Caitlin

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

one thing about americans, we will make our own lives worse and more expensive if it means a group we think is “undeserving” gets punished

This is your periodic reminder that when the Chicago PD murdered Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder to help his reelection campaign.

There needs to be greater transparency around this.

Illinois was the first state in the country to pass an anti-bds bill, while actively, and vocally, investing in Israeali bods today. But sure, let’s go in on one of the poorest countries on this continent.

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.

“In a stunning turn, 29 Republicans defected, killing both bills. One Republican even took the floor to deliver a scathing rebuke of the bill’s sponsor.”

Coast Guard Commander Elizabeth Nakagawa Nearly Died After Tricare Denied Miscarriage Care The morning that Coast Guard Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C, or dilation and curettage, to remove fetal tissue after having a miscarria...

📽️ WATCH: The morning that Coast Guard Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C, or dilation and curettage, to remove fetal tissue after having a miscarriage, she learned the surgery had been canceled because Tricare, the military’s health insurance plan, refused to pay for it.

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Fair. I deleted it. Sentiment remains the same regarding the misplaced priorities of people who raised a lot of money and volunteer time from grassroots organizers.

And the real one has entered the chat.
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Funds for vacant Chicago police positions should go to youth and public health programs, organizers and alders say • The TRiiBE A coalition of community organizations is proposing that Mayor Brandon Johnson reduce funding for 1,000-plus unfilled police department positions to close the budget gap.

"A new joint analysis ... suggests that the $170 million allocated for over 1,000 vacant CPD positions in the proposed 2025 budget could be reallocated, meaning that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration could avoid his proposed $68 million property tax increase."

thetriibe.com/2024/12/advo...

You morons, you can't repeat the Gilded Age. That's not how history works--it only goes in one direction. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and make sure no nihilistic young Italians have built homemade weapons with which to assassinate robber barons.

Was Paul Vallas out sick?

It’s mask off season for a lot of progressives lol. Dave should hang out with the city council lot who are scrambling to slash youth jobs.

Holy Hell. I knew Dr. Dave was a joke, but I didn't take him as a Republican scumbag deportation fanboy under the mask.

(Dr. Dave was one of the people running in Chicago in the IL State Senate seat won by Graciela Guzman)

There's a chunk of contemporary media criticism that does read like "to avoid fascism, we should return to the mass media systems of the 20th C, which famously avoided fascism except between the years 1922-1975".

Every time I see this man I'm going to remind everyone who will listen that his career started under Obama where he was ICE's head of deportations & innovated a policy of separating children from parents as a migration deterrent. Obama gave him a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executives.