Denali

@denali.bsky.social

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Early childhood and public systems researcher. Rich inner life. No inside voice. I live in Chicago. Photo by https://www.greginda.com/

A picture taken in the community room at the Roden library. Ed Bannon Is standing in front of the room at a lectern with his laptop and showing everyone a slide from the district that breaks down the budget
A flyer for an event called AIPAC 2.0? Sponsored by SACRED ACTS EXPOSING THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGIES OF EXCESSIVELY WEALTHY SOUTH ASIAN POWERHOLDERS IN MAINSTREAM AMERICAN POLITICS Join us for lunch in an engaging conversation on how grossly wealthy South Asian powerholders are increasingly using their power to advance extremist ideologies and undermine the public good in the US and around the world Sunday July 22nd 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the national public housing museum 919 South 8th Street Chicago Illinois 60607 Moderated by Safia Mahjebin Other panelists include my colleague Pushkar Sharma, Dr aobed Manwatkar and Recent addition Kshama Sawant
An open 22 can Coleman cooler with bagged and foil wrapped sandwiches in it
Bill and Ted in the parking lot of the circle K in full Whoa
Well Texas I'm the richest Americans have become largely elected the country has accrued a crushing national debt that threatens its ability to meet its most basic expenses even more troubling on the fiscal implications is the fact that the country has become a land of two people rather than one overburden workers at all income levels carrying the Lion's share of the cost of running the country And a growing American aristocracy of wealth and power who are allowed to abdicate their responsibilities to the nation. The scale of two tax systems has a corrosive effect on society
A screenshot from the video for Whoomp! There it is by tag team
Adam Sandler in Billy Madison pretending that he peed his pants and letting the world know that you're not cool if you don't pee your pants.
Scooby-Doo meme featuring a masked ghost tied up with Fred from Scooby-Doo about to take his mask off it says we should give money directly to American families to ease their precarity I'm calling it the family assistance plan Fred is pulling the mask off and it says it's Richard Nixon.
Yellowstone lake. Half the picture is clear blue sky with light clouds near the horizon and the shadows of mountains rising. The lake reaches to the edges of the image. In the foreground there are some large rocks and two children are climbing down off the rocks into the water.
A photograph of a printed page in this case page 63 of Ray madoff's the Second Estate The text reads " The power of the industrialists (and their heirs) was felt across all levels of society: " The workers farmer small businessman and professional men suffered frustration in their attempts to lead a rich and independent life in a society which professed democracy but which in actuality was dominated politically and economically by an oligarchy [The captains of industry and finance and their political henchmen]" write tax historian Sidney Ratner.
A large brown and white senior pit curled up on a couch next to a copy of The Second Estate by Ray Madoff I'm really enjoying this book and cannot recommend it strongly enough. Same for large dogs.
A bar graph labeled Federal Budget expenses and revenue (2024) with three bars Govt spending ($6.75 trillion) Tax revenue ($4.92 trillion) Deficit ($1.83 trillion) Next to it is a bar chart labeled Wealth of the Rich. There is a bar labeled Wealth of the Top 1%. It is $47.6 trillion, nearly ten times the size of the tax revenue bar. This chart is titled Federal Burger versus wealth of the rich (2024) and the source is the US Treasury and St Louis Reserve
A stemless wineglass that says Chicago in cursive on it with four stars sitting on a blue tea towel with 4 red six point stars on it.
A photograph of a newspaper article with the headline County scrutinizes cost of government in face of huge Public safety demands
A pair of light olive pants really really look like I peed in them BUT I WAS JUST WEARING A WET BATHING SUIT
A low horizontal line of clouds with a rainbow coming down and ending behind a store called bottles & shots
An enclosed booth that says PATHS public access telehealth spaces This is a partnership of the park county library system and the code medical foundation
A large filing cabinet with flat wide drawers. One drawer is open revealing a geological map of the state of Wyoming
Two library shelves of books about bears. There are more. So many books about bears
A large dark wood and glass building with a sign out front that says Park County Public Library
Six beautiful horses
It's me a middle aged South Asian woman drinking a 307 lager in the stands at the rodeo. The wind is doing epic things with my hair and I'm wearing a dark blue jean jacket and a pin announcing my pronouns (she/her)
It's my arm! And I am wearing a purple wristband that says CODY
A grey sky with a beautiful rainbow in it
A collection of paintings drawing and one piece of needle work that hang in the collections archive. One of the sketches in two of the paintings prominently feature the mountain the crochet work is a square of an eagle holding a shield that says God bless America
A view of a memorial plaque with an American flag flying above it and in the distance set against a blue sky with big white clouds is an oddly shaped mountain with a flattish top
An old basketball hoop that sits in the heart Mountain interpretation center archival collections
The entrance to a large underground building with a long hallway down the middle and log columns holding up the rafters there is some construction equipment inside the structure
A plaque that reads heart Mountain the location Center memorial Park 1942 to 1945 there is a drawing of a site plan that shows the site including the roughly 500 barracks where individuals and families were incarcerated. The plaque reads this memorial is dedicated to those people interned here during World War II to their sons and daughters who served our country and to those who gave their lives in that service 1977 corrected through interests of these hard Mountain organizations the extension Club the homesteaders Association and the irrigation District the Powell bicentennial commission the Clark County commissioners in a historical societies of Park County and Wyoming
Fry from Futurama angrily brandishing a fistful of dollars. This meme is called SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
The cover of the new addition of William Steigs CDB! The cover features the letters C D and B! And two cartoon children one of whom is gesture into a bee above a flower and saying to the other one "CDB!" This is one of my favorite friends favorite childhood books and we talk about it a surprising amount even though we are both over 40
A survey form from 39 forward alder women's managing agent it says help Samantha continue to build on policies that unite us and help all neighborhoods achieve safety and equity. Please mark the top three issues that you would like Samantha to address in City Hall. This is funny bc I ran against her last cycle and she has no ideas and I have many so no you may not have my ideas.
A shot of the shallow end of a Chicago public swimming pool
Meatloaf on VH1 storytellers explaining what THAT refers to in the refrain "I would do anything for love but I won't do that" In this case the that is put sauerkraut in your purse, which is a weird boundary given everything else going on but I guess it's good to know there is something
A whiteboard easel that says Welcome to Storystudio!
John Belushi in Animal House shortly after he rhetorically asks if it was over when the German bombed Pearl Harbor
A picture of the CTA map that's says THIS CTA STATION IS CLOSED FOR RENOVATION Ugh! Construction again? Help the CTA complete their work on these El stations. The answer to each clue contains the color of its CTA line. When you've answered them correctly, the circled letters will rebuild a station in that line! One set of clues is all about phrases containing Red the other about phrases containing Blue.
A real ass newspaper on my kitchen island. It says the.pub. more than a newspaper Peeling back Layers This is the spring issue
After people do the budget bus table set their priorities we have this reveal moment this is what the group wants do you want to know what the city of Chicago actually spends Over a third of the money goes to police in most of the allocation is for policing or carceral systems most allocations for policing in need exercises is around $8 to $10 out of 100 and when they see $36 their hearts drop they know it but when they see it it's a different feel.
Pam from the Office They're the Same Picture meme
A still from 30 rock Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan is addressing a pigeon. He is saying "stop eating people's old french fries pigeon have some self-respect don't you know you could fly?"
Close up of child's hands holding a notebook In a small child's handwriting it says June 10th 2026 Under the prompt "this summer I want to learn about" (Spelling amended for accessibility) What's cats favorite color ? why do balls bounce? why are sweet food sweet? why coffee not for kids?
A twist tie on a screw that looks sort of like some kind of tall water dwelling bird in front of a cardboard backdrop
S Gronkiewicz-Doran addressing a crowd of supporters. S is running for 45th ward alder. Partly visible behind them are some phenomenal sandwiches from Baked by Jane. We got there late and had to stand in the vestibule but in a grassroots campaign the cheap seats are phenomenal too.
A screenshot of Carl Solomon's Wikipedia entry that reads Solomon first met beat poet allen Ginsburg in the waiting room of the New York State psychiatric Institute Ginsburg dedicated his 1955 poem Howell to Solomon the poems third section uses the refrain "I'm with you in Rockland" an institution Solomon never attended Solomon had many complaints about Ginsburg and how including that he was "never in Rockland" and that the third section of the "garbles history completely." The reference to Rockland appears to be a poetic fabrication
An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company
Screenshot of a map from the chalkbeat article. The map is of the districts the 2026 Chicago School Board election. There are 20 districts and the caption says In 2026 there will be five majority white districts six majority Latino districts and seven majority black districts. The map is colored purple green orange and gray. Purple shaded districts have a white majority. Those districts are: 1a 2b 4a 4b 6a Districts 2A and 1B are gray because there is no single racial group that comprise more than 50% of the population Orange shaded districts have a Black majority. Those districts are: 5a, 5b, 6b, 9a&b and 10a&b Green shaded districts have Latine majority. Those are: 3 A and B 7A&B and 8A&B
A white Library shelf with books on it and a large window behind it in the foreground there is a clear acrylic container with some small sheets of lined paper and a bank style connected to the shelf pen next to that there is a hand crank mini paper shredder with post-its inside that say stressed right bad dream worry with a 😞 and then a post it that says shred it with two! Points
An opaque white plastic jar with a label stuck on it that says WHITE RICE. This label was cut off the bag the rice came in
Two cardboard file boxes sitting on a countertop they have wrapping paper on the outside that has orange flowers on it
Close up of a kitchen island with one large drawer and two cabinets that open up the inside cabinet doors have shelves and there are jars in them some of which are empty and some of which have snacks in them. There are three shelves inside the cabinet and there are cardboard storage boxes on some of them
Two shelves with bins and baskets from dollar tree and also just cardboard boxes. There is a large cardboard box that is clearly from Costco with potatoes and onions in it.
A closeup of a grey dog bed. A large brown and white dog is laying down facing away from the camera. An orange cat is standing next to her looking over her shoulder. The cat's tail is resting on the dog's tail. They are sitting in front of the big window and just enjoying each other's company
A still from the talking heads video Once in a Lifetime The line " there is water at the bottom of the ocean" is a lyric from this song.
Is this who we really are? I hope not in fact we are some of the luckiest students in the world who have been able to afford to go to such elite private schools why then do we feel like victims of privilege the paradox we are now told is that we would have an easier time moving up and on in the world if we were not educated in New York City private schools only we were applying from a Sue Indian reservation in Montana how that would appeal to diversity minded admissions happens officers if only we had spent a year in Guatemala if only we were Latino or from Kosovo.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference. I cannot do this justice but it has its own Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference
The front right corner of a car from the inside. The window and windshield are covered in soap and there are brushes against the side window
A child's drawing of a nice lady with crazy eyes and a very big very very intense smile.
A still of the lovely Ingrid Bergman looking shocked and a little terrified from the movie Gaslight.