Karen aka Stella

A 30-year mortgage currently has an interest rate of 6.3%. A reasonable guess it that a 50-year mortgage rate would be about 7.0%.

⇒ The monthly payment on a $500k mortgage:
- 30 years: $3,050 per month
- 50 years: Only $100 less at $2,950 (but 240 months longer).

A real president does this.

Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

It took 50 days and a whole lot of nonsense, but Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is finally in her seat.

Mike Johnson didn’t stall her swearing-in by accident—he did it on purpose.

Because protecting predators was apparently more urgent than serving the people.

ABC News: #Obama #honorflight

A whole other form of partial and political justice. Trump pardons list of allies who worked to reverse his election loss in 2020. Many of them, especially Mark Meadows, know where the bodies are buried. A vile miscarriage of justice. Includes Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, & Ken Cheseboro.

The authors refer to reports from the CBO, KFF, and more to illustrate subsidies for those with employment coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare. They point out the ACA made individual insurance more comprehensive and thus more expensive, necessitating the subsidies. Those spread costs over subscribers.

Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance.

Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Apparently in Fitchburg, MA. CBP/ICE goons taking a child away from a couple when the man holding the child is apparently either being tazed or having a seizure. Unbelievable cruelty either way.

This is horrifying and what is happening with immigrants is beyond belief. A few cases make the national news but one suspects the majority of Americans do not comprehend the ongoing inhumanity. Now ICE is obtaining huge warehouses that are designed for boxes rather than human beings.

This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court

This is not the country we should be.

Remember too that housing, communications, and utility costs take a big bite out of net income and what's left covers day-to-day living.

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@theguardian.com #ICE

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

‘Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions

“There are no beds and no working showers at the Broadview detention center, which was designed for stays of roughly 12 hours, but where some people have recently been held for several days.”

“Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

An Altercation With ICE Prompts a Police Chief to Push Back

Yes. For months now I've been saying it. ICE officers only have immunity when acting within their lawful authority. They don't have the authority to use excessive force. It's essential that they be held accountable--under STATE LAW--when they do.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

In addition to a monthly donation, I am bagging rice, packaged rice products, canned pasta, dried red beans, canned chicken, dried soups, canned high quality soup. Shelf stable /dried milk sound good. Black pepper and spices are needed. One cannot assume going to the store to fill in is simple.

Federal agents use pepper spray, rubber bullets on Durango protesters Organizers said they planned to remain peaceful while delaying ICE efforts to separate the family. Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Durango Police Department officers arrived to monitor the situation. The...

"One agent appeared to grab a woman’s phone as she recorded him. When she tried to retrieve her phone, he grabbed her by the hair, pulled her across the road and pushed her to the ground."

Happening in tiny Durango, CO today. www.durangoherald.com/articles/con...

Bipartisan group of lawmakers works to free Durango family detained by ICE Sen. Bennet, Sen. Hickenlooper and Rep. Hurd are working together after a father and his two children were detained by ICE in Durango.

Sen. Bennet, Sen. Hickenlooper and Rep. Hurd are working together after a father and his two children were detained by ICE in Durango.

Durango showing up! Very brave people there.

Dozens protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained The three were detained by federal agents in Durango while on their way to school Monday, according to Compañeros, Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center

Dozens protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained

ICE officers mistook Durango father for someone else, official says, but arrested him and children anyway “It’s my understanding that the father was mistaken for somebody else when (ICE) encountered him,” testified Gregory Davies, Denver’s third-ranking ICE official, in court Fr…

ICE officers mistook Durango father for someone else, official says, but arrested him and children anyway trib.al/ZOMAid0

ICE's masked federal secret police agents in Durango, Colorado, tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and beat protestors who blocked them after ICE abducted and disappeared a father and two children at a local school.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...

In Durango, Colorado, ICE officers engaged in tear gas, pepper spray, and physical assault against protestors after abducting and allegedly disappearing a father and two children from a local school.

Advocates: ICE kept Durango family in windowless room with only chips and water after mistaking father for someone else Masked federal agents pulled Fernando Jaramillo-Solano over after mistaking him for someone else, but arrested him and his two kids anyway, advocates say

Advocates: ICE kept Durango family in windowless room with only chips and water after mistaking father for someone else

This is a good, factual piece from the Durango Herald. Peaceful protest can and will make a difference. It shows the world the truth about what is happening and who is fomenting violence.

Really appreciate you reporting on this Kyle.

I’m down here in Durango and it means a lot.

Hundreds protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained Federal agents used pepper spray, rubber bullets on peaceful protesters. The family was detained on their way to school, according to local nonprofit

Things are pretty grim here in Chicago, but we at least have the advantage of getting a lot of national coverage. There are other places that aren't... like this case in Durango, CO.

coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...

In Durango, Colorado, one of Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo assaulted a woman who was peacefully protesting. 😡😡😡👇