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The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
RNC texting Illinoisans asking them to record a video demanding that Indiana Republican legislators redraw their congressional districts
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
RNC texting Illinoisans asking them to record a video demanding that Indiana Republican legislators redraw their congressional districts
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You don’t have to like or even agree with my (strong) opinions that inevitably have some degree of lived-experience bias as all opinions do, and I’m always up for a well-intentioned dialogue on the merits and counterpoints, but if you’re only here to make yourself mad, may I recommend touching grass
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
You don’t have to like or even agree with my (strong) opinions that inevitably have some degree of lived-experience bias as all opinions do, and I’m always up for a well-intentioned dialogue on the merits and counterpoints, but if you’re only here to make yourself mad, may I recommend touching grass
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BlueSky needs a “remove follower” option. I don’t like blocking people unless I absolutely have to, but I also know I have a few hate-followers who seem to enjoy firing themselves up about what I have to say, so I would like to do them a favor and discretely remove myself from their timelines
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
BlueSky needs a “remove follower” option. I don’t like blocking people unless I absolutely have to, but I also know I have a few hate-followers who seem to enjoy firing themselves up about what I have to say, so I would like to do them a favor and discretely remove myself from their timelines
Thread!
Guest editorials/letters to the editor from existing board members should also include the disclaimer that "This author will lose their paid board seat in 2026."
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Thread!
Reader comments closed for Thanksgiving week
Reader comments closed for Thanksgiving week
* Isabel and I are taking next week off. Have a great holiday.
And, now, allowing perfunctory time for the clerk, we’ll adjourn with our annual tradition…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Isabel’s afternoon roundup
* Sun-Times…
Suburban communities in Illinois are failing to meet the requirements set out for them in a 22-year-old law aimed at increasing the state’s affordable housing supply.
The Illinois General Assembly passed the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act in 2003 to “address the shortage of affordable, accessible, safe, and sanitary housing,” the law says. It [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Isabel’s afternoon roundup
CTA board chair inadvertently makes strong case for busting up the transit fiefdoms
CTA board chair inadvertently makes strong case for busting up the transit fiefdoms
* Tribune op-ed by Lester L. Barclay, who chairs the Chicago Transit Board: “Transit funding was secured, but the CTA paid a price”…
But as we celebrate this moment, we must be honest with the people of Chicago: This funding victory comes with a price for the city of Chicago and the CTA. And it’s [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
CTA board chair inadvertently makes strong case for busting up the transit fiefdoms
Pritzker says graduated tax not his priority for spring session
Pritzker says graduated tax not his priority for spring session
* Gov. JB Pritzker was asked about Ald. Sigcho-Lopez’s recent criticism that the governor isn’t doing enough to tax the rich. His response seemed to contradict itself. First, he said…
By the way, the governor is not the one who ultimately proposes those bills or even signs them. When it’s an amendment to [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Pritzker says graduated tax not his priority for spring session
Campaign updates
Campaign updates
* Politico…
A crush of petition challenges put Illinois’ election machinery into high gear this week as hearings began to examine the validity of signatures — a process that could knock some candidates off the 2026 ballot.
By the numbers: Despite a crowded field in the U.S. Senate and congressional races, the volume of challenges to petition [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Campaign updates
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Am I wrong, or do we have more public polling on this one congressional race in the north suburbs than for the open Senate seat in Illinois? h/t @capitolfax.bsky.social capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/i...
Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar » Independent poll shows Biss, Abughazaleh tied; Pritzker hugely popular in the districtCapitolFax.com
capitolfax.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Am I wrong, or do we have more public polling on this one congressional race in the north suburbs than for the open Senate seat in Illinois? h/t @capitolfax.bsky.social capitolfax.com/2025/11/21/i...
Independent poll shows Biss, Abughazaleh tied; Pritzker hugely popular in the district
Independent poll shows Biss, Abughazaleh tied; Pritzker hugely popular in the district
* Evanston Now…
A new poll released Thursday by Data for Progress, a progressive policy think tank and pollster, shows Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and Kat Abughazaleh tied atop the crowded field in the Illinois 9th Congressional District Democratic primary.
The poll was commissioned for the Justice Coalition Action, an Illinois-based Palestinian-rights advocacy group, and circulated in [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Independent poll shows Biss, Abughazaleh tied; Pritzker hugely popular in the district
RETAIL: The Largest Employer In Illinois
RETAIL: The Largest Employer In Illinois
[The following is a paid advertisement.]
JT’s CarmelKorn Station in Galesburg is a passion project for owner Jackie Turner. As a small retailer, she says lawmakers need to know that polices can’t be a one-size-fits-all approach because “some of the rules that they need for these large companies, they don’t fit for a small business, and [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
RETAIL: The Largest Employer In Illinois
Isabel’s morning briefing
Isabel’s morning briefing
* ICYMI: ‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart. Sun-Times…
- U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes closed the book on the last of five now-dismissed prosecutions tied to September protests outside a federal immigration holding facility in the western suburbs.
-Fuentes used a nine-page opinion not only to dismiss, [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Isabel’s morning briefing
Isabel’s morning briefing
Isabel’s morning briefing
* ICYMI: ‘Unusual and possibly unprecedented’: Judge calls out Chicago feds as Midway Blitz cases fall apart. Sun-Times…
- U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes closed the book on the last of five now-dismissed prosecutions tied to September protests outside a federal immigration holding facility in the western suburbs.
-Fuentes used a nine-page opinion not only to dismiss, [...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Isabel’s morning briefing
Good morning!
Good morning!
* “I wanted to tell you, before I played any further, that I might, over the course of the night, share a couple of my opinions with you. But I’m not going to share them with you because I think that they’re smart. I’m going to share them with you because they rhyme. [...]
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November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
unraveledpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man.
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:
Evening reading: ‘Difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent’
Evening reading: ‘Difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent’
* We told you about this earlier today…
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just handed down the written opinion version of her preliminary injunction order, regarding use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
It's the one already put on hold by the 7th Circuit.
It's 233 pages.
Here you go: https://t.co/aFlswrsP3w https://t.co/pv7SrUMdZb
— Jon Seidel (@SeidelContent) November 20, 2025
[...]
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Evening reading: ‘Difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything that Defendants represent’
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NEW: Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes on the many dismissed cases tied to Midway Blitz:
"The Court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. Attorney's Office in this district to charge so hastily."
Read the opinion: cst.brightspotcdn.com/14/e7/bd8a48...
"The Court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. Attorney's Office in this district to charge so hastily."
Read the opinion: cst.brightspotcdn.com/14/e7/bd8a48...
cst.brightspotcdn.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
NEW: Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes on the many dismissed cases tied to Midway Blitz:
"The Court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. Attorney's Office in this district to charge so hastily."
Read the opinion: cst.brightspotcdn.com/14/e7/bd8a48...
"The Court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the U.S. Attorney's Office in this district to charge so hastily."
Read the opinion: cst.brightspotcdn.com/14/e7/bd8a48...
Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Isabel’s afternoon roundup
* Capitol News Illinois…
The Illinois Accountability Commission is continuing to ramp up even as the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in the Chicago region winds down, at least for now.
Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday announced the appointment of two new commissioners and additional staff to the independent commission he created via executive order last [...]
dlvr.it
November 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Isabel’s afternoon roundup
Bailey pledges to fire IDOC directors who allow drugs to “infiltrate” a prison
Bailey pledges to fire IDOC directors who allow drugs to “infiltrate” a prison
* Bailey campaign press release…
A drug-related incident over the weekend at the Pinckneyville Correction Center is yet another example of the total breakdown happening under Governor JB Pritzker’s watch, according to the Darren Bailey/Aaron Del Mar campaign.
Six inmates reportedly overdosed after being exposed to illegal drugs inside the prison on Saturday. How the drugs [...]
dlvr.it
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bailey pledges to fire IDOC directors who allow drugs to “infiltrate” a prison
Coverage roundup: Feds drop charges against women shot by Border Patrol agent, also drop charges against 70-year-old accused of assaulting officers, and clergy sue DHS over access to Broadview facility
Coverage roundup: Feds drop charges against women shot by Border Patrol agent, also drop charges against 70-year-old accused of assaulting officers, and clergy sue DHS over access to Broadview facility
* The Department of Homeland Security on October 4th…
This morning, Border Patrol agents were conducting a routine patrol, near the intersection of 39th Place and S. Kedzie Avenue, when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars. The officers exited their trapped vehicle, when a suspect tried to run them [...]
dlvr.it
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Coverage roundup: Feds drop charges against women shot by Border Patrol agent, also drop charges against 70-year-old accused of assaulting officers, and clergy sue DHS over access to Broadview facility