Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!
🕎 Hanukkah is a reminder of the power of light to overcome darkness. As we celebrate this holiday season, we wish you and yours a Happy Hanukkah. 🕯️
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states.
But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.
LJC
The “clever” sounding Liberty Justice Center (LJC) based in Austin Texas, is on the attack against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union by suing the CTU. The Liberty Justice Center often represents the Illinois Policy Institute and hate group Awake Illinois
What does the Illinois Policy Institute, Liberty Justice Center, Awake Illinois, Paul Vallas and many other neoliberal education privatizers have in common besides being emboldened by Trump and Project 2025? Spoiler-they are deeply connected 🧵
A woman's place is in her union!
For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.
It *appears* the Chicago Police have a new surveillance tool. We say that b/c the Mayor's office won't confirm the details. This follows a long history of agencies secretly entering into "trials" for surveillance that become permanent. Brandon Johnson is complicit.
chicagoreader.com/news/crimetr...
Thinking about this a lot
Trump is trying to gut libraries. Fight back with ALA. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
CORE leaders
CORE leaders
CORE leaders
Check out our CORE leaders talking to members and speaking with @jessehagopian.bsky.social
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.
Black students need to learn accurate and truthful history to change inequalities. That's why the @ctulocal1.bsky.social #ContractForBlackLives includes demands for academic freedom for teachers to teach Black history. #BlackLivesMatterInSchools.
All the love and solidarity to these workers
I love how the increasingly fascistic government thinks it somehow sounds *better* that an 11 year old cannot post anti-Trump sentiments without the literal Secret Service showing up than to admit when ICE agents are attempting to raid public schools. That's their save?
"Every day, the occupation [army] arrests 30 to 40 or even 50 new prisoners."
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig
Literally doesn’t matter if it was ICE or the Secret Service. Federal Agents went to a Chicago Public Elementary School today to get a child and cause fear and chaos.
Time found that nearly 2/3’s of Trump’s orders mirror proposals from #Project2025
time.com/7209901/dona...
"Unless this war [WWII] sounds the death knell to the old Anglo-American empire. . . of exploitation for the profit and power of a monopoly capitalist economy, it will have been fought in vain."
#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/a-...
Call Target customer service at 800-440-0680 to complain about DEI rollbacks. Be nice to call agents bc they didn’t do this 🩷 let’s flood the call center!
ADL: Look guys, we can’t be just calling everyone who does a Seig Heil Hitler
Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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Three-column table highlighting differences between district public schools and charter schools' requirements versus those of private schools receiving public funds in Arizona. Private schools don't meet any of the requirements listed, while public schools meet all of them. The five requirements listed here are: answer to a board of public officials, follow public records and open meetings laws, make finances and budgets public, undergo academic and financial audits, and mandate that teachers be qualified.
In Arizona, private school parents can speak at public school board meetings and vote in board elections. But public school parents can’t freely attend a private school governing body’s meetings, even if the school is funded with taxpayer dollars.
Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
Oddly enough, this is a real movement: In response to X/Twitter announcing they are using user content to train AI, Korean users began describing "destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick" as a healthy and wholesome traditional activity in order to contaminate the AI training data.
i have been told that if you don’t support this, it’s because you hate jewish people, but if you love jewish people, how could you ever wish to see them alienate themselves from their humanity to this degree