Robert Siek
@robertsiek.bsky.social
Production editor at a large publishing house and author of the poetry collections Purpose and Devil Piss and We Go Seasonal.
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Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
“But while many have claimed that there is a rise in violence from the left, research shows that right-wing extremists are behind more political violence.”
White House Anti-Terror Order Targets ‘Anti-American’ Views
The order, experts warn, could target protestors' constitutional right to protest and free speech.
time.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
“But while many have claimed that there is a rise in violence from the left, research shows that right-wing extremists are behind more political violence.”
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It’s 6:04 p.m. in D.C., and we have parading. Crowd has filled in a bit at the route front, but mainly one deep along Constitution Avenue.
June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s 6:04 p.m. in D.C., and we have parading. Crowd has filled in a bit at the route front, but mainly one deep along Constitution Avenue.
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Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.
June 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’m imagining this will likely cause the unnecessary deaths of many Americans, but hey, we continue to be great. Maybe we should all just take a swim in raw sewage and drink led-contaminated water and call it a day.
RFK Jr. pledged not to upend US vaccine system, but big changes are underway
Health agencies working under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are making changes to the nation's decades-old system for approving and recommending vaccines.
apnews.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m imagining this will likely cause the unnecessary deaths of many Americans, but hey, we continue to be great. Maybe we should all just take a swim in raw sewage and drink led-contaminated water and call it a day.
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This happens in North Korea, Russia, and now it's happening here. MAGA is not American.
🚨 BREAKING: FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for obstruction of ICE agents, Kash Patel says
Patel said that Dugan obstructed "an immigration arrest operation last week."
www.axios.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This happens in North Korea, Russia, and now it's happening here. MAGA is not American.
Waiting to witness the Trump cronies start devouring one another.
April 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Waiting to witness the Trump cronies start devouring one another.
“‘Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent and stable enforcement of regulations, and if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,’ said [the] co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation”
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“‘Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent and stable enforcement of regulations, and if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,’ said [the] co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation”
“These are complicated programs to run . . .” said Ken Jockers, the executive director of . . . a social services organization . . . that operates Head Start programs. “A big part of what makes that possible is the skilled, smart support that we get that understands our region and our challenges.”
NYC’s regional Head Start office shuttered as part of Trump admin’s health cuts
Child care providers learned last week that half of Head Start regional offices were closed effective immediately.
www.nydailynews.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
“These are complicated programs to run . . .” said Ken Jockers, the executive director of . . . a social services organization . . . that operates Head Start programs. “A big part of what makes that possible is the skilled, smart support that we get that understands our region and our challenges.”
“Head Start employees in five of the program’s 10 regions — Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle — had . . . been laid off, according to . . . Katie Hamm, a former official with the federal [ACF].“
How will these programs continue to exist?
How will these programs continue to exist?
Head Start is turning 60. Will the federal child care program make it to 61?
Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts
hechingerreport.org
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Head Start employees in five of the program’s 10 regions — Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle — had . . . been laid off, according to . . . Katie Hamm, a former official with the federal [ACF].“
How will these programs continue to exist?
How will these programs continue to exist?
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The Trump Admin's termination of all staff at the Office of Head Start in New York is a malicious assault on NY children and families.
This is yet another vital program Trump is willing to gut to pay off his billionaire donors.
Read my statement below:
This is yet another vital program Trump is willing to gut to pay off his billionaire donors.
Read my statement below:
April 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Trump Admin's termination of all staff at the Office of Head Start in New York is a malicious assault on NY children and families.
This is yet another vital program Trump is willing to gut to pay off his billionaire donors.
Read my statement below:
This is yet another vital program Trump is willing to gut to pay off his billionaire donors.
Read my statement below:
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MAGA: "Vaccinating my child is against my deeply held religious beliefs."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . if you had any deeply held religious beliefs, you never would have voted for an adulterous, lying rapist."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . if you had any deeply held religious beliefs, you never would have voted for an adulterous, lying rapist."
March 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
MAGA: "Vaccinating my child is against my deeply held religious beliefs."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . if you had any deeply held religious beliefs, you never would have voted for an adulterous, lying rapist."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . if you had any deeply held religious beliefs, you never would have voted for an adulterous, lying rapist."
“‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it,’ Matthew Tejada, a former E.P.A. official who is now a senior vice president for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Fund.”
Another atrocity.
Another atrocity.
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it,’ Matthew Tejada, a former E.P.A. official who is now a senior vice president for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Fund.”
Another atrocity.
Another atrocity.
“ ‘We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,’ Vought said in a video. . . . ‘When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.’ “
Russell Vought: Trump appointee who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’
The Christian nationalist head of the office of management and budget was central to the Project 2025 blueprint
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“ ‘We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,’ Vought said in a video. . . . ‘When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.’ “
The hideous actions of the Trump administration continue. I hope all the patriots who voted for him are proud.
9/11 community advocates warn of staffing cuts at federal health program
The staffing reductions come as the Trump White House continues to slash the federal government.
ny1.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The hideous actions of the Trump administration continue. I hope all the patriots who voted for him are proud.
The Trump administration is firing so many federal employees that agencies/departments will no longer be capable of running properly or at all. How this will play out is becoming scarier by the moment.
February 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The Trump administration is firing so many federal employees that agencies/departments will no longer be capable of running properly or at all. How this will play out is becoming scarier by the moment.
Let’s see if this can be stopped. I really, really hope so.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records
A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Let’s see if this can be stopped. I really, really hope so.
Heart breaking.
New York police find body of missing man they say was tortured for more than a month by 5 people
New York State Police have charged five people with murder in the killing of a missing man who authorities said died following repeated acts of violence and torture for more than a month by multiple i...
apnews.com
February 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Heart breaking.
Just deactivated my Facebook. Felt so goooood.
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Just deactivated my Facebook. Felt so goooood.
Stopped in my local bookstore, Terrace Books, and discovered that I had totally missed that a new collection of poetry by Diane Seuss came out last year, so I of course bought it. I don’t get excited over new work by many poets these days, but I definitely do over hers.
February 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Stopped in my local bookstore, Terrace Books, and discovered that I had totally missed that a new collection of poetry by Diane Seuss came out last year, so I of course bought it. I don’t get excited over new work by many poets these days, but I definitely do over hers.
Outraged. Elon Musk should be arrested. No to him accessing the Treasury payments system, and no to the push to end USAID. I emailed my senators and house representative. Consider contacting yours if these actions disturb you.
What To Know About Trump’s USAID Changes—After Elon Musk’s DOGE Accesses Classified Info
Trump is reportedly trying to close the agency and move it under the State Department, which Democrats warn would be illegal.
www.forbes.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Outraged. Elon Musk should be arrested. No to him accessing the Treasury payments system, and no to the push to end USAID. I emailed my senators and house representative. Consider contacting yours if these actions disturb you.
Dear lord, I’m going to stop reading the news and start watching Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.
February 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Dear lord, I’m going to stop reading the news and start watching Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.
Watching the movie Your Monster caused us to start watching Beauty and the Beast, the TV series starring Linda Hamilton that began in 1987. Now I can’t stop speaking like Vincent, the Beast. I don’t know how I didn’t appreciate his voice more in my early teens when I caught the occasional episode.
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Watching the movie Your Monster caused us to start watching Beauty and the Beast, the TV series starring Linda Hamilton that began in 1987. Now I can’t stop speaking like Vincent, the Beast. I don’t know how I didn’t appreciate his voice more in my early teens when I caught the occasional episode.