My god, we’re only 12 days into the year. I guess 2026 will also be about a decade long

This is….not good

The fact that they murdered Ms Good in cold blood is bad enough. But I can’t stop thinking of the absolute incompetence of a cop shooting a driver in a moving vehicle. How in any universe can that be defended as sensible action?

“Although I may disagree with him on a day-to-day or hour-to-hour basis … he has shown extraordinary competence,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said in an interview. “I voted for him in this position; I still have confidence in his abilities.”

Make it viral.

This article gives just a short list of US imperial interventions that have destabilized Central and South America. If we want to understand the current immigration issues, we need to understand this history

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

We’re living the movie Wag the Dog

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Damn

😢😢

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

And it goes on. The man is completely unraveling. Bombing boats, threatening invasions “to stop drugs,” and now promising a full pardon to a president convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. This isn’t law and order. It’s the most lawless presidency in American history.👇

If you’re like me, maybe you disconnected from the news a bit for the holiday. Even so, there are things in this newsletter that surprised me and just aren’t being fully reported in mainstream media, thank you, @hcrichardson.bsky.social, for keeping this important record of our descent into fascism

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

AHPAA was passed more than 20 years ago to spur Illinois’ most expensive communities to build more affordable housing. Despite recent amendments intended to strengthen the law, there’s still much work to be done to achieve the law’s vision.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I really cannot imagine going to all the trouble of getting elected to the Senate only to get there and decide not to stand up for healthcare, or democracy, or people’s ability to afford their lives. If those things aren’t worth fighting for, then truly what is?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Am rewatching one of my favorite movies of my teen years “Pump Up the Volume” after some time, and the first line is “Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?” Talk about a movie holding up

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

This cannot be spoken loudly enough. Government “handouts” to individuals wouldn’t be necessary without government-sanctioned corporate greed.

“today the [DOJ] announced it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions in the upcoming November 4 elections. The observers will go to [CA] and [NJ], two Democratic-dominated states that will be holding elections with national consequences.” The lead up to suspend midterm elections

If I may dril for a moment, you absolutely do not have to give Trump “credit” for anything, ever. The saying does not go “even a broken clock hires its own gestapo”

“Pritzker said, ‘we must remind everyone that…[t]here will come a time where people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law. When the time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and the records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.’”

Happy Diwali, Illinois! I hope that the Festival of Lights brings you peace during this time of celebration and reflection — that even in the darkest of days, the light of wisdom and unity will always triumph.

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.” Trump is clearly demented but also setting up his Reagan moment

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Every person in that room should have gotten up and walked out at the start of his diatribe. He absolutely is stark raving mad and an absolute embarrassment to this country and the world

This is a really important read. For sure, Trump policies will only intensify the homelessness crisis. But inaction and dehumanization of people with stable housing has historically been, sadly, a very bipartisan take

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

BREAKING: A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court panel has voted to convict ex-President Jair Bolsonaro for plotting to overturn the 2022 election

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

YES! I call it the annual smushing of the boobs. There has to be a less painful, more dignified way

JFC

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

This was so brilliant! What a way to build community!

New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.

Ba-dum-PAH!

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

Words to live by (wouldn’t you say @kaydaly.bsky.social?)

The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.

JFC