Illinois Eye on Leaders

Dividing working people by race. Every Republican campaign is an effort to gut what little social safety net exists by replaying various forms of the "welfare queen" trope over and over again

Yes.

We know all about this in the Chicago area.

That virgin Marx, chad Owen meme was funny because I never remembered Owen existed until I listened to an audiobook of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Walter Burnett, Jr., that is. Not his son, Walter Burnett III, who Brandon Johnson nominated to replace him as alder (Also, wtf)

Walter Burnett is an old-school, dirty tricks-using Chicago alderman. I used to live in his ward and heard stories of him intimidating people with goons like Proco Joe Moreno

What trials? There will be insufficient evidence to convict more than a few of them of any crime that was on the books when they committed it. It'd be great to make being an ICE agent a crime, but that can't be done retroactively

Dude is going to run as the groyper presidential candidate in 2036, mark my words

Ooh, the bad guy (Patrick Ewing) and the good guy (Michael Jordan) of my basketball impressions from Illinois childhood

1/4 mile from the City of Chicago I have passion flower growing outdoors. It likes heat quite a bit more than the climate can provide. It doesn't even come up until mid-June here and the fruits rarely if ever ripen

Gonna be hilarious if as @patterico.Bsky.social suggests Trump's corrupt 1/6 pardon protects the pipe bomber

The only coffee shops I bother going to are ones in quick biking distance. Since only Starbucks are in quick biking distance, I am not going at all. Solidarity Forever!

You can extrapolate this tactic all the way down to local police. No matter how absurd, they’ll frame any victim of their violence as the aggressor. Even if unarmed and drowning.

hey take it easy, it's Czech: Fulnecký

Maybe there were political reasons not to do it, like, his parents are someone connected

I mean is there any sign a Farage government WON'T just be Putinism British style? What is holding them back?

It's sad stuff. I read my dad the riot act because he entertained some economic policy of Trump's about a year ago. But we made up, he is not crazy and is a classic 60s antiwar guy, but he's also an old man who is a victim of the YouTube algorithm and lives in a very rural community

If by "many" you mean "more than 10 but less than 50"

weird shit. Indivisible is as liberal as they come

Regardless of the OP Liberal Currents editor's stance on the Venezuela war (presumably against it), she's using this as a cudgel against her enemies the DSA and leftists

That is not, in fact, what the Buddha was all about.

Floor of the US Senate Chyron: Nomination of Susan Courtwright Rodriguez, of North Carolina, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina Yea 57 Nay 32

Three judges have been confirmed this week with the support of Democratic senators. Based on the totals from @senatepress.bsky.social, voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), Dick Durbin (IL), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Maggie Hassan (NH), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), ->

Adam Schiff is one of the worst. It's all a chess game to him where the goal is more money and power for himself, nothing more

In 2025 Ford does not make sedans. The cheapest ford model is the base model Escape at about $30k. The median annual salary for a full-time worker is about $61k.

Everything in our nativity was done to real people in Chicagoland. After Hannity put our church on his show, some people said that it was "sacrilege," but the real sacrilege is what is done to our immigrant neighbors and siblings by ICE. That's what profanes the image of God.

Run a neocolonial empire while laundering its reputation for doing so

lol well, I can honestly say this effort met expectations.

Proportional #rankedchoicevoting Explained YouTube video by FairVote

Please, watch this quick 4-minute video about *Proportional* Ranked Choice Voting. This elects multiple members within a SINGLE district.

In the eyes of those who hate you, you can never win no matter what you do.

It's like saying "I will not go to a protest against something I deeply oppose, because it's organized by a local Democratic Party organization. Many Democrats are Zionists and also the party contains Fetterman" And, you know, Mamdani