Illinois is making landmark investments in our present and future – creating good-paying jobs and paving the way toward an Illinois that is built to last.

It’s uncanny.

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

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Trump tonight: Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me

[email protected]l: "He's just making stuff up and he just says a bunch of stuff…I wish somebody would tell him how math works. You know, saying prices are going to go down 500% or 600% — anyone who has been through the sixth grade knows that's not a thing."

Bovino Leads Caravan Through Chicago Before Clashing With Evanston Mayor blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/17/b...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o... "our standards as a nation are being debased, our manners barbarized."“Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us,” Burke wrote. It is, he warned, through manners that laws are either made or unmade, upheld or corrupted.

As Hanukkah begins, MK and I are thinking of Jewish families across Illinois lighting their menorahs tonight. May the Festival of Lights bring us all hope, comfort, and peace in the face of so much darkness. Chag Sameach. 🕎

“The skies over the Caribbean have become increasingly crowded in recent weeks, as the U.S. military has sent more aircraft and equipment to the region as part of the military buildup against Venezuela.”

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

Maine's loons are on the mend, filling more of the lakes and ponds in the state with their haunting calls.

December 13, 2025

This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Someone vandalized our anti-ICE #nativity, but we came back stronger than ever. It’s a piece of living art, and we’re not going to stop sharing our message of compassion and love. We get knocked down, but we get back up again - better and stronger. Love wins - never doubt it.

In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Pottersville is a dystopian warning about concentrated power, corruption and a community numbed to cruelty. The parallels to today are hard to ignore, writes a film studies professor.

🔥Rep. Bennie Thompson to Noem: “You have put your own interests ahead of the department and violated the law. You are making 🇺🇸 less safe. I call on you to resign— do a real service to the country. That is, if Trump doesn’t fire you first.”

We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).

They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana. With @mlk50.com

Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched in New Orleans are are aiming to make 5,000 arrests with a focus on violent offenders, a target that some city leaders say is not realistic.

Who is behind these charges against this heroic pastor? Someone who works for Attorney General Kwame Raoul, or someone who works for Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke. They are the two *Democrats* at fault for these charges.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS

Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.

November 29, 2025

Observers say a new report in the Washington Post details potentially illegal activity by the defense secretary.

Men who go through healing lodges are half as likely to end up back in jail compared with similar offenders who do time in conventional prisons

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

"Secretary of War" under attack

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

I think its important to point out that Graham, a dog that was pretty clearly leashed by Trump, breaking from him (amid the aftermath of a terrorist attack) is probably a big deal for where Trump stands and where the real GOP is going as they barrel towards a potential mid-term loss.

This is the most corrupt, lawless administration in the history of the United States and there’s no close second.

This is a lot of words to say, “Yikes! That Washington Post story about us illegally killing survivors on the open seas was 100% correct!”

A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order.

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

"The secret to contentment—real, lasting, deep contentment—runs straight through gratitude. You can’t feel blessed without it." ICYMI Yevgeny Simkin: lnk.thebulwark.com/49Ge3Fu

“ICE is about to have a bigger budget than the entire military of Israel. It’s an insane way for us to be spending our resources as a country.” - @timmiller.bsky.social

It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help people see the simple awfulness of things.

This is all John Roberts’ fault

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

We Ain’t Buying It! Join us to picket Whole Foods on Friday 11-12

Contempt proceedings resume in the case involving Trump’s deportation of migrants (after claiming we were under invasion from the Tren de Aragua gang) and the government’s apparent willingness to ignore a key court order. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

November 23, 2025