This #EarthDay, we're spotlighting Hazel M. Johnson AKA the Mother of the Environmental Justice movement. Starting in the 1970s in Chicago, Johnson helped expose toxic environmental hazards in her neighborhood, the health impacts of which harmed residents who were predominantly Black.
“While the chaotic raids of this fall’s Operation Midway Blitz have faded, federal agents continue to arrest immigrants in the Chicago area, sometimes with legally questionable tactics.”
😡
We need to do this in Chicago.
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.
Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.
No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
From Jon Cooper
Estimated redistricting shift so far:
Texas +5 R
California +5 D
Utah +1 D
Missouri +1 R
North Carolina +1 R
Ohio +1 to +2 R
Virginia +4 D
Net: roughly +1 to +2 Democratic seats nationally
DLH updates Red Flag Warning (extends time and expands area to include Burnett, Washburn [WI], expands area to include Pine [MN], continues Crow Wing, North Cass, North Itasca, Nor... at Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:43:41 +0000 via IEMbot
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[Delayed Report] Terra Bella [Tulare Co, CA] Public reports Funnel Cloud at 21 Apr, 6:36 PM PDT -- Video received via Facebook. Report of roof loosed.
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Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted: “We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.”
Texas ruling update on 10 Commandments in Classrooms. Looks like this one is going to end up going to SCOTUS as Federal Court sides with TX in a 9-7 vote.
I don't understand what happened to the separation of church & state. And 1st Amendment freedom of religion which gives freedom from religion.
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
Separation of Church and State is a Tenet of Our Democracy that Must be Protected!
SCOTUS is Truly
100% Corrupt if They Do Not Stop this Appeal in its Tracks !!
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Under 28 U. S. C. §1446(b)(1), a party sued in state court who prefers to proceed in federal court generally has 30 days after receiving notice of the state-court action to remove the lawsuit to federal court (if there are grounds for doing so). In this case, petitioners (collectively Enbridge) unquestionably did not meet §1446(b)(1)’s 30-day deadline, instead waiting 887 days after being served with the Michigan Attorney General’s state-court complaint before removing the case to federal court. Enbridge argues that the District Court nevertheless had equitable discretion to toll §1446(b)(1)’s deadline and excuse this late filing. This Court disagrees. Because §1446(b)(1)’s text, structure, and context are inconsistent with equitable tolling, Enbridge’s removal was untimely and remand to the Michigan state court is required.
The Supreme Court's first (but not last) decision of the day is Enbridge v. Nessel. Per Sotomayor, the court unanimously holds that this removal to federal court was untimely. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The redistricting wars are far from over. Florida is planning to convene a special session next week to redraw its congressional map, which could net the GOP two to five more seats.
And SCOTUS could issue a decision any day now striking down the key remaining section of the Voting Rights Act.
Gotta be tough on players when their family lives 1,500 miles away. If attendance isn't mandatory, there's a long list of very *human* reasons to stay home with them.
The Browns double-dip at OT in the 1st round? You really think their FO is smart enough to do that?
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
Happy Earth Day!💚
#Pinks 🌎
Ukrtransnafta says the Druzhba pipeline is ready for operation.
The Ukrainian company is prepared to resume oil transit to Hungary and Slovakia.
Wooohooooooo 🎉🥳👏
🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦EU approves 90 billion euro aid package for Ukraine and new sanctions against Russia after Hungary lifts veto.
The Palantir manifesto is a Orwellian dystopian fantasy. It’s a blatant attack on liberal society, a Tech-bro circle-jerk vision of a new world order. Karp is cosplaying Mussolini.
#Palantir #AlexKarp
Honestly, PLEASE read his comments regarding humans and why it's okay to kill them off... slaves or terrorists... it doesn't matter to him... HE IS STEPHEN MILLER X 10. He's LARGE and in CHARGE of the information given to the DHS/ICE from his company Palantir. He spends billions on elections.
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Australia is not - yet - as entangled with Palantir as the UK.
But thanks to the Albanese govt, we are moving in that direction. The Defence dept already has several secretive contracts with this fascist firm.
Time to take the fight to Palantir. #auspol
I’ll support any Dem that moves to kick Palantir off the public dole and out of doing business with the US.
Just once, I'd like to hear a "mainstream Dem"/potential POTUS candidate go all-in on speaking about FDR's New Deal economic policies and the subsequent economic boom in the US.
“Just like Democratic leaders, the New York Times failed to use its outsized influence to challenge this monstrous war. Instead, it participated in its genesis, through cowardice as much as through sanctimony.”
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I advocate for restoring and improving upon FDR's New Deal progressivism (updating wrt alternative energy, etc.). Many Dems seem to think that makes me a "radical leftist".
Until today, I would never have called a President of the United States – of any party – a “fucking piece of shit.”
But, it’s time to be honest: Donald Trump really is. Exactly that.
-- George Conway
