JB Pritzker Slams Chicago Mayor’s Plan for Tax on Big Payrolls Illinois Governor JB Pritzker assailed a plan by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to bring back a tax on large corporate payrolls, saying the proposed levy would repel major employers.

ok let me get this straight.

JB Pritzker:
- is having state cops run interference for ICE in Broadview
- cut thousands of immigrants' health insurance
- is running interference for his friends who had their taxes cut on both a corporate and individual level
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

inshallah the beginning of the regime change we all actually wanted 🙏🏽

No kings except this one

Vacant Chicago Lawn Building To Become 44-Unit Affordable Housing Complex The Southwest Side Organizing Project received City Council approval Wednesday to change the zoning district for the mixed-use building.

A vacant Chicago Lawn building is set to become a 44-unit affordable housing complex.

🙏🏽 less about left/center and more about protecting/strengthening the public good

It is deeply concerning how some are using “Dearborn” as a dog whistle for Islamophobia.

These are people who have seen their government use their own tax dollars used to kill their family members, and neither administration stepped up to stop it. 1/6

NYT headline stating “Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government”

call it what it is @nytimes.com - a coup of the billionaire class to remove protections, infrastructure, and funding for the majority of individuals that will lead to the mass abandonment and death of us and our neighbors.

Companies That Participated in the Slave Trade Could Face New Rules in Illinois Under Proposal State Rep. Sonya Harper (D-Chicago), sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy...

State Rep. Sonya Harper, sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy of harm caused for generations of Black Americans.

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I’d like to propose that Claudia Sheinbaum also be the US president

A reminder - don't use Amazon, but go to bookshops, which play a far more vital role in promoting literacy just by simply making books more visible, and allow you to find things by chance rather than by what the algorithm decides.

yall know that you can hire kids to work for your multi-billion dollar company if you just pay the $8m fee?

no repercussions for you as the CEO - just promise you won’t do it again, and pay out <0.1% of your profit for the year!

our system of corporate accountability works! smh.

Chicago Police Department exodus: New cops are leaving in droves, Sun-Times investigation finds One of every six Chicago cops hired since 2016 is no longer on the payroll. About 950 of the more than 5,750 people hired in that period have left. Their average time with the department? Not even thr...

I'm all for collaboration and transparency. I'm also for common sense policy – let's do the logical thing here and listen to the data.

@suntimes.bsky.social : article with data on why it's unrealistic to hire the vacancies outlined in the budget: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

reduce the burden on police, fund direct interventions through Peacebook, CDPH with proven records of being able to hire.

CPD has held +$200m in vacancies for the last 6 years and hasn't been able to hire since 2018. We don't need a prop tax or cut youth jobs. the money's there.

why aren't we using the +$170m of unused funds being held up in CPDs vacancies? That could be used to:
1. Close the budget, avoid a property tax incr. AND
2. increase funding to public safety through peacebook + cdph AND
3. fund the chicago empowerment fund AND
4. keep some for vacancies