Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been removed by the Trump administration. https://cnn.it/43i6QXC

New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

what’s the point of a government that allows this

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And men can (and should) get them too! I got mine only a few years ago.

And they are available up to age 45!

In Chicago you can drop a pin on this map to request a bike rack bikeparking-chicago.hub.arcgis.com It made me so happy to see a family use this rack I requested for the first time 🥹

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

There are always TRILLIONS for wars at home and abroad, but when it comes to funding our health care and the critical programs working families rely on...they say hell no!

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

This is the only thing you need to know. Democrats want to open TSA. Republicans are refusing because they want to attach ICE funding. That’s why there are long lines. ICE.

Chicago women outvoted men by 23% in Tuesday’s primary election, data shows. blockclubchi.co/3PNWCL5

One death every four days in ICE detention. One every FOUR days. This is passive eugenics. Not an accident.

Wow this investigation identifies 5 federal agents who "engaged in a pattern of force and questionable detention, aggressive tactics that courts have said likely violated the constitution, as they moved from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, and then Chicago and Minneapolis" calmatters.org/investigatio...

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

Not only Senate Democrats should be giving any additional $ to fund Trump's Iran quagmire - they should go on offense and push to claw back tens of billions appropriated for ICE/CBP and also ask for accounting for all the waste, fraud and abuse like millions spent on lobster and king crabs.

Another day, another chilling, dystopian example of folks in the "small government/individual rights" party proposing sprawling government surveillance and punishment systems.

The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.

This is horrifying and the impact it will have on health and science in this country cannot be understated.

PLEASE y'all, file witness slips in opposition of this ILGA bill that would require OPERATING SYSTEM-LEVEL AGE VERIFICATION. This is a bad bill on privacy and a bad bill on rights and a technical nightmare with terrible implications. There is no implementation of this that would be good.

Overflow Action Day Alert: Heavy rain is expected in the Chicago area today. Reduce your use of water during and after the storm to help prevent flooding and protect water quality: * Delay showers and baths * Flush less frequently * Wait to run the dishwasher or washing machine

Alysa Liu’s positivity is my exact kind of positivity - for who: doing it on your own terms, for yourself; celebrating others - how: enjoying the struggle & journey - why: for the art/joy of it; winning is not the point

Once again, today, or yesterday, is a great day to disconnect from Meta (Instagram, Facebook).

The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list. They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

GALLEGO: Let's say Trump wins that lawsuit. Where would that $10 billion come from? BESSENT: It would come from Treasury GALLEGO: So, taxpayers? BESSENT: Yes. Part of the 44,000 whose returns were leaked GALLEGO: They're not suing

Garcia is holding up a chart that shows how the Trump administration made "ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States" and says this funding has been used "to terrorize, disfigure, and in some cases kill" US citizens.

What an absolute and inspiring hero 💪 ❤️

This place is so special and needs our help! If you're looking for ways to support businesses in Minneapolis right now, this is a great avenue.

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

"A vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression."

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

This is extremely not an accident.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

I will be speaking at this tonight.

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

"My most daring idea is to refuse."

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

This is BIG news! Thank you science!

"Here we go again. As a gentle reminder, your AI assistant is not your friend, it’s not your financial adviser and it’s certainly not your doctor or your therapist. It’s someone else’s computer, stacked in a data center, sucking up energy and water."

But even with the subsidies, we have to be honest that working people are still left with unaffordable plans and crushing medical debt. If we are serious about addressing affordability and ensuring coverage for ALL, we must pass Medicare for All.

If you are a justice-minded person in Chicago, there's a good chance you are exhausted and catching your breath in the wake of the CBP surges here in recent months, but we can't just fight what's evil in these times. We must also fortify and defend what's good. We must defend our libraries.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

My quote of the day Albert Schweitzer

Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop. Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.