#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid— It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market

A big deal (or it should be):

Well… yeah. Most of us talked about that at the time. Hegseth revealed time on target and a whole bunch of other information that could have gotten troops killed.

"If your country opens a Department of War and closes the Department of Education then you live in a shithole." -𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝟾%

In October 2024, the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 % and the inflation rate was 2.6 %. Now, unemployment is 4.4 %, inflation has risen to 3 %, and we’ve added $3 Trillion to the national debt. The “Golden Age” feels more like the “Broke-Ass Olden Age.”

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

DOJ will refuse to release the Epstein files based on their sham "ongoing investigation." Bookmark it.

Through every shutdown in history, the government has still provided economic data to the American people. They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.

Is it time to call it a referendum on the president yet?

Today would be a good day to fund the ACA and end the GOP shutdown.

People are leaving “ICE Whistles” in Chicago Little Libraries. I love the motto “Form a crowd be loud.”

People who force their religion on others will force their politics on others. It’s why we separate church from state.

Our Governor has asked to “Let children be children on Halloween” www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/l...

Updating my LEGO White House

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

A friend took this at the No Kings in Hayward WI 💙🐈

Chicago Area 💙💙

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

A federal judge has ruled that ICE agents in the Chicago area who aren’t undercover must wear badges or IDs. blockclubchi.co/4ohSEGQ

Governor Pritzker just gave on hell of a press conference. He is calling on Children and Family services to investigate the treatment of children who were zip tied during the South Shore raid.

We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities. Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement. It’s illegal and un-American.

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

October 2, 2025

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.

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

Source: The Independent share.google/2UHLGY7KcevY...

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I am aware of the troubling incident that has unfolded in Franklin Park. This is a developing situation and the people of Illinois deserve a full, factual accounting of what’s happened today to ensure transparency and accountability.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Trump like all aspiring tyrants needs people to fear him. That is why the huge protests in Chicago and Wash DC are such a threat to him. The more of us who stand up to him, the more who will join us! My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-want...

BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.

I expected things to get very stupid, but I’m not sure I expected things to get this stupid this quickly.

A speed boat allegedly carrying 11 Venezuelan drug smugglers was blown up in international waters by the US military. There’s no proof, no due process—just KABOOM!

“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

Damn, Gov. Pritzker is on fire! Is there a Nobel prize for Courage? I nominate Pritzker. He publicly called out trumpty's mental decline at a presser, said don't come to Chicago & called him a dictator. Ooh, he just skewered GOP MAGATS for supporting this "petty little man." More of this, please!

Pritzker: Over the last four years, we have seen homicides drop in half. That’s something the President should pay attention to. I know he doesn’t read but I know he watches TV so perhaps if someone from Fox or Newsmax is here

Having Hakeem Jeffries in a position of leadership in this moment is like intentionally having an alarm clock that doesn’t actually wake you up.

They aren’t trying to erase history because they’re embarrassed by it. They’re trying to erase history because it’s their current playbook.