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I live in Chicago; my heart belongs in Ireland. I strive to be kind and brave; lots of room for improvement there. Doing what I can to fight this administration & help those who need it.
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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 43 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

March 3, 2025

Trump’s Tax on Working Families will have a devastating impact on Illinois’ manufacturing and agriculture sectors and will hurt hardworking Illinoisans at the grocery store checkout, on their utility bills, and at the gas pump.

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

This may be the most alarming thing I have read in months. www.thedailybeast.com/former-socia...

Time for another late night letter push! Let's try and get out 1,000 messages to Congress tonight demanding they never cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Contact your Members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on this Project 2025-inspired SAVE Act, which is nothing but a voter suppression bill on steroids. Contact your Senators and Rep here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Let's try and get another 1,000 letters to Congress tonight demanding they do everything they can to support Ukraine and Zelensky. Contact them now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Last week’s staged disrespect of Zelenskyy was a pretext for Donald Trump’s effort to appease Vladimir Putin. Abandoning allies, bowing down to dictators, and putting democracy at risk – all to what end? This isn’t leadership, this is cowardice.

Very powerful @americanbar.org www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Linda McMahon's big plan for the Department of Education is to keep up Trump and Musk's pro-billionaire agenda while our schools get robbed of the funding they need to support our country's students and teachers. I will be voting NO on her confirmation.

Support public radio! 📻 www.npr.org/donations/su...

NEW: A source tells me that response teams for FEMA set to deploy to the South Carolina wildfires are unable to travel because their government issued travel cards have had their limits reduced to $1. FEMA response team cards were supposed to be exempt.

If you ever worked for a federal agency that DOGE has on the chopping block, especially the lesser known ones, please tell us about the work they do on behalf of the American people. We need to understand what is being lost.

The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law. He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will. I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.

Your simple deep breath my friends. May your world be safe and kind

No. Now is not the time to play dead. The Democrats have already played dead for too many years. 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. Millions of seniors are going hungry. Now is the time to stand up for the working class of this country.

Wednesday is Democracy Docket's 5th Birthday.🎂 Sign-up now to receive the pro-democracy news information and analysis more than 350,000 people have come to expect every single day. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/n...

New York Times, Jan. 31, 1941.

A senior USAID official Trump let go for sounding the🚨warned: -17 million pregnant women lose services -11 million newborns lose postnatal care -1 million kids yearly not treated for malnutrition This is pro-life? But hey, 100B on a crypto reserve! www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Musk and Trump should have to face the hardworking Park Rangers they sacked. I’m bringing Kate, who was unjustly fired from northern Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park, to the State of the Union.

3 March: St Foílenn/Foila. Virgin of Cell Foílenn/ #Killeely #Galway. 6th C. Father descended from king of Ireland. Mum distinguished family. 3 St brothers. Her tomb in church pilgrimage site. Used until 19th C (O'Hanlon). 📷Christy Cunniffe field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/arch...

Unknown Photographer #RedFox #FoxCub #Nature #Photography

30,000+ signatures and counting! Please sign and share! I will send to President Zelenskyy and the White House and Congress on Friday. sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

Trump’s ‘Friday Night Massacre’ just purged top military leaders—loyalty over competence, politics over national security. This isn’t normal, and it’s dangerous. Read why it should alarm every American adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/mission-co...

🇩🇪 Merz: "The events in the White House were a deliberate escalation and provocation."

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social HCR with Cliff Schechter on Substack Live a few days ago. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world.

This was some of the most alarming news of late and isn't getting nearly enough attention.

It's remarkable how many journalists don't know what an executive order is. English is not the official language of the US govt any more than it was a week ago. An EO is no more than the President's directive to exec branch officials about what *his* policies and what he directs them to **do**.

Nearly 1 in 4 Illinoisans are enrolled in Medicaid. They're working moms and dads, seniors, people with disabilities — they're our friends and neighbors. We need to stand up, speak out, and show up so Donald Trump prioritizes your health care over tax cuts for his friends.

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After Trump & Vance’s utterly disgraceful performance it’s good to see European leaders step up. It’s profoundly American to criticize our leaders when they stray from democratic principles let alone what we are seeing in Trump’s administration. As a proud American I intend to fight for our country.

The move consigns untold numbers of the world’s poorest children, refugees and other vulnerable people to death, according to several senior federal officials. Local authorities have already begun estimating a death toll in the hundreds of thousands. www.alternet.org/the-trump-ad...

NEW VIDEO: Donald Trump is taking unprecedented actions to assert his control over the federal government. Behind these efforts is the unitary of executive theory, a once-fringe legal idea. Paige and I explain what it is and why it is so dangerous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DX...

I’ve stopped ordering from Amazon, entirely. Yes, is cheap. Yes, they’re good at what they do. Here’s why: -All this consumption is bad for everyone and I start to feel gross about it. -Bezos is a piece of crap. -When possible, I’m buying from small companies. Even better if they’re local.

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

Happy Sunday! Today, make a conscious effort to take a break from the craziness of the world and to be good to yourself. Unplug from the news. Read. Walk (at least 15 mins). Go get a donut. Have a third cup of coffee lol. Breathe. Without our health, it’s all for naught. ❤️🍩☕️🚶🏻‍♂️🥳

"What can I do?" That is the number 1 question I get asked. And at this time in our democracy -- or what remains of it when public servants put their loyalty to a person above their oaths of office— I am grateful that people are asking that question. Below is a video with my answer:

Great project by some dedicated people... It's a Project 2025 Tracker to see how much Trump has implemented... So far it's 36% complete... Take a look. You'll be very scared... 👇👇 www.project2025.observer

Don’t give up! Get loud!

Netflix era kids will never know the adrenaline of running to the bathroom/fridge/ bedroom in a single ad break with the beckoning call of a sibling screaming “It’s ONNNNNN" to send you hurtling over furniture to get back in time.