Daniel Comeaux

And if it helps with your editors @dlknowles.bsky.social I will echo @slucy.bsky.social - the work you do on the Chicago/midwest beat is a strong reason why I’ve kept my subscription up over the years!

They are so so good! I often refer people to the one about Rosemont.

It appears the stat is the share of the SFH *rental market*. Atlanta is also an outlier.

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Stay out of our fucking city.

Sundays on State was packed. Michigan avenue was packed. I saw literally hundreds of people waiting in line for some kind of TikTok-popularized plush toy (a JellyCat?). And it was great!

We do not need the “help” of DHS thugs. Or the national guard.

It is insane how she keeps describing Chicago as a "war zone", when the only warlike things happening here are all DHS operations

While this sadly *is* America, that doesn't make it normal or OK. Reach out to your elected officials. Call and text your family and friends and ask them to do the same - even the ones who you think won't agree.

The events in Chicago are shocking. Shock them with it.

This is all absolutely insane

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Thank you for doing this. Glad to see my Alderperson (Hopkins) on the list.

Name it for what it is — because Chicago is certainly occupied territory right now; not conclusively and not always effectively, yet undeniably host to hostile armed forces — and don’t let the reality of the peaceful or the beautiful or the everyday make you deny the occupation, or vice versa.

Thanks for highlighting this. Important work.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

I would like it to be autumn, please. It is October. It should not be this hot

the ratcheting escalation of federal violence in Chicago in just one week is frightening

These are not servants of a legitimate government, these are monsters. bsky.app/profile/ista...

What the FUCK

In a parade of absolute horrors, this one still manages to shock the conscience.

Stay out of our fucking city.

It's sad to think that the family that was detained by ICE at Millenium Park on Sunday went because their daughter wanted to visit the park. Should have been an easy choice but now immigrants in Chicago feel they should stay away from parks and refrain from shopping. Disappearing from public life.

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks.

This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

Never vote for another budget. Why would you legitimate this?

The indictment of James Comey has no place in a democracy. But that doesn't matter—because the United States is a republic.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Closing for multiple years starting in October: www.chicago.gov/content/dam/...

1. Transit governance
2. Iain Banks’s Culture novels
3. The Chicago City Council

Agreed our fridge now typically has a line of athletic next to a line of whatever I’m currently feeling of the alcoholic sort. I probably consume on a 1:1 basis

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.