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The repeal of the WEP/GPO. Should I be grateful?
The Christmas movie. Trump's attack on women in sports.
My first snow in Brooklyn and the Senate passes Social Security fairness.
People like their health insurance unless they have to use it.
Counting down the days. Will the Senate vote to restore our earned benefits?
New York is in the mass deportation cross hairs. Democrats cave.
Another Spanish Civil War tale.
The grandchildren of the earliest anti-fascists.
It's not a "healthcare company."
The MAGA mayor of New York City.
Kash and Hunter. Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
Harris spent $1.5 billion but had nothing to say. The NYT confuses total votes with shares.
Leave the fluoride in our water supply. Take the lead out of it.
Biden's final days. Long range missiles and land mines.
This is no way to fight Trump. Over 50 Democrats give Trump a gift to shred the first amendment.
The Democrats who love Marco Rubio.
Taking the "Protection" out of the Environmental Protection Agency.
In New York many voters simply stayed home.
All but two states are facing a drought. Brooklyn's Prospect Park on fire last night.
MAGAs kill House bill that would have repealed WEP/GPO.
On this election day I'm talking about public toilets.
Is UFT President Mulgrew or Mayor Adams smarter than an eighth grader? Apparently not.
Chicago school board election. Charter money pours in.
On the eve of the election there is strike news.
NY MAGAs mobilize against Prop 1.
Bombing Yemen. A warning or a test?
Israel escalates. U.S. sends more weapons and troops. 200 arrested on Wall Street.
New York, Chicago and mayoral control of the schools.
Thousands march to greet Netanyahu at the UN. The U.S. sends millions for his wars.
I'm from Chicago. I recognized that smell as soon as I arrived in New York.
Israel's forever war. I'll march tomorrow.
In NY the spirit of Bloomberg's "stop and frisk" lives on.
New report: U.S. healthcare sucks and is expensive.
He was killed by the NYPD for jumping a turnstile.
The MAGAs have won the debate on immigration.
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” Akira Kurosawa.
Dick Cheney, the torturer of Abu Ghraib.
"Eric Adams. A Mayor for all the people of Chicago."
Sorry Dana, it's not just the "progressive Left."
Kamala Harris' most lethal fighting force in the world.
Kamala's Cold War speech. Back to the future.
Universities' new rules. Retreating from free speech over Gaza.
A hawkish speech. A sea of American flag waving. Chants of USA, USA.
No Palestinian family was invited to be on the stage at the DNC.
Gaza is the skunk at the party.
Union night at the DNC. Barely a mention of Gaza inside the UC.
What democracy looks like in Chicago. No microphones, no toilets and no tents.
The cowardice of Columbia University's president Minouche Shafik.
Why is Chicago provoking the potential for another disaster at the DNC? '68 redux.
Block Island, the bird watchers and Daniel Berrigan.
Was Harris' "I am speaking" her Sister Souljah Moment?
Tim Walz and the issue of Gaza.
The Walz pick. The progressives can take some credit for this.
The 79th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the threat of nuclear war.
The National Education Association lockout of its staff union. Union busting by a union? Disgusting.
Trump at the NBJA. Another quick exit from Chicago.
Our unions, direct elections and democracy.
Nancy Jefferson and the west side of Chicago.
A war criminal addresses joint session of Congress. Thousands in the streets to protest.
Kamala. Don't meet with Netanyahu at all. Have him arrested instead.
Remembering the great Bernice Johnson Reagon. 1943-2024.
Remembering the killing of Eric Garner.
Lipstick on a pig. The RNC in Milwaukee.
Paris and Chicago. Pushing out the homeless before the circus comes to town.
The authoritative medical journal The Lancet ups the Gaza death toll to nearly 186,000.
The Lord Almighty and Democratic Party donor class.
NEA staff goes on strike against the NEA. The Representative Assembly is canceled after one day.
"Free Palestine" at the NEA Representative Assembly in Philadelphia.
Project 2025 and the other SCOTUS decision.
"One bad day" and the Democrat's are in paralysis. Trump gets a free pass on his debate performance.
Debating the best way to support genocide.
None of the above for president.
Jamal Bowman's defeat might prove to be bad news for Biden.
NYC retired teachers on a roll. Union Boss Mulgrew caves on Medicare Advantage switch.
Curriculum issues. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Then the projector broke with no one to repair it.
NYC teaching para-professionals reject UFT Unity Caucus leadership too.
NATO and the increasing threat of nuclear war.
What Facebook doesn't want you to know about the retired teachers defeat of the Unity Caucus.
NY teacher union president, Michael Mulgrew, gets a punch in the face from retirees.
AIPAC, GOP mega-donors and Hillary Clinton. What a team!
Does Trump the isolationist know that his team wants to bring back the military draft?
New York will dump its Regent exams. Will Illinois follow suit?
Retired now in Brooklyn. Taxed on my pension and some healthcare news.
My first weekend in Brooklyn. A Pride Parade and remembering Mom's Blintzes.
Last exit to Brooklyn after a three-day road trip. Biden and Trump.
The U.S. is escalating its role in Ukraine war.
“We pulled out children... We pulled out young and elderly people. The fire in the camp was unreal.”
In the wars against fascism Dad survived Spain and the battle for Okinawa. So many others didn't.
Cops on campus, then and now. The militarized response to protest has become pervasive.
CPD riot squad clears De Paul encampment. Where was the riot?
Aetna/CVS medicare advantage ready to jetison 10% of its members.
Billionaire Ken Griffin flees Chicago for Florida but retains the city's naming rights.
De Paul. Chicago's last university encampment standing and Biden's loss of the youth vote.
Zionists violently attack UCLA encampment while university and LAPD stand down.
A dangerous escalation in Ukraine.
Christian white nationalists have their eyes on Ukraine.
Protesting at the Democratic Convention. What would Karen Lewis do?
Medicare Advantage plans are in crisis. Will seniors pay the cost? Of course we will.
On May Day we paid our respects to the Haymarket Martyrs, the outside agitators.
The Gaza protests and the tree sitters of Humboldt County.
Undo Tier 2. The fight for pension fairness.
Undo Tier II. Illinois pension fairness.
The campus protests have been non-violent. There is no evidence that Jewish students are unsafe.
Campus protests spread. Once again that is where America's conscience can be found.
The incredible shrinking right of free speech.
Free the Columbia 100. Keep cops off campus.
Faith Ringgold. Artist/Activist.
Chicago's top cop is not into civilian control of the cops.
The killing of Dexter Reed. Have targeted traffic stops replaced stop and frisk?
The killing of Dexter Reed. Have targeted traffic stops replaced stop and frisk?
Over 500,000 Democratic primary voters have chosen #ImmediateCeasefire.
The Dems and Nancy "Go back to China" Pelosi are feeling the pressure over Gaza.
Aid workers were targeted for death by Israel. The world is outraged.
On Wisconsin. Voters send a message to Biden and Trump.
Ramy Yousef and Chuck Schumer.
Ramy Yousef and Chuck Schumer.
"Six presumed dead.'' The men on the Key Bridge.
The United Nations ceasefire resolution.
Tuesday's Illinois primary showed no enthusiasm for Biden. Or Trump.
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC spent big in the Illinois primary and got some wins.
The U.S. ceasefire resolution in the U.N. that didn't call for a ceasefire.
The Illinois primary Biden protest vote.
Illinois primary. Voters were not interested.
Our "welcoming city" bungles its migrant and measles crises.
The Democratic convention is coming to Chicago and Palestine looms large.
Mayor Johnson: Stop the evictions of migrant families.
Maybe you can say "Gay" in Florida again.
A guns and butter speech that pleased the pundits and the media.
The "uncommitted" voter movement rolls on but Illinois doesn't allow it.
Chicago is waiting for an elected school board. So are the MAGAs.
Los Angeles' elected school board and the billionaires who want to privatize it.
What's the deal with Pritzker's pension payment proposal?
San Francisco artists' love letter to Gaza.
Some questions about CPS reading scores.
Protests at the Democratic Party convention. What's the deal Mayor Johnson?
Early voting in Illinois begins this week. I'll be voting for #ceasefire in the Democratic primary.
The war party passes a military funding bill. Nearly all the Democrats and half the GOP unite.
In Sarasota the rallies won't stop until Moms for Liberty founder is off the school board.
I'm in Florida, the home of Mom's for Liberty.
NEA members organize to rescind Biden endorsement.
Florida teachers have it bad and that ain't good.
Chicago votes for a #ceasefire.
Nancy Pelosi goes bonkers. "Go back to China," she tells peace activists.
"Tower 22." The attack on a secret U.S. military base in Jordan that threatens a wider war.
An execution. "Nothing out of the ordinary."
In Gaza, hundreds of schools destroyed. Teachers and students killed.
“Welcome home Ron, welcome back to the MAGA movement where you’ve always belonged.”
The Chicago City Council should not delay the vote on a #ceasefire.
MAGA clones fall away. Why would GOP voters choose a weaker version of the original?
University of Indiana cancels Palestinian artist Samia Halaby.
The heads of both national teacher unions call for ceasefire.
The billionaire bully and his plagiarist wife.
Mainstream Democrats go after the party's progressive Left wing. Suicide in the face of Trump.