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There are so many things I want to say, but above all: thank you.
Thank you for showing up. For canvassing all over the region and attending town halls. For marching with us. For calling and emailing your legislators in droves, and phone banking at a last minute’s notice.
We did this together. 🥹💙🚍
Thank you for showing up. For canvassing all over the region and attending town halls. For marching with us. For calling and emailing your legislators in droves, and phone banking at a last minute’s notice.
We did this together. 🥹💙🚍
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The family of Bethany MaGee, the CTA burn victim who was heinously attacked, has launched a GoFundMe with a statement asking for privacy. "She loves living in Chicago, and her gentle spirit makes her a favorite with every pet she meets."
www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
Donate to Support Bethany MaGee's Recovery, organized by John MaGee
On November 17, Bethany MaGee was riding a CTA train in Chicago when she was attacked. She… John MaGee needs your support for Support Bethany MaGee's Recovery
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The family of Bethany MaGee, the CTA burn victim who was heinously attacked, has launched a GoFundMe with a statement asking for privacy. "She loves living in Chicago, and her gentle spirit makes her a favorite with every pet she meets."
www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...
Another departure from MBJ, who gave folks 3 months after inauguration to “test the waters” in which instead he iced out all the good folks who then of course left on their own accord.
And for whom none he had replacements ready.
And for whom none he had replacements ready.
It is typical for new administrations to clear out political appointees who served the prior mayor, though it is not always done with as much lead time or so extensively. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
In City Hall Housecleaning, Mamdani Asks 179 Adams Staff Members to Quit
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Another departure from MBJ, who gave folks 3 months after inauguration to “test the waters” in which instead he iced out all the good folks who then of course left on their own accord.
And for whom none he had replacements ready.
And for whom none he had replacements ready.
Trump not knowing that groceries is still indeed a commonly used term in 2025 (because he’s likely never been grocery shopping in his life) is perhaps his most Lucille Bluth moment.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Trump not knowing that groceries is still indeed a commonly used term in 2025 (because he’s likely never been grocery shopping in his life) is perhaps his most Lucille Bluth moment.
Everyone take a deep breath.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Everyone take a deep breath.
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Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
“Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, noted that “abductions” continue happening “every day in both the city and the suburbs.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Americans are *begging* for high speed rail but this freak is too busy moralizing over people wearing sweats on airplanes.
Because god forbid you be comfortable while using the most miserable form of transportation.
Because god forbid you be comfortable while using the most miserable form of transportation.
Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Americans are *begging* for high speed rail but this freak is too busy moralizing over people wearing sweats on airplanes.
Because god forbid you be comfortable while using the most miserable form of transportation.
Because god forbid you be comfortable while using the most miserable form of transportation.
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
It really can't be overstated how destructive this is.
Trump Administration proposing elimination of public transit funding and prohibiting states from choosing to flex highway funds for transit. usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/18/b...
Breaking: Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding — Streetsblog USA
"When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It really can't be overstated how destructive this is.
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Example 1000 of these privately operated machines from Uber blocking access to sidewalks for pedestrians and people using strollers and mobility aids.
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Example 1000 of these privately operated machines from Uber blocking access to sidewalks for pedestrians and people using strollers and mobility aids.
Good thing MBJ’s budget proposes cutting consent decree positions while also increasing the overall police budget.
The increase in the number of times Chicago police officers have used force against Chicagoans since 2022 threatens the effort to reform the Chicago Police Department, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office told a federal judge on Tuesday. https://to.wttw.com/4poSZrL
CPD’s Increasing Use of Force Threatens Consent Decree Push: Illinois Attorney General
The Office of the Attorney General told U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer that immediate steps must be taken to ensure the push to reform the Chicago Police Department results in meaningful ...
to.wttw.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Good thing MBJ’s budget proposes cutting consent decree positions while also increasing the overall police budget.
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I love how Chicagoans just DO NOT FUCK with these boondoggles
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I love how Chicagoans just DO NOT FUCK with these boondoggles
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Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop.
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop.
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb
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The city plans to continue to sweep northwest side encampments, but there's no emergency shelter in that area for single unhoused Chicagoans to go to. A tentative city-state partnership is looking to change that. I wrote about it for week's Make it Make Sense:
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The city plans to continue to sweep northwest side encampments, but there's no emergency shelter in that area for single unhoused Chicagoans to go to. A tentative city-state partnership is looking to change that. I wrote about it for week's Make it Make Sense:
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...
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Huh, I wonder how that happened
The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Huh, I wonder how that happened
Sidewalks are for people, not robots.
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sidewalks are for people, not robots.
Get em.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Get em.
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Just after saying he'll veto any budget that makes cuts to the cops, who have repeatedly overspent the budget and cost the city over 1.5 billion in abuse lawsuits since 2000 (and twice the library budget this year alone).
Johnson tries to reframe the debate over the budget after suffering a very public defeat at the hands of the Finance Committee:
"It's working people or its the ultra rich. That's it."
"It's working people or its the ultra rich. That's it."
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just after saying he'll veto any budget that makes cuts to the cops, who have repeatedly overspent the budget and cost the city over 1.5 billion in abuse lawsuits since 2000 (and twice the library budget this year alone).
Folks like myself have been plenty critical of this administration, just like I’m critical of alders who when push comes to shove run the other direction.
Organizing takes many different forms. Sometimes it’s loud, sometimes it’s unseen.
But votes are always on the record.
Organizing takes many different forms. Sometimes it’s loud, sometimes it’s unseen.
But votes are always on the record.
I love people talking progressive who were crickets when this administration was proposing encampments on toxic land, gardaworld, and evicting undocumented people from shelter during the winter.
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Folks like myself have been plenty critical of this administration, just like I’m critical of alders who when push comes to shove run the other direction.
Organizing takes many different forms. Sometimes it’s loud, sometimes it’s unseen.
But votes are always on the record.
Organizing takes many different forms. Sometimes it’s loud, sometimes it’s unseen.
But votes are always on the record.
This is the same man who joined the chorus of moderates worried about “liability” of plowing sidewalks, alluded to police misconduct as a validator of that concern, suggested that HE get the money from the program to buy his own plow instead — and then didn’t vote.
With “socialists” like these.
With “socialists” like these.
Now now, we aren’t supposed to think, question, or argue because the “progressive” Mayor said it.
Just keep saying anyone who is against this budget doesn’t want to tax the rich and isn’t progressive.
At least that’s what some want to have folks believe, right?
Just keep saying anyone who is against this budget doesn’t want to tax the rich and isn’t progressive.
At least that’s what some want to have folks believe, right?
So we won't plow our sidewalks cause of "liability concerns" but we'll keep letting the police wreak havoc on our city, our people, our civil liberties, and our finances??
Make it make sense. @andrefor40th.bsky.social
Make it make sense. @andrefor40th.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is the same man who joined the chorus of moderates worried about “liability” of plowing sidewalks, alluded to police misconduct as a validator of that concern, suggested that HE get the money from the program to buy his own plow instead — and then didn’t vote.
With “socialists” like these.
With “socialists” like these.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Despite the sustained & significant citywide drop in crime, the decline has stalled in 2 police districts where federal agents have carried out some of the most aggressive raids and tear gassed residents, according to police data.
Federal agents who have carried out a series of increasingly aggressive raids in Chicago as part of President Trump’s effort to deport undocumented immigrants deserve no credit for the continuing drop in violent crime across Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said. @wttw.bsky.social
Trump Deserves No Credit for Continued Drop in Crime in Chicago: Johnson, Pritzker
Crime in Chicago has been dropping significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic began to wane in 2022, a trend that accelerated after Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023 and has continued since...
news.wttw.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Despite the sustained & significant citywide drop in crime, the decline has stalled in 2 police districts where federal agents have carried out some of the most aggressive raids and tear gassed residents, according to police data.
Last night there were people posting about being stuck in traffic at the lakefront.
By the time I walked 20 minutes back to the bus, got all the way home, showered and got in bed…..they were still stuck in traffic, having only moved a couple hundred feet.
Stop driving to the lakefront.
By the time I walked 20 minutes back to the bus, got all the way home, showered and got in bed…..they were still stuck in traffic, having only moved a couple hundred feet.
Stop driving to the lakefront.
Stop driving to the lakefront.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Last night there were people posting about being stuck in traffic at the lakefront.
By the time I walked 20 minutes back to the bus, got all the way home, showered and got in bed…..they were still stuck in traffic, having only moved a couple hundred feet.
Stop driving to the lakefront.
By the time I walked 20 minutes back to the bus, got all the way home, showered and got in bed…..they were still stuck in traffic, having only moved a couple hundred feet.
Stop driving to the lakefront.
Because apparently online shopping wasn’t bad enough already.
Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
There have never been more options for things to buy. Google is betting AI is how shoppers will make decisions.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Because apparently online shopping wasn’t bad enough already.