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The governor fired off a message to the White House, outraged that the president had deployed soldiers to an American city. It was July 1894. The governor was John Peter Altgeld of Illinois, and the president was Grover Cleveland.
In 1894 Pullman strike, Illinois’ governor fought president’s decision to bring in National Guard
During the Pullman Strike of 1894, the governor of Illinois decried President Grover Cleveland’s move to call in the National Guard
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June 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
June 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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June 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This was a real post from 47 on Juneteenth.
June 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
the thing is too that much of this land is neither reasonably arable nor proximal to an agglomerative center which would justify development. they’re selling it off for no reason whatsoever. it’s a war against nature simply because they can.
250 million acres is just a mind boggling quantity of land www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
June 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
June 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
June 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Trump only likes masked militias.
June 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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So when all was said and done, the only country that opened it's prisons and sent crazy murderous criminals to prey upon innocent American citizens, was us.
January 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Elon Musk, himself an oligarch, is drunk on power and out of control.
November 28, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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