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Government shutdown hits spring break travel with hours-long TSA lines A partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security left some travelers waiting hours at airport security checkpoints.

We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused.

They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reforms

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""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

If you support:

A ban junk fees on renters ✅
Universal child care ✅
Erasing medical debt ✅

Then vote for Mike Simmons for Congress in IL-09!

Re-share if you agree and you’re ready to WIN!

TSA Lines Are About To Get A Lot Worse Agents will miss their first full paycheck this week, and union officials say they expect resignations to start increasing if there's no resolution.

TSA lines at airports nationwide are about to get a whole lot worse

If you’re ready to tax billionaires, fight for universal healthcare, and build housing for all, then vote for Mike Simmons for Congress in IL-09! Re-share if you agree and you’re ready to WIN!

I'm mad at Stephanie for underselling Mike. 😒

Overflow Action Day Alert: Heavy rain is expected in the Chicago area today. Reduce your use of water during and after the storm to help prevent flooding and protect water quality:
* Delay showers and baths
* Flush less frequently
* Wait to run the dishwasher or washing machine

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Get Paid. Get Skilled. Get Ahead.

Chicagoans from 14 to 24 years old can apply for paid summer jobs and opportunities today at chicagoyouthworks.org

2. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson fist bumps a young Black woman. Trabajos de verano. De 14 a 24 anos. Aplica ahora! Gana dinero. Aprende Habilidades. Aavanza. ChicagoYouthWorks.org. Gold background with radiating light yellow rays from a art deco Chicago Star.

Gana dinero. Aprende Habilidades. Aavanza. Trabajos de verano. De 14 a 24 años. ¡Aplica ahora! chicagoyouthworks.org

Telling people "these reforms are basically free" is an argument I used to make and it is a loser on every level. People who support the police do not care about the cost. That's why the method must be "defund," not "use a smaller plate, it costs nothing."

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Quick addendum on this: the one part of the left that truly understood power was ... unions. Union organizers were never under the illusion that they could sweet-talk concessions from bosses with the right framing. They dealt in power.

That's why the right killed them.

Not just that people focus on this, but they focus on it to the exclusion of almost everything else! Like the amount of f'ing language analysis from the left & academia *dwarfs* the amount of, say, *power* analysis. Y'know ... power? Anyone? Power?

I don't want to do a whole long rant on this, so I'll just say: the reason fossil fuels & other aligned incumbents don't want to transition to clean energy is that it will *damage their material interests*. And folks, they understand their own material interests. Really well!

not anymore. Not. Anymore. Though I never ended up in a boot 💅

life’s too short not to spend a little time harmonizing with other humans

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

It was about a year or so ago we were told we should silently concede them the right to illegally rendition people to overseas torture camps in the name of addressing immigration. That was the *savvy* political play we were told.

Anyway, here are the same ICE agents some may recognize from immigration court arrests (tall skinny unidentified guy plus his boss/team lead #7880, name still unknown) grabbing someone in the West Loop this morning.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

no spark just 18 years of being forced to attend church/events that I got nothing out of and that didn't make any sense to me.

Hey, friends. My incarcerated friend, Jeremiah, would like some help getting Bibles into the hands of some of his peers. I ask you to put aside any negative feelings about religion you might have to help folks in the way they have asked to be helped. /1

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.

I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

Ahead of 2028, Sen. Cory Booker to unveil bill to make $75,000 in income tax-free The bill is a marker for the next time Democrats get a chance to rewrite the tax code. The New Jersey senator told NBC News he's keeping the door open to a 2028 presidential bid.

At first glance this idea may SOUND good, but the truth is that no poor person will benefit from it, middle class people will benefit from it only marginally, but the well-to-do would benefit substantially. This is a perverse policy disguised as a middle class cut

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If we are being honest: Claude didn't do any of those things.
People USING Claude as an excuse for greed extraction are.

• Claude didn't choose to work for the military.
• Claude didn't build data centers.
• Claude didn't defund mental health.
• Claude didn't refuse security protocols.

Humans did.

someone to help us remember why we even left the house bc brain foooogggg

Newly Poly Plover Dad Still Figuring Out His Time Management | Defector The animal kingdom is ruled by open sexual relationships. Bats, beetles, and bonobos all have multiple partners over a season or a lifetime. Barnacles and barracudas don’t even get to pick their partn...

which publisher will give this bird a book deal to explore his experience with ENM!
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