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lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago lesbian \ feminist\ she\her πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ¦„ Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author Skeets my own.

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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying β€œwe know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut."
Here's a Miami Herald gift link.

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Radical Hospitality: One Woman's Fight for Haitian Migrants - Change Agents The Podcast When buses of immigrants from Texas and Florida arrived in Chicago in the summer of 2022, the Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti (a local organization led by members of the Haitian diaspora) stepped in...

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RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

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I have a feeling this is about to become a much bigger story…

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Again. This matters.

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This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

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Rep. Tony Gonzales drops reelection bid amid affair scandal The San Antonio Republican was pushed into a runoff in the primary for his border district. Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP members had called on him to exit the race.

Incumbent Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) cuts short his #TX23 re-election bid over scandals, thus allowing Brandon Herrera to be the GOP nominee without the need for a runoff between the two.

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/05/t...

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DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate β€” and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

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Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

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How Jesse Jackson’s HIV and LGBTQ+ legacy reshaped coalition politics - Windy City Times Rae Lewis-Thornton kept her HIV diagnosis secret for years, even as she worked closely alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson through the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and his presidential campaigns. Instead, Jackson ...

And three years later I covered him when he spoke at 1987 March on Washington for lgbtq rights. windycitytimes.com/2026/02/20/j...

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Obama spot on. Jesse Jackson Sr was among first prez candidates to appeal to so many including the gays. My first vote for prez was during college in 1984 at Iowa caucuses and I caucused for Jackson. And learned how weird caucuses are.

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A small group of Democratic lawmakers have just proposed legislation to bar members of Congress from profiting off prediction markets, citing elected officials' possession of "material nonpublic information."

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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

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Posted by the Kurdistan social media page.

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The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

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The Transgender female athletes advantage is a myth.
The Transgender female athletes advantage is a myth. YouTube video by Kirsti Miller30

In 99.9% of sports there are not enough trans athletes to study, that should gives us all some idea of the scale of the problem.

This is only an issue because Putin, Trump, the LNP in πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί & both sides of politics in the πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ have determined it is an issue.
youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?...

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The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than β€œin a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Conservative MAGA ideologue Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/954INe5

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Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

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Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV A large international clinical trial has unveiled a promising new option for people living with highly treatment-resistant HIV.

A development such as this has been a goal for HIV researchers for decades. It is important because people who are faced with difficult treatment regimens are less likely to be compliant.
Single Daily Tablet Shows Powerful Results for People With Drug-Resistant HIV share.google/RjULDFVtCYI9...

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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

β€œOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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😑😑😑😑

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Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

We see you, Skippy

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AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

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β€˜Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students β€” and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

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Jayapal: DHS is supposed to be protecting our residents. You have actually turned the United States government against its own residents. Yours is a case of failed leadership secretary, you need to resign, be fired, or be impeached.

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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

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β€œIf [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” β€” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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