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Proud daughter of immigrants ( mum from Ireland, dad from Australia). Like millions of immigrants they came to work- and make better lives. They did that & contributed to our country
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Israel pounds Gaza City suburbs, Netanyahu to convene security cabinet reut.rs/4g0UZmt
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children 6 months & older should be vaccinated. Kids under 2 should be vaccinated because infection can serious or fatal for kids of that age American College of Obstetricians & Gyn say pregnant women shd receive vaccine. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Trump has fired fired the top US Military officers. All of them. How come?
"JB" Pritzker for President 2028
There are lawmakers and citizens in this country who think having an assault weapon is more important than the life of a child.
Network of hospitals and cancer centers halt enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it will no longer provide funding . www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Bernie Sanders: ‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Trump wants a billion dollar ball room & equally expensive airplane for himself- but not a penny for kids with cancer
The National Guard troops – were pulled away from families, homes & jobs to pick up trash in our nation’s capital. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding. A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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“Fire RFK Jr. now.” After a month of shocking removals, resignations, and a shooting at the CDC, Democrats are demanding that the secretary go. Meanwhile, the White House is defending Kennedy as its "crown jewel" admin leader.
A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants detained in the interior of the United States.
RFK Jr is not reforming the CDC, he's breaking it. “There will be outbreaks that we miss & health care that’s not done with the best information,” “It’s a dangerous time-. I’m very scared for the people of the country.” -Dr. Anne Schuchat, dir CDC until 2021. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
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“America’s slide into authoritarianism is reversible. But no one has ever defeated autocracy from the sidelines.”
‘How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Love Neil Young!! And he just came out with an awesome new song, “Big Crime,” : It does not mention Trump but includes lines such as, “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House.” Click on link m.neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/Viewp...
We dont have to live like this. Other countries dont. We dont have to fear that our kids will be shot at school. Children shouldn’t have to fear dying at school. Its a choice. GOP lawmakers receive millions of dollars from gun manuifacturers for their vote against all rational gun laws
Inside the C.D.C., a Growing Sense of Despair After six months of turmoil, the loss of the new director and a round of high-profile resignations marks a new low www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Ashil Babbit was shot while she, with a massive mob, was invading the United Stated Capitol in order to disrupt &!overthrow the results of our presidential election. It was a coup attempt. She was a traitor
‘Immense public pressure might force the WH to restrain Kennedy. Until that happens-and we’re not holding our breath -Americans will live with the consequences of senators who decided to let an anti-vaccine crank become one of the most powerful people in gov. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
CDC Dir. Susan Monarez had 2 lines she could not cross: she wd not do anything illegal, & she would not do anything that ran counter to the science. RFK Jr asked her to do both- remove CDC leaders without cause, & endorse recommendations that did not represent the best science So he fired her
In the USA we have brilliant scientists- medical experts. RFK Jr is not among them
Scientists have studied mRNA for decades. The vaccine has proven to be safe & effective-saving millions of lives. Researchers are working on mRNA vaccine for HIV. RFK Jr is an ignorant nut. In 2019 he visited Samoa & told ppl measles vaccine is dangerous. Tragically he was believed. 83 kids died
The children who survived the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday are now part of a group that numbers nearly 400,000: America’s children who have been exposed to gun violence at school.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to begin a pilot program in six states that would use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk, and should concern democrats and republicans alike.
Fletcher Previn, senior vice president and chief information officer for Cisco Systems is rethinking work in an AI powered world. fortune.com/2025/08/27/h... Fletcher is my son
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
⚡️ Update: 18 killed in Russian mass attack on Kyiv. The death toll of a Russian mass attack against Kyiv on Aug. 28 has risen to 18, Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said.
#UPDATE Russian missiles and drones ripped through apartment blocks in Ukraine's capital Kyiv early on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, an attack that President Volodymyr Zelensky said showed Moscow's rejection of peace negotiations ➡️ u.afp.com/SAnB
A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital, including a rare strike in the center of the city, early Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 48.
Chinese officials "were saying, it's very interesting to watch President Trump because we've had a long-term strategy to basically try to weaken and divide America's alliances....President Trump is just doing it for us." Jake Sullivan joins @timmiller.bsky.social on the latest Bulwark Podcast:
An hourslong barrage of Russian missiles and drones killed more than a dozen people in Kyiv this morning, including children. It also damaged the HQ of the EU delegation. The attack was the largest on the city since the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska.
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At least 190 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the attacks began in October 2023, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Today Children Gunned down Two dead children 7 children in critical condition. High velocity gun. 14 children 3 adults injured. Rational gun laws desperately needed Many Republican lawmakers receive significant money ( millions in bribes) from gun makers & NRA.
Children have been killed. Shot. Again. They were in church.
re-upping this old scalia clip: “if i were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the american flag. however, we have a first amendment…”
For undocumented friends: What to do if ICE comes to your door.
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The Queen died two days after this photo - taken as she met with the incoming PM. Note her hand. Blood had pooled on her hand -just like Trump’s
Trump is in the midst of the most intrusive, outrageous, dangerous individual power grab in US history. He is, backed thus far by a corrupt and complicit Supreme Court, trying to establish a monarchy in the US, asserting the president both is the law and is above the law. It’s what dictators do.
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The “national emergency” is that the president is deranged, not rational, incapable of running our country. He has surrounded himself with power hungry sycophants and utterly inept idiots
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I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
I know you, Chicago — and I know you’re up to the difficult time we have ahead, thanks to this President.
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Harrowing violence in Darfur, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed 13 civilians-5 children, 4 women, 4 elderly- ethnically motivated killings in a campaign that can now be defined as ethnic cleansing or genocide, medafricatimes.com/41830-sudan-...
Conway: Are hey withholding documents that might refer to him or things that are embarrassing to him and producing documents that refer to other people in order to distract and I wouldn't put it past them that they would do that.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
Thank you.
They're trying to kill us. The Trump administration will pull the COVID vaccine off the market "within months," one of RFK Jr.’s closest associates said. “It could [happen] in a number of stages, including learning more about the data.” www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
This is Meeting The Moment, from Pritzker. Please watch this 90-second clip.
Was feeling pretty bleak after watching some of Trumps rant this morning. But then @govpritzker.illinois.gov spoke- and I’m feeling hopeful. Thank you Gov Pritzker - you would be an awesome president .
Illinois stands with Ukraine today, and always. Slava Ukraini!
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
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Im an Irish citizen. So- of course Ireland is my second home
Most young people i am referring to have tech jobs on line which they can do from else where, or they are actors, or writers or they are retired.
Everone i know or meet is considering what country to move to- and when. Nobody likes what is happening to America. No one wants to live under a dictatorship-police state
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Dont let Gaza starve
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Today is Ukraine’s 34 Independence Day.
Trump ordered all construction stop on a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that is already mostly built. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
Trump Justice Department has fired or demoted more than 24 prosecutors of those who attacked the US Capitol on Jan 6 - while those they sent to prison walk free. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
From 2019-2028 the US has been providing $3.8 billion annually to Israel for security under 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Since Oct 7, 2023 spending on Gaza’s attacks & related regional military operations has reached at least $22.76 billion
Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
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Trump is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies and cuts of their revenue. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
A drone attack has hit a convoy of 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan‘s Darfur region www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Starvation Is Everywhere': Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror - via Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Pentagon has fired the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief after a preliminary report that contradicted Trump’s claim that U.S strikes had “obliterated” nuclear sites in Iran. For Trump facts are irrelevant - he insists there will be no contradictions to his lies www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
This is not a rational response. We should be concerned regarding clear evidence of senility
Thank God Judge decrees Trump’s cruel swamp concentration camp is to be dismantled.