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In time, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would come to think of Operation Midway Blitz in an extraordinary way: “An invasion,” he said.
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
trib.al
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In time, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker would come to think of Operation Midway Blitz in an extraordinary way: “An invasion,” he said.
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Michigan’s utility regulator just rubber-stamped DTE Energy’s sweetheart deal to power a mammoth 1.4-gigawatt Saline Township data center — a project so huge it will draw more electricity than many towns — without public scrutiny.
December 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Michigan’s utility regulator just rubber-stamped DTE Energy’s sweetheart deal to power a mammoth 1.4-gigawatt Saline Township data center — a project so huge it will draw more electricity than many towns — without public scrutiny.
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I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
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Remember back in the day when the FBI used to identify, catch and arrest mass shooters?
December 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Remember back in the day when the FBI used to identify, catch and arrest mass shooters?
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
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We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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Utah’s signature-gathering industry isn’t “democracy in action.” It’s a gig economy built on workers sleeping in cars, wearing diapers to avoid losing pay, and hustling to meet quotas for million-dollar campaigns. Utah doesn’t have a ballot-initiative problem — it has an exploitation problem.
The Dark Side of Utah’s Signature Gathering Industry
Where Million-Dollar Political Campaigns Meet Workers Sleeping in Their Cars and How Utah’s Initiative System Demonstrates Who Democracy Really Belongs To
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Utah’s signature-gathering industry isn’t “democracy in action.” It’s a gig economy built on workers sleeping in cars, wearing diapers to avoid losing pay, and hustling to meet quotas for million-dollar campaigns. Utah doesn’t have a ballot-initiative problem — it has an exploitation problem.
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Standards have been lowered to the floor. They have a bunch of unqualified misfits and unhinged weirdos they are rushing through an abbreviated academy so they can get them weapons and gear and out onto the streets ASAP. What could go wrong?
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Standards have been lowered to the floor. They have a bunch of unqualified misfits and unhinged weirdos they are rushing through an abbreviated academy so they can get them weapons and gear and out onto the streets ASAP. What could go wrong?
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But they will tell you immigrants are taking all the houses 🏘️
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
But they will tell you immigrants are taking all the houses 🏘️
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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Rep. Vindman calls Trump's accounting of the Saudis' involvement in Jamal Khashoggi's murder "counterfactual." "It's contrary to the reports of the intel community determined with high confidence that this was an order of a kill or capture of Jamal Khashoggi."
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Rep. Vindman calls Trump's accounting of the Saudis' involvement in Jamal Khashoggi's murder "counterfactual." "It's contrary to the reports of the intel community determined with high confidence that this was an order of a kill or capture of Jamal Khashoggi."
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1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.
Follow this thread for details.
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Follow this thread for details.
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EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees
An abrupt decision on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing.
popular.info
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.
Follow this thread for details.
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Follow this thread for details.
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Raskin: "In the very presence of the victims and survivors, the Speaker said that 'now is a time we should be working on urgent legislative work.' Mr Speaker, justice is urgent legislative work. The truth is urgent legislative work. You were the one who refused to swear in Rep. Grijalva for 50 days"
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Raskin: "In the very presence of the victims and survivors, the Speaker said that 'now is a time we should be working on urgent legislative work.' Mr Speaker, justice is urgent legislative work. The truth is urgent legislative work. You were the one who refused to swear in Rep. Grijalva for 50 days"
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Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jamal Khashoggi was a WaPo columnist when he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul at the direction of the Saudi government. The entire world condemned it, except Trump. This wasn’t “things happen.” It was a state-sanctioned assassination for exercising free speech.
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Remember: An estimated 70% of congressional Republicans may financially benefit from the tax cuts in their Big Ugly Bill.
While cutting Medicaid and food stamps for millions — including many of their own constituents — these lawmakers may be enriching themselves.
Priorities.
While cutting Medicaid and food stamps for millions — including many of their own constituents — these lawmakers may be enriching themselves.
Priorities.
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Remember: An estimated 70% of congressional Republicans may financially benefit from the tax cuts in their Big Ugly Bill.
While cutting Medicaid and food stamps for millions — including many of their own constituents — these lawmakers may be enriching themselves.
Priorities.
While cutting Medicaid and food stamps for millions — including many of their own constituents — these lawmakers may be enriching themselves.
Priorities.
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"That the president and those propping him up would take freedom away from those who have defended ours — many of whom became disabled in service to our country — is unconscionable." michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/t...
Trump administration’s war on homeless people harms veterans • Michigan Advance
November is a special time in Michigan, as we both honor U.S. veterans and observe Homeless Awareness Month. This Veterans Day, however, the Trump administration is threatening to undo our progress…
michiganadvance.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"That the president and those propping him up would take freedom away from those who have defended ours — many of whom became disabled in service to our country — is unconscionable." michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/t...