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With crypto we allowed a currency inaccessible to most ppl, unconnected to govts, unresponsive to controls to challenge intl monetary & banking systems. If the dollar collapses a lot of very rich ppl won't lose wealth. They're not in it with us anymore. This danger is not talked abt...

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It's essential now more than ever that Illinois continue to build and maintain healthy relationships with our major trading partners, such as the UK. Our two powerful economies have far more to gain through collaboration than through isolation.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

The so-called Defense Secretary has ordered 400 books removed from the Naval Academy library. This outrageous ban includes works about Slavery and the Holocaust, but not a book written by Adolf Hitler. The effort to whitewash our history must be reversed and Pete Hegseth fired IMMEDIATELY.

submitted 2 days ago • 281 comments

The Trump regime is working to deter dissent. Anyone who goes against Trump could end up on a target list. This is having a chilling effect on five major pillars of society — universities, science, the media, the law, and the arts. It's straight out of the fascist playbook.

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 3 days ago • 3632 comments

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

submitted 3 days ago • 715 comments

Congressional Republicans are turning their backs on Americans to pay for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. This budget resolution lays the foundation for Trump to gut Medicaid and strip resources from seniors, veterans, those with disabilities, children, and working families.

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

#ResistanceRoots Mathematician Mary Jackson was born on this day in 1921 in Hampton, Va. Jackson began her career as a computer with the segregated West Area Computing division of Langley Research Center. In 1958, she became NASA’s first Black female engineer. /1

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

It was an honor to join Minnesota’s veterans at the Capitol today. We have a shared responsibility to take care of those who put their lives on the line to fight for our democracy and our freedom. In Minnesota, we’re proud to honor that commitment.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Illinois is the #1 soybean-producing state in the nation. Without a doubt, our farmers will have to bear the brunt of Donald Trump's irresponsible tariffs. I'll keep working to make sure they aren't left as collateral damage in this trade war.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

submitted 4 days ago • 863 comments

BREAKING: I’m demanding answers from the White House and Office of Government Ethics about whether anyone in the Trump family or administration profited off of this tariff chaos through insider trading.

submitted 4 days ago • 606 comments

He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 4 days ago • 610 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 4 days ago • 2013 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 5 days ago • 2275 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 4 days ago • 3079 comments

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

submitted 5 days ago • 255 comments

Trump created an environment of instability where it's impossible to make long term plans. Whether you're a company, investor, or anyone working to put food on the table. The GOP only promises you more of this. If you want stability, you have to vote for it by voting them out.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

boosting because good and we need more good

submitted 5 days ago • 378 comments

For generations, Illinois has been a place where things get made. That spirit is alive today with the winner of @imatoday.bsky.social's Makers Madness Competition, the Aerial Firefighting Helicopter Refill Pump from MTH Pumps in Plano. It's already saving lives and taking on wildfires.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

submitted 5 days ago • 233 comments

Felon Trump is drunk unqualified bus driver who recklessly drives down the highway causing a massive pileup and an untold amount of damage, and on the side of the road are GOP politicians cheering the bus driver on or willfully looking away and not doing anything to save people.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Elections have consequences

submitted 5 days ago • 2521 comments

Donald Trump has assembled the most inept and malevolent team of bootlickers, thugs, and sycophants in American history. The damage they’re doing will take a generation to reverse and that’s assuming we even get the chance.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

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Every Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the economy. Every damn one of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 6 days ago • 527 comments

Don’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate can put a stop to all of this.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 7 days ago • 373 comments

Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today! He makes money on you!

submitted 6 days ago • 386 comments