Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”
A federal judge has issued a blistering 49-page written opinion vacating the Kennedy Declaration, that threatened to revoke all federal funding, including Medicare and Medicaid, from any hospital that offered gender-affirming care for transgender youth, a virtual death sentence for any hospital.
In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.
Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.
Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.
This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.
Remembering Prince today on the 10th anniversary of his passing (April 21, 2016) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: here: album.ink/PrinceRIP
Remembering Nina Simone today on the 23rd anniversary of her passing (April 21, 2003) | Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/NinaSimoneRIP
“The Sun Prince” by Constance Brantley.
Continue to rest in power, Your Purple Majesty 💜💜🕊️
#prince #musicsky
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🚨BREAKING: DOJ lost again Friday, as a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit to force Rhode Island to provide unfettered access to its voter registration rolls, bringing the agency’s record among active cases to 5 defeats, 0 wins and 25 cases still pending. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump cutting funding from Catholic Charties for migrants because he's mad at the Pope for speaking out against the Iran war shows you just how much he'll forever be a vindictive, lowlife, POS until he dies! 🤬
If the goalposts could speak, they'd ask to stop being moved.
In a spooky coincidence – or perhaps something more – the Titanic exhibit at the Volo museum flooded from Tuesday night's thunderstorms on the exact anniversary of the infamous ship's sinking.
Thank you to whoever did this one. 🤣👏
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the 1st female pilot to fly across English Channel 1922 Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row 1929 New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order 1940 Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Fellerhurls the first and only Opening Day no-hitter in MLB history; beats Chicago WSWhite Sox, 1-0 at Comiskey Park 1944 Nazis led by Klaus Barbie raid Izieu Jewish children's home, near Lyon, taking 44 children and seven adults to exterminations camps 1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in federal case against police officers (two convicted, two acquitted) who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th 2020 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment in 4 weeks (5.2 million in the last week), wiping out 9 1/2 years of job gains
It a National Wear your Pajamas to Work Day
🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊
While some people call this day "the best holiday of the year," it was created for fun
For those of us who work from home, we call this just another day😂😆
Let’s enjoy Pajama Day 🥰
We will be okay
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It's a good thing for them size doesn't matter 😆
A little reminder this morning: the grace we give the world is the grace we deserve, too. May we meet ourselves with the same quiet acceptance we offer the trees.
#Jaye’sMorningLight
On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
Hidden in fine print, discriminatory language from a century ago still exists today in some Tulsa, Oklahoma, property records
“It said that no Africans may rent, lease, buy except if there are quarters built for them at the back of the property"
It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).
Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004
Don’t mess with the Pope. The South Side and North Side come together and will come for you. #Chicago #tuckfrump
Over 1,000 major names in Hollywood signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros/Paramount merger.
This includes Denis Villeneuve, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Cranston, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Ted Danson & more
Good morning #BlueCrew. Celebrate you this week 💙
Activists hold sign TYRANT
Today, the people of #Hungary toppled their tyrant.
America, our return to democracy requires our full attention.
We can see it can be done!
That's a work of edible art.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Human pillows are so underrated. 😍
Under the current administration, Black maternal health initiatives and women’s health research are under attack.
This Black Maternal Health Week, we recognize that the fight continues to ensure the health and safety of all women in this country.
