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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Sometimes I think about how maybe these guys are the Titanic and Chicago’s gonna the the fucking iceberg.

Saturday's Start. This morning with the autumn colors scattered over Chicago's Lincoln Park.

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Democrats I Don't Know Keep Texting Me Please stop.

"It’s reached the point where I spend more time engaging with undesirable, messy, uncreative, and soul-draining texts from Democratic strangers running for office than I do texts from friends and colleagues whom I actually know and like."

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How ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Introduced the ‘First Lady of Children’s Music’ to a Large National Audience When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions across America

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once again, you are showing us just how unequipped you are for the problems facing us today. As a constituent who has voted for your every time you have been on the ballot, DO BETTER

Please, please, please join me in contacting your congressional representatives IMMEDIATELY to tell Congress to STAND UP AND ACT.

Call tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...

Email tool: act.pih.org/foreign-aid-...

YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I’m calling from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump’s actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can’t unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid. YOU: MOC must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT]

Call script:

15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.

This is so disappointing. If you are not prepared to fight for your constituents against a cruel & lawless executive branch, then it’s time to step down and let someone else lead.

A movie still of Indiana Jones punching a Nazi from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

3 menorahs, lit for the 8th night of Hanukkah, in a windowsill also filled with mini Xmas trees

Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened? And how long is this 'masculinity crisis' going to last?

Are We Being Punished For A Feminist Utopia That Never Even Happened?
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Cover art of the book "The Women's War" written by Jenna Glass

Feminist revenge "Game of Thrones" Style

Periodic reminder that while Chicago continues to try to figure out whether or not it’s possible, Forest Park has been doing municipal sidewalk plowing for decades

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators.

Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

"When Women Were Dragons" by Kelly Barnhill

The first in an ongoing series of "Books you should read when you are so mad & sad you think you may actually burst into flames"