Some of you get so mad when people point out the obvious. But you're not mad at the people in power who deliver nothing.

Trump froze billions in funding for health care, education, housing, and food assistance — and working families are already feeling the impact. Our state has the tools to fight back by taxing corporations and the wealthy. Tell your state legislators 📧 https://ow.ly/I13x50YrBuv

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

"Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades." Don’t look away: this atrocity was carried out with our tax dollars. Trump's attempts to misplace fault won't wash away the blood on his hands. Or, alas, on ours.

The bi-partisan commitment to genocide should've also been a warning sign.

Sen. Martin Heinrich: “Remember when Republicans said we couldn't afford those tax credits for your healthcare? Now they’re burning through almost a billion dollars a day on their Iran War”

To think MAGA was out here clutching pearls over whether someone might buy candy, cookies, or soda with food assistance, while so many bigger issues go untouched.

It is well past time for a new Luddite movement. I am absolutely a Luddite. If the working class isn't enjoying the same increase in quality of life that capitalists are from tech advances, burn down the technology. We will NOT be displaced for profits we don't share in.

It is absolutely WILD for anyone in reflection of the past to say "Let me be Henry Kissinger for a sec" when he is now one of the most reviled people in history and rightly so. I know people like Hilary still love him, but at least she has the good sense to mostly shut the fuck up about it.

(& before you talk about "New Testament Christians," pls understand that Jesus was drawing here from what you might call "the Old Testament" [Hebrew Scriptures]: "For I was hungry & you gave me something to eat... I was a stranger and you invited me in" etc, & then maybe read this ⬇️)

Fine is still an uncomfortable third, but thankfully, it looks like it's narrowing to @danielbiss.bsky.social & @katmabu.bsky.social as most likely. I have a slight preference for Kat for the way she's run her campaign, but Daniel is a friend & I won't be sad if he wins. Just no Fine/AIPAC please.

My only quibble with Heather is the current era of wealth inequality started with Reagan in 1981 as shown by every economic study ever. But it's certainly accelerated in the last 30... even moreso in the last 15... & will be even worse still as HR1 plays out. Really it's been downhill for a while.

People cant afford health care. People cant afford food. People cant afford rent. But we set money on fire for these bourgeoisie monsters who take joy in hurting others and bombing boats and buildings like children and green army men. People cant afford food or healthcare.

To be fair, I wouldn't want to talk to the Slumlord-in-Chief about housing either. Nothing good would ever come of it.

Days like today are a big reason I love Chicago.

Illinois will absolutely be pulling a self-own if this man wins.

He's been spinning this stupid lie for a while now.

We need to be supporting his primary opponent right now. Let's get him not just out of leadership but out of a job. No complicit reps should keep their seats. Not a single one.

Censure him. Demand he be stripped of all committee assignments. Fight for consequences.

I'm all for its inclusion in international law, but we need a Congress that will make international law mean something. Ask candidates for office this midterm of they would bring the US under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

This isn't war. It's a crusade. It's expanding the genocide beyond Palestine to the entire Middle East. What else can you call destroying a school for girls, turning the skies of Tehran black from bombing an oil refinery, annihilating hospitals, obliterating desalination plants? The signs are clear.

The existence of Fox News is incompatible with our democracy

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

Monkey wrenching is such an under appreciated form of protest

Trump refusing to sign any bills until Congress passes the SAVE Act is a good thing. Let's hope he holds to it and Congress grinds to a halt. The best thing in a fascist government is for it to stop functioning.

The state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

Hold him to account.

The people who found Platner and convinced him to run ACTIVELY WANT HIM TO BE LIKE MANCHIN AND FETTERMAN

We need better Democrats. Not a single dollar more for Trump’s illegal war.

this administration is revolutionizing violating the first amendment

As happy as I am to see Noem go, Miller remains the primary architect of the deportation efforts, and Bovino & Homan are still directing operations on the ground. Concentration camps are still in the works. Noem was the vile mouthpiece, but I'm not convinced it changes any policy direction at all.

Disabled people are significantly more likely to experience medical trauma than their non-disabled peers. ✨🩺✨

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

So close to the right message... We have money for ➡️aiding Israel's genocide & all-out war on Arab nations ➡️ICE terrorizing & murdering Americans & overwhelmingly law-abiding immigrant neighbors ➡️Elon Musk's billions of dollars in US subsidies But can't afford ❌housing ❌healthcare ❌SNAP benefits

Superb piece by @ryanlcooper.com. Couldn't have laid out the case better myself, & I've been saying the same for more years than I can remember. It's the first step towards dismantling Israel & helping the people of that region rebuild a true democracy representing all its people in Israel's place.

O'Neill Burke has been a disaster for justice. She is costing the taxpayers more by locking people up indiscriminately. She is actively causing harm.

Maybe outsourcing this stuff is bad for the people in the first place. Just saying.

Plus, the soldiers who died in that trailer were unacceptably exposed and vulnerable to attack. I remember when the GOP turned the loss of four U.S. lives in Benghazi into a years-long scandal and investigation.

If Murphy is saying that Dems will FINALLY deny unanimous consent until they get a War Powers vote, that's a good thing. I'll believe it when I see it as they could have been doing this all along, but maybe this is where they finally grind things to a halt, at least for a little while. Let's hope.

Not just mobility. Lots of disabled people have issues that require more availability of bathroom access. Plus unhoused people, parents out with kids that suddenly need to go, pregnant folks, and on and on. We need these all over the city.

NEW: In the midst of an affordability crisis, the CEOs of some U.S. companies are cashing in — all while paying their workers poverty wages. In our latest report, @inequality.org’s @sarahanderson.bsky.social sheds light on some of the most egregious offenders.

In this new report, @ksavin.bsky.social, and @calliefreitag.bsky.social and I explain how Trump 2.0 and DOGE built up new barriers to the already-difficult process of getting disability benefits. Let's talk about what we found, and what we recommend to address the issues. 🧵

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

Brendan Reilly is basically Paul Vallas if Paul Vallas sometimes got punched in the face and tossed out of bars.

Happy 189th birthday, Chicago. You hardly look a day over 155. 🔥🔥🔥

NEW: Many of the largest low-wage U.S. companies pay their workers so little that they're forced to rely on public programs for basic needs. Yet their CEOs make, on average, 900x more than their median employees. We need to crack down on this malfeasance, write IPS @inequality.org scholars. REPORT:

Call it “Bibi” rifle embroilment. Israel was going to attack, Iran would retaliate, so…we had to hit first, too?!

Thank goodness it didn't even come close, but this Council needs some serious rotorootering next year to get these conservative asshats out.

reading today that israel had been planning this attack and killing khamenei specifically since last june, the notion that israel’s actions were imminent and unstoppable and thus the u.s. had no choice but to join (without first securing u.s. military assets) is just completely laughable. pure lies.