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We follow extremism, dark money, and the erosion of democracy. Free people don’t answer to dictators. Chicago is the best city in the world.

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I woke up punchy. I’m so sick of these motherfuckers and their bombs and their rapes and their violence.

We could be happy. We could have nice things like healthcare and childcare and UBI. It actually wouldn’t be that hard.

07.03.2026 11:41 👍 1487 🔁 291 💬 55 📌 22
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

U.S. forces likely bombed an Iranian elementary school on Feb. 28 during an operation targeting a nearby military base, a New York Times analysis suggests. It is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.

05.03.2026 22:39 👍 978 🔁 512 💬 119 📌 100
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This is Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair. While working class American service people are dying in the gratuitous war his father and Donald Trump started, Yair is poolside in Miami chilling.

No word on where Donald Trump's children were, just that they were 100% *not* wearing a uniform.

01.03.2026 22:46 👍 3668 🔁 1497 💬 224 📌 103

Where was FedEx when seven small business owners sued over Trump’s tariffs? Nowhere.

But now that money is in air, FedEx is happy to show up.

F*ck these big corporations for making small businesses do the hard work.

24.02.2026 05:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

11.02.2026 23:57 👍 10997 🔁 5408 💬 508 📌 576

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

09.02.2026 03:43 👍 3819 🔁 590 💬 51 📌 21
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An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax | TechCrunch The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

I can't think of anything I'd want to do less with my time than attending a protest against taxing billionaires. This is an insane amount of bootlicking energy.

07.02.2026 10:56 👍 562 🔁 95 💬 84 📌 69

If only Antifa existed and was this organized.

06.02.2026 04:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apparently a guy worth over $200 BILLION can’t afford to keep a newspaper going.

05.02.2026 04:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How many bad things happen in the world because a “social media influencer” does something horrible to “expand their reach?”

04.02.2026 05:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

03.02.2026 04:15 👍 15329 🔁 5509 💬 3067 📌 1058

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

31.01.2026 21:55 👍 9515 🔁 2474 💬 25 📌 34

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

30.01.2026 20:31 👍 29830 🔁 6473 💬 458 📌 445

ICE will NEVER be “reined in” if they are funded. They serve to inflict violence against U.S. civilians without any accountability.

They will violate any conditions of funding the minute they get the money.

Any Democrat who is stupid enough to vote for ICE funding does not deserve a senate seat.

29.01.2026 02:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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All Senate Democrats (and independents) must vote tomorrow against the DHS appropriations bill.

Please call your senators today and say NO more funding for ICE: 202-224-3121.

Here's more about what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dems-must-stop-ice-funding-heres

28.01.2026 21:33 👍 1881 🔁 786 💬 100 📌 35
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😕

29.01.2026 01:07 👍 2931 🔁 908 💬 78 📌 27
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Personally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia

28.01.2026 23:12 👍 2910 🔁 879 💬 166 📌 72
28.01.2026 19:41 👍 3144 🔁 1337 💬 187 📌 88

BREAKING:

Minnesota's chief federal judge has demanded the acting head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain what the judge described as repeated failures to comply with dozens of court orders amid its enforcement efforts in the state.

27.01.2026 13:36 👍 11923 🔁 3002 💬 307 📌 124

It looks like he’s enjoying his last and only term.

27.01.2026 04:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 👍 20843 🔁 8643 💬 267 📌 714

Unless Trump is sending Tom Homan to identify the ICE agents that killed Alex Pretti for criminal prosecution, he can stay home.

26.01.2026 13:50 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This lawless administration is now operating under the “what are you gonna do about it” doctrine. A John Roberts creation.

25.01.2026 17:00 👍 18492 🔁 5665 💬 725 📌 223

George W. Bush still cowering in the corner or does he agree with this?

26.01.2026 03:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

25.01.2026 14:05 👍 2773 🔁 1530 💬 22 📌 30
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

25.01.2026 17:30 👍 5237 🔁 2185 💬 196 📌 72

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

24.01.2026 20:29 👍 39721 🔁 11356 💬 759 📌 621

Pam Bondi should consider what she’s done, in comparison to what Jack Smith has done, when weighing who deserves a law license.

22.01.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

22.01.2026 15:33 👍 45261 🔁 14145 💬 870 📌 682
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There’s no reforming this

22.01.2026 18:17 👍 17303 🔁 7243 💬 580 📌 425