Katherine Daniels

@kfsdaniels.bsky.social

IL-15 Democratic State Central Committee Member Adams Co, IL Democratic Chair Unitarian Universalist

These wins didn't just happen over night. They were years in the making, their impact reflected up and down the ballot. Black women have been putting in the work, have been showing up. These hard fought victories benefit everyone. They deserve all the flowers and good things.

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At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?

Last night, IL Dems passed a budget and legislation that prioritizes families and fiscal health. 👏 From pausing the gas tax increase, passing nation-leading AI safety legislation, to investing in students and food access, this is what responsible leadership looks like in the face of Trump’s chaos.

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Respecting Reform Voters Means Telling Them They’re Wrong and Immoral

Understand politics with this one weird trick: just tell the truth about the far right.

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Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said. From the archives:

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

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