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Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago: Dirksen Courthouse has new high steel fencing on all sides. No changes to Kluczynski building, post office or open area across Dearborn. Detainees headed here?

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm sure you've heard the story of the Superman writer helping take down the Klan. Let this be your Superman moment.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 6

Great points, and you didn't even hit on my favorite thing Pritzker has said recently. Imagine being a military leader and hearing a man with unlimited resources promise he will never stop hunting you down. bsky.app/profile/syke...

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · Aug 26

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law" — Governor JB Pritzker to Donald Trump

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What Pritzker Said

Special Tuesday afternoon post. The Full Text.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 6

Chicago has a gun crime problem, and most guns come from other states. Drugs, too. One corner of Chicago borders Indiana.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 5

The tool kit: 8 meetings per year to set the interbank overnight interest rate; the modal outcome is no change. In a crisis, they can buy bonds. Oh, and they give speeches.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Sep 5

US Treasury Secretary Bessent: The Fed tool kit is too complex to manage - WSJ.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Came here to say this. Also, a line? Domino's is not great but always fast. A lazy joke all around.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks for following this closely. Those aren't huge numbers. CPD has about 12,000 officers. 300 more can do some damage but that's not exactly an invading army. I wonder if they're facing burnout and resignations.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Sep 3

Big opportunity for Tammy Duckworth. She appeared at one of Pritzker's pressers, hope we see more of her.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Aug 20

NW had good weekend service, this is the other lines catching up. (I said good, not great!)

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Aug 20

I won't miss those UPN weekend expresses with weird stopping patterns, like skipping Clybourn. Shame they gave up on the experiment of short turns at Winnetka.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Aug 20

a man wearing headphones and glasses is speaking into a microphone with the words ye-e-es written below him

Alt: a man wearing headphones and glasses is speaking into a microphone with the words ye-e-es written below him, from the series Toast of London

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Aug 9

She's running in the Dem primary to take over from a retiring incumbent Dem. The party isn't working, and this is how it changes.

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Bryan Royle @ryanjamesboyle.bsky.social · Aug 8

ODB: water taxi?