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Dozens of peaceful protestors in Edwardsville, standing up for truth and fairness, and in opposition to the lawlessness and corruption in D.C.

A whole bunch of good, decent Americans in Edwardsville today, who care about the freedom to lives their own lives, and the lives of others, free of tyranny and the oppressive hand of a dictator.

The Anti-Lobbying Act: Employees in the Executive Branch can hold significant power. The Act restricts federal officials from using taxpayer money or their government position to lobby for or against laws or to urge the public to pressure Congress.

The Anti-Deficiency Act: This law protects Congress’s “power of the purse,” which refers to Congress’s exclusive right to decide how federal money is spent. It prevents agencies from spending money they don’t have or from using government resources for things that Congress hasn’t approved.

Passed in 1939, the Hatch Act limits political activities by federal employees when they are acting in their official roles. It makes it so that government officials cannot use taxpayer-funded resources to benefit a particular political party or candidate while on the job.

Here’s Why Common Cause Filed 57 Complaints Against the Trump Administration for Violating Federal Ethics Laws When the Trump Administration started using government platforms to blame Democrats for the shutdown, we jumped into action.

Common Cause found dozens of examples of hyper-partisan political messaging coming from the Trump Administration, leading us to file 57 separate complaints with federal oversight agencies. The complaints document widespread violations of these key ethics laws www.commoncause.org/resources/he...

Elections do not mean that the winner is entitled to run your life and the culture and the economy and social media and the internet and international trade, like they are a god, all the while committing act of brutality and unconstitutionality that are straight up illegal and immoral.

Gov. Pritzker: “Donald Trump doesn't know anything about Chicago…The man is demented. He really has no idea what he's doing.”

Things are so Cuckoo for Cocoa Puff in the nation's capitol, even the dinosaurs are coming back from extinction to protest.

Braving the rough terrain in Central Illinois, with some bizarre looking clouds, freezing temps, and a bit of snow from the night before.

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.

Science: good for the mind, good for the community, good for the nation, and good for the globe.

"Make no mistake, when Christian Nationalists talk about how our country ought to be a “Christian nation,” this is what they’re yearning for – a government that acts as enforcer of their theology, a literal merger of church and state."

. . . . This theocratic agenda springs not from the time of the Founding Fathers. It would have been alien to them. Its origins rest with zealous Puritans; it comes from a time of witch trials, imprisonment for blasphemy and forced attendance at religious services."

What an officially ‘Christian nation’ looked like in America - Americans United There was just one attempt to create an officially Christian government during the period of European settlement, and that was Puritan Massachusetts. It’s hardly a model for our lives today.

"Three hundred and seventy-nine years ago today, the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law making it a crime to deny that the Bible had divine origins. The penalty was stiff: Anyone found in violation would be executed . . . . www.au.org/the-latest/a...

Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Dozens of peaceful protestors stood their ground for common sense, the Constitution, and a nation with NO KINGS, in Edwardsville, IL today, peaceful, determined, and the numbers are as strong as ever, new people showing up all the time...

Lots and lots of good people in Edwardsville, Illinois, taking a stand today or civility, democracy, due process, law and order, and peaceful coexistence! Stop the lawlessness and respect people's civil rights, why is that so hard?

Watch out for that sandwich!

No kidding. Starve kids or take away affordable healthcare for millions via a horrific budget, pick one, that's their MO, because we only have enough billions to buy military and policing equipment.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month

Trumpers are going to the mat to starve kids.
The Dictator with Dementia is standing on principle here; he won't let a judge tell him he can't be needlessly cruel.

Holy baloney, how juvenile is that? She is having so much fun with herself, and then ads "we're going to back the police to the hilt" lol like it's some kind of game show. Funny, but not as funny as it would be if she wasn't in a position of power.

Jake's facial expression makes me think of Tucker Calson's weird frozen frown. Bugs the crap out of me.

It's hard to dumb oneself down far enough to take him seriously, and his stupid SHOUTING fetish clarifies nothing. To think this is how anyone -- anywhere -- thinks is distrubing, never mind the president.

"At every point of crisis in the GOP — after Watergate, after the elder George Bush’s loss in 1992 and after Barack Obama’s apparently sweeping victory in 2008 — pundits, political scientists. . .urged caution and moderation. Yet in each case, the party lurched further to the right."

Events have a way of embarrassing any claim that there are standards beneath which Trump supporters and operatives will not sink. www.salon.com/2025/11/01/t...

An apt quote from Sinclair Lewis.

THIS ISN’T NEW FASCISM. IT’S OLD JIM CROW. Old Machinery, New Operators.

Kudos to Jermaine Fowler for this. Before I retired I wrote a whole curriculum for the district about the American roots of fascism; hope they’re still using it.

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