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For our LA friends - please show up if you can. We stand in solidarity with SEIU and David. He's showing us immense courage. Let's show him it's contagious.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of that state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...

submitted 51 days ago • 176 comments

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 51 days ago • 91 comments

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.” Without invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

submitted 5 days ago • 164 comments

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

submitted 5 days ago • 3012 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 5 days ago • 1025 comments

The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

submitted 5 days ago • 2631 comments

Equally bonkers — Joni Ernst invokes the tooth fairy then Jesus Christ in an attempt to belittle anyone appalled by her “Well, we all are going to die” response to impassioned concerns with the proposed massive cuts to Medicaid that would endanger her constituents’ lives. Make believe death cult.

submitted 12 days ago • 78 comments

Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

submitted 12 days ago • 552 comments

Paul Saladino is a nonpracticing psychiatrist who uses his MD to sell diet scams online. Some of the things he promotes include: not eating vegetables (he says all vegetables are toxic), not using soap to wash yourself, and using raw animal fat as sunscreen instead of sunscreen, just to name a few

submitted 12 days ago • 92 comments

If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

submitted 11 days ago • 670 comments

We definitely aren’t asking you to RSVP to take up two spots for Trump’s military birthday parade. And the link definitely isn’t accessible below. ;-) shorturl.at/wylYK Credit: @mediumboi.bsky.social #50501Movement #NoKings #June14th

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 126 comments

Treating a new Covid strain like a crime and not a public health issue is deranged.

submitted 15 days ago • 1201 comments

if you were still hoping to die from bird flu, I've got some good news for you... HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com

submitted 15 days ago • 209 comments

Lufthansa, Iberia and TAP Air Portugal have reduced service to Chicago ORD

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing to add here tbh

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination. Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France. Sheesh.

submitted 24 days ago • 2718 comments

I’m sure people are going to find an excuse to say Cory Booker is like, so totally amazing, but they’ll be wrong

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

Here are the 16 Dems. I don't know what to tell you, folks. It's bad. Alsobrooks Blunt Rochester Booker Cortez Masto Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Lujan Ossoff Padilla Rosen Schiff Slotkin Warner

submitted 24 days ago • 313 comments

Unbelievable. With Dem support, the senate passes an industry-friendly crypto bill that does nothing about Trump's crypto corruption. Ignore these Dems' speeches. Watch their votes. They're telling you they don't get it. And then they spam you to say Trump is bad so please donate more money.

submitted 24 days ago • 68 comments

My statement on the charges filed against me:

submitted 24 days ago • 1174 comments

They are charging a sitting congresswoman with a crime for performing her lawfully required oversight of ICE. This is an incredibly undemocratic step that should make people painfully aware of where we are at.

submitted 23 days ago • 27 comments

Apologies for yelling, but— SCOTUS COULDN’T DO ITS JOB BECAUSE TOO MANY JUSTICES HAVE BOOK DEALS WITH A PARTY IN A CASE

submitted 24 days ago • 105 comments

💰Follow the money. Despite the good fight this crypto bill will become law. Proud of the people who slowed it down. Huge turning point. cryptobriefing.com/genius-act-f...

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Rep. LaMonica McIver being charged by Trump’s DOJ for “assaulting” a cop is particularly scary because it was all on camera with many witnesses and the administration feels comfortable enough to straight up lie with impunity and target a sitting congresswoman

submitted 24 days ago • 80 comments

MAKE NOISE ON THIS ONE‼️ They didn’t just deport him—they sent him to CECOT in El Salvador. Agelviz came here legally through the refugee resettlement program—fully vetted. But when he landed in Houston, CBP snatched him over a tattoo: a clock and a rose. No charges. No record. Just a suspicion.

submitted 23 days ago • 573 comments

They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.

submitted 24 days ago • 1096 comments

As the City Council considers an ordinance this week that would allow CPD to call "snap" curfews on large groups of teens, we partnered with @thetriibe.com to dig into curfews, talk to teenagers, and examine the demise of third spaces. Here's what we found. southsideweekly.com/the-curfew-c...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

submitted 24 days ago • 1225 comments

Great piece on the loss of teen third spaces by @thetriibe.com and @southsideweekly.bsky.social. It mentions Kirk Townsend's house-music parties at Mendel High and the all-ages punk club Medusa's, both of which the @chicagoreader.com has covered—I'll thread the stories. thetriibe.com/2025/05/teen...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I am FLOORED by how much support folks have shown for this campaign since we launched yesterday. I can't wait for us to get to work together.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

In Congress, I will stand up to Trump and his dangerous cuts to the VA. I spent this Armed Forces Day with VFW Snell Post 7186 and at a rally in Des Plaines—because we need to be advocating for our veterans, not abandoning them.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

ALSOBROOKS: Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep campaign operates out of? RFK Jr: Which campaign? ALSOBROOKS: The one the senator asked you about just two minutes ago RFK Jr: It's ACF ALSOBROOKS: No, actually it's Health and Human Services

submitted 29 days ago • 373 comments

RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

submitted 29 days ago • 1466 comments

RFK seems to have lied to Congress a lot

submitted 28 days ago • 187 comments

IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall 👏🏽

submitted 28 days ago • 457 comments

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

submitted 29 days ago • 319 comments

Wow-sa.

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.

submitted 29 days ago • 119 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We continue to disengage from the world, with the exception of Middle Eastern countries personally enriching Trump and his family. China is happy to step into the vacuum.

submitted 29 days ago • 125 comments