#MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲 As the #GovernmentShutdown lingers on indefinitely, #GOP House Members finally have got plenty of open time in their busy schedules to engage in some serious introspection 🔮

#MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲 As the #GovernmentShutdown lingers on indefinitely, #GOP House Members finally have got plenty of open time in their busy schedules to engage in some serious introspection 🔮

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

ICE agents have been abducting our neighbors, brutalizing protesters, and operating with impunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking alongside other local leaders at 1930 Beach St in Broadview, IL. Tell your elected officials to take a stand alongside us.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

Where are all the other blue state Governors to support @govpritzker.illinois.gov call for invoking the 25th??

Have you ever had your door kicked in at 5am by unknown intruders? I have. A long time ago. My heart hurts for all the folks who are going through similar trauma now in #SweetHomeChicago 🤦🏻

#ThursdayThoughts 🤔 As the days become shorter and darkness seems to surround us for *many reasons besides just the time of the year, community connection should help get us through, as long as we can manage to do it together. ✴️Check in on each other. ✴️Check in on yourself. #OnlyKindnessMatters 🫂

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

The intensity of immigration operations in Chicago are really ramping up-- even without military deployed here yet. The details (via @blockclubchi.bsky.social) about an armed raid late last night at a South Shore apartment building are striking.... (THREAD). blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

@atrupar.com "Ruthless, tough and hardcore"? #MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲

So if there's now officially a #GovernmentShutdown, does that mean "Federal agents" are now doing this #ICE stuff for free, just because they're "patriots"? 💪🏻

A SHELTER??? 😳

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...

@mrzeke.bsky.social Greetings from #Chicago 🚊

R.I.P. - #JaneGoodall 🙈🙉🙊 www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

They wanted to run America like a business. They chose a CEO with a history of financial fraud who had bankrupted many of his businesses. Ergo, we have Trump shutdown #3.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

#MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲 As an imminent shutdown of the #American government continues to threaten the nation, the disturbingly prescient words of a wise prophet resonate loudly...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

‼️ STREAM TONIGHT ‼️ I'll be joined by @amandalitman.bsky.social !! We'll chat about grassroots campaigning and answer your q's on running for office. (Also I'm knitting a hat and if we hit our goal tonight, maybe I’ll mail it to someone who donates during the stream. 🙂) 7 PM CT, Twitch + YouTube

⛅The weather has been quite pleasant and today I am off work. Time to make one last animal sacrifice to the Gods of Summer before they move on from here in #SweetHomeChicago 🌬️🍃 🐮 + 🐔 = lives not in vain 🍽️

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

Bernie is live now on Instagram discussing the government shut down www.instagram.com/sensanders/l...

NYT's analysis of the video from the Sept. 12 killing of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Franklin Park (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Halloween is on a #Friday, so if the weather isn't TOO scary this year; maybe a midnight ride? 🎃

Yes. My unusually large vocabulary (for a kid from public school) is a direct result of a quest to be *understood from a very early age. "If only I could find the 'right words'..." 🙇🏻 As a lifelong veteran of the intentional & unintentional #WarOnWeirdness, I can definitely support this observation.

Call Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and ask him why he's protecting pedofiles and childhood sex traffickers. His official DC numbers are: (202) 225-4000 and (202) 225-2777 Bossier City office: (318) 840-0309 DeRidder office: (337) 226-6385 Leesville office: (337) 423-4232 Be relentless.

On this day in 1955... open.substack.com/pub/letterso... @lettersofnote.com

Gay shaming is a terrible practice. Drastic times demand drastic action. I sincerely pray that this ultimatum is legit. 🙏🏻 #MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲

"If you have body cams, turn then off." This is mocking contempt of the law, not enforcement.

There’s more… It was a set up.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

I ab-so-focking-lootly endorse this keen perception! 💯

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

NEW: On behalf of the Democratic Party, today we filed our brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to defend a campaign finance law that has been on the books for more than 50 years from Republican attacks. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

MADISON, WI! Heading your way on Sat, Oct 25th, 2 pm at First Congregational UCC. We'll be talking about the threat of Christian Nationalism and how people of faith, morality, and conscience can pull us back from theocracy. Ticktets: www.tickettailor.com/events/first... I can't wait to see you!

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

My law firm is currently litigating 55 voting and election cases in 25 states. I expect that we will add another 5-6 this week. Please pay attention to what is happening to see and fair elections and democracy in court!

The prescient mind of #HGWells... #MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲 #MondayMeditation ☯️

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

2 dead, 8+ hurt after Thomas Sanford of Burton, MI, rammed a truck into a Mormon church, opened fire, and set it ablaze before police killed him. His home had a Trump–Vance 2024 sign and FB shows years of pro-Trump posts. Motive unconfirmed, but points to far-right politics.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

It will remain forever funny to me that the business community voted for Trump hoping that he would unleash a withdrawal of the government from the economy Instead, and unsurprisingly, they get this kind of government meddling – which comes on top of the Trump-engineered economic instability

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, you dear sweet innocent child... 🤷🏻 Exactly what color is the sky in your world? #MakeAmericaSmartAgain 🇺🇲