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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 target audience for AI is people from 1990s infomercials who literally can’t do anything, people who open a cabinet and 50 Tupperware containers come tumbling out at them before they slip on a banana peel and can’t get up again.
this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls
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Hot take, but an honest one.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The target audience for AI is people from 1990s infomercials who literally can’t do anything, people who open a cabinet and 50 Tupperware containers come tumbling out at them before they slip on a banana peel and can’t get up again.
There’s this guy in Florida who went viral complaining about all the Airbnb’s around him so he’s started a nonprofit to buy them and….tear them down lmao.
When pressed on the need for housing he said “what if we break them down carefully and use the materials to build tiny homes elsewhere” ☠️
When pressed on the need for housing he said “what if we break them down carefully and use the materials to build tiny homes elsewhere” ☠️
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There’s this guy in Florida who went viral complaining about all the Airbnb’s around him so he’s started a nonprofit to buy them and….tear them down lmao.
When pressed on the need for housing he said “what if we break them down carefully and use the materials to build tiny homes elsewhere” ☠️
When pressed on the need for housing he said “what if we break them down carefully and use the materials to build tiny homes elsewhere” ☠️
It’s really bonkers that we let people be both Mayor *and* Sate elected leaders at the same time in Illinois.
Thaddeus Jones, Brad Stephens….are there others?
Thaddeus Jones, Brad Stephens….are there others?
Amid rising tensions with Mayor Thaddeus Jones, Calumet City aldermen brought their own legal counsel to represent them during Monday’s City Council meeting.
Calumet City aldermen hire their own legal counsel, Mayor Thaddeus Jones plans veto
Calumet City Mayor Thaddeus Jones plans to veto a City Council move to hire Odelson, Murphey, Frazier and McGrath as its counsel.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s really bonkers that we let people be both Mayor *and* Sate elected leaders at the same time in Illinois.
Thaddeus Jones, Brad Stephens….are there others?
Thaddeus Jones, Brad Stephens….are there others?
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“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Leo has made care for immigrants and the poor key themes of his early papacy.
www.reuters.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor & strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.”
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
Obvious to any REAL Christian. #MerryChristmas
What if on Maddow she was talking about how Chicago was the biggest City in the US to pilot plowing sidewalks, and the cherry on top was they were naming the first plow?
Instead, there’s no actual substance. Just a 👀 from the mayor, zero plowing sidewalks, and CPD is actively assisting ICE.
Instead, there’s no actual substance. Just a 👀 from the mayor, zero plowing sidewalks, and CPD is actively assisting ICE.
Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
December 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
What if on Maddow she was talking about how Chicago was the biggest City in the US to pilot plowing sidewalks, and the cherry on top was they were naming the first plow?
Instead, there’s no actual substance. Just a 👀 from the mayor, zero plowing sidewalks, and CPD is actively assisting ICE.
Instead, there’s no actual substance. Just a 👀 from the mayor, zero plowing sidewalks, and CPD is actively assisting ICE.
Imagine running an account utterly and deeply unhealthily obsessed with Pritzker and adding Cap Fax to your nearly 700 deep block list titled “Unreasonable people & bad faith trolls” lmao.
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Imagine running an account utterly and deeply unhealthily obsessed with Pritzker and adding Cap Fax to your nearly 700 deep block list titled “Unreasonable people & bad faith trolls” lmao.
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why are there several men with the last name patlan getting aggresive about the archer road diet
![DMs from Dominique P[atlan] to a guy named alfredo on facebook:
I been watching you since the beginning. I been waiting for you to step out of line. Just drop it.
Pussy lanes don't belong in Brighton park
Every time I see you I know what time it is.
I delivered heaters to your house when you had no heat. Smh
We supposed to be brothers
Leave this shit alone.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
why are there several men with the last name patlan getting aggresive about the archer road diet
I have got to say, the Mayor’s official press account dunking on residents is not a good look.
Even if I don’t agree with those folks, punching down at voters from one of the most powerful positions in Illinois…..
Even if I don’t agree with those folks, punching down at voters from one of the most powerful positions in Illinois…..
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have got to say, the Mayor’s official press account dunking on residents is not a good look.
Even if I don’t agree with those folks, punching down at voters from one of the most powerful positions in Illinois…..
Even if I don’t agree with those folks, punching down at voters from one of the most powerful positions in Illinois…..
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Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
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FULL STORY: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown. @wttw.bsky.social
Supreme Court Upholds Block of Trump’s National Guard Deployment in the Chicago Area, For Now
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.
to.wttw.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
FULL STORY: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown. @wttw.bsky.social
Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Leave it to Mayor Johnson to show more deference to pandering to his base for the name of a plow than he has in the last year and a half to actually implementing #PlowTheSidewalks.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
We need to abolish ICE and we also need progressives to actually get shit done.
Will Stancil lost an election by Posting Through It™ and clearly has not learned a single lesson from that experience.
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Will Stancil lost an election by Posting Through It™ and clearly has not learned a single lesson from that experience.
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It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.
Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.
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I'm maybe just too fucked up at this point but I'd just upload the video to torrent sights.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm maybe just too fucked up at this point but I'd just upload the video to torrent sights.
It’s really difficult to describe just how much I loathe Liquid Glass across all platforms.
But nothing comes close to how much I loathe what they did on the Mac. What on earth were they thinking. Some of the worst UX I’ve experienced.
But nothing comes close to how much I loathe what they did on the Mac. What on earth were they thinking. Some of the worst UX I’ve experienced.
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It’s really difficult to describe just how much I loathe Liquid Glass across all platforms.
But nothing comes close to how much I loathe what they did on the Mac. What on earth were they thinking. Some of the worst UX I’ve experienced.
But nothing comes close to how much I loathe what they did on the Mac. What on earth were they thinking. Some of the worst UX I’ve experienced.
Fund your own hideous stadium.
I can’t believe Brandon Johnson wasted the first two years of his term advocating for this mess instead of schools and transit.
I can’t believe Brandon Johnson wasted the first two years of his term advocating for this mess instead of schools and transit.
The Chicago Bears are threatening to move to Northwest Indiana over state leaders' inaction on financial aid for the team's planned Arlington Heights stadium.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/17/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/17/b...
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Fund your own hideous stadium.
I can’t believe Brandon Johnson wasted the first two years of his term advocating for this mess instead of schools and transit.
I can’t believe Brandon Johnson wasted the first two years of his term advocating for this mess instead of schools and transit.
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I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering.
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...
Real dichotomy going back and forth between listening to City Council bicker in chaos at the same time that Illinois lawmakers celebrate achieving real solutions.
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Real dichotomy going back and forth between listening to City Council bicker in chaos at the same time that Illinois lawmakers celebrate achieving real solutions.
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Folks, do not take this advice! For the movement for better transit to succeed, we need less posting and more direct confrontation of do-nothing elected officials.
If you have the bandwidth to do both, great! But by no means is the former an equal substitute for the latter.
If you have the bandwidth to do both, great! But by no means is the former an equal substitute for the latter.
I mean I think what people need to realize is that calling your local elected and tweeting at them are just variations on the exact same thing
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Folks, do not take this advice! For the movement for better transit to succeed, we need less posting and more direct confrontation of do-nothing elected officials.
If you have the bandwidth to do both, great! But by no means is the former an equal substitute for the latter.
If you have the bandwidth to do both, great! But by no means is the former an equal substitute for the latter.
This is very funny because if Will had actually won his race he’d know intimately that this is categorically false.
I mean I think what people need to realize is that calling your local elected and tweeting at them are just variations on the exact same thing
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is very funny because if Will had actually won his race he’d know intimately that this is categorically false.
But he's not an organizer anymore.
He's the Mayor.
And he sure is using that "full force of government" to lay in on organizers right now 😉
He's the Mayor.
And he sure is using that "full force of government" to lay in on organizers right now 😉
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s organizer roots at fore as he courts progressives in budget fight
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s organizer roots at fore as he courts progressives in budget fight
Mayor Brandon Johnson and budget opponents are engaged in a public relations fight aimed at the hearts and minds of Chicago residents.
trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 AM
But he's not an organizer anymore.
He's the Mayor.
And he sure is using that "full force of government" to lay in on organizers right now 😉
He's the Mayor.
And he sure is using that "full force of government" to lay in on organizers right now 😉
Who knew that Brazil had a Statue of Liberty replica in the middle of a parking lot in what looks like Suburban Hell, America™
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Who knew that Brazil had a Statue of Liberty replica in the middle of a parking lot in what looks like Suburban Hell, America™
Dick Durbin’s legacy is a stain on Illinois’ history.
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->
U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
www.senate.gov
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Dick Durbin’s legacy is a stain on Illinois’ history.
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Because it’s a smash and grab.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.
(Published July 2024)
(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Because it’s a smash and grab.
Paul Vallas has really sent his finest to oppose Archer/Kedzie.
Meanwhile, this person protesting against concrete protection is directly benefitting from the safety that concrete protection provides.
Meanwhile, this person protesting against concrete protection is directly benefitting from the safety that concrete protection provides.
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Paul Vallas has really sent his finest to oppose Archer/Kedzie.
Meanwhile, this person protesting against concrete protection is directly benefitting from the safety that concrete protection provides.
Meanwhile, this person protesting against concrete protection is directly benefitting from the safety that concrete protection provides.