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Chicago-based observer, absorber, muser, why-er. Oh yeah, and FUCK TRUMP.
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Just watched Gladiator II, and the parallels with what is happening here are uncanny. Who are we, as a nation? What kind of world do we want to live in?

THE BARBER WHO VANISHED: HOW ICE TURNED A VENEZUELAN HAIRCUT INTO A CRIMINAL ACT (We have to keep telling the stories ICE wants to disappear.) open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

Wake up, #merica.

I think the Dems need to have a very broad coalition of leaders bringing in all different factions opposing this administration. It has to be clear, focus, and all encompassing. It has to be unequivocal.

Wow #conservativescotus it’s NOT hard - schools ARE different then religious-bases hospitals, food banks, charities, etc. They are public schools. You cannot teach religion as truth in public schools. This is GOOD for religions actually, as well as for non-religious.

Hey, nimrod, do you understand what happened AFTER WWII??? The pact we made??? WHY we joined?? And that your actions directly contradict what you are saying??? #readabook I feel it also ignores the sacrifices our #armedforces have made since then, but I am open to hearing a different POV.

This sums up my mood. Kidding aside, this is touching a part of my soul. Go touch grass, literally, everybody. Enjoy the nature of beauty before we burn it all down.

My lay observation: A pattern - give interviews, have dinners with people who are your critics (here’s looking at you, @realbillmaher.bsky.social) and butter them up and be completely civil and measured. This is not a sign of a ‘decent’ person in there somewhere; this is a sign of #psychopathy.

Question - If #SCOTUS rules for the religious charter school, prompting each state to rewrite its charter school programs, but if SCOTUS then later says all charter schools are private, would states need to eliminate charter schools entirely in order to maintain separation of church and state?

Mexico has officially banned 47’s propaganda from airing on TV and Social Media.

We have been here before, except the most powerful man is pushing us past our brink to a place that is uncharted: he swore to EXECUTE the laws, not rewrite, circumvent, or flat out ignore them.

FASCISM. If you support this you are a fucking fascist.

Who’s next?

An article worth the read - and, yes, we all need to be enraged to change the imminent future.

Yeah, cuz the Venezuelan immigrants, you know the moms sitting on street corners with their young children or the ones performing back-breaking construction (paid cash by white American business owners who don’t want to pay their benefits, I may add), are making our streets sooo unsafe. #eyeroll

#coalisdirty and the opposite of clean, DUH! #deathintheair

It looks like a D-grade movie cover is what the website looks like.

On June 6 veterans will march in DC to demonstrate that our oaths to the Constitution still hold. This is not partisan; it’s about service, particularly the essential work of veterans in the government and those who care for them. Unite4veterans.org www.military.com/daily-news/2...

What she said. 👇

I also advocate for his due process and the 200+ others’ as well!!!

Send to your reps and senators! @duckworth.senate.gov @casten.house.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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“We have a system of checks and balances. A tyrant can always be stopped as long as congress has a spine.” Congress:

Okay, it’s here. #SCOTUS’ chance to clearly, plainly, legally and finally put the idea that #DOTUS (Despot of the United States, Dictator, take your pick) has the power to rid us of our constitutional right of #birthrightcitizenship TO BED ALREADY. www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/just...

Never imagine I’d be rooting for Jerome Powell. But here we are. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."