Do @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @pelosi.house.gov and @kamalaharris.com have the collective juice to ensure that the right Democrat ends up in the California governor's race? If so, they better act right now or we could lose the second-biggest plum in politics. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

Hate the president; love the pope. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

The Straits of Hormuz are open...closed...blockaded by the U.S. ...under Iranian control...oil prices are up...down. Energy profits are soaring...A million Lebanese forced from their homes... Thank God we're not talking about the Epstein files. Except we are. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Is the right waking up to Trump's madness? Finally? @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/for-...

Thank you JD Vance. Your endorsement was priceless. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

TACO Trump blinks. Iran wins. America loses. Lives lost. Billions wasted. No regime change. Prices rising. Chaos ensues. America's global standing suffers. Just another day. #Impeach www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Trump's biggest fear? Informed voters who will stop him from looting the country and evading justice. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Maybe the White House criminal realizes allies matter? Nah! European leaders rebuff Trump’s call to open the Strait of Hormuz

Reducing gun violence starts with outreach but helping our guys leave the streets and live safely requires a lot more support. @chicagocred.bsky.social CRED leaders Paul Robinson and LaQuay Boone lay it out. @arneduncan.bsky.social www.chicagocred.org/blog/some-nu...

OK Democrats, where's the soft landing for @jasminecrockett29.bsky.social after her losing bid for Senate? We still need her in the fight. She is tough, smart, fearless. Maybe a think tank? Maybe run the Texas Democratic Party? Looking at you @kenmartin.bsky.social.

Why would a sitting U.S. Senator agree to work for a president who consistently throws his own people under the bus? Rubio did it and he'll be tossed when the Iran war goes bad...which it already is. Now Mullin is to succeed Noem at DHS. Bye-bye. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/t...

You can't arrest your way to safety. You can't bomb your way to peace. You can't hate your way to friendship. You can't insult your way to respect. You can't cheat your way to goodness. You can't lie your way to the truth. Every move this administration makes is self-defeating. #Peace

TACO Trump waves the white flag in his war with law firms. Kudos to Chicago's Jenner & Block for leading the resistance ...and good riddance to Paul Weiss for surrendering. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/02/t...

Bluster, bombs and ballrooms. Welcome to the Trump presidency. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

I have always been a math guy. Here's Harvard mathematician Aubrey Clayton lamenting the decline of basic math in public discourse...driven, of course, by team Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...

Ouch.

Decline in crime in Chicago and Illinois is due to community investments--not pre-trial detention: Illinois State Rep. Lisa Davis. @suntimes.bsky.social @arneduncan.bsky.social @chicagocred.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

RIP Reverend Jesse Jackson -- a vital presence in our national consciousness for so long. Met him many times. Heard him speak. He never quit. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/17/r...

The Trump administration's threats to academic independence are a threat to democracy. @arneduncan.bsky.social and @davidpressman.bsky.social call on the higher education sector to unite and resist. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Last year, Amazon profits soared 44% to $89B while their tax bill dropped from $9B to $1.2 B. Meanwhile, the company just announced massive layoffs. This is the new criminal economy.

How come Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has not opened a murder investigation in the killing of Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park by ICE in September? I am with @mayorofchicago.bsky.social on this one. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/m...

The BBC is the world's most respected broadcaster. @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social is its most respected fact checker. Here he analyses, frame by frame, what happened in Minneapolis. Border Patrol removed Alex Pretti's gun, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 shot him — TEN times in five seconds. The Trump regime is lying to us.

When 2A activists and the @wsj.com turn against you, maybe it's time for this crazy, lawless administration to reflect. www.wsj.com/opinion/time...

Trump economy, per the @wsj.com Only 584,000 net new jobs were created over the 12 months of 2025 versus approximately two million during 2024. www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ye...

Sharing with @arneduncan.bsky.social @chicagocred.bsky.social

Just did a short podcast with @marcsimschicago.bsky.social about the stunning decline in gun violence in Chicago last year to its lowest level since 1965. Thank you Marc. Always good to chat with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW_A...

Trump has bombed Nigeria, attacked Venezuala, and terrorized my hometown of Chicago. None of it legal. The tab in Chicago is about $60M to date. The tab overseas? Billions. What a disgrace. The gutless GOP Congress has done nothing to stop him. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...

It's a shame that @nytimes.com expects the American people to do what our elected representatives qre afraid or unwilling to do--which is to hold Trump accountable. How? We don't control Congress, Courts, or media. We vote. That's our power. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Chicago marks a 60-year low in homicides in 2025. chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Thank you @suntimes.bsky.social for reporting historic decline in homicides in Chicago in 2025--the lowest # in 60 years. @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social @tonipreckwinkle.bsky.social @arneduncan.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

Astonishing. Huge article in the @washingtonpost.com on ICE recruiting campaign targeting right-wing hotheads, offers zero perspective from the civil/immigrant rights community on the immoral actions of this rogue agency. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

If Marjorie Taylor Greene really wants to stop MAGA, she could switch parties -- bring along one or two others -- and give the Democrats control of the House. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

Like everything Trump does, renaming the Kennedy center after himself, won't last. It will die in court or in the next administration, where all of his executive orders will be summarily dumped into the trash. #MAGADeathSpiral www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

If @mayorofchicago.bsky.social was anything like Trump, he would shut down an Amazon warehouse just to punish @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos for this editorial. Alas, we still value free speech in Chicago. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Per the City of Chicago website, every single category of crime is down. A lot of people have worked hard to make this happen, from violence interruptors and police to philanthropic, faith, business, and community leaders.

We have a long way to go, but I am so happy we have a chance to have our safest year in 60 years here in Chicago! The work of reducing violence is never easy- I am so incredibly grateful to all who have stayed with it for so long. @chicagocred.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/10/o...

Here in Chicago, we have a chance to have our safest year in 60 years Far from a mission accomplished moment- we still have so far to go- but remarkable progress nonetheless We have to keep reducing violence & accelerating progress- the only way accomplish that is together. @chicagocred.bsky.social

Few things frustrate me more than the @wsj.com editorial page--which does more to enable Trump's excesses than any other mainstream media platform in America. So it's good to see them demanding accountability for Hegseth's actions in the Caribbean. www.wsj.com/opinion/drug...

Police officers-for better and for worse-have the training and the authority to use lethal force to defend themselves and neutralize a threat. National guard soldiers don't. In an urban environment, with lots of uncertainty, they are sitting ducks.

If you want to blame someone for the tragic death of a national guard member in DC, focus on the president who assigned her to that pointless, dangerous mission. Trump put her in harm's way under false pretenses. He's still lying about it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

We continue to hope the courts can save education from Trump’s destruction… School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Incredibly powerful, moving and real- thank you! Please take 60 seconds to watch.

As immigration raids spread fear in Chicago, violence intervention groups are broadening their mission.

Food advice from a red state Democrat. * Focus on restoring the American Dream * Speak like normal people * Explain the "Why" as well as the "What." @govandybeshear.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

There's a simple solution to all of these unhappy Republican members of Congress. Switch parties.

Preach! Please take 2 minutes to watch this, and truly understand the moment we are in. Please It’s a moment we have never been in, literally in the history of our country. Ignorance is not bliss, and denial is not intelligent. We must, collectively, be able to handle the truth, however difficult.

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

Great interview with @liamkazar.bsky.social about his new album Pilot Light. Talking about music for cooking, fall eating and producer Sam Evian's analog magic. Check out interview and the record liamkazar.bandcamp.com/album/pilot-... nightswimmingblog.substack.com/p/nightswimm...

"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

So @wgntv.com treats as "news" a press release from Customs and Border Patrol claiming a Chicago street gang has issued a shoot-to-kill order for immigration agents. No proof--just takes the word of people who wear masks and hide their names. #PurePropaganda wgntv.com/news/operati...