Byron Sigcho Lopez for Congress IL-04

Husband. Dad of triplets. 25th Ward Alderman.
Running Independent for IL-04 Congress.
Por el Pueblo. For the People. 🇺🇸

[Byron Sigcho Lopez for Congress IL-04 @BSLForCongress]

They rigged the vote across Illinois. We're rising up anyway.

No AIPAC. No corporate PACs. Just us.

Our campaign runs on people, not billionaires, and we need 1,000 grassroots donations to get in full swing.

Donate here: https://t.co/eptctMoAt5

[Jackson Potter @jacksonpCTU]

You really hear Karen's authentic voice come through in this memoir.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier is released from prison after nearly 50 years.

For decades, Peltier, who is 80 years old, has maintained his innocence over the 1975 killing of two FBI agents in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Last month President Joseph Biden commuted Peltier's life sentence to serve the remainder of his time under house arrest.

[Dave Stieber @D_Stieber]

“It was the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Education that investigated CPS & forced them to have a different perspective on the school-to-prison pipeline,” @stacydavisgates
Article: Chicago Teachers Union: We Won’t Stop Teaching Black History
https://t.co/HozQHDZdT2

[Chicago Federation of Labor @chicagolabor]

🚨🚨🚨RALLY ALERT🚨🚨🚨

[Pablo Iglesias 🔻{R} @PabloIglesias]

🇦🇷 La gran estafa del presidente argentino

➡️ Lo que pasó con la criptomoneda "LIBRA" es un fraude descarado, a plena luz del día, con la firma del mismísimo presidente de la Nación

Lean a @JuanGrabois

https://t.co/EPx2U4WHCd

[Chicago Teachers Union @CTULocal1]

🔥“If we organize and stick together, we can do a lot of things.”🔥

These powerful words from an Acero parent remind us that when parents, students, educators, and elected officials stand in solidarity, we can move mountains. The fight to save these schools isn’t just about keeping buildings open—it’s about fighting for stability, quality education, and a voice in the future of our schools.

Together, we win.✊❤️ #WhenWeFightWeWin

[City of Chicago @chicago]

EXPANDING WARMING CENTERS: The Salvation Army Freedom Center (825 N. Christiana) has been opened as a 24/7 warming center through Tuesday, February 18. Additionally, city-owned facilities, including designated warming centers, remain available during their operational hours.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The minimum wage in your state is $7.25/hour.

[Chicago Sun-Times @Suntimes]

Over 48,000 federal workers in and around Chicago have been on edge for weeks as President Donald Trump aims to reduce the federal workforce drastically. https://t.co/DZRqY8z5t9

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

You should go see this exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago right now. It had me tearing up.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

If Republicans want to shut down the Department of Education, bring a bill to the floor. Show your constituents that you want to destroy public education. Don't make an unelected billionaire do it illegally because you're too afraid of being on record.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

From 1619 to 1865, the US benefited from over 222 million hours of unpaid, dehumanizing, forced labor by enslaved black people per scholars. This labor- primarily the production of tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton- would be valued at over $97 trillion today. Built off the backs.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Billionaires are seizing control of our government, agency by agency. Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, is now calling the shots and Republicans are blocking our efforts to hold him accountable. This is oligarchy.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

This is outrageous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule to ban medical debt from credit reports would have removed $49 billion in medical debt and helped nearly 15 million Americans. The Trump Admin is once again siding with the rich and powerful over working people.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The so-called PayPal Mafia includes billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks, "all of whom in some way or other grew up in South Africa," says reporter @ChrisMcGreal. He details how the racist apartheid policies influenced some of these men now in Trump's orbit.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, worth $420 billion, is dismantling our democracy. The GOP is protecting him at every turn. No one voted for Elon Musk. This is a constitutional crisis.

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

#OTD 80 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. The Germans established the Auschwitz camp complex in the spring of 1940 in German-occupied Poland. About 1.1 million people were killed there, including about one million Jews. #HolocaustRemembranceDay