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Retired special education teacher~traveler~proud Dem~cat lover~former Michigander and now proud Chicagoan~I have the best Gov. in #Pritzker Left the hellscape of X and Elon!

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Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago.

12.11.2025 04:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So heโ€™s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we wonโ€™t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didnโ€™t prepare for that possibility? Heโ€™s running the govt like he ran his casinos.

11.11.2025 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16653    ๐Ÿ” 5626    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2704    ๐Ÿ“Œ 724
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

10.11.2025 16:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28869    ๐Ÿ” 7353    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2786    ๐Ÿ“Œ 745

Ohโ€ฆwe know whoโ€™s on our side and it isnโ€™t any of the 8 that voted yes.

10.11.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in alleged plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Jus...

(๐Ÿšจ) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Pardons 75+ Alleged Coup Plotters in Second-Most Obscene and Corrupt U.S. Presidential Pardon Ever, After His Pardon of 1,600+ Insurrectionists; New Pardon Is Confirmation That President Is Traitor to the United States

10.11.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1395    ๐Ÿ” 673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 130    ๐Ÿ“Œ 65
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NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.

Dems who votes yes:
๐Ÿ”ต Catherine Cortez Masto
๐Ÿ”ต Dick Durbin
๐Ÿ”ต John Fetterman
๐Ÿ”ต Maggie Hassan
๐Ÿ”ต Tim Kaine
๐Ÿ”ต Angus King
๐Ÿ”ต Jackie Rosen
๐Ÿ”ต Jeanne Shaheen

Republicans who voted no:
๐Ÿ”ด Rand Paul

10.11.2025 04:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3479    ๐Ÿ” 1349    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 642    ๐Ÿ“Œ 218
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$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

09.11.2025 01:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7810    ๐Ÿ” 3443    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 568    ๐Ÿ“Œ 284
Flying at 8000 feet today
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Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened โ€ฆ wondering what the view will be ๐Ÿ˜€

Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened โ€ฆ wondering what the view will be ๐Ÿ˜€

Things are fine.

09.11.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14716    ๐Ÿ” 3196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 611    ๐Ÿ“Œ 363
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WELKER: Should the 300,000 Oklahomas who rely on ACA subsidies be prepared for their costs to skyrocket?

LANKFORD: We're trying to find a way to be able to help

(That's a yes!)

09.11.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5743    ๐Ÿ” 1508    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 533    ๐Ÿ“Œ 138

Clips like this are political gold

09.11.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6769    ๐Ÿ” 3037    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 599    ๐Ÿ“Œ 154
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#GVerse Um. WTF???

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."

This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.

09.11.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6066    ๐Ÿ” 2283    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1258    ๐Ÿ“Œ 613
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

โ€œI want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.โ€

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09.11.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14136    ๐Ÿ” 6842    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 324    ๐Ÿ“Œ 388
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Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

09.11.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21305    ๐Ÿ” 6523    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 675    ๐Ÿ“Œ 273
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. โฌ‡๏ธ

09.11.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10860    ๐Ÿ” 7214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 864    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1724
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Trump on SNAP: โ€œOur country has to remain very liquid because of problems, catastrophes, warsโ€ฆ We have to remain liquid. We canโ€™t give everything away.โ€

REMINDER: Trump just have $40 billion away to Argentina.

08.11.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3308    ๐Ÿ” 1359    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 341    ๐Ÿ“Œ 96
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Not pro-life.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

07.11.2025 23:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8879    ๐Ÿ” 3783    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 368    ๐Ÿ“Œ 225

Humanity is doing great

The most evil American is the President of the United States

The most evil man ever to become a US citizen after years of living here illegally will become the world's first trillionaire

And the center of global democracy, the White House, will soon host an MMA cage match

07.11.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6278    ๐Ÿ” 1810    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 278    ๐Ÿ“Œ 122
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Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

07.11.2025 16:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9953    ๐Ÿ” 4996    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 585    ๐Ÿ“Œ 300
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I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

06.11.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18221    ๐Ÿ” 6010    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1148    ๐Ÿ“Œ 376

Itโ€™s just so fucking gross and tacky! That family is tasteless.

07.11.2025 01:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

06.11.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26160    ๐Ÿ” 7763    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3351    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1578
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LA: โ€œThey took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.โ€

What are we doing?

05.11.2025 23:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16146    ๐Ÿ” 8334    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 910    ๐Ÿ“Œ 674

"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.โ€

Gov. Andy Beshear

06.11.2025 04:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9094    ๐Ÿ” 3193    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 147    ๐Ÿ“Œ 98

God, theyโ€™re so fucking tacky. ๐Ÿคฎ

06.11.2025 00:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This really hasnโ€™t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

05.11.2025 23:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31582    ๐Ÿ” 15118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1072    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1003
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If your government thinks the Pope โ€œdoesnโ€™t know what heโ€™s talking aboutโ€ when he defends migrantsโ€™ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. Itโ€™s suppressing them.

05.11.2025 07:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14680    ๐Ÿ” 4565    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 515    ๐Ÿ“Œ 264
Happy Anniversary! On this day, November 5th, one year ago, we had one of the Greatest Presidential Victories in History โ€” Such an Honor to represent our Country. Our Economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down. Affordability is our goal. Love to the American People!

Happy Anniversary! On this day, November 5th, one year ago, we had one of the Greatest Presidential Victories in History โ€” Such an Honor to represent our Country. Our Economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down. Affordability is our goal. Love to the American People!

LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!

05.11.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11007    ๐Ÿ” 1735    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1309    ๐Ÿ“Œ 318
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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.

05.11.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43449    ๐Ÿ” 15707    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 763    ๐Ÿ“Œ 719

So many predicted close races, which is understandable. But turnout favored the anti-kingsโ€ฆ. And blew the predictions up. 2026, and 2028โ€ฆ.. stand back and stand by

05.11.2025 03:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13714    ๐Ÿ” 2159    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 266    ๐Ÿ“Œ 73
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Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

04.11.2025 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4898    ๐Ÿ” 1493    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 156    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66

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