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Long road to Chicago but worth every step
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Shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination, Congress designated the Kennedy Center as the sole national memorial within the nation’s capital to the late President.

Well done Congresswoman Beatty!!! Well Done!!
New Lawsuit Challenges Illegal Renaming of the Kennedy Center | Washington Litigation Group
December 22, 2025 – Congresswoman Joyce Beatty today sued President Trump and others to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lawsuit was brought on beh...
washingtonlitigationgroup.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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‼️ALERTA‼️ Bloomington, IN/Nashville, IN/ Spencer, IN...Area...
Welcome to the sunlight Zachary Lee Platter (Age 36). Of Neo-Nazi group blood tribe.
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Chicagoans - vote early and vote often for “Abolish ICE”
Here’s the correct link, as the Chicago Shovels one above yells security warnings

www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...
www.chicago.gov
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Hey @cnn.com @kasie.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @nytimes.com @mkraju.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com

Are you going to now sane wash this madness?

Go ahead

Read it out loud, verbatim, live on TV

I fucking dare you...
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A really great Sunday story and photos: Illinois mom covers 250-mile distance to reunite formerly detained immigrants with their Chicago families: “They deserve to know somebody cares”
By Rebecca Johnson
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/i...
Illinois mom covers 250-mile distance to reunite formerly detained immigrants with their Chicago families: ‘They deserve to know somebody cares’
Rebecca De La Luz helps people detained at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan, reunite with their Chicago-area families.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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We have a long way to go, but I am so happy we have a chance to have our safest year in 60 years here in Chicago!
The work of reducing violence is never easy- I am so incredibly grateful to all who have stayed with it for so long.
@chicagocred.bsky.social

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/10/o...
Arne Duncan: Community violence intervention is working in Chicago
Chicago neighborhoods where community violence intervention is most active have some of the largest declines in gun violence in the city.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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If you were one of the authors of the 14th Amendment who wanted to write the citizenship clause to ensure it would never be misinterpreted to deny birthright citizenship, you'd use the exact words they used. It's among the most straightforward and easily understood provisions in the whole document.
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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One day, CNN giving this dime-store Eva Braun a platform on its network will look even more awful than it does today.
Katie Miller and Abby Phillip are going at it.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Fewer.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”

It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social

Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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You can walk away. Before the shame follows you home. #StopICE
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Shit St Paul ICE agent aims gun
November 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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77 million Americans voted for this. The rest of us have to stop them from destroying our country.
Trump on Pritzker: "The governor is a big fat slob"
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A constituent asked me at a town hall what conversations with my Republican colleagues are like:
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.

I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Fewer.
Linda McMahon: "The states will have less requirements because more money will go in block grants to the states ... I have called for a hard reset of education because we have failed our students."
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Hey @nytimes.com, why is this on page A16?
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM