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.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.

Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

The Trump administration is working as hard as it can to starve 42 million kids, seniors and families. Incompetence and inhumanity in equal measure.

There were no government shutdowns when Joe Biden was President.

The orange felon now owns the first and second longest government shutdowns in US history because he doesn’t give a single flying fuck whether or not people suffer or starve or lose everything or die.

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

If I were to defy a court order, I'd be in jail, not building a ballroom.

Reopen government, swear in Adelita Grivala, release the Epstein Files, restore healthcare subsidies, and fund SNAP.

Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push White House pressure to speed up the pace of deportations has led to internal discord in the Department of Homeland Security over tactics, people familiar with the matter said.

"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..."

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Speaking tomorrow night, 11/9, in Palm Springs at the World Affairs Council of the Desert
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

No other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar than U.S.A.I.D.—it supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable. A new short documentary shows the impact of its dismantling. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2a5Jm5

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.

The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds

The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. Nearly half previously defended immigrants in court.

Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96437/trump-immigration-judges-fired

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

Hashim and his family fled to El Fasher, in Darfur, during the genocide in the 2000s. Last month, the city fell to rebel forces. “After almost 23 years, genocide never ended,” he said. “The world has just stood there watching, not taking any concrete action.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Tzh9kY

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.

Ukrainian Defender Taras met Viktoriia on social media during a break between combat missions. Exactly one year after they started dating, he proposed to her. Viktoriia said, "Yes!"

Taras Levkovych defended Ukraine in Donetsk region for over a year in the ranks of the KORD special police unit.

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.

Please Bluesky install a laugh button!!

The 6 far-right extremist terrorists on the Supreme Court have now begun hearing arguments from criminal career bigot Kim Davis about ending same-sex marriage. She’s the scumbag known for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

It’s always been about hate.

Here's how bad it is:
Americans have to go to court to try to stop the president from taking food away from poor people.

Trump-Appointed Judge Rules His Portland Military Takeover Was Unconstitutional Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari on why Speaker Mike Johnson kicked her out of his office...

This is an icon of his narcissistic personality disorder! Exactly how it manifests itself. He can't have compassion for anyone but himself. It's all about himself all the time! It's an incurable mental condition perfectly seen on display here.