Honored to receive the Top Woman Legislator in Leadership Award from the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois. For 13 years I’ve fought and delivered for our community, and that’s what I’ll continue doing in Congress.

If Epstein’s claims are true, Trump lied about his involvement & knew about the abuse Bondi & Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyers in DOJ, ignored their duties to the Constitution & victims This is corruption, plain & simple I broke it down on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 - TN

City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin begins her office's annual budget hearing by announcing that the city will no longer buy U.S. Treasury securities to protest the Trump administration's aggressive immigration raids. CONTEXT: Conyears-Ervin is running for Illinois' 7th Congressional District.

this needs to known far and wide

"The Democratic base is enraged, not only at Trump but at their own leaders. And anger is an incredibly powerful force. Democratic politicians themselves are already showing that they feel it." Some very important & encouraging historical context in PN today Everyone should read this:

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.

“These people remind me of the soldiers I patrolled with in Afghanistan, only the average ICE agent has less training than the average soldier. It seems like every neighborhood in the U.S. is now subject to an armed and potentially violent confrontation with federal troops.“

Democrats need to call Republicans what they are: un-American. Every Republican going along with Trump’s destruction wears that label, and it’s time to make them own it. Watch LP’s Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:

Schumer allows a provision to go into the supposedly “clean” CR to allow people like Ted Cruz to file lawsuits for money over Jack Smith’s J6 investigation. Amazing Dem leadership in the senate. Thanks Chuck!

I cannot describe how motivated I was by meeting @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social and hearing her vision for a new Democratic Party that actually fights for the people who vote for them and enacts laws that make the lives of people better. We need 100 Senators like her in the US Senate.

"If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention... I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure." { gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."

Durbin just voted for a budget to fund this. Not much accountability there. He is getting very good at the Susan Collins voicing concern while not doing anything to stop the concerning activities.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Resign.

made this so you guys can stop sharing that AI slop one

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

No shit

We deserve better than this bullshit @durbin.senate.gov

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

I know some folks like to show respect for veteran politicians, but I’m done with that. Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat. If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.

So Democrats win huge last week. Voters told Dems they want to fight. What do Senate Dems do? Capitulate! For nothing in return! Stupid as hell. Exactly why they lose elections and got us in this mess. Fucking idiots including Durbin.

What the fuck did they get for this “deal”?!? It is capitulation pure and simple. Time to retire immediately Durbin.

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working. We need new leaders in the Senate.

They've already murdered someone in my city, shot another woman, zip tied children, tear gassed an elementary school, and broke six ribs of a bystander. The president of the United States of America says: that's not enough.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

he’s saying exactly what we’ve been saying, he’s absolutely right, and any colleagues of his should listen to him every part of the country that could just told Donald Trump to go to hell and we demand our elected representatives follow suit

WTF is wrong with these people?

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.

Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said federal immigration agents haven’t detained U.S. citizens. She’s wrong. blockclubchi.co/4qIoKxe

This person took this when they called the race

Woke up to Democratic victories across the country and a beautiful sunrise in Trump’s hellscape of Chicago. No place I’d rather be in this time and this fight.

California voters approved Gov. Gavin Newsom’s congressional map, Prop 50, giving Democrats a potential boost of up to five House seats. The Democratic victory marks a concrete response to Trump’s political agenda less than a year into his second term.

Just want to see one (1) news story on how toxic the Republican brand is among average, everyday Northeast urbanites, and how that should be seen as a major crisis for Republicans. Unfortunately I won’t bc this is still a country where cows and empty land get strong political representation

AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

🚨BREAKING: Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have all won another 10-year term in a high-stakes retention election that saw a major GOP push to reshape the state’s highest court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

This is the one I was most worried about tonight. This is a full repudiation of the orange turd.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Preach. . .