Julie Aulava

Trump voters, you did this.

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Lina Khan is brilliant. In short, bigger is not better...monopolies mean more billionaires, more concentration of wealth & power, less innovation, suppression of wages, increased prices, food deserts, environmental exploitation, more corruption. Time for a change. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I write often about how private equity is destroying US healthcare. Lina Khan is a rare person who has used her position in power to fight back against private equity’s hold on the US economy. Very excited to see what she does in New York.

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website.

Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

The Next Terrorist Attack And What Comes After (Updated)

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

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Not surprisingly, most of the U.S. tariffs are being paid by American companies and consumers — NOT by foreign exporters.

The destruction of the East Wing is distressing. The Whitehouse is the people's house, not Trump's house.

Plus the cost for something that is not needed. Wasteful. Where's DOGE now?

Who took on the job of doing the actual destruction? Shame on them.

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

#NoKings #Seattle
When we got to the actual marching, there were so many people we had to shuffle.

#NoKings #Seattle

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Christian Roldan!
#Sounders
#Seattle - peaceful and pretty

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote The U.S.

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

Update from the war zone in Portland.

This is so dark

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

🚨On just hours’ notice, Portland PACKED the streets.

Gov. Tina Kotek, Mayor Keith Wilson, the ACLU & more led the charge, then marched up front chanting: “Show Trump what Portland looks like! This is what Portland looks like!

#Portland

79. American citizen.

Ladybird has been in shelter at Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center for FIVE YEARS.
She only weighs 48 lbs and is a very good girl
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Please, please share. Someone out there can give her the home she deserves.

More info about her here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fug...

The U.S. helped Argentina, then Argentine farmers made a deal with China It's a harsh blow to already struggling U.S. soybean farmers, and illustrates the complex implications of rescuing a close ally.

Instead of helping our farmers, the Administration is sending a $20 billion bailout to Argentina.

Even as Argentina is taking markets away from our farmers.

As the American Soybean Association put it: “The frustration is overwhelming.”

www.axios.com/2025/09/24/t...