For those attacking Zohran Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist, and asking “where has socialism ever worked?”… … 8 of the 12 countries ranked ahead of the U.S. in economic stability are considered social democracies.

If Bernie’s Social Security Expansion Act was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years, Social Security benefits would go up by $2,400 and taxes would not go up for 91% of Americans who earn less than $250,000 a year, per the Social Security Administration.

Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022. Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/coo…

Medicare for All would save $650 billion and 68,000 lives a year, per CBO and Yale. Trump’s budget bill increases the deficit by over $4 trillion, makes the largest cut to Medicaid in history and will cause 51,000 Americans to die unnecessarily each year-per CBO, Yale & Penn.

I am doing my rare rush hour train commute to the Loop and am once again begging the CTA to bring back announcements about removing backpacks and moving away from the doors towards the middle of the car. We are losing ancient texts.

"Contrary to Trump's rants, Illinois criminal justice reforms have been effective" Thank you RepGreggJohnson Will Guzzardi for speaking the truth & defending the Pretrial Fairness Act: chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/20…

NEW: Nearly a year after Chicago officials turned off the city's gunshot detection system, a new analysis of Chicago crime data shows a steep drop in violent crime & homicides in the 12 South and West side neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors. WTTW - Chicago PBS news.wttw.com/2025/08/07/cpd…

Ta-Nehisi Coates

a lot of center-left liberals who fed the crime hysteria wave for the last five years are now rushing to point out how low violent crime is in DC by historical standards

Israel is assassinating our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza one by one, and this is what the NYT is producing. Absolutely vile.

If certain crimes waive your right to an attorney, fair trial, and the presumption of innocence, it incentivizes the state and the powerful to use those crimes as a weapon against the marginalized. You’re arguing for the kind of system that got Emmett Till murdered.

Saying this stupid nonsense about public defenders during an outright fascist government that doesn't believe in due process is some real "useful idiot" shit

The right to a public defender is a product of Communists Party's Scottsboro Boys campaign. I just need folks to pretend they care about the historical and poltical context of concepts and roles like public defender's It's why PD's get defunded but cops are funded

"feeling" safe is not the same as "being" unsafe!

Today, Chief Public Defender Sharone Mitchell, Jr. joined Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Chief Judge Timothy Evans to call out Trump's misinformation about community safety and pretrial reforms in Chicago and Illinois.

Every elite law school is a pipeline churning out lawyers defending the most murderous institutions in the word — companies using child slavery, Big Oil CEOs burning down our future, banks fleecing the elderly — and people are honestly throwing shade at public defenders?

Yesterday, Governor JB Pritzker signed the FAIR Act into law! This historic legislation creates a Statewide Public Defender Office, marking the first major overhaul of the state’s trial-level public defense system since 1949. endmoneybond.org/2025/08/16/gov…

Buried in a footnote in what Aaron shares, Trump admin for 1st time defines "anti-Americanism" (ref'd in EOs) as advocating 4 socialism. If noncit applying for citizenship/green card possesses or hands out socialist leaflets they can be denied & deported. Criminalizing socialism.

Journalists covering today's EO's on bail, here's a resource with data, research, and experts on several bail reforms implemented across the country.

"The old system was broken." Public defender Sharone Mitchell, Jr. with Cook County Public Defender’s Office defends bail reform against attacks from President Trump, noting that since new rules came into effect in 2023 rich people can no longer just "buy their way out of jail."