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🚨BREAKING: Congresswoman @ramirez.house.gov introduces new legislation that would dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, abolish ICE, & create a new Department of Community Safety. It’s time to dismantle DHS and ICE and reimagine what public safety looks like. #MeltICE 🧊

New: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park. One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

I was texting with a neighbor of mine about the CPS budget approval earlier and she said I should just put my thoughts out there so here goes. We are building up towards a tense budget hearing at the end of the month and I can see a bad frame taking shape so let's start shifting it now.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Mocking the vice president is protected by the First Amendment. People can't be excluded from official VP public events just because they make fun of him online. We'll remind the government of that fact in court.

Every American waking up today wondering why we can’t replace a president with a popular, charismatic mayor…

It feels like the Knicks winning just reset the timeline. 11/2/16 - Cubs win the World Series 11/8/16 - Timeline entry 6/13/26 - Knicks win By my calculations, we have six days.

I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened

There’s only one more week of school and I get to update my current events slides with some good news!!

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They got *actual* Jesus to speak at this thing?!

Pete Hegseth will headline Trump’s Freedom 250 white Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event Sunday, “under one flag and one God,” he posted. Corporate sponsors include Deloitte, Mastercard, SAP and United Airlines.

Early May needs a rebrand. May Day is a good start. Proposing these changes: *Teacher and Nurses’ appreciation week is Organized Labor Appreciation Week. *Mother’s Day is Anti-War Day. Protest for peace wherever you are. My birthday is still just my birthday though. I like that one the way it is.

long overdue, but i have a feeling this will go the way of most investigations into police violence: too little, too late

We won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting @chicagotribune.com! Our entire newsroom covered Midway Blitz with everything we had. I’ve never been prouder of the Tribune or its commitment to the truth. It’s an honor to be part of this team.

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

#MayDay is a day to organize and defend the freedom to learn. Challenge the billionaire takeover. #NoKings #TeachTruth to help students examine: how did we get here? www.zinnedproject.org/news/may-day...

Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"? They were lying www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

I just want to watch my kids eat candy for breakfast…I guess it’s my fault for checking my phone.

Amazing day out at No Kings Chicago!

It was a long winter but No Kings Spring has arrived in Chicago. #NoKings

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today. That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Headlines are mirroring the buildup in Vietnam almost word for word

Thanks to Trump and Republicans’ Big Bad Betrayal and their $186 BILLION cut to SNAP, more than 70,000 people will die. Instead of pouring billions of dollars into Trump’s illegal war with Iran, we should be helping our neighbors.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Atlanta Airport… looks like ICE wandering around aimlessly has solved everything… 🇺🇸

Uggggghhhhhhh

Remembering this wording for when it happens.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

This is so fucking dystopian.

Thank you for everything we’ve built together. This is not the result we hoped for, but this movement is just getting started.

No matter the outcome, Illinois progressives are moving the conversation to the left in a big way. Real grassroots progressives like @katmabu.bsky.social and @nickforillinois.bsky.social ran inspiring campaigns. Can’t wait to see what they do next.

Here we go. The polls just closed, the results are starting to come in - and live election-night coverage is now on @wbez.org 91.5 FM starring Dave McKinney, Patrick Smith, Mary Dixon and Melba Lara. And just because pledge week ended yesterday, doesn't mean you can't support us at wbez.org/donate

Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...

When you’re famous, they just let you do it.

So they’re claiming the only way to win is by suppressing voters.

Time. Is it linear?

Why does Hegseth still have a job?

I feel bad for Scott Bessent’s kid who he is apparently happy to turn to cannon fodder for this insane administration and their grift war.

Wow. He looks like he’s about to ask Wembley if they know the lyrics to this bridge.

Credit where credit is due. @democrats.senate.gov are holding the line. www.politico.com/live-updates...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Surely a more efficient way to save money at the VA is to not start new wars that create new veterans.

A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz. @sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Healthcare. Affordable housing. Education. Livable wages. These are the things we all need. If our government can find billions for war, it can invest in the people who actually keep this country running.

“Trump commits impeachable offenses on a near-daily basis. He needs to be removed.” — Rep. Mike Quigley (IL-05) Great quote, Rep. Quigley. Now where are the articles? 📃❌ Quigley said the words. He failed to do the work. And while Congress sits on its hands, fascism marches forward.