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shutterandsentence · 29 days

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"In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather in 24 hours." --Mark Twain

Photo: Illinois

#spring #nature #weather #flowering tree #flowers #red buds #tree buds #march #illinois #midwest #land of lincoln #the prairie state #chicago suburbs #backyard photography #nature photography #nature's beauty #god's creation #mark twain #humor

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the-ablest-navigators · 2 years

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Prairie sky

(iPhone 8)

#iphone photography #on the prairie #land of Lincoln

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the-daily-news-blog · 1 year

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The Art/World Has Arrived w/an Impression Before Modernizing Love is—Exhibiting Relationships and Lifestyles and Co-Ed as a 'Search Party' or Out-of-School Expression;

Before Appreciating G.O.O.D and Several Other Mavens for Digging thru Crates and Closed Stacks to Appeal to What More than a Quarter Century of Black Arts and European Movements Have Served and Protected as Our Allies Were Bore Thru Culture Clash.

Meanwhile Main Street Has Created and Narrated 'The Drop' for a Coffeehouse and Old House Life and DoStuff from the Hub; as Much as a Hustler Has Been Known to Fall Back on 'The Corner'

#Hustler #Land of Lincoln #Gossip #lifestyle #art #art world #maven #g.o.o.d music #DoStuff

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janicerodriguez · 1 year

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Don Walker's Sandwich Center, Aurora, Illinois, December 2021

Shot on Cinestill 800T

there's no place like home ❤️

#Don Walker's Sandwich Center #aurora #aurorita la bella #chicago suburbs #chicago #Illinois #land of lincoln #Minolta #minoltax370 #janicerodriguez #gelatinlabs #cinestill #cinestill800t #home

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vintageadsmakemehappy · 4 months

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1958 Lincoln Automobile advertisement

#1958 #lincoln #automobile #car #land yacht #landyacht #vintageadsmakemehappy #vintage magazine #vintage advertising #magazine #advertising #1950s #50s #american

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holoscout · 6 months

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me and my brother saw you from across the dungeon, we think your vibes are great. do you want to face us in hand to hand combat?

#fern the human #fern mertens #finn mertens #finn the human #adventure time #my art #fern likes car seat headrest + lincoln +#some are lakes by land of talk. He finds midwest whiney songs to be very personal #finn complains if they listen to that and makes him put on groovy stuff or autotuned nonsense OR. if hes feeling special. green day #if finn busts out the green day hes feeling feisty and rebellious

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williammarksommer · 2 years

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Frosty Land

Nevada

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

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link-sans-specs · 3 months

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Link and Lincoln at a hot spring.

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Our Trips To New Zealand & Aruba

#dispatches from myrtle beach #dfmb 54 #link neal #link sans specs #link sans shirt #lincoln #new zealand vacation #link gets wet #these are blurry as heck #still the prettiest boy in all the land #standing there next to his 18yo son and he's still the hot one #but dang if lincoln doesn't remind me of link's honeymoon pics #the genetics are strong in this family #my edit

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coolthingsguyslike · 1 year

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#1974 #Lincoln #Continental #Mark IV #land yacht #cars #70s

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jhsharman · 4 months

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memory lane is a one way street

Mixed anachronism change-over. The girl feels so poor over not having cable tv, which is all fine and dandy except now your tv set program model is referred to as "linear tv" and there is nothing even interesting on not having cable. You are streaming now. As too the vcr to DVD change Archie enacted in the oughts seems a tad quaint as we move into the 10s -- more up to date but not all the way. And such would not even be interesting, if left un-updated the story as a whole could be figured as set in its time. But this story is about Betty's dad feeling old because of... ?

The date of the original does not track. Color tv was experimental in the fifties. 1965 was the year over half of new tv programming was in color, and 1966 was when all of it was in color. It would have been better and more plausible for 1990 had Hal Cooper identified color tv as being a luxury item. But maybe I am nit-picking and not accounting for a layman's inaccurate recollection and half-knowledge. On the other, by the time of the reprint in this century, this whole doting by Mr. Cooper is insane, whether it is "an" or "a" historical event the moon landing of 1969.

Soap operas go back to radio, and as a programming model was transferred to tv at its very start. Arguably the girls would not really know from soap operas in the years of the reprint (the second one in particular) as there was a mass cancellation of long time programming ... about 2010? Apparently we are down to four now. (Though there is probably some sub-culture of youtubers who do it themselves.) On the Beatles -- I guess Hal Cooper is old enough in reprints to remember John Lennon being shot. Maybe.

These added back spasm lines make no sense to me. And what happened to his socks?

#Archie Comics #Betty Cooper #Hal Cooper #Woodland Scouts #Vcr #DVD #Moon landing #What a drag it is getting old #Abraham Lincoln #Color tv #Soap operas #Anachronisms #Doug Crane #1990 #Socks

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 11 months

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The mood at the Sankofa Cultural Arts and Business Center on Chicago’s west side was celebratory on June 25, 2019, as hundreds gathered to watch Illinois make history.

With the stroke of a pen, Gov. J.B. Pritzker made it legal for adults in Illinois to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana without fear of arrest. When sales began in 2020, legalization was expected to be a financial boon for the state, but the promise went deeper for some supporters.

“Today, we're hitting the reset button on the war on drugs,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, said to applause. “Today, we begin the process of undoing the harm of the war on drugs.”

People who had been arrested for, but not charged with, low-level cannabis offenses would have those records erased automatically. Pritzker pardoned thousands more who were convicted of possession of less than 30 grams. Anyone who had been prosecuted for possession of up to 500 grams – a little more than a pound – would be able to petition the court to have those records expunged.

“Today we're giving hundreds of thousands of people the chance at a better life, jobs, housing and real opportunity,” Pritzker said.

Around a third of Americans have some kind of criminal record by the time they are 25, said Daniel Kuehnert, a staff attorney in the western office of Land of Lincoln Legal Aid, a nonprofit serving a swath of Illinois from the Metro East to the Quad Cities. While it may just be an arrest record, “those records are consulted by basically all sorts of entities for important life decisions,” he said.

“And particularly with employment, we see employers who have better jobs doing the heavier criminal background checks,” said Megan Kinney, the managing attorney at Land of Lincoln Legal Aid’s central office, which serves clients in six counties in southwest Illinois. “So it really is not only a barrier to employment, but it's a barrier to good, well-paying, stable jobs with benefits.”

Land of Lincoln Legal Aid was one of 18 nonprofits that joined a coalition called New Leaf Illinois. The state funded the initiative, which provided free legal representation to people who wanted cannabis convictions off their record.

Christopher Bradford was among thousands helped by New Leaf. He was in his mid-20s when he was convicted of felony possession in 2003, giving him a criminal record that potential employers would not overlook.

“And I just felt like, that wasn’t right,” he said in a video posted to New Leaf’s website. “I felt like I was being singled out from others because I had a felony conviction.”

New Leaf helped Bradford clear his record, which allowed him to get a job as a kitchen manager at a restaurant in Springfield, Illinois.

“I’m working, I’m providing for my family, so you know, I’m happy,” he said.

PITFALLS IN THE PROCESS

The law wasn’t perfect.

The word “automatic” was a misnomer, said Kinney. An individual with a criminal record for marijuana had to take an active role in the court system to make that record go away, and every single court in the state is its own entity.

"You have to file a petition in every single county in which there was a charge and arrest or conviction,” Kinney said. “There's not just some magic button that someone can press and all these records just go poof, and they go away.”

The law also failed to address local restrictions on marijuana, said Kuehnert. While some counties were willing to expunge those ordinance violations, “we’ve been encountering some counties where the Judge is like, ‘Oh, hey, wait a minute, this law doesn't say anything about ordinance violations.’”

Despite those complications, Kuehnert said, Illinois generally gets high marks nationwide for how its law is structured.

“It’s been pretty good at helping people get their records cleared, helping folks move forward in their lives and helping heal some of the damage to both individuals and our communities from the war on drugs,” he said.

EXPUNGEMENT IN MISSOURI

When advocates for recreational marijuana in Missouri drafted their ballot measure, they made sure to include expungement provisions as well.

All nonviolent marijuana offenses, except for operating under the influence or sales to a minor, were to be automatically removed by the court, said John Payne, the campaign manager for Legal Missouri 2022.

While there was no formal organization like New Leaf Illinois in Missouri’s initiative, the campaign coordinated with groups like the ACLU and Empower Missouri, Payne said.

“A government program is never 100% accurate the first time,” he said. “We've talked to attorneys from some of these organizations and other attorneys who are just not necessarily affiliated with them but who have said, we'd be happy to help assist.”

Misdemeanors were supposed to be expunged by June 8, while the deadline to remove felony records is Dec. 6. But experts told KCUR those dates did not take into account how time-consuming and complicated it can be to expunge even a misdemeanor case. And while the courts asked for additional money from the state, lawmakers have not provided the assistance.

“I do know that they're making a hell of an effort because I know that the clerk's offices have hired extra people to come in and help,” Stephen Sokoloff, senior counsel for the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, told KCUR. “In some places, I think retirees have been asked to come back and help.”

The law does not outline a penalty for missing the expungement deadlines.

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shutterandsentence · 8 months

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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."--William Shakespeare

Photo: Brookfield Zoo, Illinois

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crownedstoat · 11 days

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Lincoln Continental opera window

#1970's #Lincoln #Continental #Land yacht #opera window #American elegance

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mirobraz · 3 months

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Sylvester Stallone as "Sheriff Freddy Heflin" in Cop Land (1997).

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vintageadsmakemehappy · 3 months

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1956 Lincoln Mark II

#1956 #Lincoln #mark 2 #mark ii #automobile #vintageadsmakemehappy #vintage magazine #vintage advertising #magazine #advertising #1950s #50s #american #land yacht #landyacht

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heymacy · 1 year

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Hello luv! 🌸🌸🌸

If you're in the mood, would you like to tell us:

what's your favourite thing about your new home?

what was the most memorable thing you saw on your looooooooooong road trip across the country? ❤️

did i just spend 10 minutes making this gif because i can’t be there to serenade you in person? yes. yes i did 😇

ooooo are we talking New Home as in Chicago? our apartment is still pretty bare bones so not much to report on that end just yet but as far as the city goes, i’m loving it! i think my favorite thing is the buildings and the houses!! i’ve always wanted to live somewhere that’s dominated by brick structures and now i’m living my silly little dream 🧱✨

our road trip clocked in at 28 hours (YUCK) over three days and i did 100% of the driving so needless to say we didn’t make many stops because 1) i’m insane and 2) a bitch just wanted to get to the next Comfort Inn as soon as possible. so, lead foot on the pedal, eyes on the road. however, Colorado is fucking beautiful!! the roads are long and winding and frankly quite terrifying but seeing red rocks next to gray mountains next to rolling hills is a fucking TREAT — i’d actually done this exact drive before in the opposite direction but forgot how lovely that part of the country is!! 🏔️🏜️🌲 i’m sorry my answer isn’t more exciting but by the end of day two i was At My Limit and could only sleep and cry ahjskjskdk RIP to the last remaining shreds of my sanity, left those fuckers on the road 🚗💨

#HEY HEY DONNA #DID YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU???#the drive was awful but the sights were very very pretty #i say i lost it by the end of day two but let’s be real. it was day one #i just didn’t know it til hour 8 on day 2 #fully started crying whilst driving whilst trying to figure out how to get to Lincoln Nebraska as fast as humanly possible #i cried SO MUCH on this trip it was bonkers!! i’m so glad to finally be here and i never want to drive again ever #(she says having driven at least 2 hours a day for the past week)#but we’re here!!! we’ve landed!! we’re in the apartment even if it does look like a bachelor pad for the moment!!#(our bed is on the floor and our couch hasn’t been delivered and i’ve only unpacked like 3 boxes BUT WE’LL GET THERE!!)#moving am i right???? she’s a tricky bitch #macy babbles #sleepyfacetoughguy

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