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Farm kid, reporter first, trial attorney later, then law professor, retired now. Areas of interest: civil rights, environmental justice, political organizing, and monkey wrenching.
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@theatlantic.com has published the chat. If you've served, if you know care about someone who's serving, you should have an auxiliary source of oxygen handy when you read this. At this very moment I'm listening to a Trump spokesman on CNN blaming Biden for the group using SIGNAL.

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More than $1 Billion in USDA programs for local farmers, schools & food banks has already been DOGEd. Now they're threatening the $112.8 Billion SNAP budget. That's $112.8 Bn in lost sales for farmers and lots of hungry people. This lays out the issues pretty well from an Illinois perspective. #IL17

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Illinois is the nation's number one soybean producing state — it's what made us the perfect home for the Soybean Innovation Lab. Thanks to Donald Trump, the lab will close on April 15. Innovation lost, jobs lost, and education lost.

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Some dime store analysis: between this, and the Senate witnesses blaming Hegseth, we should standby for at least one resignation Firing Gabbard - who may have skipped the chat and had somebody "represent" her using her name - would be easiest. Firing Hegseth, clearly out of control,

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That moment when Bill Engvall's voice rings in your head, "Here's your sign." @andy11653387.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1b...

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The billionaire Secretary of Commerce says his mother-in-law wouldn't complain about missing her social security check for a month or two. Only the fraudsters complain, the rich man says. Find a protest close to you on April 5th. Speak up. Resist. act.womensmarch.com or www.mobilize.us

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If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

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Four days left before we gather at Hay Camp Brewing Co, at 601 Kansas City St. for our annual WWD'25 & Silent Auction this Saturday! Check out our program, and check out some of the awesome auction at: bhcleanwateralliance.org/wwd25

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Peoria! Peoria County!! All throughout the Heart of Illinois!!! Talk this over with your friends and family. You must know someone. It might even be you.

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Oh dear. No wonder the CIA fought the release of these documents. It's bigger than JFK.

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@peoriademocrats.bsky.social are sponsoring a Medicaid Round Table this afternoon w/a Special Guest they won't identify, you have to RSVP ahead of time, & doors close at 2 for the 2:30 event. I smell a politician who doesn't want to face a crowd. We'll see, County Party o' mine.

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Breaking news to give you nightmares tonight.

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Flood picked Columbus for his town hall b/ it's Gov Jim Pillen's hometown. Towns don't come much redder in NE. God love 'em, the rural folk of North Central NE had a response ready, an echo of Go Big Red! on a fall Saturday afternoon, "Tax The Rich!! Tax the rich!!" 🙂 Life is rich.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Freeport is fighting back! 🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨 📍 Where: Stephenson County Courthouse - Freeport, IL When: Saturday, Noon, April 5, 2025

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"Federal officials say information about Hayes was taken down by an auto removal process." Yeah, auto removal of the words "Native American." (see comments) Explains why the Code Talkers were erased with Hayes. We need some discussion of the DOGE search parameters here. #IraHayes #CodeTalkers

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