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@Dut83@BobTharin This was a free concert for the 2014 March Madness NCAA tournament, some of which was being held in Dallas. I was at the show. First time seeing Tom Morello with the Boss. Steven Van Zandt was NOT with the band, as he was filming Lillyhammer in Norway.
Our new poll with @CRLONLINE shows 80% of midterm voters support the CFPB. “There is a massive disconnect between Congressional Republicans’ push to loosen Wall Street regulations, and what midterm voters actually want.” -Tom Feltner, AFR
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6/20/1980: “The Blues Brothers” is released. The shuttered Dixie Square Mall in Harvey was briefly brought back to life (sort of)—then they smashed it to pieces. The new Oldsmobiles were in early that year.
Alexis Goldstein was a program manager at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the agency that has returned $21 billion to consumers since 2011. On February 7th, 2025, she wheeled her empty stroller into the CFPB basement and found people with no badges accessing government computers. She filmed them, they called security on her. She was put on administrative leave for a year. The inspector general found no wrongdoing. She was fired anyway. Now she's running for Congress.
But here's the thing nobody's talking about: Alexis was investigating Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App trade secrets when DOGE arrived. Elon Musk wrote "delete CFPB" — then launched X Money, his own competing payments platform. Musk didn't just gut consumer protection. He may have walked out with the files.
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Fuck @Target for letting ICE agents terrorize employees and customers in Minnesota. I’ll NEVER shop in a Target store again, in spite of my being a credit card holder, and a former customer. Fuck @Target!
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
Thank you @KwameRaoul for joining with 21 AGs to sue Russ Vought who is trying to unilaterally close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. As a constituent and supporter, and an Examiner with the CFPB, thank you for supporting IL consumers!
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@SenatorDurbin Very disappointed in you, Senator. The pain the shutdown has caused us Federal Employees was for naught. Dems caved for absolutely nothing. You and your fellow Dems will say how disappointed you are when the Repubs virtually end the ACA in Dec.