Billy Lyman (He/Him/Él)
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Billy Lyman (He/Him/Él)
@billylyman.bsky.social
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Attorney. Urban Planner. Changemaker. Housing Evangelist. | JD 📚 + Master Urb. Plan. 🗺️ @UofIllinois 📙📘 | Poli Sci 🗳️ y Español 🇨🇱🇦🇷🇪🇨 @notredame.bsky.social ☘️
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They are not “going after illegals,” they are targeting brown people, because it’s not about immigration, it’s about white nationalism.

This isn’t “law and order” — it’s fascism.

Don’t let them pretend that what they’re doing is normal, legal, or moral.
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How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens
Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.
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They’re lying because they want you to support them cutting your healthcare, and they want you to blame immigrants.

- undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid or the ACA

- 700 rural hospitals will close

- Health insurance premiums will double, or more

- 15 million will lose coverage
Fact Check: Mike Johnson's Biggest Lies About Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes the false narrative that Democrats shut down the government to fund health care for undocumented people.
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At least one side has the courage to show their faces
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
Um wut? US cities as "training grounds"?! US citizens as training targets/enemies?!

The Posse Comitatus Act would like a word.

Didn't realize that la Junta, Pinochet, Fujimori, and other examples of state-sponsored terrorism were models worthy of reprising.
Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."
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I served with the National Guard in Afghanistan.

American cities are not “training grounds.”

What a disgusting concept.
Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
Could you do a full article or provide a source on when/why the proposed 15th and Clark red line station was scrapped?

I can't find anything on that topic reported in the last 6 years, and rejected public transit esp this close/convenient to a new stadium deserves coverage
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Babe’s has opened in Logan Square, giving women’s sports fans a place to call home. blockclubchi.co/46AbXUf
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It’s nice to finally have a president committed to sprucing up Washington, DC, which I have visited once in my life and will likely never see again because I’m scared to travel to big cities. DC police data shows violent crime is down 26%, but I don't trust numbers.
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I'm glad Trump is focused on nonexistent DC crime wave, not his campaign promises | Opinion
I'm glad Trump is focusing on an imaginary Washington, DC, crime wave and adding more gold to the White House. Lower grocery prices can wait.
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As a Midwestern MAGA voter, I’m glad to see President Trump laser-focused on the issues that concern me most: sending the National Guard into Washingtxon, DC, and making sure the White House is covered in fancy gold.

I’m sure he'll release the Epstein files later.

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I'm glad Trump is focused on nonexistent DC crime wave, not his campaign promises | Opinion
I'm glad Trump is focusing on an imaginary Washington, DC, crime wave and adding more gold to the White House. Lower grocery prices can wait.
www.usatoday.com
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My column contains this full, actual quote from Trump today.

It's the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future. So where are all the Biden critics who were deeply concerned about world-leader lucidity?

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i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
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I don’t think I have ever publicly criticized any Presidential nominee before.

But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.

He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.
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This is the kind of straight shooter we can trust to give us economic data without any spin!
EJ Antoni, whom Trump just named to lead the nonpartisan Bureau of Labor Statistics, published these recent piece at Heritage:

"U.S.-Japan Trade Deal Is a Masterpiece"
"Trump Hits Home Run With June’s Job Report"
"Trump Wins the First Round Against Inflation"
"Bidenomics Is Crushing Generation Z"
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In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...
Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: ‘Just heartbreaking and discouraging’
"Her detainment is not only legally questionable — it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.
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The FBI director whose prior career was “podcast guest with an enemies list” thinks other people are engaged in “political weaponization”
Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.
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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
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Celebrating Chancellor Jones’ graduation!! 🧡💙
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gentle reminder to trust filmmakers
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Horror is back, baby! Again!
Weapons is fucking great. Loved it! Horror is back for the 147th time this year!