Adam

Does the senate have to vote on it again in the veto session?

it's right that Hochul is doing this, 100% support, etc etc. but it does fucking suck, dude. I've pretty much given up on being ever able meaningfully act politically on any of the issue areas where I think the right has a meaningful critique through normal two party politics. can't work with 'em.

Vetoed the nuclear bill, ignoring transit, and now increasing city pensions when Chicago already can’t afford it? Yeah I’m probably getting off the Pritzker train. 👎

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He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

Mayor of Evanston came to the transit rally but not Brandon Johnson

Transit systems I’ve been on:

Chicago
Boston
NYC
San Francisco
Montreal
Mexico City
Paris
Naples
Berlin
Munich

This quotes Mark Jacobson and Adrienne Esposito. The author someone who isn’t directly responsible for shutting down plants.

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

Council wars standoff spotted! Also WTH were they doing in the early 1900s??

The massive ICE budget is so evil, I just hope it’s all wasted on fraud.

Fucking Quigley

10 years of JB balanced budgets before he’s president and bails out the pension funds would be quite nice.

Were you a DePaul student? Haha

Good! But also lmao that was fast

Chicago Pride 🏙️🏳️‍🌈❤️

They’ll make 4/20 a holiday with a wink to the libertarians and the nazis

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re *not* really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t?

So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

Teamsters bailout should’ve gone to Chicago

TLDR, it’s good to be wary of mayors who run on platforms of global politics they can’t affect at all. Tell me what you’re going to do for your city specifically (Zohran to his credit is improving a bit in this)

Similar for BJ in Chicago, super disappointing as a progressive(he wasn’t explicitly YIMBY so I wasn’t super optimistic but he gave the most reactionary NIMBYs the most power when elected)

Brown line in Chicago is PACKED with protestors who have my full support.

Abolish the senate

This is what happens because we didn’t string them up for storming the capitol.

If the entirety of Chicago was built to the density of Lakeview, the second densest neighborhood at a little under 33,000/sqmi, the city's population would be about 7.5 million.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

I think you can make a reasonable case that the move in retrospect was to take very coercive steps to vaccinate everyone ASAP then do a full reopening. Instead the "Dems kept schools closed too long!" people always insist it was BEFORE the vaccines that everything should've reopened. It's insane!

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. - Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Jonathan Joss' (actor from King of the Hill and Parks and Rec) husband has released a statement that amongst other things claims his murder was part of a homophobic attack.

A high profile hate crime at the very start of Pride.
Absolutely heart breaking.