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Retired Chicago Tribune journalist. Also: spouse, mom, grandmother, nature lover. Family ties to UK and Canada. Anti-Trump since I saw one episode of “The Apprentice.”

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BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious after a group of 125 presidential scholars put out their annual collective ranking of the presidents today, and both of Trump’s terms were unanimously ranked as the two worst in US history...

17.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 2254    🔁 535    💬 142    📌 46
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This is incredulous to me. First Thomas Massie, R-KY has stood against Trump’s lies and tells the truth, calling him a pedophile. Now Rand Paul, R-KY is calling out disinformation about ICE.

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CBS not airing James Talarico’s interview with Stephen Colbert because they were supposedly worried about FCC backlash is a really big deal. Stephen Colbert was told not to say anything and did so anyways. This man is not getting enough credit for standing up for free speech.

17.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1991    🔁 572    💬 52    📌 12
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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program.

"Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."

17.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 12106    🔁 3658    💬 390    📌 246
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

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Breaking: Ash Wednesday Mass will lift up immigrants’ resilience — Coalition for Spiritual & Public Leadership Following a judicial injunction issued Thursday requiring the Department of Homeland Security to permit clergy access to the Broadview ICE facility , the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leader...

www.csplaction.org/in-the-news/...

15.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 2129    🔁 475    💬 41    📌 8

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

15.02.2026 23:00 — 👍 27355    🔁 7339    💬 786    📌 346
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Ukrainian olympic skeleton slider Vladyslav Heraskevych who was banned from competition for wearing a helmet honoring 20 coaches and athletes killed in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

15.02.2026 14:09 — 👍 242    🔁 74    💬 6    📌 6

Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

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Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

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@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

14.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 15711    🔁 4541    💬 485    📌 249
The 19th: House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote

The 19th: House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote

Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋‍♀️

Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote.

Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

13.02.2026 14:19 — 👍 2704    🔁 1276    💬 136    📌 74
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

12.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 19606    🔁 7855    💬 218    📌 295
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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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Brothers of US Women’s Ice Hockey Star Steal the Show Team USA Women’s hockey has been crushing it at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and New York native Haley Winn brought along a team of brothers to Italy to cheer her on — and they've been stealing t...

These guys are adorable in their support of their sister on the Women’s Hockey Team! How can you not smile at these guys? 😀 #Olympics #USA #WomensHockey www.today.com/video/brothe...

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

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The funny thing about that show? Not a word of it was in English, but it was one of the more patriotic halftime shows I’ve seen.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

“Together, we are America”

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

07.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 17911    🔁 9183    💬 493    📌 703
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SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?”

@acyn.bsky.social

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Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

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To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully:

The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

01.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 27435    🔁 5569    💬 830    📌 234
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Minnesota residents are marching in solidarity as 22 people were charged by the DOJ. Just for filming #ICE activity. This is fascism‼️

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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

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JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

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“The Crows Have Eyes 3” — brilliant. Sorry to lose a comedic light.

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Catherine O'Hara, 'Schitt’s Creek' Star and Comedy Legend, Dies at 71 Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71. O'Hara was known for her appearances in movies including 'Beetlejuice' and 'Home Alone', as well as her Emmy-winning role as Moira Rose on the TV sitcom 'Sc...

Catherine O’Hara of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek has died at age 71. RIP to one of the all-time greatest women in comedy. people.com/catherine-oh...

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