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BREAKING Trump is expected to issue an order aimed at abolishing the Education Department. The order directs Linda McMahon to "take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department.” Fully unwinding it would require a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority in the Senate.

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It’s become quite clear that many Americans have no clue what the Department of Education does.

submitted 16 hours ago • 195 comments

Also M3 is owned by the founder of the Northwest Side GOP, ran for Cook County Commissioner recently as a Republican, and is married to or lives with the 41st Ward GOP committeeperson. She’s also the party to two lawsuits against CPS/CTU over vax mandates and remote learning.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a strong defense of Chicago’s history as a haven for immigrants during his opening statement before a hearing on sanctuary policies. “I know there are myths about these laws,” he said. “But we must not let mischaracterizations and fear mongering obscure the reality.”

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New grossest person at that hearing just dropped.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The Chicago Public Schools FOIA office shared my teaching schedule with a serial harasser WAY faster than they turn over emails I'm requesting about budget processes.

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Johnson, under oath, “everything dope about America comes from Chicago” 😂

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Rep Cloud (R-TX) currently lying, saying every migrant bussed by Gov Abbott to Chicago chose to come to Chicago & did so because of our welcoming city status. Plenty of migrants sent here had no idea where they were going, were lied to, or specifically wanted to go somewhere else.

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One of my favorite things to do during this Sanctuary City Mayors hearing is to google the members of Congress I hadn't previously known about after they say absolutely bonkers things. Winners so far: Foxx (NC), Palmer (AL), Grothman (WI). They are rooted in bigotry and propaganda, not reality.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (@congressmanraja.bsky.social) won today's Sanctuary City Mayors hearing. That is all.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson at the House hearing on sanctuary cities: "Sensationalizing tragedy in the name of political expediency is not governing. It's grandstanding." Boom! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 21 hours ago • 14 comments

For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones. Democrats: [wave placard] Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]

submitted 1 day ago • 191 comments

Either everyone has basic rights or no one does. The minute you start trying to draw lines and boundaries around those rights, you've started down the path to fascism. Which, apparently, a disturbing number of people are fine with.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“Even in Trump’s cabinet of hucksters, reality-show stars, and drunk white nationalists, Linda McMahon is a bizarre choice for education secretary.” @edgeofsports.bsky.social @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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We’re proud to see the Best in the World showing love for CTU. We don’t tap out. We’re fighting for nothing less than what Chicago students & families deserve.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Please. Yes, WWE is beyond amoral. (I have an article tomorrow re: Linda McMahon) Yes, CM Punk isn’t Joe Hill. But people gotta stop looking down their noses at this. It isn’t “cosplay”. Punk knows a CTU activist and given the devastating context, a lot of teachers are feeling seen. That matters.

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Hegseth joined a church whose leader preaches that slavery produced "a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony." This context helps explain his laser-focus on pushing Black leaders out of office. www.salon.com/2025/02/25/s...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

For those playing along at home we are now at the: "Ok sure they're Nazi salutes - but that doesn't make them expressions of Nazism" stage of denial.

submitted 9 days ago • 116 comments

TONIGHT! CM Punk comes to the ring on Raw with a Chicago Teachers Union shirt. Given former WWE CEO Linda McMahon’s new Trump gig destroying the dept of ed, given her anti-union past, given the CTU’s history defending public schools, this is 🔥. ‘CM’ stands for “Chicago Made” and that’s real af.

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CM Punk wearing a Chicago Teachers Union shirt on Raw.

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CM PUNK SUPPORTING THE CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION!!! So cool!!! #CMPUNK #TeachersUnion #ChicagoTeachersUnion #WWERAW #WWE

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Shoutout CM Punk

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

submitted 9 days ago • 2041 comments

white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge

submitted 15 days ago • 4764 comments

They confirmed Hegseth and RFK Jr. Then McMahon wouldn't affirm the right to teach Black history, causing barely a ripple. And Elon's mini-siegs are running rampant through any department they want anyway. Feels like the cabinet and hearings to confirm it have become a demented formality.

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"Folks, when we start shutting down libraries in the name of government efficiency, we have got a problem." 📚 www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 15 days ago • 322 comments

"When you change the definition of obscenity to meet prurient partisan interests–the amount of time that these legislators talk about genitals and sexual acts is itself deeply disturbing–you then give those same legislators the opportunity to pass more and more restrictive, paternalistic bills." 📚

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

submitted 16 days ago • 113 comments

Proud of my city. ❤️

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

This is fascism.

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I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

How long before they argue that admitting Black students at all is "discrimination" against white people?

submitted 18 days ago • 41 comments

Huge rally in the snow today outside Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago after it recently paused some gender affirming healthcare for patients under 19. Organizers, advocates, parents, and teachers all stood up to tell healthcare providers to obey Illinois state law and not "comply in advance."

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 18 days ago • 493 comments

As always @kylec.bsky.social doesn’t miss.

submitted 18 days ago • 249 comments

Lurie Children's Hospital is choosing cowardice. Cutting off care kills people. And agreeing with 19 as a cutoff age cooks the data and ignores every other context in which young adults can legally make their own choices, with and without parental support.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments