"The Constitution’s authors assumed emergencies would happen.

What they feared more was citizens abandoning reason in the name of safety. They built redundancy into the system…state governments…courts…free press…elections… civil society…so that no single man’s declaration could silence them all."

Wow.

Actually, Mike, if you're a young, pregnant American citizen woman who shows up in an ER in TEXAS or some other GOP-run states, THEY WON'T TREAT YOU AT ALL.

They'll wait until you're dying of sepsis. Then, when you're brain dead, they'll hook you up to tubes and treat your corpse as an incubator.

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The "Antifa" everywhere stuff is really worse than McCarthyism. It's witch trial shit except they can't even find a judge to sanctify it.

Law enforcement needs to rein in ICE's anti-press abuses and investigate ICE attacks on independent journalists in Chicagoland.

A coalition of Chicago and national press freedom orgs explained why in a letter to the Broadview Police Department and Illinois State Police today.

Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Brooklyn Hakeem. Run Up and Get Done Up 🤷🏽‍♀️

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior.

Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

The mayor of Waukegan stepped in after Border Patrol reportedly arrested an American citizen near city hall.

Today I'm going to (politely) call up my members of congress and demand that they bring in Stephen Miller and grill him thoroughly over exactly what he meant about "plenary authority" on CNN.

Canada vs. America

Florida! Check your registration:

"How does it feel to be locked up unlawfully" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My kinda carrying on! Keep it up.

Yep. This is how executive functioning is in ADHD. I literally have advocated at IEP meetings for my child clients w/ADHD to have written in their IEP for their teachers to give them a longer latency for responding to their teachers during class, because the kids get in trouble for it.

I mean who isn't avoiding America right now

the problem with "things were always this bad" is that it is rhetoric that exists, specifically and exclusively, to deny the lived reality that Republicans Fucking Make Shit Worse, and it usually comes from a place of "both parties serve the same masters!!" performative, weaponised cynicism

No Justice. Everyone else pays the price
Trump Foundation (Charity Fraud, $2M)
Taj Casino ($10M, Money Laundering)
Trump Org (Fraud/18counts, $450M)
Trump Org CFO Riker's Prison 2x
Trump University (Fraud, $25M)
Proven Rapist 2023 ($88.3M)
Convicted 34 Felonies 2024
91 Felonies Unprosecuted

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield