Peter Liepmann

The Illinois State Police should be out there ARRESTING ICE employees who commit crimes like kidnapping and illegal entry in Illinois, not helping ICE break the law.

Put up, or shut up, Governor!!
What they CLAIM they can do doesn't matter.
Arresting them would stop their illegal acts.

Pressed on Justice Dept. Politicization, Bondi Goes on Attack

Nothing rebuts charges of politicization like more politicization

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Country superstar Zach Bryan criticised by US Homeland Security over Ice lyrics Government department taunts chart-topping artist who sang of scared children and Ice raids on unreleased new song

Go, Zach!!
DHS can go soak their head.
The Fading of the Red White and Blue
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Widening ANY road is a waste of money!!

For those of you on my feed who aren't from NorCal: this is an asinine construction project. The original SR-37 is built on a mudflat and it'll be underwater in a decade or three. It's a marginal road between two Bay Area suburbs, and they're spending $11 billion on it.

San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months:
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements

This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.

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Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

About right, although the Tory one nation gang gave in to Brexit and handed things over to a charlatan Boris Johnson it was downhill from there but don’t forget they also embraced austerity as well

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Just waiting to see how you spin this truth- of wait- you don’t have to spin- you just ignore

Citymapper does that!
Also does bike-transit-bike fairly well.
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The second Trump administration
ILLEGALLY canceled previously awarded federal grants intended for bike lanes, pedestrian trails, and street safety upgrades.

There I fixed it #USDemocracy

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

This is so dark

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

Pretending that Joe Biden wasn't the most progressive president when he prioritized the working class for his entire presidency just means you weren't paying attention at all.

Americans will wait until half their families are in the camps before realising. It will sadly be too late by then.

Of all the many, many questions Pamela Jo Bondi refused to answer today, the most incendiary was about whether she's seen photos of Donald Trump with unclothed underage girls. It is so damning that she couldn't just say, "No."

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"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

the fascism is for sure happening now. all the far flung harms you anxiously laughed off before are on the table. take time to think earnestly and calmly what you need to do to stay safe and survive. the time for brushing it off as alarmism or prematurity is over.

For a century, oil defined power and trade — now lithium is quietly taking over that role. Every solar panel, EV, and battery shipped is another nail in oil’s coffin. The world’s energy wealth is shifting from barrels to atoms of lithium — silent, clean, unstoppable, and powering a new era. #Lithium

She is not doing well

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

Brutal.

The choice is always tax the rich and their corporations and do things to make regular people's lives better,

OR

Cut taxes the rich and make regular people's lives worse.

Countries where the rich (and their corporations) fund the political system choose to not tax the rich.

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