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Attorney, mediator, political analyst, 2 time Illinois alumna, die hard Cub fan, sports management Ed.D.
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The Senate Should Let Trump’s Bill Die www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o... NY Times Editorial Board

How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m... Nikole Hannah-Jones

How’s It Playing? POTUS Wants to Know. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o... Carlos Lozada

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Perry Stein

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h... Apoorva Mandavilli

slate.com/news-and-pol... Mark Joseph Stern

Ten Years In, Same-Sex Marriage Is Part of American Life. But It’s Still Under Attack. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u... Adam Nagourney & Jeremy Peters

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Catherine Rampell

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/... Sally Jenkins

H958 a sweeping elections bill in NC House would make it illegal for state or county elections board members to encourage voting “Make written or oral statements intended for general distribution or dissemination to the public at large encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Philip Bump

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... Ruth Marcus

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

ICE Will See You Now www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o... Jamelle Bouie

slate.com/news-and-pol... Dahlia Lithwick & Mark Joseph Stern

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Washington Post Editorial Board

#ncpol #ncga

CNN: Three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S. Intelligence assessment, the U.S. Military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u... Julian Barnes et al.

Political Violence Is Here, and It’s Working www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o... Tressie McMillan Cottem

Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u... Devlin Barrett

New from me in The Atlantic - how SCOTUS's decision in Skrmetti is reviving an archaic line of reasoning on sex discrimination, which was used to justify & legitimize sex discrimination: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u... David Sanger

Cover of July/August issue

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Right-Wing Violence Is Not a Fringe Issue www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/o... Jamelle Bouie

While everything is going to shit, I wanted to note there are 4 undecided cases from the March sitting - Voting Rights Act, Planned Parenthood, nondelegation, & a deadline case. These 5 haven’t written, meaning they’ll likely have these opinions: ALITO, KAGAN, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, BARRETT NOT GOOD.

Check out this article from USA TODAY: Trump just bombed Iran. We deserve to know why, but don't count on the truth. | Opinion www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... Rex Huppke

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Naftali Bendavid

How Trump Treats Black History Differently Than Other Parts of America’s Past www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u... ~ Erica Green

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Dana Milbank

"At Downey Memorial Christian church on Thursday, officers reportedly arrested a man in the parking lot then pointed a gun at senior pastor Tanya Lopez..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Wearing their Illinois National Guard uniforms, Axel and Andres Reyes arrived with their mother at the immigration office Tuesday morning. "The men, 19 and 24, watched their mother, who has been in the U.S. for more than 24 years, enter the office..." chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Talking to @maryltrump.bsky.social

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

The Supreme Court's bias toward corporate interests is persistent, pervasive, and exhaustively documented. But it is still extraordinary to hear a sitting justice bluntly call it out and castigate her colleagues for consistently twisting the rules in favor of big business. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I watched a screener of this from PBS — it airs next week. Highly recommended. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Might Take the U.S. to War. Where Are Schumer and Jeffries? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o... Peter Beinart

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Catherine Rampell

www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-... Scott McFarlane

zeteo.com/p/trump-is-o... John Harwood

Donald Trump's top foreign policy goal has always been lying to the American people, plus generating corrupt profits for himself. Anyone who tries to explain it based on a coherent conception of US national interest comes up short. He doesn't have one. The very concept does not compute.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Catherine Rampell

Well, You Certainly Wouldn’t Call It Presidential Underreach www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o... Jamelle Bouie