The clouds are drifting in and out today, as are my thoughts, but not in anywhere near such an easy fashion.

Things are a lot.

Yesterday I was angry, today I’m mostly anxious. That vague, on edge kind, where it feels like something is happening or something will happen, but you have no idea what, when, how.

There’s enough in the world to do it, heck, there’s enough happening in the city and the suburbs to do it.

I do wonder, though, if somehow within all my careful label-reading and my very limited array of restaurants, I crossed paths with some MSG or one of its cousins.

A lot of people aren’t affected by MSG, but I am, and if that’s the case, if it’s not simply the world catching up with me, I’ll be staring down a fun migraine cycle.

And who doesn’t love a migraine cycle.

Then again, you may be reading this, also with that unsettled undercurrent as the background to your day. These things, sometimes, are in the very air itself.

So far the courts have ruled well in the cases about ICE and the National Guard in Chicago and Illinois overall. ICE must comply with a consent decree from 2022, and limit warrantless arrests. ICE must also comply with reporting requirements for warrantless arrests.

A judge also granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois. It’s good for two weeks, but donald’s thugs have already appealed.

There are far more cases going on, including the one focusing on the woman shot five times by ICE, where they claimed she rammed them and brandished a weapon, but neither claim is supported by evidence.

You’d think that good news would give a sense of calm, but it isn’t, it feels like it’s only further charged the air, like lightning is waiting, ready to strike.

Again it might be me.

It might be some of us. It might be all of us.

I can’t be sure. There’s a tiny, tiny, TINY possibility gulping down my coffee isn’t helping.

Anyway, that’s it for me today and this week, I wish you a wonderful Friday and an ideal, unanxious weekend.

Buy me a cup of coffee!