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Mark Jacob

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Former metro editor at Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at Chicago Sun-Times. Co-author of 10 books, mostly on history. Writer of the Stop the Presses newsletter at www.stopthepresses.news. Subscribe! It's free.

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Mark Jacob·Sep 16

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

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Mark Jacob·Sep 12

The murder of Charlie Kirk is terrible for our country. Violence is not the answer. To learn from this, let's not fictionalize who Kirk was. A day before his death, he said: "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America." That's not respectful speech. That's violent rhetoric.

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Mark Jacob·Sep 6

It's not just that we have to save our country from Trumpism. We have to save the entire world from a ravenous, reckless, criminal U.S. government. It's a moral imperative.

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Mark Jacob·4h

May 12: "We control the Strait," Hegseth says. July 10: U.S. begs Iran to let ships through the Strait.

AP headline: US demands Iran publicly state that Strait of Hormuz is open and Iran won't attack ships anymore
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Mark Jacob·5h

The 2016 version of Marco Rubio denouncing the 2026 version of Marco Rubio.

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Mark Jacob·6h

The U.S. government is murdering people and then lying about it. On the streets of Houston and Minneapolis. On boats in the Pacific and Caribbean. At a girls’ school in Iran. Stop the killing by voting against all Republicans.

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Mark Jacob·9h

"He's screwing us into political oblivion," a Republican lawmaker complained as Trump's war drags on. Too bad, so sad, fascist. You sound like a mafia lieutenant complaining that he didn't get a fair share for the last mob hit.

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Mark Jacob·9h

Who could have possibly guessed that the war with Iran would drag on, except anyone who has ever studied hiistory?

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Mark Jacob·11h

What does MAGA have in common with elderly Japanese men living in Hawaii after World War II? They're all members of the Certain Victory Club. A short thread. 1/🧵

Photo of Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay
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Mark Jacob·11h

I'm sick of the Trump regime saying, in effect, "The American people voted for his shit." The people voted for cheap eggs, and some of the stupider ones thought Trump would stop the woke mob from turning their Tommy into a Tina. They didn't vote for an illegal war, costly gas and rampant corruption.

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Mark Jacob·11h

Finally something true comes out of the Trump regime. The war aims are still as clear as mud.

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Mark Jacob·23h

When ICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, its agents were not wearing bodycams. That’s because the Trump regime wants ICE to operate as a domestic terrorist group with no accountability.

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Mark Jacob·1d

The Trump regime is stonewalling New Mexico's probe of the Epstein ranch. It doesn't want us to know the whole truth about Trump's longtime friend who raped children and whether there's more evidence of Trump's involvement.

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