The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, which often acts as the consensus voice for what election reforms counties need, has a new director.

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Families saw their electricity bills increase more than 10% last month in PA. Temperatures are rising, people are running out of money, and now Trump and his billionaire friends are pushing prices even higher in their war against clean energy. pbs.org/newshour/polit…

🚨NEW. A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador to be imprisoned without trial: mass disappearances. The data reveals DOZENS of people on the flight whose names were never disclosed before. All may still be locked up there today.

Here is the link to the policy. Note that for now, the memo says that applications for asylum CAN be submitted without the $100 fee, as there is literally no system in place for the government to accept the fee. justice.gov/eoir/media/140…

Plan to upzone Broadway promises housing, divides Edgewater — very good in-depth story from Jake Sheridan Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/pla…

3. A mother gave her daughter a moment she’ll never forget 💖 A memory wrapped in pure love. Truly beautiful! 🥹

ICE is detaining U.S. citizens who have served our country. It’s wrong and un-American. cnn.com/2025/07/19/us/…

Today, ICE notified Congress of the 13th death in ICE custody this year, the 10th death since Trump came into office. What a tragedy. ICE is out of control. This is what happens when you privatize the incarceration of immigrants to benefit for-profit companies.

ICE detain U.S. citizen outside grocery store—beat him with baton, shove his head into the ground & give him a concussion. "I told them where I was born, I had an ID, a social, a birth certificate," he said. "They didn't' care about none of that." Now in the hospital after his

Costa Rica authorized legal residency and employment permits for 25 migrants deported from the United States in February. The permits will permit the migrants to work and legally reside in Costa Rica for the next six months cronista.com/usa/inmigracio…

🚨Now that the men imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador are free, their stories are coming out; and they are horrific. One man describes how Salvadoran officials at the prison beat them regularly, stole money from them, and denied them medical care — even painkillers.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt getting schooled by a reporter in her bogus press conference with Tulsi Gabbard about their fake "scandal" about Obama (who has presidential immunity) is glorious. 🍿

In just six months, over 50 immigration judges have left or been fired, and all hiring in the pipeline was frozen. And now we’re hearing that the admin was illegally ordering judges to interpret the law in a way the Trump admin wanted.

New York AG Letitia James organized a joint statement with dozens of federal, state and local lawmakers urging immediate access to humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Sarah McBride became famous as Congress’s first transgender lawmaker. She just passed her first bill — it helps private equity & hedge fund billionaires prey on the working-class. McBride touted it as a benefit to Black women & marginalized communities. levernews.com/dems-hand-priv…

We're now seeing lawsuits being prepared on behalf of the Venezuelans tortured and imprisoned without trial in El Salvador at U.S. request. These may be the only way the victims of Trump's illegal scheme ever get any compensation for the harms done to them.

I covered Argentina as a foreign correspondent under leftist president Kirshner and so much of what I’m seeing here reminds me of that period which saw the economy decimated with high inflation and stagnation due to tariffs and other measures. But what worries me the most….

Judge halts use of Medicaid data in immigration enforcement ktla.com/news/californi…

If I’m Brian Fitzpatrick, I am absolutely livid at Joe Pittman and Kim Ward. They also just screwed him politically too. Now Bucks is going to hear non-stop how Republicans cut Medicaid, SNAP and SEPTA for 18 months.