We are failing our kids

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

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King Charles III has officially stripped Prince Andrew of his remaining royal title of Prince and his home over his ties with Epstein! #KingCharles #PrinceAndrew #Monarchy #USDemocracy #Pinks www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

I'm attending Frontline for Freedom's event, “Unpack the Compact Movement Call: Resisting Trump's Latest Attack on Higher Ed” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration. The mishap, during a Marine Corps celebration attended by the Vance and Hesgeth underscores safety concerns that Gov. Newsom voiced before Saturday’s event at Camp Pendleton. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

Michigan farmers stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in exports to China this year thanks to Donald Trump. And at the same time, his reckless trade war is driving up the costs on everything they need to run their farms. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

The Trump Administration made a deal with El Salvador that threatened years of U.S. law enforcement work to fight MS-13 so they could send people to CECOT—one of the most inhumane prisons in the world.

Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois. Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.

WTAF 😱

Oh wow

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

#nokingsprotest Grand Rapids Michigan. Peaceful exuberant crowd of thousands! Great signs 🪧! Collective action feels good 👍

More reason to get the truth on what became of the $50K. Administration stories don’t add up.

Either Mike Johnson doesn't read the news or he's lying. He should read this story about a 10 year old US citizen with brain cancer who you and Trump deported away from her doctors. This is what your "mass deportations" are doing.

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.

This report is absolutely shocking. ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Federal resources aren’t campaign tools. Secretary Kristi Noem's new TSA video crosses the line, violating the Hatch Act with blatant political messaging. We’re urging California airports to stand firm against this unlawful federal pressure and refrain from airing the video.

The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law. Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.

Beyond the fact that this energy infrastructure funding has already been appropriated to our state and is owed to Arizonans, protecting solar projects and lower electricity bills is personal to me. azmirror.com/briefs/arizo...

Jeffries: “ And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above"

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

You understand the assignment, California— VOTE YES ON PROP 50

Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout. Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

✌️ “Trump seems oblivious to the paradox of enforcing peace abroad and disrupting it badly at home, of soothing violence overseas and inflaming it here.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Los Angeles County voted to declare a state of emergency in response to federal ICE raids. Normally reserved for natural disasters, the declaration allows the county to mobilize resources and offer assistance to residents impacted by the raids.

They arrested a giraffe.

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics. That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥 Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.' Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.' Louisiana: Same thing. Jackson: No, it’s not.

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

DEVELOPING: Democrats literally marching through the Capitol demanding Grijalva be sworn in. Speaker Mike Johnson’s office is locked. Democracy is, too.

#trumpshutdown #gopshutdown #epsteinshutdown

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

“.. Look no further than the automotive industry for the latest indication of a potential “K-Shaped” economy for U.S. consumers.” @cnbc.com @mikewayland.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/n...

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for." #noloyaltyoaths #academicfreedom

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