Today, I had the opportunity to meet with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and other leaders to support their critical work during this uncertain moment.

Let's stand together and we'll get through this, Illinois.

NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day.

This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets!

@50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings

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NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE!

It looks like tens of thousands have joined.

This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu.

Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.

A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

How long can we just ignore real life before it becomes a "problem"? #bookish #romancereader #readinginbed #booksky #bookishproblems

Crockett: Why lie… the fact that you're lying makes it look like what else are you lying about?

Do not come, Donald Trump.

You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

Third time I’ve heard of Project Esther in the last couple weeks. We should take this seriously.

You guys, I’m starting to really freak out.

Listen to what this man, who is a 20 year member of the US Army has to say. If you don’t know what “Project Esther” is, I suggest you look that up too.

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."

Republicans rig maps, Democrats fight back.

California’s new maps cut straight into GOP districts—and voters get the final say this November.

That’s the difference. Republicans cheat. Democrats put it to the people. The only way we survive is to fight fire with 🔥

The firing of Erika McEntarfer—Commissioner of the BLS—is how the Trump regime will start manipulating economic data.

On top of an already failing economy, none of our economic data will be reliable now.

This will lead to a crash, one that the fascists and oligarchs are positioned to benefit from.

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

GET LOUDER PEOPLE!

GET LOUDER!!!!!!!!!!

Cost of Obamacare expected to soar as subsidies expire and insurers hike premiums People who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could see increases of more than 75% each month, one expert said.

Another thing Trump is actively making more expensive: our health insurance premiums.

Realtime Fascism | Tracking Fascist Trends in the US Realtime Fascism is an automated system that tracks and analyzes news headlines against historically confirmed steps toward fascism in the United States. See the data in real-time.

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BREAKING: DACA Recipient Sent to Everglades Detention Center as DOJ Attorney Sounds the Alarm Over Pam Bondi A DACA recipient was sent to "Alligator Alcatraz," a DOJ attorney is sounding the alarm over Pam Bondi, ICE targets youth basketball team with all American citizens, and Trump memes Superman

BREAKING: A DACA recipient was sent to "Alligator Alcatraz," a DOJ attorney is sounding the alarm over Pam Bondi, ICE targets youth basketball team with all American citizens, and Trump memes Superman.

All the news you missed overnight: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Straight out of Project 2025:

ICE is now the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Bureau.

Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials

Where's a good federalist when you need one? The Constitution leaves the running of elections to the states. Yet here seems to be a new effort to threaten election administrators with criminal prosecution, based on nothing but conspiracy theories. Alarming. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

'Equal dignity': U.S. map shows the impact of Obergefell v. Hodges decision "They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the June 26, 2015, ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. "The Constitution grants them that right."

10 years ago today, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the ruling. "The Constitution grants them that right."

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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

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Black graphic with text "The ACLU has sued every U.S. president since our founding over a century ago. Holding presidents to account is what we do." In the lower right corner is a yellow-tone photo of people protesting.

We won't allow our rights to be trampled.

The state of free speech in Trump's America A central promise of President Trump’s 2024 campaign was that, if elected, he would “restore free speech.” In September 2024, at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, Trump said, “I will bring back free spee...

President Trump claims to support free speech.

His record so far — targeting media outlets, detaining pro-Palestine advocates, censoring scientific research, banning books, and more — proves otherwise.

NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions.

This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.