Deirdre
@deirdre4020.bsky.social
CCPSA - 020 District Councilor
40th Ward Born, Raised & Employed
My opinions are my own.
40th Ward Born, Raised & Employed
My opinions are my own.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
December 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
I’d laugh if this wasn’t all so depressing…
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’d laugh if this wasn’t all so depressing…
This makes no sense.
One of the last changes made to the proposed spending plan removed a requirement that the Chicago Police Department publicly ask the City Council for more money if it exhausts its $200 million budget for overtime.
CPD has spent $251M so far this year, records show.
CPD has spent $251M so far this year, records show.
A plan to bridge Chicago’s $1.2 billion budget gap without hiking taxes on large firms — now headed to a final vote of the City Council with the endorsement of two key city panels — would leave the city with a deficit of more than $163 million, according to Mayor Johnson. https://to.wttw.com/48ZgyR7
December 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This makes no sense.
It’s almost like we should hold a hearing that makes sure CPD isn’t cooperating with ICE… @chicagopolice.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It’s almost like we should hold a hearing that makes sure CPD isn’t cooperating with ICE… @chicagopolice.bsky.social
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com
So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
No surprise here
Chicago's Inspector General out with a scathing report today on CPD disciplinary record-keeping:
igchicago.org/publications...
Three main findings (with nice, detailed titles that exceed the Bluesky character limit -- screenshot here for summary) but highly recommend the whole thing.
igchicago.org/publications...
Three main findings (with nice, detailed titles that exceed the Bluesky character limit -- screenshot here for summary) but highly recommend the whole thing.
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
No surprise here
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A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
December 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A large CBP presence is back in Chicago this morning, with sightings and arrests reported across the southwest side and Cicero. Bovino is also here.
Scumbag
Standing on a street corner in Little Village with a gun held to his chest, surrounded by residents blowing whistles, Gregory Bovino ignored a man who asked for a “rational conversation.”
“Alright guys. Merry Christmas if I don’t see you again,” Bovino said, walking. Video @ckubzansky.bsky.social
“Alright guys. Merry Christmas if I don’t see you again,” Bovino said, walking. Video @ckubzansky.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Scumbag
AuditCPD Now!
In November, Chicago spent nearly $17.3M on police overtime, bringing the year-to-date total to $229.3M — 14.6% more than the amount Mayor Johnson plans to set aside for police overtime in all of 2026, according to a database published by the inspector general @wttw.bsky.social
Chicago spent more than $212 million on overtime for members of the Chicago Police Department in the first 10 months of 2025 — 6% more than the amount Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to set aside for police overtime in all of 2026, records show. https://to.wttw.com/49QGPU6
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
AuditCPD Now!
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Defund CPD to Defund CPL is quite the story arc.
I’m old enough to remember “I won’t cut the CPD Budget by one cent” once MBJ made the runoff.
Defunding Libraries under Fascism is **not** fighting against Trump. But hey #lipservice has its benefits.
#ProgressiveBudget though, am I right?
I’m old enough to remember “I won’t cut the CPD Budget by one cent” once MBJ made the runoff.
Defunding Libraries under Fascism is **not** fighting against Trump. But hey #lipservice has its benefits.
#ProgressiveBudget though, am I right?
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Turns out police superintendents CAN order their officers to intervene in unlawful immigration detentions.
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I guess Kelly must be in the “pocket of billionaires” since she has critiques about this budget. #40thWardRep
My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."
In the Fight Against Fascism, Libraries Should Be Defended — Not Defunded
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I guess Kelly must be in the “pocket of billionaires” since she has critiques about this budget. #40thWardRep
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Video footage going around of what appear to be Border Patrol agents chasing folks in someone’s backyard here in Chicagoland
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Video footage going around of what appear to be Border Patrol agents chasing folks in someone’s backyard here in Chicagoland
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Meanwhile Mayor Johnson’s budget - you know, the “progressive one” that “taxes the rich” to give to CPD inflates that budget to over HALF of our total corporate fund. And continues to borrow to pay off misconduct settlements.
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Meanwhile Mayor Johnson’s budget - you know, the “progressive one” that “taxes the rich” to give to CPD inflates that budget to over HALF of our total corporate fund. And continues to borrow to pay off misconduct settlements.
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Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it.
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Failed mayoral candidate Ja'mal Green is once again claiming on social media that @thetriibe.com's story on how Paul Vallas’s campaign paid him is untrue. I edited that story; @tonia.thetriibe.com reported it.
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
So once again: here are the receipts. bit.ly/JaymalPaid
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NEW: The CPD officer who shot a 16-year-old in 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force will not be fired, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
CPD Officer Who Shot Teen in 2017 Won’t Be Fired — But Was Promoted After Costing Taxpayers $590K
Since the shooting, Chicago taxpayers have paid $591,500 to resolve four lawsuits that allege the officer, who was promoted in June 2025, violated the rights of other Chicagoans, according to an analy...
news.wttw.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
NEW: The CPD officer who shot a 16-year-old in 2017 in what investigators ruled was an unjustified use of deadly force will not be fired, according to documents obtained by @wttw.bsky.social.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
Instead, the officer was promoted, even after taxpayers paid $591K to resolve 4 lawsuits naming him.
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Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
really good comparison here. can someone calculate what Chicago residents are paying for CPD settlements?
Kansas City residents are paying out the equivalent of $50 each for Kansas City Police settlements just for comparisons.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
SAY IT LOUDER FOR FOLKS IN THE BACK
Chicagoans: “We’d like the city to plow the sidewalks”
Chicago’s Mayor: “Best I can do is cuts to roads, libraries and more money for police.”
Chicagoans: “What the fuck?”
Chicago’s Mayor: “Best I can do is cuts to roads, libraries and more money for police.”
Chicagoans: “What the fuck?”
RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
SAY IT LOUDER FOR FOLKS IN THE BACK
Jamming a budget through that doesn’t address any of the CPD’s excessive and egregious spending and INCREASES its budget whilst slashing things like the Chicago Public Library is UNACCEPTABLE. #auditcpd
FULL STORY: Mayor Johnson flatly rejected a plan to bridge a portion of Chicago's $1.19B budget gap by nearly doubling garbage fees & hiking liquor taxes.
Chicagoans now pay $114 a year for trash pickup; under a proposal from the mayor's critics, they'd pay $216 annually. @wttw.bsky.social
Chicagoans now pay $114 a year for trash pickup; under a proposal from the mayor's critics, they'd pay $216 annually. @wttw.bsky.social
Mayor Johnson Rejects Rival Budget Proposal, Vowing to Veto Garbage Fee Hike
Even as City Council members returned to City Hall on Tuesday after the Thanksgiving holiday, there is no clear path to a deal with just 28 days left before the deadline to avoid an unprecedented shut...
news.wttw.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Jamming a budget through that doesn’t address any of the CPD’s excessive and egregious spending and INCREASES its budget whilst slashing things like the Chicago Public Library is UNACCEPTABLE. #auditcpd
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And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept.
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
November 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept.
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!
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Why are we paying for police misconduct settlements via bonds and not via CPD budget and calling it a good time?
November 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Why are we paying for police misconduct settlements via bonds and not via CPD budget and calling it a good time?
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From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true
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Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
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FOIA Wednesday, tasting the food as we bake
the chicago police department sends a response to my FOIA request, admitting its intertwined power structure
i asked for the email metadata of the chicago police department's coordination with the department of homeland security at the fusion center
the chicago police department sends a response to my FOIA request, admitting its intertwined power structure
i asked for the email metadata of the chicago police department's coordination with the department of homeland security at the fusion center
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
FOIA Wednesday, tasting the food as we bake
the chicago police department sends a response to my FOIA request, admitting its intertwined power structure
i asked for the email metadata of the chicago police department's coordination with the department of homeland security at the fusion center
the chicago police department sends a response to my FOIA request, admitting its intertwined power structure
i asked for the email metadata of the chicago police department's coordination with the department of homeland security at the fusion center
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The Chicago Park District's budget proposal for next year includes a new fieldhouse, turning a toxic waste site into a lakefront park and plans to address homelessness.
Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa joined “Chicago Tonight” discusses the proposal. https://to.wttw.com/43RkhyB
Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa joined “Chicago Tonight” discusses the proposal. https://to.wttw.com/43RkhyB
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Chicago Park District's budget proposal for next year includes a new fieldhouse, turning a toxic waste site into a lakefront park and plans to address homelessness.
Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa joined “Chicago Tonight” discusses the proposal. https://to.wttw.com/43RkhyB
Superintendent Carlos Ramirez-Rosa joined “Chicago Tonight” discusses the proposal. https://to.wttw.com/43RkhyB