Sen. Durbin’s plan to “use every tool at my disposal to push back against this president’s attack on our democracy”:

1. Repeatedly surrender all negotiating leverage for no reason
2. Write a sternly-worded op-ed
3. Retire from the Senate in ignominy

On the theme of “since December 2023”
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Love these ideas! Big improvements for the core and suburbs. But what’s under discussion for the Chicago neighborhoods in between?

I’ve always cherished the idea of a Western Ave subway, opening up much denser residential construction in addition to overcoming the limitations of hub-and-spokes.

Some have suggested Zohran's success is rooted *only* in cost of living. But he also ran hard against Trump's authoritarianism/ICE raids. He ran the most explicitly pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory.

Let's say it: He ran an anti-fascist campaign. 5/

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The assumption appears to be that ordinary voters will be cowed, obsequious, and unwilling to challenge autocracy, just like the billionaires, business leaders, media executives, and other leading institutions of civil society, which have decided that fighting back is “not worth the hassle.”