Stephanie Kollmann
@slkollmann.bsky.social
law, policy, Illinoisances
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
reputedly "promoting left-wing causes"
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Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At 'The Bean' For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, Little Village!"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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It was an honor for Loevy to stand with our co-counsel at the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago School of Law, First Defense Legal Aid, @protectdemocracy.org, and the ACLU of Illinois.
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It was an honor for Loevy to stand with our co-counsel at the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago School of Law, First Defense Legal Aid, @protectdemocracy.org, and the ACLU of Illinois.
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Full video of today's press conference, with our attorneys and our incredibly brave clients speaking about the injunction entered today protecting the rights of protesters, clergy, reporters, and observers against federal troops in the Chicago region. www.youtube.com/live/SZnjIlE...
Attorneys speak after injunction against federal immigration agents in Chicago
YouTube video by FOX 32 Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Full video of today's press conference, with our attorneys and our incredibly brave clients speaking about the injunction entered today protecting the rights of protesters, clergy, reporters, and observers against federal troops in the Chicago region. www.youtube.com/live/SZnjIlE...
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When ACA passed, and being female could no longer be considered a pre-existing condition, my premiums dropped, and my grant budget for travel and equipment effectively achieved gender parity.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When ACA passed, and being female could no longer be considered a pre-existing condition, my premiums dropped, and my grant budget for travel and equipment effectively achieved gender parity.
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Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pre-ACA, I was a postdoc on an NSF fellowship at a university that didn't offer employment benefits to independent fellows. At that time, being a woman meant that my premiums were double that of my male counterparts. The extra cost came out of my grant's budget for benefits, equipment, and travel.
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From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
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Honestly I think the NYT reporting on Bat Boy would probably be more honest journalism at this point.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Honestly I think the NYT reporting on Bat Boy would probably be more honest journalism at this point.
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“it’s already in the new york post” knocked the wind out of me
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“it’s already in the new york post” knocked the wind out of me
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more information in her caption
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
more information in her caption
An option (other than compelling only defense attorneys to work for free, jeopardizing the quality of defense and destroying small firms) is to require that the government choose to bring only those charges the government is willing to pay to adequately defend.
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles advised judges that they can compel any of the hundreds of bar members to represent indigent defendants without pay amid a funding shortfall. The Criminal Justice Act program ran out of money in July, and the shutdown has prevented new funding reut.rs/47EXA37
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An option (other than compelling only defense attorneys to work for free, jeopardizing the quality of defense and destroying small firms) is to require that the government choose to bring only those charges the government is willing to pay to adequately defend.
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The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
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when your vote is so toxic you have the Chair of the DNC saying this shit sucks, you really have to admire the levels of embarrassment here
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
when your vote is so toxic you have the Chair of the DNC saying this shit sucks, you really have to admire the levels of embarrassment here
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Very glad to see that the organization that put me on a blacklist and got me death threats is now partnering with a gun manufacturer
This is officially the most American thing I’ve ever seen
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Very glad to see that the organization that put me on a blacklist and got me death threats is now partnering with a gun manufacturer
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Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana.
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'
Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana.
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."
In case people aren't mad enough at the IL Senate delegation, a reminder that Durbin is racing against the clock, racking up Ls as fast as he can in his final stretch
Again, the 6 IL Dems who lied about the fact that he defamed their constituents, voting "YES" to a resolution claiming that Charlie Kirk spoke with "honor, courage, and respect for his fellow Americans" 🤢
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake,
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
In case people aren't mad enough at the IL Senate delegation, a reminder that Durbin is racing against the clock, racking up Ls as fast as he can in his final stretch
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Again, the 6 IL Dems who lied about the fact that he defamed their constituents, voting "YES" to a resolution claiming that Charlie Kirk spoke with "honor, courage, and respect for his fellow Americans" 🤢
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake,
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
September 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Again, the 6 IL Dems who lied about the fact that he defamed their constituents, voting "YES" to a resolution claiming that Charlie Kirk spoke with "honor, courage, and respect for his fellow Americans" 🤢
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
Durbin, Duckworth, Budzinski, Foster, Schneider, Sorensen
(DNV: Casten, Garcia, Schakowsky)
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
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Its cool that a lot of senators just straight up dont understand how healthcare works in this country
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Its cool that a lot of senators just straight up dont understand how healthcare works in this country
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.
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We did it, team. We found the last ten people in the world who don't realize FSAs are a joke and a scam.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We did it, team. We found the last ten people in the world who don't realize FSAs are a joke and a scam.