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Cook County Experiences Increase in Pretrial Jailing after New State’s Attorney Takes Office  - Coalition to End Money Bond Upon taking office as the Cook County State’s Attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke has implemented several policy changes that are contributing to a rise in pretrial jailing. It is notable that there has be...

Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022.

Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...

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US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food | CNN Politics The United States is set to destroy nearly 500 metric tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food meant for starving people around the world.

Thanks to Trump, the US set to destroy 500 tons of US-taxpayer funded emergency food that would have been used to save the lives of starving people around the world.

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It is essential that State’s Attorney Burke work with court stakeholders to reduce the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail. Failing to do so has the potential to reverse years of progress made by Cook County stakeholders while exacerbating the harm and violence in our communities.

Under Eileen O'Neill Burke, there has been a dramatic increase in request for pretrial detention, even though crime has been steadily trending downward.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has implemented several policy changes that are contributing to a rise in pretrial jailing. It is notable that there has been no rise in crime that would explain this increase in pretrial jailing.

Read more: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...

The Chicago Tribune editorial board lives in a fantasy land where shootings can be eliminated or dramatically reduced without investing in communities.

U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports The U.S. has hit an unwelcome milestone in measles cases this year. The CDC is reporting 1,288 cases across the country. The disease was declared eliminated 25 years ago.

Making the US Healthy Again is going super duper well.
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With funding cuts to the National Park Service they’re not able to mow (mowing contracts require funds in the budget), the tick population is exploding.

Take a mediocre song with a good beat and throw a part with a bass vocal on it and you've got a certified banger.

"The cuts to social spending, on the other hand, are mostly delayed: Many of the biggest cuts to food assistance and Medicaid are a few years away."

The idea is to prevent people from feeling all the pain until after these dickheads get re-elected. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

It's really appropriate that Trump will sign this bill, which will have disastrous consequences for marginalized people and the environment on July 4th, a day celebrating a country founded on genocide and slavery.

The US Populace: Democrats, stop the Trump Administration.

Democrats: best we can do is give multi-hour speeches.

We, the staff of @citybureau.bsky.social, are forming a union!

A strong media system needs strong workers. We’re asking our leadership to formally recognize the City Bureau Workers Guild so we can shape the future of local media together. You can join our movement by:

The first person sent to Alcatraz was there because he was gay. A group of Native people were there bc they refused to send their kids to assimilation school.
The point is “criminal” is a constructed category.

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These 37 House Dems agree with Republicans that an adult international student sitting in a parked car with a can of beer should be deported.

I'm not being sarcastic. That is what the bill they voted for would do.

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If you want to stand up against the US war machine, you'll have plenty of opportunities this week since there are likely 5 or 6 anti-war orgs in your area that won't talk to the people in the other 5 or 6 anti-war orgs in your area.

Creep endorses fellow creep.

Do cops get the notifications when we report them to Google Maps?

The nation's largest Big & Tall outlet is located in Indiana. Is this state also home to the largest number of big & tall people in the country?

ICE agent points gun directly at the head of innocent civilian—just for taking picture of his license plate.

He drew his gun with one hand—while fumbling to open the car door with the other.

The "agent" did not seem to be aware someone else was already recording his vehicle.

Pasadena, California.

Last week, a jury found Nitaawe Banks not guilty! Banks and their NLG attorneys brought forth a “necessity” defense arguing that the protest was necessary to prevent the greater harm of unconditional US support of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Read more: nlgchicago.org/2025/06/19/j...

Transgender people deserve to dictate our own lives and futures.

No court decision can change who we know we are.

That's the guy we voted for!

Trump administration to end national LGBTQ+ suicide hotline No reason was given for why services specific to LGBTQ+ callers are ending for 988, the crisis hotline for queer youth that launched in 2022.

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A “snap curfew” is just a switch the cops can unilaterally flip when they decide it’s time to beat people up for illegally being outside. Brandon Johnson vetoing it is the first good news I’ve seen all day