Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Tick tock, Springfield. ⏰
Our students are back in less than a month, and CPS is still $1.6 billion short of what our schools actually need.

We’ve got a Democratic majority. We’ve got a Democratic governor.
So… what’s the holdup?

Fully fund our schools. No more excuses.

is it possible that your own viewpoint is detached from reality? (see, e.g. Plato's Republic)

After the shooting, Adams specifically criticized Mamdani for wanting to eliminate the Strategic Response Group. Do you agree with Mamdani that SRG should be eliminated and replaced with something else? I believe yes, and I'll tell you why, because you have the strategic response team to go to shooting incidents or (when) really, really high-profile crimes are happening or something. But the strategic response team has been used to tame some of the protests. You know, the foundation of American ideals is freedom of speech. People have the ability to express themselves, and when you have a heavy-handed presence from the police department, I mean, it's just not going to look good. It does not look good, and it should not be there.

Retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Shamsul Haque tells me that he supports @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s plan to disband the NYPD’s notorious Strategic Response Group. www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

“The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment,” Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, told TNR. “The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has.”

Trump Super PAC Raises $200 Million From Elon Musk and People Who Want Stuff From Him Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. raised huge money from Musk, fossil fuel companies, crypto interests, health care firms, and a major TikTok investor.

Trump’s super PAC has raised $200 million from Elon Musk and a host of other people who want stuff from the president.

Quick scan here and the money going in, favors going out are wild

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Donald Trump Tries to Spin and Purge His Way to Declaring Economic Victory Donald Trump has long wanted to fire government officials producing politically inconvenient statistics. Now he’s doing it.

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The Illusion of Choice Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.

“Imagining that you can add more complex VA patients into a private-sector system that will be reeling from, and contracting because of, funding cuts is nothing short of delusional.”
This is a must-read.
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The numbers are staggering. Arizona will face a shortage of 8,280 physicians by 2030, according to the Cicero Institute; Texas will need 20,420 more physicians by that year. Many of Louisiana’s parishes have only one or two full-time primary care physicians, and nearly half of Kentucky’s primary care physicians work in just two of its 120 counties. Fifty-two of Montana’s 56 counties have serious shortages of primary care providers; every county in Idaho, South Dakota, and Wyoming has severe shortages of mental health providers. In rural areas of Colorado east of Denver, there is only one primary care physician for every 5,636 residents.

89% of counties in the United States are officially designated primary care Health Professional Shortage Areas. About 80 million Americans, nearly 1/4 of the total population, live in areas without enough primary care providers.
Some state-by-state numbers are even worse.

The Illusion of Choice Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.

VA privatization brings millions of veteran patients into private-sector hospitals. We wanted to know if the system could handle the workload, so we did a comprehensive study on health care supply in America. It turns out we're woefully short, even before the cuts of the Big Beautiful Bill.

Donate to Free Xóchitl: Support DACA recipient detained by ICE, organized by Lagartija del sol Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a beloved community member, DACA r… Lagartija del sol needs your support for Free Xóchitl: Support DACA recipient detained by ICE

My comrade Xóchitl was detained by Border Patrol despite presenting a valid DACA work authorization card. She is a longtime organizer with Cosecha and movement builder. Please donate to support her legal representation. www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

UNICEF Leader Returns From Gaza With Harrowing Warning of Mass Child Starvation The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster,” said the UNICEF deputy director, “They are being starved.”…

"The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster,” said the UNICEF deputy director, “They are being starved.”

Gaza Still Isn't Receiving Enough Food to Prevent Starvation, Aid Workers Say The famine situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Aid workers say Israel is not allowing enough food to enter the area as Palestinians starve.

Although Israel said it would pause military activity in select areas of Gaza to allow more food aid in, humanitarian organizations have said that the amount of food entering the area is far from enough, and without additional aid, an increasing number of Palestinians will die from famine.

Trump Super PAC Raises $200 Million From Elon Musk and People Who Want Stuff From Him Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. raised huge money from Musk, fossil fuel companies, crypto interests, health care firms, and a major TikTok investor.

Trump Super PAC Raises $200 Million From Elon Musk and People Who Want Stuff From Him

“He’s kind of careless with the facts; his arithmetic doesn’t always add up; and he goes off the deep end every now and then. Even so, the net overall job is to the good,” said the president of Quaker Oats about Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

That’s how elite universities think of Trump.

At Thursday’s press conference,Chicago Teachers Union members, alongside partners —@betterstreetsChicago, IFT Local 4100 and@ccctu_1600,@peopleslobbyusa, and@seiuhcii— called out the nearly$10 billion in tax breaksin Gov. Pritzker’s budget.

Holding the line: State solutions to the U.S. worker rights crisis Federal worker protections are under attack Longstanding U.S. worker rights and protections are under acute threat. These include attempts to roll back standards that set a national floor for minimum ...

When workers have a voice and protections on the job, our economy grows stronger. Families have the resources they need to live a good life. It's what we fight for every day. That's why attacks on worker rights are so concerning. @EconomicPolicy www.epi.org/holding-the-...

A convicted priest is back at work. Child advocates want Pope Leo to act. Carlo Alberto Capella served prison time for a child pornography conviction but was allowed to return to work at the Vatican, posing a test for Pope Leo XIV.

Rev. Carlo Alberto Capella was released from prison and quietly returned to work after being convicted of possessing and distributing child pornography while serving as a Vatican diplomat, according to reports on Catholic blogs.

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

folks, the Abundance faction are still insisting that solar and wind are not getting built thanks to NIMBY environmentalists 🙃

Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids • Stateline The Trump administration announced it would begin reinstating more than $6 billion in education funds. Among the programs affected was an education program for children of migrant agricultural workers...

The Trump-Vance admin abandoned students. We fought to get that money released, but for too many students, the harm is already done. We'll keep advocating for all children to get the support they need. stateline.org/2025/07/31/d...

Gary Teachers Union opposes online teacher hiring: move replaces “soul of education” As a nationwide teacher shortage left Gary schools turning to online licensed teachers to fill the void, the move has drawn criticism from the leader of the Gary Teachers Union.

Technology can be a supplement to, but not a substitute for, educators and students working together in the classroom. I'm glad GlenEva Dunham and the Gary Teachers Union are organizing with families to stop this and turn folks out for the 8/14 board meeting. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/23/g...

Trump was elected on promises of lower costs, more jobs, and higher wages. As working families know, we’re 0 for 3 so far while billionaires got their tax cuts. bsky.app/profile/hous...

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

The Trump Administration isn’t just violating people’s due process rights — it is shipping them off to overseas gulags where they are tortured and abused.

Truly sickening. Every American should stand against this horror being done in our name.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."

This is like firing the rooster because it’s morning. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

SEATTLE! This is why we have to finish the job! AFTER Musk's public feud with Trump, Elon spent $15 MILLION to support the MAGA agenda and positioned his PAC to do much, much more.

JOIN us, Saturday at U Village and Renton. Let's make some noise! #NotBackingDown #TeslaTakedown

Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social

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Huh. Who could have predicted. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall