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Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This. And for historians in the future, please record your experiences ON PAPER (preferably cotton fiber)!

If a bill passed in the house does not then pass in the senate it means your job is not done. You don’t have the votes. Republicans don’t have the votes and are not negotiating. They are trying to dictate legislation.

When will it be confirmed that DJT is not only in the Epstein files, but that he was a close associate of Epstein and intricately involved in the trafficking business?

#speakerjohnson
#houseofrepresentatives
#gop

Enter Palestinian Love - Modern Poetry in Translation We Palestinians love what we love a little more than we should. Look how we love our universities, our plums, our country’s crisp air, our Za’atar, our poets, our villages blown to pieces. We are alwa...

'Look how we love our universities,
our plums, our country’s crisp air,
our Za’atar, our poets,
our villages blown to pieces.'

From 'Enter Palestinian love', Dalia Taha tr. Sara Elkamel

Read full poem online: modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/enter-p...

Newsom has backstabbed trans people and homeless people repeatedly, but you’re fine with that because you’re not affected. People like you demand one-way coalitions. Morally and strategically bankrupt.

Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Would have liked this option during my recent trip to Europe…

Received a question about us not knowing for sure what's happening yet. I want to address this clearly.

We don’t have full visibility yet, and waiting for certainty to talk about this is dangerous.

When the federal government is acting over the objections of a state, that is a critical situation.

🚨BREAKING: Russian strategic bomber fleet

Russian sources confirmed that there was a 100m tall Ukrainian Cossack crushing the planes on site.

Many think this came out of Ukraine-US biolabs…

Without North Korean ammo and American computer parts, who knows if Russia would even be able to wage war at this point.

Papers all over the world are writing about what is happening in science in the US. I don't think anyone knows what to make of it. Many view it as an opportunity to "reverse brain drain" at home. www.newarab.com/opinion/rev...

Crimea is Ukraine.

“Stand with #Ukraine!”

“Trump is a russian asset!”

The Fulbright program is required by law. It’s literally named after the senator that passed the bill.

Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia Contact Congress today!

Let's try and get another 1,000 letters to Congress tonight demanding they do everything they can to support Ukraine and Zelensky.

Contact them now:
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Believing that cutting USAID will save money is a textbook case of civic illiteracy, allowing politicians to create the impression of action. Cutting USAID will not just fail to trim the deficit—it's a surefire way to invite additional costly disasters. USAID is 0.3% of the budget.

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Okay so I’m getting many messages from you in which you share you’re sorry but don’t know what to do.. so let me tell you, as a Ukrainian who took part in Maidan Revolution, there are things you could do, and lots . 1) organise - get together, block, neighbours, places you go to,..

There’s a great Finnish saying ”to climb the tree with your ass first” meaning to do something in the wrong order or counterintuitively in an unnecessarily hard way.

That’s how Finland’s president Stubb described Trump’s expectation to get an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine 😆

This is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.

Pushback from Republican legislators against Trump's coseying up to Russia. Rep Don Bacon of Nebraska said "The Trump administration royally screwed up today on Ukraine. The vast majority of Americans stand up for independence, freedom, and free markets and against the bully and invader."

🇺🇸 A large Ukrainian 🇺🇦 demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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Each day, I wake up to terrible news about the USA siding with Russia to partition my country or turn it into a colony.

Every day, I hate opening Twitter and scrolling through my timeline, reading all the hate directed at my country.