Laura Lee

We were gearing up for #NoKings on the I71 footbridge this week.

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

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It’s Mike Johnson’s job to know these things.

The most UNQUALIFIED & INEPT Speaker of the House in modern history.

From a motion just filed by Chris Parente, attorney for Marimar Martinez. She's the woman shot by U.S. Border Patrol in Chicago before being charged with assault.

"The credibility of DHS agents … will be the focal point of the defense at trial."

Background: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

12 Arrested in Immigration Raid at O’Hare Airport Rideshare Parking Lot Friday Federal immigration agents targeted Uber and Lyft drivers in a raid at a parking lot near Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday, according to a coalition of rideshare drivers.

Federal agents targeted a parking lot filled with rideshare drivers in an immigration raid near Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday that resulted in 12 arrests.

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They’re manipulating the data to lie to us.

Can someone remind Mike Johnson that his Republican Party controls the House & Senate? Why can’t they end the Trump shutdown all on their own?

YouTube video by Reese Waters ICE Tear Gassed 27 Chicago Police Officers

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Good Place: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

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Trump's speech to the Knesset is interrupted by a demonstrator

Trump is joking around in this speech. The Israeli parliament is full of laughter. The criminal Netanyahu wears a shit-eating grin. The whole thing is appalling.

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

Remember that one reason the war lasted two years is so Bibi can stay out of jail for corruption

These idiots all use the same talking points. Mostly because they want to try to delegitimize the protests. But, they also can’t imagine people being politically motivated without a paycheck.
Also, they’re unimaginative morons.

Duffy and Bessemer were both calling out No Kings this morning. The regime is afraid.

Are you ready for the largest peaceful protest in modern US history? In five days, millions of Americans will stand up and speak out on a massive scale to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy looks like. We’ll see you on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump

Yep when Trump says he loves coal miners he means the guys who own mines — as always the little guy was good for conning out of a vote and after that the mass grave.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...

YouTube video by Farm to Taber ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

White farmers who voted for Trump are just fine with getting more welfare from taxpayers. They’re also waiting on him to hook them up with some modern day slavery.
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So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

The Prison Next Door How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.

In Franklin County, some residents who voted for Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders have started to regret their support after she announced the construction of a new prison there.

‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up Read more here.

🚨Democracy Docket’s Jen Rice spent the past two weeks in El Paso covering a crucial hearing on whether Texas’ Trump-approved gerrymander can be used in the midterms. From the RNC’s role to a shadowy paper trail, here are the top takeaways👇 https://bit.ly/4pXR0LY

On the Front Line of the Fluoride Wars, Debate Over Drinking Water Treatment Turns Raucous After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.

NEW: After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are increasingly wavering on the practice.

In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.

Oct. 13, 1920 | Black Community in Roxboro, NC, Threatened to Leave or Face Racial Violence Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1920, the Black community in Roxboro, NC, was terrorized through an ongoing letter campaign by a white lynch mob trying to force Black people to leave town.