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Chicago native retired after 30+ years gathering/reporting news, traffic & weather info. Single, gay, common sense center-left guy. 🏳️‍🌈♻️🌎
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Putin’s grip on power is built upon violence and lies. No amount of appeasement can change that. The world is looking to the U.S. for leadership. The decisions we make for Ukraine will reverberate for generations. We must choose to stand for democracy - not bow to autocracy.

Getting rid of the American workers who take care of American veterans is wrong. Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Trump says he wants to help our servicemembers but he fired 6,000 veterans from federal jobs and more than 2,400 employees at the VA who help serve our veterans.

BREAKING: Trudeau blasted Trump over aggressive tariffs that went into effect today, claiming they hurt Americans and would be subject to retaliatory measures. "Your government has chosen to do this to you ... chosen to put American jobs at risk."

China has announced its tariff retaliation—15% tariffs on US chicken, wheat, corn & cotton, plus a 10% tariff on soybeans, pork, beef, fruits, vegetables, & dairy products. Blue or red state, your grocery bill just raised. Wonder who Trump will blame this trade war on?

Trump confirmed that his long-promised tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada will go into effect on Tuesday. The tariffs are expected to hit working-class Americans especially hard. Here are the goods that will bear the brunt of the tariffs.

A USAID official wrote in a series of memos that the Trump administration's upheaval of foreign aid will trigger devastating human costs. With lifesaving services blocked, Nicholas Enrich warned, "preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale" will follow.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk said that a number of federal employees who did not respond to an email sent over the weekend asking them to detail what they did in the previous week could be “dead” or “not real people.” @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social found no evidence to support this claim.

🙁👎 #NotInMyName

The "free speechers" are now afraid of free speech.

Dear angry Republican voters who've showed up at GOP Town Halls to complain about the spending cuts, firings and chaos: Speaker Mike Johnson just told CNN's @kaitlancollins.bsky.social that you were 'paid democrat protestors'. They don't care about you. Remember this for the 2026 midterms

☹️ #NotInMyName #RESIST!

Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.

America, say hello to your newly appointed Deputy FBI Director.

Trump firing Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. CQ Brown is more proof that experience and qualifications don't matter in his admin. Just as he has for other positions that are vital to our national security, Trump plans to install someone loyal to him - not the Constitution.

Read about the #tRUMP #BrainDrain .👇 #stupidity #NotInMyName www.axios.com/2025/02/23/f...

Attention #PeeweeHerman fans...Miss Yvonne has left us.🙁 www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

#NotInMyName #Incompetence #Stupidity #tRUMP 👎👎

The avian flu is wreaking havoc on our farmers and threatening to become a public health crisis. Meanwhile, the USDA accidentally fired agency employees working on the outbreak. Elon Musk and DOGE are incompetent, a threat to our public health, and must be reined in.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

#Incompetence #Stupidity #tRUMP 👎👎

#NotInMyName #tRUMP #FelonInChief #RESIST! @quigley.house.gov

The Social Security Administration's top official resigned over the weekend in the latest clash over the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive government records, the Washington Post reports.

I will not be getting on an airplane this year. #AirTravel #Safety #tRUMP #RESIST! 👇 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/17/t...

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

It's day 22 and he still doesn't have a plan to lower your prices.

As a former staffer, I answered hundreds of constituent calls. These calls do shape how Reps vote and make decisions. I made a list of all the Senators by state with contact info for each of their many state offices. Let's flood the zone with our outrage. quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/senate-con...

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The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.

The 25% tariffs President Trump announced on Canada and Mexico — which will likely plunge our northern neighbor into recession — have united Canadians of all political stripes in indignation.

Punxsutawney Phil predicts four more years of fascism.

US AID has been an independent agency. That may have just changed. On the web it has now been moved into the State Department. This is w/out notice from the Trump administration as to how it is operating the agency, nor its legal ability to do this. www.state.gov/policy-issue...