Tony Sarabia
@ruraltony.bsky.social
Former host at Chicago Public Media(WBEZ radio). Now holding down the midday shift at Iowa Public Radio. I live with my husband on his family's farm in rural Iowa.
2019: President Trump said in a statement Saturday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been defeated.
Today: …after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
Today: …after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
December 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
2019: President Trump said in a statement Saturday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been defeated.
Today: …after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
Today: …after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
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The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...
From Heather Cox Richardson today: “The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
From Heather Cox Richardson today: “The Trump administration is replacing American democracy with a kleptocracy, a system of corruption in which a network of ruling elites use the institutions of government to steal public assets for their own private gain.”
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Why did it take several days for Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy” insult of a female reporter to gain traction in news coverage? Because it happened on a Friday night, when many journalists had started their weekend. And because, sadly, he's trained the media to think accepting his insults is part of the job.
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
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November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Why did it take several days for Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy” insult of a female reporter to gain traction in news coverage? Because it happened on a Friday night, when many journalists had started their weekend. And because, sadly, he's trained the media to think accepting his insults is part of the job.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
From @monacharen.bsky.social today: A president who pulled every lever, jiggled every handle, and applied every kind of pressure he could think of, up to and including inciting a riot, to prevent his successor from taking office deserves no benefit of the doubt about what he might attempt in 2026.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
From @monacharen.bsky.social today: A president who pulled every lever, jiggled every handle, and applied every kind of pressure he could think of, up to and including inciting a riot, to prevent his successor from taking office deserves no benefit of the doubt about what he might attempt in 2026.
Hope y'all have started to cut back on your caloric intake. Remember we're expected to lose about 395lbs. each by the midterms.
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Hope y'all have started to cut back on your caloric intake. Remember we're expected to lose about 395lbs. each by the midterms.
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The #Trump team carries out its #deportation blitz in Democratic-led #Illinois in the name of fighting crime. But Republican-led states have higher murder and violent crime rates—and faster-growing populations of unauthorized #immigrants.
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
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@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
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Trump's claims about murder rates and illegal immigration fit red states more than blue states
As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows other Republican-led "red states" have ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The #Trump team carries out its #deportation blitz in Democratic-led #Illinois in the name of fighting crime. But Republican-led states have higher murder and violent crime rates—and faster-growing populations of unauthorized #immigrants.
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
@wbez.org @chicago.suntimes.com
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ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"
Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.
Mother is detained by agents as target of arrest.
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
ICE guy Bovino during a CBS News interview: "Inner city residents absolutely love the fact that we are in their neighborhoods arresting illegal aliens, because those are the people that don't have a voice. We've got their back."
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
ICE guy Bovino during a CBS News interview: "Inner city residents absolutely love the fact that we are in their neighborhoods arresting illegal aliens, because those are the people that don't have a voice. We've got their back."
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GOP Representative Clay Higgins—who, like most congressmen, receives up to $79 per day in meal comps—thinks SNAP recipients should shut up, stop complaining, and stop smoking crack. trib.al/KyL2VOE
House Republican Tells Food Stamp Recipients to “Stop Smoking Crack”
Millions of Americans are about to go hungry thanks to the government shutdown, but Representative Clay Higgins doesn’t seem to care.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
GOP Representative Clay Higgins—who, like most congressmen, receives up to $79 per day in meal comps—thinks SNAP recipients should shut up, stop complaining, and stop smoking crack. trib.al/KyL2VOE
America right now needs its Fela Kuti
October 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
America right now needs its Fela Kuti
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The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
During a shutdown workers are furloughed not fired. GOP owns this- it's what the administration (Vought) wanted. So as they begin to blame democrats remember the facts: workers DID NOT have to be fired-it's what the administration wanted.
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
During a shutdown workers are furloughed not fired. GOP owns this- it's what the administration (Vought) wanted. So as they begin to blame democrats remember the facts: workers DID NOT have to be fired-it's what the administration wanted.
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This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
October 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is terrifying!
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)
This is Trump’s America.
The Chicago Marathon is this weekend- it attracts runners from around the world. Will ICE be a disruptor? Are out of the country runners nervous and concerned for their safety?
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Chicago Marathon is this weekend- it attracts runners from around the world. Will ICE be a disruptor? Are out of the country runners nervous and concerned for their safety?
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Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.
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ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…
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ICE agent aint got no humanity
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.
"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.
“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.
“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
ICE agent aint got no humanity
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Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
his monologue (press conference) reminds me of a teacher who would tell us it doesn't matter how many words you write if in the end you're not saying much.
September 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
his monologue (press conference) reminds me of a teacher who would tell us it doesn't matter how many words you write if in the end you're not saying much.
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.
wtf.
wtf.
September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.
wtf.
wtf.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social is an American historian of Europe and a public intellectual on both continents.
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Trump’s terror memo (audio)
It is about regime change
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September 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
@timothysnyder.bsky.social is an American historian of Europe and a public intellectual on both continents.
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The latest news re: Kimmel as reported by Variety :” the company (Sinclair) is demanding that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and send “a meaningful personal donation” to them as well as Turning Point USA…”
September 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The latest news re: Kimmel as reported by Variety :” the company (Sinclair) is demanding that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and send “a meaningful personal donation” to them as well as Turning Point USA…”
Congrats to my bud and former colleague @claymasters.bsky.social on becoming the new @mprnews.org ATC host. Way to go Claymation!
September 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Congrats to my bud and former colleague @claymasters.bsky.social on becoming the new @mprnews.org ATC host. Way to go Claymation!