Charles E Henderson

Early voting begins at locations all across Chicago, suburban Cook County The time has come in suburban Cook County, as early voting opens in 55 locations on Monday. Polling also expands across all 50 Chicago wards.

Early voting begins in all 50 wards in an hour!

I strongly recommend voting early because it frees you up to help with GOTV and Election Day activities.

US-Israel war on Iran dramatically expands across Middle East US allies in Gulf states come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones as three US fighter jets mistakenly shot down by Kuwait

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A poll has suggested 80 percent of Americans disagree with this war. Operation Epic Fury has put our citizens and the world in grave danger. As a Anti-war Veteran it sickens me to death. We didn't learn from what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq. God help us all!

Live updates: US and Israel launch attack on Iran The U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Saturday. President Donald Trump said the Iranian public should “take over" their government. The first strikes appeared to target Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Al...

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This was supposedly to be the anti-war president that said America First no more foreign intervations. Here we go Iraq 3.0. People have short memories in what happened over there.
Why are people so fascinated about war? It's simple human beings like seeing others suffer.

A Facebook digital ad from a group called American future it says sponsored paid for by American future. The graphic is an image of state representative Jaime Andrade that says vote for Jaime Andrade by March 17 Vota pot Jaime Andrade antes del 17 de marzo

A friend got a targeted digital ad in support of Jaime Andrade from American Future and asked what their deal is.

Well...this turns out to be a great story about an emerging pattern in federal independent expenditures in state and local races that are especially relevant to Democratic primaries.

First of its kind: The 1938 showdown between the Chicago Bears and the Negro All-Stars • The TRiiBE Hundreds of thousands of people cut out ballots from Black newspapers and mailed in their votes for which players should make the 1938 Negro All-Star football team.

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Another great piece from the Triibe. I remember learning about the Negro All Stars footbal team 20 years ago from an elder who at the time was in their 80s and saw them play as a teenager. Just to see the elder face light up telling the story was pure heaven!

Gov. Wes Moore on Trump: 'I pray for him and I just feel bad for him' Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pushing back on President Donald Trump while trying to rally Democrats in his state around a mid-decade redistricting fight.

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That's why we are in the state we are now in this country. Democrats playing nice while in the mealtime this current administration in Washington is steam rolling over them and the people of the United States.

For whatever we think about political parties as ideological constructions they are also campaign finance infrastructure. Organizations that get special privileges from the state to raise and spend money for the purposes of influencing elections should be held to a higher standard.

In this video Miguel holds up a mailer that alleges he stands with ICE while talking about the community defense work he has done.

He says the phrase "they tried to take my wife who was dressed as a Care Bear" while showing video of a violent ICE incident that happened on Halloween.

Trump’s pick for top diplomatic role faces scrutiny over ‘white supremacist’ views Jeremy Carl, assistant secretary of state nominee, has espoused ‘racist, antisemitic’ views, says non-profit leader

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Just heard about this bozo. Unbelievable that he would be a nominee for one of the highest positions that would representing the United States at the U.N. Their are 100s of White Christian Nationalist working throughout Trump's Administration. Project 2025 plan.

Yes I learned about John and Mary Johnson and their amazing story. It was great to hear about the contributions they put forth to the Black community in Chicago pre Civil War Era and afterwards. Often times many Chicagoans don't know that there was a Black community in Chicago before the Civil War.

The rise of Black political power in early Chicago • The TRiiBE From abolition to the fight for political office, the work of early Black Chicagoans helped to establish Black political power.

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Another great article by the Triibe giving us the history about Black codes used in Illinois before the Civil War. I highly recommend folks read the story about the African Americans rich history in Chicago. And Black Chicagoans contributions the United States.

Chicago Black Restaurant Week enters 11th year of boosting the city’s foodie scene • The TRiiBE Some new additions join this year’s lineup: including Sanders BBQ Supply Co. in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood and CheSa's Bistro in Avondale.

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What a great article on Black owned restaurants. Thank you for sharing a list of locations that I need to go to now!

Chicago Black Restaurant Week enters 11th year of boosting the city’s foodie scene • The TRiiBE Some new additions join this year’s lineup: including Sanders BBQ Supply Co. in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood and CheSa's Bistro in Avondale.

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What a great article on Black owned restaurants. Thank you for sharing a list of locations that I need to go to now!

Court records: Chicago immigration raid was about squatters, not Venezuelan gangs In the documents the Department of Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of cr...

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Not surprised records show this. This was literally an attack on Black people in the SouthShore. community and immigrants combined. I was so disgusted that children were being zipped tied.
This one of the reasons ICE should be totally abolished.

Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats' ICE demands Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”

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Let's see if the Democrats can hold their ground for once. Its time to stop playing patty cake with the Republicans.

Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"

If you want to know about Jesse Brown, talk to @cafetacbva.bsky.social
who has been tracking federal and county service cuts to Jesse Brown for years and is always sharing the latest greatest public opinion from the cafeteria.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Charles Henderson—The Devil’s Deal Trying to stay sane in an age of madness, Ben turns to sports as an escape—it almost works. Ben riffs. Charles Henderson tackles the tough topics. Including…the dev…

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Had the honor to be on the amazing Ben Joravsky show recently.

A screenshot of the Department of Justice website. At the top there is a small icon of the American flag and it says an official website of the United States government with a link that says here's how you know in an arrow to expand Underneath there is a banner heading with the emblem of the Department of Justice that says US Department of Justice underneath it is a button that says I am not a robot but you have to press to advance the screen

I don't think I've encountered this on a federal website before and even weirder that it's on a link to a press release.

Iran crisis live: Trump says ‘help is on its way’ as he urges Iranians to ‘keep protesting’ and to ‘take over’ their institutions US president cancels meetings with Iranian officials ‘until senseless killing of protesters stops’

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How hypocritical is it that Donald Trump would say something like this, when he and his Manson Family administration are okay with a woman being shot in the face for trying to stand up for the vulnerable in our country. Makes me sick and so disgusted.

David Letterman calls CBS News a ‘wreck’ under newly installed leadership Former late-night host makes comments amid merger of CBS’s parent company Paramount with Skydance Media

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It is trash now under the new leadership.

I typically think that political ads with staged constituent interactions are terrible but also I think (with very few exceptions) that it's deeply weird to make a political ad that shows zero direct interaction between the candidate and human people.

You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries “Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

I received a thank you from some library workers for this piece after a Chicago city budget was passed this week without the previously proposed library cuts I described here. Many thanks to everyone who made noise about this issue. There were wins and losses in this budget, but this win matters.

I agree with you on that!

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is back in Chicago; reported sightings on Southwest Side and abduction at Walmart in Cicero • The TRiiBE Gov. JB Pritzker: “We don't know how long they'll stay.”

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What a weird time in the country. 10 years from now we will look at how stupid this all was. People just never learn from history and repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Japanese American intermittent camps during WWII, Native American bording schools, etc.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino is back in Chicago; reported sightings on Southwest Side and abduction at Walmart in Cicero • The TRiiBE Gov. JB Pritzker: “We don't know how long they'll stay.”

thetriibe.com/2025/12/bord...

What a weird time in the country. 10 years from now we will look at how stupid this all was. People just never learn from history and repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Japanese American intermittent camps during WWII, Native American bording schools, etc.

Reminder that Republicans abandoned war heros to support a convicted criminal. Still waiting for the spell to wear off and common sense to return to the "body" of Congress.

Former Judge Andrew Napolitano, who worked alongside Pete Hegseth for years at Fox, says the Sept. 2 boat strike is "an act of a war crime."

"Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of Defense, to the admiral, to the people who actually pulled the trigger should be prosecuted."

When you make fun of busty ladies to make fun of the president, the president doesn't see it but all the busty ladies do and we are vicious, unforgiving, and impervious to pain after years of having random wires digging into our torsos.