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With DHS Purge, Harsher Immigration Plan Emerges Trump's hardline new border plan. Axios: "President Trump has directed top officials to execute the most aggressive changes in immigration policy since his inauguration, sources tell Axios. Some officials consider the...
How Unapologetic Progressives Won Big in Chicago
On a Wednesday evening in February, Marta Popadiak, the organizing director for People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago, was busy making phone calls to voters in Chicago’s 33rd ward for left-wing Chicago City Council candidate Rossana Rodriguez. With each call, she asked...
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DHS Chief Nielsen Fired By Tweet Homeland Security chief Nielsen is out. Politico: "Kirstjen Nielsen will leave her post as secretary of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday, highlighting the administration's inner turmoil over rising levels...
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HUD's Carson Questioned About Housing Cuts Bipartisan Disapproval Over Trump Administration's Housing Program Cuts. NPR: "Lawmakers told Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Wednesday that there's little chance Congress will accept the Trump...
The Death Penalty Is Getting Crueler
For years, most of the U.S. has been changing death penalty laws in the direction of phasing it out, or at least applying it in a more humane way. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be executed. In 2005, another ruling...
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Dems Demand Trump's Tax Returns House Democrat demands six years of Trump tax returns from I.R.S.. NYT: "The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, using a little-known provision in the federal tax code, formally requested on Wednesday that the I.R.S. hand...
The #PeoplesWave Is Rising
The #PeoplesWave of grassroots champions rising up to reclaim our government has just begun. After taking back the U.S. House in November with an unprecedented number of women and people of color, we scored important wins in Chicago’s municipal elections in February....
Black Gay Woman, Lori Lightfoot, Is Chicago's New Mayor Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, will be 1st black woman and 1st openly gay person to hold post. NBC: "Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in a runoff for Chicago mayor...
A 'Buyback' for Our Future?
The dollars top corporate execs are plowing into "buybacks" of their own stock could, if invested elsewhere, help significantly share the wealth the modern American economy creates. Imagine how much brighter our future would be now if the over $5 trillion that S&P 500 corporations have spent on buybacks since 2007 had gone instead to paying higher wages or training workers in new skills or making corporate operations more eco-friendly.
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Chicago Chooses Black Woman As Next Mayor The rising Black Left movement behind Chicago’s historic elections. The Nation: "Tuesday, the people of Chicago will go to the polls for a special runoff election to decide who will lead their city for the next four years....
