Letter to the Editor: In 2025, Illinois electric rates jumped 15%, a roughly $200 increase over the year for the average household. The driver of this increase has been the growth of energy-hungry data centers.

Care to watch the White House correspondent for PBS News Hour as she challenges the president on voter fraud and a "rigged" election? When we use the term "fact-based," this is what we mean.

“As the airplane took off, [Epstein] started touching me forcibly in between my legs… I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I’ve been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island… I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was…completely conned.” Juliette Bryant

A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught From the very beginning of the DOGE saga, many of us raised alarms about what would happen when a bunch of inexperienced twenty-somethings were handed unfettered…

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said to expect more casualties.

The decision to snub the offer is now being discussed as one of the biggest miscalculations thus far in the Iran war. “If there’s a tactical error or a mistake we made leading up to this [war in Iran], this was it,” a U.S. official told Axios Tuesday. trib.al/cmVXpTW

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This is criminal on so many levels... The poor, innocent people. The ecological damage.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

Faith used as cover for cruelty while children suffer. Shameful. #SheShed #Voices4Victory

Trump's DOGE cuts are killing people.

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve heard in a long time. Thank you for sharing George!!!💙💛💙

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Evangelical leaders gathered in the Oval Office again yesterday to lay hands on Trump. ("Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray...so that they may be seen by others....But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door....")

#HealingHearts " ... no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger - something better, pushing right back." Remember: you've got a spark, a light within, that no amount of trauma could extinguish. ✨ #CSASurvivor #CPTSD #Pinks #ProudBlue 💛💚💜

PATHETIC! So after all Trump’s whining about the “Biden autopen”, and forcing investigations, even though he uses one himself, they couldn’t build a case. Not because they didn’t try. But because there was no case to build.

HELL YES 👇 👇 👇 👇

In case y'all have forgotten, this is what a REAL president sounds like. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

This innocent little girl was killed by our bomb, with our money, in our name, without our permission. Shame on the United States. We have become a stain on the planet.

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So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Today in history, 1913: Thousands of women march down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C.’s first large-scale political march. The event was marred by a violent mob of men who physically assaulted the marchers. /1

Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday. She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.

The reason he is involved as a “special foreign adviser” to Trump!! Padding the family pocketbooks!

This breaks my heart in half 💔 No matter what these children were innocent

'Bringing up PTSD': US military veterans react to the war in Iran

NEW: President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are not letting a shooting war in the Middle East distract them from their social media campaign for passage of the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

US evangelicals have spent generations preparing to fight the Antichrist. But when he finally shows up, they just make him President.

Trump: "Spain said we can't use their bases. We could use their bases if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody is gonna tell us not to use it" Not receiving consent and moving forward anyway is a consistent theme in his life — as E. Jean Carroll can attest

Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Chris Murphy: "It won't be the billionaire children of Donald Trump and his buddies that die. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country that are gonna die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war."

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

Exactly. Blindly hooting for the Buffoon-in-Chief as he unlawfully orders airstrikes without a coherent plan isn't a foreign policy, and isn't patriotic; it's just stupid, and dangerous.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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So the “peace president” has militarily invaded another country killing thousands of innocents including US citizens, and putting tens of thousands of our military in harms way. He definitely is a CUNT. Once again trampling on the Constitution ignoring the war powers act. Distraction from Epstein.

Donald Trump has learned nothing from decades of endless war. I went to war three times for this country. Working class folks will pay the price of his military adventurism. Americans are sick of it. I’m sick of it.

The American people now see Trump for who he is — a would-be dictator who does not care what Americans think or want, cares nothing about our Constitution or our laws, and sees himself as a kind of eighteenth-century king, with unlimited power to drag us into wars without the consent of the people.

I feel like we shouldn’t be saying “Israel and the US” just bombed Iran when it’s Trump and Netanyahu that bombed Iran. They just used US weapons without our consent.