituary on the spot?

spoiler alert: nine years later, Hillary Clinton is very much alive.

given all that, wouldn’t it be awesome if the press paid that much attention to current President Cankles McRottinghand’s obvious physical and cognitive decline?

Donny’s been virtually missing in action for days. he’s been avoiding the press — he hasn’t spoken with them since his cabinet meeting last Tuesday. that’s really bizarre behavior from the attention hog who generally can’t go a single day without gibbering like a loon to a roomful of reporters.

yesterday, he was photographed leaving the White House, on his way to his Virginia golf motel — but he didn’t stop to talk to the press.

so what the fuck is going on? why is Donny in hiding? what is the White House not telling us? why does Couchfuck McGee feel the need to reassure everyone that he’s totally prepared to step into Donny’s demented shoes?

above all, why is our media so unconcerned about this? these are the same people who would shit a brick if Joe Biden went two days without talking to them.

Donny — who never shuts the fuck up — has now gone silent for five days, and not one reporter seems interested in what should be a major story. in fact, they all pretty much orgasmed on the spot over yesterday’s photo of Donny gingerly shuffling towards his waiting limo. they fell all the fuck over each other in a mad dash to assure everyone that Donny was still alive.

oh, and MAGA is totally incensed that anyone would dare speculate about why Donny is suddenly nowhere to be found.

“It’s sickening to see so many leftists on social media spreading false rumors about President Trump and his health. The Democrats have no class.”

yo, Brig — is this you?

I’m sorry, Brig, what was that you were saying about having no class?


oh look, Sundowning Uncle Crazypants has slithered out of his spider hole long enough to tweet out this nonsense:

what’s coming that’s so unstoppable, Big Guy? is it the Epstein Files?


this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.

Another $3B Wasted…

And in case you’re wondering about the “harder to climb” part: last week, a random Instagram user already posted a video of themselves scaling the freshly painted wall and the paint job didn’t seem to slow them down one bit.

So in short: half a billion to three billion dollars for a paint job that might need redoing every decade… and apparently doesn’t even work.

As of August 2025, the cost of Trump’s plan to paint the U.S.–Mexico border wall black is all over the map anywhere from $500 million to over $3 billion — and nobody in government is being transparent about the actual number.

Estimates by type of paint:

• Basic acrylic: ~$1.2M per mile → about $500M total for planned sections

• Military-grade epoxy: $4.5M+ per mile

• Premium powder coating: could push the price past $3B

• Official silence: DHS hasn’t released contracts or exact spending, saying disclosure would “affect future bids.” The project is tucked inside a $46.5B appropriation for border wall construction and maintenance, nicknamed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Why black? Trump—who is an absolute fucking moron—ordered it personally. Kristi Noem, now DHS Secretary, dutifully got down on her knees, sucked the orange mushroom, and announced the plan this month.

What comes next? Electrification on a Jurassic Park scale?

#truth

In anticipation of next Tuesday’s surgery and the subsequent NPO order, onThursday I got the gastric feeding tube inserted. The appointment was at 1 pm, requiring being at the hospital for check-in at 11 am. It was supposed to be a quick, in-and-out thing but like with so many things these days, it was anything but.

Turns out I wasn’t wheeled into the operating room until nearly 4 pm. We got bumped three times for incoming traumas. (It’s a trauma hospital.) We got back home around 6 pm.

The post-op pain has been manageable with Tylenol, but even so, sleeping was difficult Thursday night; thankfully not so much last night. Pain was a solid 7 yesterday at the site, but it’s dropped to about a five or so today…except when I cough. Home Health delivered supplies and  enough flavorless (because I obviously won’t need to taste it) protein “drink” today to keep me nourished for quite some time after I’m eventually released from the hospital and can swallow solid food again.

Shit’s gettin’ real, folks.

Hey…That’s Mine! 😄

Back in March (March seems like years ago, doesn’t it?) I sent my powder blue MD-910 minidisc recorder off for service. It was a beautiful unit, but made a horrible noise when seeking tracks at the outer edge of the disc (or when slewing back to center after recording/playing those tracks). After attempting a clean/lube on my own with no improvement, I reached out to a guy on YouTube for assistance. He was able to effect repair, and I’d joked that I hope he filmed it.

He did.

While scrolling through YouTube the other day I saw he’d put up a new video, and imagine my surprise when he brought out a poweder-blue MZ-N910. I knew immediately it was mine…

It should be noted that things he called me out for (the missing screw, the lubricant sprayed everywhere) was not my doing, but rather was attributable to the previous owner. I never took the bottom cover off and I only used white lithium grease—which I’d learned from watching his videos—on a toothpick to perform the lubrication. No spray lubricant of any kind was used.

Still, it’s fascinating to watch what he did.

Ultimately, I sold this unit, because I’d acquired one in orange that I much preferred (and also sent off to him for service), and I couldn’t justify having two otherwise identical units.

I Could Live There

Yumenomori, Sapporo, Japan by YODEZEEN

Yumenomori, meaning “Forest of Dreams,” is YODEZEEN’s debut project in Japan — a 500 sqm single-family home in Sapporo completed in 2025. Designed by Artem Zverev and Artur Sharf, with project management led by Anna Tarabanova and Olga Kravchenko, the house embodies a seamless fusion of Japanese tradition and contemporary European architecture.

Set in a seismically active zone, Yumenomori showcases adaptive engineering and a deep respect for nature. Its facade features vertical wooden slats, terraces, and garden elements inspired by Japanese landscaping, creating harmony between the built and natural environments. A polished forest rock, placed in a symbolic garden and visible through expansive glass walls, anchors the home spiritually and visually.

Inside, minimalist design prevails. Travertine, stone, and wood form a serene palette, while a striking red stone adds energy through custom furnishings. The interiors feature Poliform kitchen design, Henge lighting, and B&B Italia furniture, with Italian wood finishes hand-selected for warmth and balance.

A curated collection of art by Andrii Voznicki and Naraz Bilyk adds personal depth, reflecting the client’s trust and shared vision. Yumenomori stands as a timeless sanctuary—where architecture, nature, and culture converge.

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Tiedrich Friday

He’s on FIRE today and feeling what we all are.


here’s what we know so far:

a 23-year-old obtained multiple weapons of mass death, just as our founders intended, took those weapons to the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, just as our founders intended, opened fire on teachers and students, just as our founders intended, firing one hundred and sixteen rounds in a matter of seconds, just as our founders intended, killing two and wounding eighteen, just as our founders intended. she then killed herself, just as our founders intended.

or fuck’s sake, we couldn’t even get through the first week of the new school year without some sicko with a grudge, an AR-15, and a death wish ending the life of two children.

and — oh look! — all the worst fucking people in the world are now offering us their cheap thoughts and useless prayers.

people such as this ginormous pantload.

“Please join me in praying for the victims of the horrific evil that took place at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis this morning.”

please join me in cordially inviting Rep. Andy Ogles to fuck all the wayoff — because lest we forget, this is how Rep. Ogles commemorates the birth of his savior: by teaching his children that it’s awesome to fetishize weapons of mass death.

his let’s-perpetuate-the-worship-of-guns shit isn’t helping.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, could you please explain to Rep Ogles why thinking and praying is, in this instance, particularly galling?

“and don’t just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. these kids were literally praying. it was the first week of school. they were in a church.”

wrap your mind around that: these children were gunned down while they were praying in a church. so I’m asking: could the thoughts-and-prayers crowd at least have the decency to sit this one out?

apparently, the answer is no.

it seems that Karoline Leavitt isn’t just Donny Convict’s truth-averse press secretary. she’s also America’s self-appointed religious scold — and she’s hella incensed that anyone would dare criticize her god-given right to think and pray.

I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they’re incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works.”

look, Karoline, no one is saying that you’re not allowed to think and pray. do whatever you want. process grief in whichever way you need to. America remains, despite the best efforts of Preznit Cankles McFascist, a mostly-free country. for now.

what we’re asking is that you not turn ‘thoughts and prayers’ into some public performative ritual, where it’s used as a dodge to wallpaper over the fact that Republicans haven’t ever done one fucking thing to end all this slaughter.

we’ve been thinking and praying since Columbine, 26 years ago — and free clue: all those thoughts and prayers haven’t done shit.

also, Karoline — is this you?

you’re not helping.

here’s someone else who can fuck off: Fox News’ Plankhead of the Airwaves.

“these are preventable. the first thing you should do, every school in the country should have a metal detector. you have to control the entry of kids and the perimeter around every school. the left’s rush to blame guns for every tragedy, it’s sad and pathetic.”

look, Sean Hannity’s job is to say the stupidest shit imaginable. we’ll give him that. but ranting about metal detectors just makes Hannity a special kind of stupid.

a metal dectector at the door of the church where these kids got shot would have done fuck-all, because the shooter was standing outside and firing through the windows.

but this is what passes for your average Republican’s solution to America’s kids-used-for-target-practice problem: let’s turn schools (and I guess now churches, too) into maximum-security prisons. let’s harden the fuck out of them.

let’s replace every door of every school with thick reinforced steel, and make sure they’re locked every minute of the day. let’s install metal detectors, and post armed guards every fifty feet. let’s arm teachers to the teeth.

except none of that hardening shit works when the shooter is standing outside with an AR-15, firing hundreds of rounds through the fucking windows. duh. so what’s your solution, Plankhead? board up all the windows? in a church?

the actual solution is staring us all in the face: it’s the guns. ban the fucking assault weapons.

no civilian needs a weapon of mass death.

and please, don’t even get me started on Bobby Brainworms. it’s too early in the morning for my head to be exploding.

this whale-head-chainsawing lunatic doesn’t even understand how germs work, but he’s going to square-peg-round-hole his own special solution to America’s gun problem: let’s ban ALL the drugs.

“we’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.”

this fucking guy. now he want to ban anti-depressants — because he has a hunch they lead to violence. oh joy, Mr. Make Polio Great Again has a hunch.

it’s really weird how anti-depressants are regularly prescribed in every country on the planet, but only in America does it result in a gun problem. what a crazy coincidence.

it cannot be understated how completely crazypants Bobby Brainworms is. I want to highlight a video shot by journalist Sandi Bachom, of an RFK Jr. anti-vaccine rally, back on January 23, 2022. it’s a huge fucktangle of holy shit.

in five years we’re going to see four hundred and fifteen thousand low-orbit satellites. Bill Gates has his 65,000 satellites alone. he’ll be able to look at every square inch of the planet 24 hours a day. they’re putting in 5G, to harvest our data and control our behavior. digital currency will allow them to punish us from a distance and cut off our food supply. the minute they hand you that vaccine, fast forward. every right that you have is transformed into a privilege contingent on your obedience to arbitrary government dictates.”

this is the insane freak currently dismantling our country’s ability to prevent the return of diseases that we eradicated decades ago. the one ranting and raving about Bill Gates and 5G chips.

and now he’s going to ban anti-depressants — because guns.

fuck every Republican — four of whom are medical doctors — who voted to confirm this hallucinating conspiracy loon.

shame on you all.


here’s a thing I wrote on March 30, 2023, the day after a school shooting in Nashville — but the date and the location don’t matter. the words below can be applied to any school shooting at any time and any place in America.

Republicans don’t give a fuck about children

Republicans were so busy protecting children from learning that Rosa Parks was black that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from seeing that Michelangelo’s David has a penis that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from finding out that men can love men and women can love women that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from being read to by grownups wearing costumes that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from eating a subsidized school lunch that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from reading that Roberto Clemente experienced discrimination that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from discovering why Anne Frank had to hide that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from knowing how their own bodies work that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

Republicans were so busy protecting children from having access to healthcare that they forgot to protect them from being murdered in their classrooms.

oopsies!


this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.

Tiedrich Thursday


here’s a huge surprise: it turns out that Mad King Donny’s merry band of fascists are a bunch of incompetent fuckwits who can’t even do a police state right.

Donny is, of course, an impulsive imbecile who acts first and thinks never. his underlings have all been selected for loyalty over brains. so it’s only natural that a lot of fuckery they’ve been trying to perpetrate — the military occupations of cities, the mass arrests — has been badly planned and poorly executed. and now, much of it is starting to blow up in their big dumb faces.

let’s all point and laugh at a few of their recent fuckups.

topmost: it turns out that Assault With a Deadly Sandwich isn’t really a thing.

Sean Dunn is the dude who got into a shouting match with one of Donny’s uniformed goons in DC. the whole scene culminated with Dunn hurling a sandwich at the goon and running away. the very next day, he was all ‘how about I turn myself in,’ and America’s Tipsiest Fake TV Judge — who is now inexplicably the US Attorney for DC — was all ‘nah, how about we send dozens of storm troopers to your apartment and roughly drag you away in handcuffs, while TV cameras record it all.’

because, as always, it’s all about pageantry. it’s all about creating a show.

the next thing DC’s Tipsiest US Attorney did was to slap Dunn with a felony charge and vow to make him break rocks in Sing Sing for the next gazillionty or so years. and then, to cap it off, she tarted herself up in Holstein cow cosplay and tweeted out a self-congratulatory video — because what’s even the point of doing a fascism if you can’t crow about it on Elon’s Nazi Bar?

“Assault a law enforcement officer, and you’ll be prosecuted. This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged him with a felony.”

yeah, well guess what: it just got funny again.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.

too bad, so sad, Jeanine. enjoy some tiny violin.

et’s be real: throwing anything at a cop is literally asking to learn what being handcuffed feels like. but if what you hurled is soggy bread and cold cuts, it ain’t a felony — no matter how much Little Donny Fascistpants and Jeanine Boxwine want it to be.

here’s the thing, though: do you know how badly you have to screw up in order to have a grand jury be all ‘fuck off outta here, we ain’t indicting’?

the answer is very badly. a US attorney failing to secure an indictment is almost unheard of.

It is extremely unusual for prosecutors to come out of a grand jury without obtaining an indictment because they are in control of the information that grand jurors hear about a case and defendants are not allowed to have their lawyers in the room as evidence is presented.

US Attorney Boxwine did her whole dog-and-pony show in front of the grand jury, laid out all her evidence of how evil mastermind Sean Dunn crime-spreed his way through the streets of DC — and in the end, the grand jury was all ‘it was a fucking sandwich, Jeanine. get real.’

but that’s what happens when you hire henchmen based on how much they flatter you on Fox News. you end up with a dunk-tank clown who butt-dials classified war plans to a reporter. you end up with a reality show wash-out who can’t figure out why planes keep falling out of the sky. and you end up with a DC Attorney who literally can’t indict a ham sandwich.

(yes, I know. everyone’s making that joke today. sorry, I couldn’t help myself.)

the Dunn embarrassment wasn’t even the first time this week that DC’s Tipsiest US Attorney failed to secure an indictment.

On Monday, for instance, prosecutors refiled a felony assault charge as a misdemeanor in the case of a woman who was accused of injuring an F.B.I. agent during a protest last month against immigration officials at the local jail in Washington.

The charges were reduced against the woman, Sidney Lori Reid, after prosecutors failed not just once but three times to obtain an indictment in the case.

three times. three separate grand juries told Jeanine to take a hike — because it was a shitty case based on flimsy evidence. this is what happens when you order your to thugs arrest first and ask questions never.

speaking of arrest-happy thugs, it turns out a bunch of ICE goons in Los Angeles got caught lying about the protesters they rounded up, and those cases got laughed out of court, too.

The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

this is what happens when you lie about an imaginary crime wave, and then make as many bogus arrests as you can in order to ‘prove’ your point.

this is what happens when your marching orders are to round up everyone.

Judges are also losing patience with Donny’s own fascist tendencies. tell me, is at a bad thing when a judge who you personally appointed shitcans your lawsuit and calls it a ‘constitutional free-for-all’?

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an aggressive, unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland, rejecting a bid by the Justice Department to limit court power in fast-moving immigration cases.

The opinion on Tuesday framed the lawsuit as a major constitutional standoff, with Judge Thomas Cullen writing the Justice Department couldn’t pursue a “constitutional free-for-all.”

a farcical lawsuit in which 15 judges are sued at once is classic Donny. he treats America’s legal system the same way his dead pedo bestie used to treat the ‘spa girls’ at Motel-a-Lago — as a thing to be abused for his pleasure, and then discarded.

was the judge happy about having his time wasted? no sir, he was most certainly not.

“Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate,” he added.

this is polite judge-speak for what are you trying to pull, you fascist dildo?

and, lastly, here’s a huge ball of what in the actual fuck.

this is a photo of National Guard troops spreading mulch around the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.

and here’s a pic of Guard troops hauling trash in a DC park.

but wait a minute, I hear you asking. I thought there was supposed to be a massive crime wave in DC. why aren’t these troops, y’know, chasing down bad guys?

yeah, well guess fucking what.

it turns out that when you send over two thousand troops to fight crime in a city where they’re no actual crime wave, you have to come up with something for them to do.

More than 2,200 troops, some from as far away as Mississippi and Louisiana, have been deployed in D.C. since Trump’s declaration of a “crime emergency” here. Ostensibly, they were mobilized to support federal law enforcement and local police, but in recent days those orders have expanded to encompass “beautification” tasks such as trash removal and groundskeeping around the National Mall and other federal property. Service members may work on removing graffiti, too.

what an excellent use of our military. what a cost-effective use of time and resources. it’s good to know that when the next hurricane devastates Louisiana, the residents there will be on their own — because the Guard troops who would normally be doing disaster relief work will be busy ‘beautifying’ the National Mall.

once again, this is what happens when you act first and think never.

it’s all so fucking stupid.

let’s not kid ourselves — Donny and his brigade of authoritarian fuckstains are indeed doing real harm to our nation, and to our democracy. but our one saving grace in all this might be the fact that they’re all incompetent imbeciles can’t who even do a simple fascism without fucking it up.