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ICE thugs violently kidnapping a pregnant woman off the streets in Elgin, IL as her child watches in horror.

Please keep elevating these stories — Do NOT normalize this abuse. These people need to be held accountable.

Openly gay candidate mounts bid to unseat State Sen. Feigenholtz - Windy City Times Nick Uniejewski, a 29-year-old community organizer and policy analyst, is running for Illinois State Senate with a focus on housing, transit and LGBTQ+ health care—but to get there, the openly gay can...

I’m running for State Senate because I know what it’s like to feel ignored by people in power—and I believe we deserve better.

Read the full story: windycitytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

Wow, that is way too low. They need to make a comfortable living wage.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "As a state rep, I get paid about $600 a month. That's not much to live off of. Many of my colleagues, including myself, we have day jobs that help us pay the bills. And by breaking quorum, we are leaving those day jobs behind... So this decision was not made lightly."

Casar as CNN presses him about running against Doggett: "We aren't accepting these illegal maps. We're not going to just stand by and be pit against one another... this fight is about something much bigger than the horserace... it's about voters being able to choose their member of Congress"

Disgusting.

🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

On top of the worst tariffs since Smoot-Hawley in the 1930s. During the Great Depression.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Yes, There Is a Substantial Body of Evidence that Trump Has Been Found Liable for Sexual Abuse, Rape-and Accused by Many Others Here's a breakdown of what's legally confirmed, publicly documented, and substantiated by courts: E. Jean Carroll Case(s) May 2023 (First Trial) - Sexual Abuse + Defamation A federal jury in Manhattan found that Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. The jury awarded $5 million in damages-$2 million for sexual abuse and $3 million for defamation. The jury found him liable for sexual abuse, but not "rape" by the narrow legal definition under New York law. But here's the kicker: The judge later ruled that Carroll's use of the word "rape" was "substantially true," and therefore not defamatory. This basically says: legally, it may not have met one strict definition, but the court agreed it was rape in the ordinary sense of the word. January 2024 (Second Trial) – Additional Defamation Carroll sued Trump again for further defamation after he continued to publicly deny her claims and insult her. A second jury awarded her $83.3 million-a huge verdict that reflects the severity and willful nature of Trump's attacks. Trump's counterclaim was dismissed. December 2024 The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the $5 million judgment from the first trial, reinforcing the original jury's findings.

Other Accusations (Outside Carroll) More than 25 women have publicly accused Trump of various forms of sexual assualt. Some allegations date back decades, others emerged during his 2016 campaign. Not all have resulted in lawsuits, but several have detailed sworn statements. Remember the Access Hollywood Tape? (2005) Trump was caught on hot mic audio saying: | "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything... Grab 'em by the p**y."* He later tried to play it off as "locker room talk," but many survivors said that was the exact behavior they were accusing him of. RECEIPT So what does this all mean? Legally: Trump has already been found liable for sexual abuse in a court of law. He has been ordered to pay nearly $90 million in damages to one survivor. Courts have ruled that accusing him of rape is not defamatory, because it's substantially true. Socially and ethically: There's a pattern of accusations that can't be ignored. And it stands in contrast to the way people sometimes latch onto rumors (like with Epstein) without acknowledging the abuse that's already been legally confirmed. Bottom line: Yes-there is real, proven, court-tested evidence that Donald Trump sexually abused and raped a woman, and he's been held legally accountable for it. And yes, dozens of women have accused him of similar misconduct. That's not a vibe. That's a verified public record.

Donald Trump was found in court to have sexually assualted and raped a woman, and many other women allege similar things, then MAGA voted for that. So yes, he's probably all over the Epstein files, and even beyond that, we know he did these things.

These are quotes from James Madison, the father of the United States Constitution. In them, he describes his views on the separation of church and state, and his motivation behind the 1st Amendment. Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right. It is unalienable, because the opinions of men, depending only on the evidence contemplated by their own minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men. It is unalienable also, because what is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator. James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 1785 "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." James Madison, Letter to Edward Livingston, 10 July 1822 During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. James Madison, A Memorial And Remonstrance, On The Religious Rights Of Man, 1784-85 "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect." James Madison, Letter to William Bradford Jr., April 1st, 1774 "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"

Thank you for working hard to protect religious freedom, which was always meant to be a part of the US government. Here's what James Madison (Played a central role in creation of the US constitution & was the 4th president.) had to say about it:

BREAKING: An Illinois county removed a massive Ten Commandments monument from government property after we sued.

This is a victory for religious freedom.

Please teach those republicans a lesson to never do this again, signed a trans person stuck in Texas lol.

‘1984’ is upon us

Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

Even beyond his associations with Epstein, Trump was already found in court to have done these things:

Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?

EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”

Is there a hieroglyph for that? lol

Contact your reps to tell them to denounce this harmful act against all people of color in the US.

It's important to know that the Department of Homeland Security posted a painting attributed to support of the genocide and displacement of Native American people and white nationalism. They are not being subtle how their policies are based in racism.

Adultery, Cloning Still Seen as Most Immoral Behaviors Of 20 behaviors, extramarital affairs and human cloning are seen as the most morally wrong. Birth control and divorce remain the most morally acceptable.

I found the poll, and they only polled 1,003 people. How can that represent ~340 million Americans citizens? I wonder how they weighed party affiliation and age too. If it's done not based on the real population's views it can scew the results.
news.gallup.com/poll/692801/...

Good grief, Trump shook his cheeto spray tan bottle way too much again. 😮‍💨

Some are misinterpreting AOC's intention. This was because she didn't want innocent civilians to be bombed, and voting for MTG's bill would have not stopped Israel's ability to harm Palestinians at all.

My record on Palestine speaks for itself. I’m proud of it. One of the strongest in Congress. I throw down for pro-Palestine candidates. Largely unrecognized work. That’s fine. Disagreements are fine, too. But if you want to toss all that for 1 half assed MTG stunt, be my guest. I know where I stand.

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