Great commentary from @willbunch.bsky.social (though disappointing that news coverage of the March never made it to Inquirer’s front page)

If you remember 1975 & PL 94-142, the fight for children with disabilities to be served in their public schools, Linda McMahon's dismantling of IDEA is a bitter pill. #EduSky nancyebailey.com/2025/10/19/r...

Here's one way Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke says he's prioritizing grocery affordability in Philly:

Three reasons I have hope for America, even after a very dark week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have...

👊👊👊👊👊 Chicagoans Resist I.C.E. Agents www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Says Chicago Immigration Agents Must Wear Body Cameras www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Perfect www.inquirer.com/education/st...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement is traumatizing the community www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... via @nbcnews

hallmonitor.org/data-driven-...: my commentary @appsphilly.bsky.social

Aside, of course, from the Palestinian state, is there any player in this whole Middle East arrangement who hasn't bribed Trump, his family, or his aides and their family, or done psy-ops for Trump's campaigns? This is the art of the deal in the 21st century, post-democracy

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker But I am losing faith, rapidly. Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

[email protected]: www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Trump's dictatorship is time for making moral choices I talked to the top climate scientist, Penn's Michael Mann, about his great new book - and why he sacrificed a key university post in order to keep speaking the truth against anti-science lies My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head. ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.

[email protected]: It is not small government to turn the federal law enforcement apparatus into a machine for the persecution of your political opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

The suit attacks the process through which the cuts and fare increases were approved, referencing security removing Haver from the podium during a public hearing when he attempted to ask questions. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

All year, we’ve seen this administration treat appropriations bills less as laws-to-follow and more like Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. What should make this moment any different? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

The reason Trump, Vance and Miller want to make it un-American and maybe even illegal to mention "fascism" or make comparisons to Nazis is because they are aggressively doing fascism, with Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago We are all outlaws. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

[email protected]: To truly oppose a fascist Trump regime, we must declare ourselves anti-fascists. In light of Trump’s order, we must become outlaws. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Years ago I had a chat with an older Jewish woman who as a child in Germany and had lived through Krisatllnacht. It sounded a lot like this. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Heard about Nepal? Heard about Morocco? Heard about Madagascar? The media is ignoring it, but a global Gen Z revolution against corrupt, decrepit rule is underway. Will it ever reach U.S. shores, or do we only produce 20-something assassins? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gen-...

Hope this new FOS substack strikes the right balance of honesty and hope about education workers and our unions organizing with allies to defeat Trump and MAGA: open.substack.com/pub/futuresc...

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Excellent report on #tech #billionaire roles in #ICE, #deportations, with evidence of how Amazon, Palantir, Geo, Bank of America profit, push their agenda: littlesis.org/news/the-bil...

The huge story we're not paying attention to? A Gen Z revolution has toppled leaders in Nepal and Madagascar and overrun streets from the Philippines to Peru This uprising hasn't hit America...yet. Is it our warped politics, or just a matter of time? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gen-...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This objective fact about the 2024 election — that it was a narrow result in a closely divided nation — does not seem to matter, all that much, to the nation’s politics,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

An existential threat to American democracy

A great explanation of how billionaires & politicians, knowing little about children & how they learn, took over our public school system. Billionaire-Financed Education Propaganda tultican.com/2025/09/29/b...

Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

Doonesbury is right on this morning www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...

This is just a horrible, horrible idea. Picking students by the administration's idea of what's "civil" -- i.e., not protesting -- won't produce a young people who think critically or know to challenge unjust rules. It aims to mold a generation of sheep