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I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

Exactly.

Trump’s America. Mubashir is a 20-year-old Minneapolis resident and a U.S. citizen. ICE assaulted him and grabbed him off the street anyway. Cruelty and incompetence, and an unlawful detention. A kidnapping. ICE gets to do this with zero accountability. 1/2

More than 1,900 people, mostly children, have been sickened by measles in the U.S. in 2025. The outbreaks are moving the country toward losing its measles-free status by early next year

The US government is now a mafia organization.

"Among these dangerous criminals the Trump administration is deporting were a mother arrested on her way to pick up her special-needs child, a mother separated from her two-month-old, the mother of a 5-year-old whose husband is a citizen, and hundreds of others." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is Trump's America -- where an American walking down the street doing nothing wrong can be chased, assaulted, and detained by armed thugs who refuse to even look at his proof of citizenship. Trump has repeatedly said Somali Americans are "garbage," so now DHS is treating them that way.

It used to be an impeachable offense. Now it’s a daily occurrence.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

*tinted*

Marco Rubio bravely taking a stand against… Calibri. FINALLY...a politician tackling the real problems Americas are taking about at the kitchen table. America: “We need better AI policy.” Rubio: “Hear me out… Times. New. Roman.” AI: "Bro… why are you making this harder for me?”

As people made their way into a naturalization ceremony, ICE officials stopped 38 of the 100 applicants and told them they wouldn't be leaving with U.S. citizenship. The immigrants — who passed every step in the naturalization process — needed only to take the oath of allegiance to become citizens.

George Blanda was 48 when he suited up for his last AFL game. #youngster

🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

The Colts have signed 44 year old Phillip Rivers to be a backup QB - but they could have gotten a younger QB veteran, 38 yr old COLIN KAPERNAEK. #blackballed #notinthecards

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

🚨Arresting US citizens who have not broken any laws is now acceptable practice in the United States of America. The only thing worse than being ICE is pretending that you don’t see what is happening to our neighbors. She isn’t a hero, she’s an American. 🇺🇸

There are good people in this country, people who stand up for their neighbors & put their bodies on the line. Don't forget that. Good people stand against #ICELawlessness. Be inspired by that. As ICE thugs round up, brutalize & torture our fellow Americans, do or say something! Don't be complicit.

SCOTUS seems to be preparing for more pretzel logic. 🥨 joycevance.substack.com/p/monday-in-...

Trump on giving farmers a bailout: “Because of the tariffs, this is possible.” Reality Check: It was Trump‘s tariffs that made a bailout necessary in the first place.

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

Trump calls Somali immigrants “garbage.” His VP cheers him on. Meanwhile, families are being torn apart, asylum is being shut down, aid is being gutted, and the military is firing on survivors in the water. Cruelty is becoming national policy—silence is complicity. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"The core of the strategy is here: 'The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.' This resignation from the role of chief maintainer of the global order marks the break from 80 years of American foreign policy." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

It was only a matter of time…

Himes: "As many times as Tom Cotton may say it doesn't matter what they were doing, it matters essentially what they were doing ... these guys were barely alive much less engaging in hostilities"

If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.

This is what’s happening to immigrants doing it “the right way” in Trump’s America. We have been told about it happening here in Tennessee. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.

Europe Sounds the Alarm as the United States Sides With Putin open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

It’s an abomination of our tax dollars. Nobody wants this.

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oA2Km0

More of this nationwide please!

A masterclass in how to be an honest, no-holds barred journalist. If only we had more like her

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

how utterly ridiculous www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.