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Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too. We won't participate in abuses of power. We won't violate court orders. We won't ignore the Constitution. We won't defy the Supreme Court. We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.

submitted 9 hours ago • 85 comments

770,000 Illinoisans stand to lose their health care thanks to Donald Trump's newest cruel plan. From cuts to Medicaid to taking away SNAP benefits, he's prioritizing his rich friends over your lives. Now's the time to stand up and speak out against the real threat to Americans.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

AOC: “They’re making people undocumented by removing LEGAL status, then having the audacity to call them illegal… correct?” @govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.” @aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”

submitted 1 hour ago • 25 comments

"To Mr. Cuomo, I've never had to resign in disgrace. I've never cut Medicaid. I have never stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA. I have never hounded the thirteen women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment. I have never sued for their gynecological records." - Zohran just now

submitted 1 hour ago • 17 comments

It has happened here before, and this looks like that. I am literally about to give a talk about the violent takeover of democratic governance in the Reconstructed South, and this looks like that. It is not the same, but if you do not see it at all, you are not looking.

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

submitted 2 hours ago • 36 comments

Important for US activists to understand that laws cannot protect you. Armed soldiers are on the steets. They are violently arresting judges and mayors and US Senators. They are kidnapping people from churches, elementary schools, and hospitals. Your only protection today is anonymity, opsec,

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

Newsom on Trump: "He's lost it. He hasn't lost a step. And I saw him trip on the steps today. This is serious. He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago. And he's incapable now of even a train of thought. He's making things up and he's putting people's lives at risk."

submitted 10 hours ago • 229 comments

Goldman: "These are people doing in the right way, who are nonviolent, noncriminal, and they're getting arrested. So what message does that send? Obviously it sends the message, 'Go further underground. Don't appear in court. Don't pay your taxes' ... that's just going to make the public less safe."

submitted 10 hours ago • 251 comments

Goldman on Trump's "Gestapo-like tactics" -- "We don't live in an authoritarian country where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people. That's the stuff of authoritarian states. That's not how the US operates. And that's really where this is breaking down."

submitted 10 hours ago • 108 comments

The inability to grasp the moral meaning of a famously unsubtle work of art— —and the suggestion that he might identify more with Javert, the inflexible obsessive lawman ultimately unable to live with himself after what he sees— —make this a perfect Trumpian moment of ignorance and immorality.

submitted 20 hours ago • 81 comments

A MAGA Gen Z influencer, Bo Loudon, took credit for Mr. Lame’s removal. “I discovered that he was an illegal,” said Mr. Loudon, who claims to be best friends with President Trump’s son Barron. “And I personally took action to have him deported.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

Rural communities are at risk of losing a lifeline if Congress claws back public radio funding. Rural public radio stations go where commercial stations can’t or won’t – guaranteeing you stay informed and safe. Tell Congress to oppose rescission and #SavePublicRadio at goACPR.org

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🚨THIS IS NOT A TEST. Congress is voting to defund public radio, putting your safety at risk. Public radio is one of the most reliable sources of emergency alerts across the country – reaching communities that may have no other alternative. Take action now at goACPR.org #SavePublicRadio

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

a racist chud gets jealous of a person of african descent and tries to being the force of the state against them, many such cases www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

submitted 10 hours ago • 46 comments

Let’s Be Clear: The Rioting In LA Is By The Cops, Not The Protestors I already wrote about the GOP’s bloodthirsty desire to use the military on Americans. They manufactured a nonsense “crisis” by over-aggressively sending in ICE agents to grab people off the streets, leading to protests, which…

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Had some more to say on the "riots" and "invasion" in LA. If it’s a "riot," it’s the police who are rioting. If there’s an “invasion” of LA, it’s the US military that is invading.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Yesterday's Quinnipiac poll reports that Democrats now disapprove of congressional Democrats by 12 points, a 3 point dip since February. After aggregating the data, this appears to be the lowest approval from Dems of their own party's leaders ever recorded by Quinnipiac.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Replace "American citizens" with ... oh wait.

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

Everyone who has examined the data realizes that vote by mail has been incredibly successful in Oregon -- it increases turnout, access, once initial costs are pro-rated over time it is less costly. Most importantly, there's virtually no record of any fraud. Every state should adopt this system.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

This guy is hitting people who are fleeing — with their backs turned. Did you see it?

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

@katmabu.bsky.social called me today to talk about how my donations directly helped her campaign! glad to say ive donated another $100 and a reoccurring $25 donation to boot!

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Greetings! Just now getting to downtown Los Angeles. Reporters telling me that it was “absolute chaos” several minutes ago. A group of protesters are kettled on 1st and Hill.

submitted 22 hours ago • 99 comments

HAMILTON COUNTY: Case dismissed against Walter Lundy, former aide to mayor Weston Wamp (the DA’s brother), whose son accused him of beating him with a baseball bat while intoxicated. Even after “he did not show up to court and failed 2 drug screenings” www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

LAPD appears to have kettled protesters around 7:45pm to prevent them from leaving, waited for the 8pm curfew to kick in and then mass-arrested them for curfew violations.

submitted 21 hours ago • 40 comments

I don’t know why the Huntington Beach police department is denying they had officers at the protest. I spoke with one of them- who was in uniform and walking with the horse mounted police. They have gone from total denial to saying he was there as an observer . This seems dubious. Will look into.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

This is like wow. They are now pulling their gaiters up to their foreheads.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments