Jen Haselhorst

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

Healthcare premiums are expected to skyrocket for people who are enrolling in ACA plans. Some parts of southern Illinois will see their rates more than double if Congress doesn’t extend tax subsidies.

Are you changing your coverage or going without because of big rate increases?

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I am currently down with the sickness 😷🤧

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

You can cook food for your neighbors. Set a free pantry box outside of your place. Pool money with your coworkers if someone at work has young kids or an elderly relative that likely has SNAP.

You don’t have to pry into people’s business, you can just do things & make it known help is available.

I love soup season. I had French onion AND pasole today, making chicken chili tomorrow. I freaking love soup

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Highest credit card delinquency since the financial crisis 14 years ago.

Add that to home sellers outnumbering homebuyers, consumer confiance plummeting, consumer spending plummeting, inflation increasing, growth decreasing unemployment increasing… a brewing storm.

Good economic news all around👍👍

how are pomegranate seeds so good? full of contradictions - sweet yet tart, crunchy AND juicy, tiny but pack a punch. like wtf amazing

This is why Republicans shutdown the government. Because they refuse to extend the ACA subsidies that expire at the end of the year. With open enrollment starting at Nov 1, marketplace insurers can no longer wait to publish rates. With alt text.

(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

golden girls should have never written Coco out of the show

Taking a swipe at the white gamer bros who support the Republican party is an interesting choice.

But, while we're here, Medicaid is intened for people who CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE. What you do, or don't do, SHOULDN'T MATTER when it comes to getting health care.

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Cities standing up for, helping instead of harming each other.

We do this all the time for natural disasters (👀). We collect food and supplies. We send people to help. We gather in solidarity.

We have a long history of helping each other and being demonized for it.

We do it anyway.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Trump’s Flood of Emergency Appeals Is Straining the Judicial System The administration has turned to the Supreme Court at a record pace, and the justices have issued orders that lower courts have struggled to interpret.

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

A masked protester holds a bullhorn and a sign with Blues Brothers imagery that reads, "I hate federal Nazis."

A masked protester holds a sign that says, "'Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are being torn apart.' - Anne Frank 1943"

A "No Parking or Standing" sign on a fence is surrounded by ICE Watch and Know Your Rights flyers.

Protesters gathered behind barricades in a "first amendment zone" after being forced from the street.

More images from tonight's protest in Broadview.

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Why Is This Democratic Senator Voting to Confirm a Trump Judicial Nominee? If you really think Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, the bar for affirmatively supporting one of his nominees has to be higher than “I don’t know, he seems fine.”

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

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Heading out to my fav fest of the year - Raddle the Bottoms! Nothing like bluegrass music in a cornfield with church lady chicken dinner to get my Southern Illinois heart a-beatin’ 🫶 And all the funds raised go to help cancer patients make ends meet!

This is going to kill people. And to be honest I think that’s part of the point.

imagine being one of the losers at these networks who keeps caving to his demands and then he's literally like "lol last time I shook 'em down they licked my boots for a week, let's see what else I can get them to do"

like aren't you. embarrassed. at all

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Kind of unbelievable that randomly blowing up that venezuelan boat isn't the only story. I get that there's a lot going on but I mean we did a terrorist attack on Trump's direct order and the whole admin is celebrating it

“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.