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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 5h

Trump administration declares war on Christianity.

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 11h

Indiana? As an Illinoisan I’m very happy to see reasonable people there. Counteracts a little the political dipshits that are wasting time threatening to illegally annex a big chunk of our state.

newschannel20.com/news/local/i...

Indiana votes to annex 33 counties in Illinois

Indiana wants to take some of Illinois’ counties.Lawmakers in the Hoosier state passed a bill yesterday to annex 33 counties in Illinois.Those counties have pre

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 11h

Saturday, but yes, for sure

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12h

Under Kristi Noem's leadership, ICE is now shooting dogs.

Which means ICE will probably soon be sleeping with Corey Lewandowski, too.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 23h

I hope this somehow sinks in in the Illinois farm belt. Trump does not care about you.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 23h

18th needs lots of red, white and blue and reminders that we actually love the ideals in the Declaration and the protections in the Constitution. Unlike, you know.

Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 1d

All true. Sorry I went off on you but my Midwest nice has been sanded to nothing after 45 years of being a punching bag for selfish pricks. 25% unemployment in 1982? Lead in the water? Hahaha! Losers! Not “how can I help?”

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically, that’s war criminal Albert Speer, architect turned slave labor director.

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 1d

Expatriot? From…? And you can move if you hate it. Usually the movers are selfish pricks who take and take but complain about taxes, hence FL. If you’re in IN or whatever and it’s too conservative for you, then move. Notice all the D govs in the Great Lakes states?

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 1d

Great Laker born and raised and still living here. You sound EXACTLY like the MAGAs who take off for Florida and Tennessee (“everybody leaves because it sucks”). My response is the same: fuck you. Enjoy your new life but fuck right off with “your home sucks” shit.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 2d

Free read. He’s still a putz on many levels, but Kevin Stitt, you mad mofo, I didn’t think you’d be the one to tell Trump he’s wrong about something. Finding allies in Marj Greene and Kevin Stitt on anything weren’t on my bingo card.

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 2d

HAHAHAHA. Plus, Chicago had 55 million visitors last year and was voted best big city by Condé Nast readers. Just a hellscape.

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 2d

You are correct. The AI bubble is the only thing that kept our NATIONAL economy out of a summer recession but it’s 1) a bubble which uh oh and 2) concentrated geographically AND benefits the rich primarily. So exactly that normal people feel it in EVERY state.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

Treating what Trump and his cabinet officials said at that meeting this morning as credible and then asking guests to respond to it is...not journalism.

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 2d

55 million visitors who apparently REALLY enjoyed themselves. But it’s a hellscape that needs ICE grabbing food delivery guys and the Texas National Guard to...not sure yet. Gotcha.

Chicago voted best big city by Condé Nast readers for 9th straight year

For the ninth straight year, Chicago has been voted the best big city in the U.S. by Condé Nast readers.

abc7chicago.com

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 3d

Skubal wins a complete game 11-0 on 85 pitches. Or so I hope to stave off the heart attacks.

Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 4d

But, but Texas is a bastion of freedom! I mean, what else are you gonna call a state that closely monitors Wrongthink and sends armed soldiers 1000 miles to patrol an American city? This in no way mirrors shit the USSR did, right Commissar Abbott?

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 4d

Shocked I tell you.

His toadies in LA and TX will doubtless praise his decision to eliminate jobs and revenue in their states. Abbott worries more about big issues like sending troops to my city because Der Orange Fuhrer says he should.

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 4d

I very much enjoyed an Outer Banks vacation a few years ago but had to conclude that a big sand bar is not a place for lots of development. You can’t beat the ocean.

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Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 4d

If she was hurt in any way, and she has to have some bruises and scrapes, leaving the scene is a class 4 felony in the great state of Illinois (not to mention failure to yield for a pedestrian in a crosswalk). Hello Stateville.

Phil Stevens @philstevens19.bsky.social · 4d

In answer to Lawyer Barbie’s question, Schiff does have a law degree, from Harvard. Stetson, where she went, is a fine school but seems to have a poor ethics background if she’s a typical grad.

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