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I’m not new, I’m just new *here*. You know me, I know you. The sun’ll come out tomorrow.
When you flee one state to another to avoid giving testimony and/or being prosecuted, there’s a name for that.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
When you flee one state to another to avoid giving testimony and/or being prosecuted, there’s a name for that.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
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Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
If a Republican makes you an offer, first say no.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If a Republican makes you an offer, first say no.
This isn’t a thing except in the minds of the ignorant and absolute idjits
Trump on SNAP: It really puts the country in jeopardy. People who are able bodied who can do their job—they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up because it’s easier—that’s not the purpose of it
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This isn’t a thing except in the minds of the ignorant and absolute idjits
They brought back measles bc nostalgia seems like a great idea until you follow through on the notion.
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it
What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
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What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
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As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
They brought back measles bc nostalgia seems like a great idea until you follow through on the notion.
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Great thread on what Republicans are trying to do to healthcare
Remember, before ACA you were able to ✌️purchase your own much better healthcare✌️, except that it was completely unaffordable and insurance companies could deny you for preexisting conditions and/or raise your premiums/cancel your coverage when you used your healthcare insurance for HEALTHCARE.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Great thread on what Republicans are trying to do to healthcare
Never play the long game with fascism bc then you get long fascism instead of short fascism.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Never play the long game with fascism bc then you get long fascism instead of short fascism.
Markets and poor people famously love uncertainty and being toyed with by fascists. /s
Or maybe, and hear me out, they have no good options and they’d prefer to say that later-or-never.
Or maybe, and hear me out, they have no good options and they’d prefer to say that later-or-never.
BARTIROMO: How do you want this to play out once the ACA subsidies expire?
DR OZ: We have lots of great ideas, but I don't want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we're gonna do?
DR OZ: We have lots of great ideas, but I don't want to show our cards. As the president often says, why would I telegraph to you what we're gonna do?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Markets and poor people famously love uncertainty and being toyed with by fascists. /s
Or maybe, and hear me out, they have no good options and they’d prefer to say that later-or-never.
Or maybe, and hear me out, they have no good options and they’d prefer to say that later-or-never.
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This is why we wanted you to fight for it....because they won't let a vote happen.
But sure dude just cave and lose all the momentum the elections just gave the rest of the country against maga.
Now, the nation has to go through this same argument all over again in Jan/Feb 2026 when the CR expires
But sure dude just cave and lose all the momentum the elections just gave the rest of the country against maga.
Now, the nation has to go through this same argument all over again in Jan/Feb 2026 when the CR expires
Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is why we wanted you to fight for it....because they won't let a vote happen.
But sure dude just cave and lose all the momentum the elections just gave the rest of the country against maga.
Now, the nation has to go through this same argument all over again in Jan/Feb 2026 when the CR expires
But sure dude just cave and lose all the momentum the elections just gave the rest of the country against maga.
Now, the nation has to go through this same argument all over again in Jan/Feb 2026 when the CR expires
Wow! The guy who’s been scamming and defrauding people all his life did it again?! 😱 Didn’t see that coming. /s
Elections are the one opportunity we have to see what the people think. And what they think is clear: Trump sucks.
His disapproval rating is a record 63%.
People are deeply sour about nearly everything, and they blame him for every single bit of it. trib.al/PmboJFF
His disapproval rating is a record 63%.
People are deeply sour about nearly everything, and they blame him for every single bit of it. trib.al/PmboJFF
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Wow! The guy who’s been scamming and defrauding people all his life did it again?! 😱 Didn’t see that coming. /s
🍆🥔 Day 41
This is what a police state looks and feels like, bc that’s what he’s trying to institute. The overwhelming majority of these people being attacked have hurt nobody and have committed no crimes more serious than failing to use a turn signal, if that.
This is what a police state looks and feels like, bc that’s what he’s trying to institute. The overwhelming majority of these people being attacked have hurt nobody and have committed no crimes more serious than failing to use a turn signal, if that.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🍆🥔 Day 41
This is what a police state looks and feels like, bc that’s what he’s trying to institute. The overwhelming majority of these people being attacked have hurt nobody and have committed no crimes more serious than failing to use a turn signal, if that.
This is what a police state looks and feels like, bc that’s what he’s trying to institute. The overwhelming majority of these people being attacked have hurt nobody and have committed no crimes more serious than failing to use a turn signal, if that.
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Only 🍆🥔 can rescue Dems from this blunder, and only by being the dumbest m’f’k’r on the planet and refusing to sign it. Bc we all know he won’t abide by it so, why refuse to sign it if he thinks it costs him nothing? Bc he’s just as much an asshole to Rs as he is Ds. He wants to take THEIR power.
Tuesday should have had coattails, but instead a handful of Senate Dems have chosen to take our political capital and flush it down the toilet via unconditional surrender. Bc that’s what this is. Rs won’t abide by any deal they make. Bet on it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Only 🍆🥔 can rescue Dems from this blunder, and only by being the dumbest m’f’k’r on the planet and refusing to sign it. Bc we all know he won’t abide by it so, why refuse to sign it if he thinks it costs him nothing? Bc he’s just as much an asshole to Rs as he is Ds. He wants to take THEIR power.
I’ll keep saying this until people get it.
A little louder for the people in the back:
REPUBLICANS AREN’T NEGOTIATING, THEY’RE BULLSHITTING. THEY WONT ENFORCE *ANY* BUDGET BC THEY REFUSE TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE. DON’T NEGOTIATE UNTIL THEY DO THEIR JOB AND REMOVE HIM FOR HIS MULTITUDE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.
REPUBLICANS AREN’T NEGOTIATING, THEY’RE BULLSHITTING. THEY WONT ENFORCE *ANY* BUDGET BC THEY REFUSE TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE. DON’T NEGOTIATE UNTIL THEY DO THEIR JOB AND REMOVE HIM FOR HIS MULTITUDE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’ll keep saying this until people get it.
🍆🥔 Day 40
Deliberately starving Americans courts ordered them to feed bc they think hurting the poorest among us will somehow help them win. This is an attempt at political pain compliance using actual physical pain. And they’re about to cancel Thanksgiving for millions of traveling Americans too.
In the dead of night, the Trump administration ordered states to stop issuing SNAP benefits.
This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.
This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🍆🥔 Day 40
Deliberately starving Americans courts ordered them to feed bc they think hurting the poorest among us will somehow help them win. This is an attempt at political pain compliance using actual physical pain. And they’re about to cancel Thanksgiving for millions of traveling Americans too.
In the dead of night, the Trump administration ordered states to stop issuing SNAP benefits.
This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.
This president will stop at nothing to take food out of the mouths of hungry kids across America. Soulless.
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Deliberately starving Americans courts ordered them to feed bc they think hurting the poorest among us will somehow help them win. This is an attempt at political pain compliance using actual physical pain. And they’re about to cancel Thanksgiving for millions of traveling Americans too.
These are some of the crimes our founders cited as grievances against the King which justified declaring and then fighting a war for our independence. But now ✌️patriots✌️ and ✌️libertarians✌️ dgaf about any of that bc they’re neither and they think they’re winning.
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
These are some of the crimes our founders cited as grievances against the King which justified declaring and then fighting a war for our independence. But now ✌️patriots✌️ and ✌️libertarians✌️ dgaf about any of that bc they’re neither and they think they’re winning.
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They weren't terrorists. They weren't cartel members. They had no fentanyl. And they weren't coming here.
They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.
Most importantly, they were human beings.
And they were murdered.
By the government of the United States of America.
They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.
Most importantly, they were human beings.
And they were murdered.
By the government of the United States of America.
GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
They weren't terrorists. They weren't cartel members. They had no fentanyl. And they weren't coming here.
They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.
Most importantly, they were human beings.
And they were murdered.
By the government of the United States of America.
They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.
Most importantly, they were human beings.
And they were murdered.
By the government of the United States of America.
Riddle me this: why would the ✌️party of faith✌️, whose leader claims to be ✌️pro-Christian✌️, even TRY to stop mostly Christian faith leaders from praying?
Maybe so they won’t have to explain to their own base when they violently attack the clergy and their prayer circle on camera?
Who can say? 🤷♂️
Maybe so they won’t have to explain to their own base when they violently attack the clergy and their prayer circle on camera?
Who can say? 🤷♂️
Yesterday, Block Club reported that the feds have said no more prayer outside the facility which is of course not something they can demand or enforce.
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Riddle me this: why would the ✌️party of faith✌️, whose leader claims to be ✌️pro-Christian✌️, even TRY to stop mostly Christian faith leaders from praying?
Maybe so they won’t have to explain to their own base when they violently attack the clergy and their prayer circle on camera?
Who can say? 🤷♂️
Maybe so they won’t have to explain to their own base when they violently attack the clergy and their prayer circle on camera?
Who can say? 🤷♂️
This is what Rs are trying to do to your healthcare:
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is what Rs are trying to do to your healthcare:
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
🍆🥔 Day 39
US front pages are dominated by headlines about 1) no food assistance and 2) traumatic #ICE detentions.
@bostonglobe.com
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November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🍆🥔 Day 39
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Imagine being so evil that you spend time and money going to court to demand the right to starve families, children, the elderly and disabled.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...
My God, just when you think these people couldn’t be the lowest form of scum on the earth they sink lower. We have billions for jets. Millions to bomb people who have NEVER been proven guilty, but we can starve families, children and disabled? ROT IN HELL - forever!
My God, just when you think these people couldn’t be the lowest form of scum on the earth they sink lower. We have billions for jets. Millions to bomb people who have NEVER been proven guilty, but we can starve families, children and disabled? ROT IN HELL - forever!
Supreme Court lets Trump pause full SNAP payments for now | CNN Politics
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday temporarily paused a lower court order that required the Trump administration to cover full food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November, s...
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Imagine being so evil that you spend time and money going to court to demand the right to starve families, children, the elderly and disabled.
When starving children as extortion to give rich people more money is your *best* idea, you shouldn’t have any power to affect other people anymore.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
When starving children as extortion to give rich people more money is your *best* idea, you shouldn’t have any power to affect other people anymore.
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Wow. Bull’s-eye. Thank you, Governor.
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wow. Bull’s-eye. Thank you, Governor.