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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

Happy Valentine’s Day.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

If you see this quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.

A truly operatic skeet about riding the Michigan Avenue bus in Chicago….

Hearing that @indivisible.org and @moveon.org are pissing off house dems by mobilizing their constituents to call them too much is frankly the single best endorsement I've ever heard for a political action groups.

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

A cornice section from architect Louis Sullivan's Gage Building, on display in the Art Institute's "Architectural Fragments from Chicago" exhibition.

Cheers to the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy for releasing a video this week that shows how the distressed Walser House in the Austin neighborhood originally looked -- and what it can be in the future.

"..in the first two weeks after Trump took office, nearly 30% of patients didn’t show up or canceled their primary care or specialty appointments or lab tests without rescheduling, translating to more than 300 missed visits, Willding said." Deportations/ICE raids kill people in indirect ways too.

Big crowd at Federal Plaza in Chicago

Chicago Federal Plaza right now 🔥🔥

OMB now stands for Oops, My Bad

From a 1891 slang dictionary

What it is like being on a Chicago Fire Department fire boat when it becomes an ice breaker on the Chicago River.

This is hilarious. It was in “Today in Politics” by Meidas Touch Network.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

The Emil Bach House is being donated by TAWANI Enterprises to Loyola University Chicago. The house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915, will be used for student programming and community engagement.