Earlier this evening: dozens of people gathered in Chicago's far north side Rogers (Phillip) Park in support of an 18-year-old Mather High School student and his mother, who, according to the student's older brother, were abducted from the Chicago immigration court at Ida B. Wells Drive in March.

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Either ALL human beings matter, or NO human beings matter. Christians, philosophers, nations, people of conscience must agree… If you purport to believe that people have been made in the image of God, then behave accordingly.

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy. But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

Supreme Court required Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador!

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a father, a husband, a SMART Union apprentice — and it’s long past time for him to be reunited with his family in Maryland. He was wrongly deported by Donald Trump and left to rot in an El Salvador prison. Bring him home.

➡️ Without due process, what is to keep any one of us from being sent to a Salvadoran mega-prison to suffer and die?? substack.com/profile/1940...

If God put me in this color skin to be better than other people, then God isn’t good. Racism is man-made.

3 THINGS (at least!) TO DO THIS WEEK! * Support your township's Dem candidates! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... * 5 Calls! Support Ukraine! * Economic boycott Feb 28!

I would rather be dragged for being wrong than be silent and right.

Join us, our good friends @moveon.org and @workingfamilies.org, and some special guests for our upcoming call. We’ll be talking about how you can take action against Trump’s unconstitutional power grab. You won’t want to miss this one, so RSVP now: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

"If it feels like an insurmountable amount of garbage is being dumped on us, that's by design. It’s creating such an avalanche of disappointment that we're left feeling disheartened, disillusioned, and discouraged. He wants us to become so numb to injustice that it becomes our new normal."

We are exhausted and it's only been a week, but we need to see it for what it is and fight back youtube.com/shorts/2TP-c...

Trump said he wants to “clean out” Gaza and push the millions of Palestinians living there into neighboring countries. There is a name for this — ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime. This outrageous idea should be condemned by every American. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

At every point in our history, immigrants have helped us tackle our greatest challenges. Immigrants should be celebrated, not demonized.

WHO exactly benefits from ending DEI and Equal Employment Opportunities? You already know the answer

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NEW: Trump tells reporters he wants to "just clean out" Gaza and relocate Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

On Tyranny -1 DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE Authoritarians don’t automatically have power. Most of it is freely given. Anticipatory obedience - individuals, officials, CEOs etc. voluntarily doing what the authoritarian leader wants without being asked or forced. Out of support or fear of retribution

President Trump's executive actions lay out a plan to erase transgender people’s existence under the law. Trans people have always existed and always will — no matter what politicians say or do.

On Tyranny - Prologue “.. the Founding Fathers sought to avoid the evil that they, like the ancient philosophers, called tyranny. They had in mind the usurpation of power by a single individual or group, or the circumvention of law by rulers for their own benefit.” #ontyranny #timothysnyder

We’re meant to calmly accept the absurd idea that any white man is innately qualified for any job or position, no matter what his education, resume or proven capabilities and any non-white man or woman inherently stole their way into employment via #DEI. This of course is pure, undiluted fascism.

If it wasn't a Na*zi salute, why not just apologize?

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Trump's pick to lead the Defense Department has a documented history of offensive and dangerous behavior, including allegations of sexual assault. The American people want and deserve better than Pete Hegseth. app.sosha.ai/s/YtQcYDUN

In the new Trump presidency, we have got to remain focused. We can’t panic. No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same: We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#5: This is not how respectable national leaders speak

These people railing against Bishop Budde are telling on themselves. We have our own ears to hear what she said and how she said it.

Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement is another gift from Donald Trump to his polluting billionaire donors. Taking on the climate crisis requires international cooperation, and the world should be able to count on the United States to be in that fight.

If Elon Musk's salute was completely innocent, he should come out and clarify that. Instead of calling out Democrats for causing hysteria, he should recognize the harm he caused to the Jewish community.

This is INSANITY

And so it begins. Sam Kuffel, a meteorologist for CBS58, has reportedly been fired for criticizing Elon Musk’s arm gesture on her personal social media account.

#4: Trump appears to be consolidating wealth and power. It's no secret that he values wealth and power above all else - both in others and for himself. youtu.be/WACdyTFv7TA?...

#3: Trump made untrue statements in his inauguration address www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... For YEARS we have looked on as he made false statement after false statement. This admittedly not unbiased article calls him, "one of the most dishonest public figures in the history of American politics".

#2: Many people, including the ADL, are rushing to defend Musk’s “gesture”. - Even if the position of his arm was a mistake or an act of emotion in the moment, I would still expect people to be concerned or appalled by the mere possibility of a nazi connection.

#1: Musk makes a nazi-looking arm gesture at the inauguration rally - Many people, including native Germans, agree this looked like a nazi salute Apparantly Musk's statement on twitter was, "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired.'"

It's only been a few days and I already feel like I'm going crazy. I need to start a list of the things that I am seeing, that I am concerned about, in the effort to hold on to my sense of right and wrong. It will be an ongoing and incomplete list.

Tell your Democratic members of Congress to condemn Trump’s executive order and defend the 14th Amendment. Take action now. 👇 app.sosha.ai/s/NWNvWNQi

Love to see Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde doing interviews today (Matthew 5:11-12)

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

Maga wants to overwhelm us, hoping we’ll freeze. WE CAN’T. @indivisible.org

President Trump, we'll see you in court.

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

Transgender people have always been here, and we’re not going anywhere. Count on it.

To my trans and non-binary friends, I see you and you are loved. Nothing Trump says or does will ever change that you are here and that you deserve the right to live your truth.