In short, the government is using right wing influencers to kill a story. Thanks for not succumbing. Outstanding reporting.

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has donated $29,300 — the entirety of campaign contributions from Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar — to immigrant rights groups, his Senate campaign said on Wednesday.

Ridulous! If that's the case newspapers would be publishing blank pages in the foreclosure section.

I just start kissing them, it's like a magnet.

. @cbsmornings.bsky.social Your scrolling weather temps are shameful. Here (again) are a few terrible predictions for today: Chicago high 50?? Ft. Myers high 46??

What's the cost of special use permits for these and other business activities on federal land? What's the penalty for mismanagement? What a windfall to be granted automatic renewal due to a lack of envir'l review when the oversight's staff shrinks nearly 40%. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

Did these Guardsmen receive basic training before being deployed? Looks like a no. From WSJ

This historical booklet of Chicago ward maps and their boundary descriptions is a helpful resource: Chicago ward maps, 1837-1970, Styx, Sherrie A. (1988). Esp. helpful in early census years when only ward numbers were referenced. Combine this w/a period map to capture era. #Chicago #genealogy

Trump’s Complicity in the Khashoggi Murder: How Donald Trump’s cover-up of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination revealed the pattern of corruption that still defines his relationship with Saudi Arabia... and the world www.avindman.com/p/trumps-com...

Attn: @joshshepperd.bsky.social

Anxious for a Trump brothers infomercial as a local Sunday morning wealth management program. #futureSNLskit

Three days hence, nothing like caving.

[email protected] Durbin, you are a disgrace. Your colleagues @duckworth.senate.gov and @govpritzker.illinois.gov have voiced their dismay at your decision to fold. Retire now before doing more damage.

Three masked agents questioned an Illinois Department of Transportation employee about his immigration status — and if he had traveled to New York and was “aware” of the mayor-elect in New York City, the governor’s office said.

8:06am: ICE using Rosemont Sports Complex as staging area. They could have used CPD parking literally down the street. Rosemont Police being very friendly him them. 1/2 videos @newsjennifer.bsky.social @markjacob.bsky.social

Excellent move by Pritzker. Calling for a "cease fire" frames the admin as an aggressor. If they agree, the right sees Trump as weak. If they continue, Trump is seen as heartless, preying on children--which is something he's done before.

"The report tries to show, in other words, that future Democratic administrations can’t be afraid to use power to the fullest." Leaders cannot be afraid to use the power voters have entrusted in them. Nor should they sacrifice our principles to appease those with undemocratic values.

Teachers: get your students to read and interact with the text!

We need an outside military presence to protect us because "homeland security" are preoccupied with illegal ICE raids.

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination." "I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Chicago PD: "This is f*cked up" www.facebook.com/share/r/171B...

Is there a slaughter rule in this Brewer v Cub game?

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Thank you and @andreapitzer.bsky.social for sharing. At times I've found myself befuddled and wavering. But the article (I prefer reading) uniquely captures the necessity of knowing our core values. It informs everything we do.

. @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social would love to hear an interview with @bostonjoan.bsky.social. I started reading Meme Wars and it would make for an outstanding deep dive.

Johnson (2:30): "What I do have qualms with, Jake, is the total weaponization of the Dept of Justice."

Once again, @cbsmornings.bsky.social, your scrolling temperature highs for Chicago are wildly wrong. Today's high will NOT be 91. We might reach 70.

A @chicago.suntimes.com scoop so important it’s being cited by The NY Times and other national media. Bodycam video obtained by the newspaper from police shows a gap between what the feds said and what actually happened in fatal incident in Franklin Park, IL chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...

Trump's people edit this clip without Karl's challenge, then spin it in their favor.

Nearly 140 organizations, including several from Chicago, signed on to a letter joining together in the face of a federal suppression on philanthropies supporting causes that oppose President Donald Trump administration’s beliefs.

Oh nothing to see here…just Trump’s Chairman of the FCC using gifs to confirm that everything he’s doing was in Project 2025 that he co-wrote

Can't drop fast enough!

Trump REALLY wants you to FORGET ABOUT THE #EPSTEIN FILES! please!

newsone.com/6463787/blac... One died by suicide. Such a sad state our country is in.

Kash is taking credit for capturing the suspect, when the suspect's dad turned him in. Unbelievable, but unfortunately believable.

Secretary Kennedy has wrongly accused my fellow Democrats of being shills for Big Pharma. After his hearing today, I went down to the Senate Floor to offer a bill that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs. Republicans blocked it. Talk is cheap.

An incredible @onwithkaraswisher.bsky.social podcast featuring @rbreich.bsky.social. The DNC needs to take Reich's suggestions, else their coffers will remain empty and we'll lose again.

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

Jordan Lasker is a full blooded eugenicist. For the Times to use him as a source is despicable. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Palatine, IL. #NoKings

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The “big beautiful bill” has $160bn in new anti-immigrant measures including $8bn for ICE personnel, $15bn for deportations and $45bn to build detention facilities. Current total ICE budget is ~$8bn. They want to scale up this terror to an unimaginable level. www.wola.org/analysis/160...

Outstanding video essay on the social contract. We can't lose sight of that by having our eyes taken off the ball with distractions. The social contract is the essence of democracy. substack.com/@johnfdicker...

When gatekeepers and educators enforce the norms and read for the familiar, they silence huge swaths of the population. #authorsky irasocol.medium.com/espanding-th...

I'm wondering now how many people will use AI to generate books with those titles and try to pass them off at Amazon, Kobo, etc. I reported a really clumsy listing for a Murderbot novel (by "Martha Welles") to Kobo a couple of years ago.