As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

Sen. Ron Johnson claims preposterously that as many as 3.9 MILLION (!!!) Americans died as a result of the covid vaccine Complete insanity

This morning another busy day in Chicagoland for federal immigration agents. Rapid response groups reporting 1 person taken in St. Charles, IL. ICE presence also reported near the Cook County Domestic Violence Court and the Kane County Circuit Clerk's Office.

Remember when Trump said “we can't take care of daycare?” Now he wants $1 billion taxpayer dollars for his golden ballroom.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

BREAKING: The FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth, Virginia, according to Fox News, who was conveniently on the scene. 1/4

Hassett on American consumers: "Credit card spending is through the roof. They're spending more on gasoline, but they're spending more on everything else too."

Brief summary of today's Chicagoland ICE activity as of 12:30 pm, per rapid response groups: Report of people detained this morning in Wheaton (see below) and in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Further activity reported in Mount Prospect, Hoffman Estates, Chicago Medical District

6 Months As Block Club Chicago’s Inaugural Photojournalism Intern 📸  Photojournalist Jeremy Battle recaps his internship, which took him on assignments ranging from City Hall to South Side lounges. blockclubchi.co/42RhyUI

Today, Elias Law Group attorneys, in partnership with the National Redistricting Foundation, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Equal Ground Education Fund and 18 Florida voters to challenge the State’s newly enacted 2026 congressional map. elias.law/press-releas...

Thousands of Illinois residents are expected to lose access to the federal food program starting in May due to newly expanded work rules. Business owners fear a loss of revenue.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Also, israelis are migrating out of Israel, epic Bibi's job. www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...

Orban made grand appeals to “Christianity” and “Western Civilization,” but his “illiberal democracy” was just a scam, a way to make him and his buddies rich while subjecting Hungarians to stagnation and robbing them of their freedom. Sound familiar? (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The dance photographer is back!!! www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I write a newsletter about the intersection of law & politics called Civil Discourse (I was at DOJ for 25 years when Justice still mattered). You can subscribe or read it online for free. I’m a shameless shil for democracy; Also I sometimes share pictures of my chickens. joycevance.substack.com

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The thing I love about Trump's plan to blockade Iran's blockade is that there's a whole sea on the other side of Iran, via which Trump's lover Putin has been supporting Iran that, I'm fairly certain, the US can't blockade.

"Mr. Trump and his advisers are watching closely to see whether the strait remains open. If it does not, one senior official said, the deal will fall apart." Who wants to tell them? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Before Donald Trump launched this unnecessary and costly war, the Strait of Hormuz was open, gas was $1 less and 13 more American servicemembers were alive. Only someone as deeply incompetent, delusional and unfit as Trump would see this as “winning.”

“As an Iranian, I consider myself privileged if the only suffering of this war for me is gas prices going up or not being able to focus at work,” said Chicagoan Negar Zadh. “I don’t know if my loved ones are alive. I have not lived a normal life in months. … I’m functioning as a paralyzed person.”

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Trump sending his unhinged threats of annihilation in between visits to the sites where he’s planning to build monuments to himself. Full megalomaniacal derangement. Stalin or Hitler territory

ahh yes relentless bombing, the timeless message of easter

Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open up the Strait of Hormuz, “before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!”

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

The Cook County Public Defender’s office said since late February, feds have been spotted entering the Domestic Violence Courthouse or waiting directly outside five times. A woman was followed outside and detained March 10. Another person on February 27, and a third at Maywood courthouse March 18.

$2,500. That’s how much Trump’s tariffs are costing each American family. One year after “Liberation Day,” prices are up, manufacturing is down, and small businesses are hurting.

Goodbye and good riddance to Pam Bondi but whoever comes next as AG will be… worse. Sigh.

Operation Epic Fury has been a complete and total success. In four short weeks, we killed their entire leadership, destroyed their navy, and totally obliterated 168 schoolgirls. Nobody thought we could take out that many schoolgirls at once." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/transcript...

Hear me out. Keep the State Visit, but send Princess Anne instead.

After I shot this photo of Stephanie Tubbs at the #NoKings rally in Hattiesburg, I asked for her name. She hesitated, worried about how her family would react. "No problem," I told her, "We don't have to use your name." She paused. "Fuck it," she said, drawing cheers from the women around her.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

Holy shit! There are even NO KINGS antiwar protests in Israel! ❤