Denise Eckert
@niser.bsky.social
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This isn’t just a political win for Trump. It’s a blessing for racial gerrymandering for political goals. It’s a gift to the administration’s and congressional GOP’s open embrace of white nationalism to hold power by stripping marginalized groups of their rights. This is an American tragedy.
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This isn’t just a political win for Trump. It’s a blessing for racial gerrymandering for political goals. It’s a gift to the administration’s and congressional GOP’s open embrace of white nationalism to hold power by stripping marginalized groups of their rights. This is an American tragedy.
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Democracy dies on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. From Kagan’s dissent:
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Democracy dies on the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. From Kagan’s dissent:
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Here’s some top notch reporting on the pardoning of Former Honduras President Hernández, sentenced prison drug trafficking that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social & Troy Iwata just want a clear answer: drugs good or drugs bad?
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social & Troy Iwata just want a clear answer: drugs good or drugs bad?
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here’s some top notch reporting on the pardoning of Former Honduras President Hernández, sentenced prison drug trafficking that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social & Troy Iwata just want a clear answer: drugs good or drugs bad?
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social & Troy Iwata just want a clear answer: drugs good or drugs bad?
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Trump swore he’d make housing “affordable.” Instead we’re staring down mortgages so long you’d need to pass the keys down like a family heirloom.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump swore he’d make housing “affordable.” Instead we’re staring down mortgages so long you’d need to pass the keys down like a family heirloom.
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
#TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
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He did this. He did nothing to stop it.
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
He did this. He did nothing to stop it.
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White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.
Notable about today’s WH roundtable on Antifa, IMO: not just one outside law enforcement/public safety official brought in for it. Bondi, Patel for administration, but no police chief, state Public Safety Secy, sheriff, etc. Just a dozen right-wing “journalists”. …
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.
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The president’s mental acuity is declining, Case Study #6283.
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The president’s mental acuity is declining, Case Study #6283.
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This is such weird GWOT cosplay. What is normal about masked agents with long guns patrolling BY BOAT a major American city!? Authoritarianism amok.
ICE boats trawling the Chicago River. This is the DUMBEST thing I've seen in my entire life. No exaggeration. What's next? Humvees loaded with armed, masked agents patrolling Disney's Main Street U.S.A.?
#Chicago
#Chicago
September 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is such weird GWOT cosplay. What is normal about masked agents with long guns patrolling BY BOAT a major American city!? Authoritarianism amok.
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Trump's budget cuts are slashing funding from programs helping young men succeed.
Programs like Improve Your Tomorrow — working to boost college attendance for young men of color — lost over $10M this year.
Where are your priorities, Trump? Uplifting the nation or yourself?
Programs like Improve Your Tomorrow — working to boost college attendance for young men of color — lost over $10M this year.
Where are your priorities, Trump? Uplifting the nation or yourself?
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Trump's budget cuts are slashing funding from programs helping young men succeed.
Programs like Improve Your Tomorrow — working to boost college attendance for young men of color — lost over $10M this year.
Where are your priorities, Trump? Uplifting the nation or yourself?
Programs like Improve Your Tomorrow — working to boost college attendance for young men of color — lost over $10M this year.
Where are your priorities, Trump? Uplifting the nation or yourself?
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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In case you wondered whether CBS was going to treat its new "ombudsman" as a MAGA-truth monitor, they just hired the former head of the right-wing Hudson Institute into the position: deadline.com/2025/09/para...
Paramount Picks Kenneth R. Weinstein As Ombudsman For CBS News
UPDATED: Paramount has tapped Kenneth R. Weinstein, former president and CEO of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning D.C. think tank, to serve as ombudsman for CBS News. Skydance committed to hiring ...
deadline.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In case you wondered whether CBS was going to treat its new "ombudsman" as a MAGA-truth monitor, they just hired the former head of the right-wing Hudson Institute into the position: deadline.com/2025/09/para...
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NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.
But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
www.propublica.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.
But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
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Be safe Chicago!
Know your rights & know the world is watching!
Know your rights & know the world is watching!
![KNOW & EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS
Everyone has constitutional rights regardiess of immigration status!
1. Remain Calm
• Do not run or make any sudden movements.
• Keep your hands where the agents can see them.
2. You Have The Right To Deny Entry Without A Valid
Warrant
o You can ask the agents & they have a warrant.
Il they say they have a warrant, you can ask them to side the warrant under the
door or hold i against the window.
ICE agents can require you to let them in ONLY i they have a valid warrant
• To be valid, the warrant MUST have: (1) your correct name and address,
2) a vald date, and (3) the signature of a judge. [see back for examples]
3. You Have The Right To Remain Silent
• You can say: "1 wish to exercise my right to remain silent and refuse to answer any questons.
• You can refuse to provide ary documents or information regarding where you were born, when, or how you arrived to the country.
• Do not te.
4. You Have The Right To Speak With An Attorney
• You can say. "I wish to speak with an attorney."
• Cal the ICIRR Family Support Holine or your attomey.
5. You Have The Right To Not Sign Anything
I would ison to contact this attorney oe organization:
ILLINOIS IMMIGRATION INFORMATION
For immediate assistance or to report ICE activity,
call the ICIRR Family Support Hotline:
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September 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Be safe Chicago!
Know your rights & know the world is watching!
Know your rights & know the world is watching!
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This could work
September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This could work
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Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
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Trump to rebrand Defense Department as War Department. The cost of doing this is huge. The $ would be better spent on training & equipment. Worse, it’s a bad image that’s consistent with Trump’s likely illegal war crime destruction of a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs. Where will this end?
September 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Trump to rebrand Defense Department as War Department. The cost of doing this is huge. The $ would be better spent on training & equipment. Worse, it’s a bad image that’s consistent with Trump’s likely illegal war crime destruction of a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs. Where will this end?
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The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS!
Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store.
He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store.
He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
August 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
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Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...
A Watergate Everyday
Two scandals just this week that are worse than what Nixon did.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Almost every day there’s a Trump scandal that skates by that in any other moment of presidential history would launch endless follow-up stories, congressional investigations, and sink an administration. I zeroed in on just two of them from this week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-watergat...
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Fired based on mere allegations—another step on the slide towards a banana republic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Trump says he's removing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, citing his administration’s allegations of mortgage fraud
Trump cited a "criminal referral" from Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte against Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board.
www.nbcnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Fired based on mere allegations—another step on the slide towards a banana republic. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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If groceries aren't expensive enough for you, electricity bills are spiking around the country—rising twice as fast as the rate of inflation. Democrats are honing a new message on high costs of living. New from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/paying-too...
Paying Too Much for Energy? Dems Say Blame the GOP
Plus: Redrawing more maps for 2026, and rewriting calendars for 2028.
www.thebulwark.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If groceries aren't expensive enough for you, electricity bills are spiking around the country—rising twice as fast as the rate of inflation. Democrats are honing a new message on high costs of living. New from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/paying-too...
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He's deteriorating before our eyes.
I'm not being hopeful. It's not about hope.
He's old. He's rapidly declining physically and mentally.
WE CAN SEE IT.
Tick tock.
I'm not being hopeful. It's not about hope.
He's old. He's rapidly declining physically and mentally.
WE CAN SEE IT.
Tick tock.
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
He's deteriorating before our eyes.
I'm not being hopeful. It's not about hope.
He's old. He's rapidly declining physically and mentally.
WE CAN SEE IT.
Tick tock.
I'm not being hopeful. It's not about hope.
He's old. He's rapidly declining physically and mentally.
WE CAN SEE IT.
Tick tock.
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I’m walking past humvees in the the nation’s capital, seeing viral images of Black and brown people being disappeared by masked agents in broad daylight, and Trump is saying law enforcement should “knock the hell out of” them. But the trending debate is over words Dems shouldn’t say. I hate it here.
August 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I’m walking past humvees in the the nation’s capital, seeing viral images of Black and brown people being disappeared by masked agents in broad daylight, and Trump is saying law enforcement should “knock the hell out of” them. But the trending debate is over words Dems shouldn’t say. I hate it here.
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I can’t get over how old and sickly Trump seems in every setting now. The fact that the DC press corps is making this the lead question and topic in DC is astounding. He’s clearly not well—even by Trumpian standards of clarity.
Imagine having to wear a hat like this for self-affirmation, even as you are the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet.
August 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I can’t get over how old and sickly Trump seems in every setting now. The fact that the DC press corps is making this the lead question and topic in DC is astounding. He’s clearly not well—even by Trumpian standards of clarity.
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GOP Rep. Bryan Steil holds an in-person town hall event and is greeted with boos over Trump bill www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
GOP Rep. Bryan Steil holds an in-person town hall event and is greeted with boos over Trump bill
Bryan Steil's town hall was the first for a Wisconsin Republican since House GOP leadership in March advised members to avoid the in-person events.
www.jsonline.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
GOP Rep. Bryan Steil holds an in-person town hall event and is greeted with boos over Trump bill www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...