Retired historian + lawyer, Chicagoan, lesbian-feminist, sometime Dolly expert, angry. I lived in Knoxville TN for 16 very long years. Author, "Unspeakable: Father-Daughter Incest in American History." If you want to hate on boomers, I'm not your therapist
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Markey, Leader Schumer, Ranking Member Peters, Colleagues Raise Alarm About Trump’s Threats to Send Armed Federal Agents to Polling Sites to Intimidate Voters During November Elections | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of MassachusettsLetter Text (PDF) Washington (July 28, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today led 11...www.markey.senate.gov
"Take out the next person who claps."
404 MediaPolice arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
Within weeks of SCOTUS's B.P.J. decision, Heritage called Title IX "feminist social engineering" and called for its overhaul. Reva Siegel and I revised our forthcoming piece in the Tx. L. Rev. to make sense of B.P.J. and what's going on: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... balkin.blogspot.com
Dismantling Equality Rights Through "Biological-Sex" Talk<p><span>In rejecting the sex-discrimination claims of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care in <i>United States v. Skrmetti</i> (2025) and transgendepapers.ssrn.com
Well, here it is: a couple, Glendy and Nixon, is murdered after Nixon was caught by ICE & deported to Guatemala. Glendy and their three children struggled without him, feared being caught by ICE & separated, and so joined him. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportationsThe couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.www.stlpr.org
The departure of a careful, credible numbers guy who served under both parties is a blow to DHS's credibility. A few years into Hugo Chávez’s presidency, Venezuela stopped reporting even inflation and homicide statistics. DHS now faces a “don't turn into Venezuela challenge.”
Scott HortonMarc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
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Rep. Delia Ramirez visits Chicagoans at Kentucky ICE detention center and calls conditions 'devastating'The Illinois congresswoman joined two Democratic colleagues at the Campbell County Detention Center in Newport, Kentucky, where she checked on two constituents: Ricardo, a 39-year-old man who has been...chicago.suntimes.comStill shocking in a democracy to see a headline that places the conduct of an entire war in the mind of one lunatic who thinks that babbling to the little people is a great tactic. Hello, Congress? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
Trump Backs New Iran Talks but It’s Unclear What He Hopes to Achieve This TimeIran denied President Trump’s claim that it wants to talk, and gave no sign that it would make concessions or speak directly with U.S. officials.www.nytimes.com
