📞 Mon 3/2 @ 6pm: “NO vouchers for Illinois” virtual phone banking! We'll be reaching out to voters who have a very misleading question on their March 17th primary ballot about the new federal school voucher program.
Join us! bit.ly/3_2callsforschools
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Anthropic, sharing "A statement from Anthropic CEO, David Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War: https//lnkd.in/e7S682ph" Images of slides in the post say: "Anthropic supports the lawful use of Claude - with only two exceptions: 1, Mass domestic surveillance, and 2, Fully autonomous weapons". A second slide from the post is cutoff in the image, but details more info on the Mass domestic surveillance topic. The post has large engagement numbers, with 8313 reactions, 397 comments, and 804 reposts.
My LinkedIn feed is hitting different today.
27.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An event flyer with a semi-abstract blue, white, and black background advertising a bike ride to 4150 N Long Ave for a Portage Park safe streets meeting hosted by the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Ride with us to CDOT's Portage Park in support of the new neighborhood network. We're taking off at 5:30 sharp from the Logan Square Monument to the PP Senior Center OR meet up with our friends at Cosmic Bikes for a quick jaunt over at 5:50.
⏰ Wedenesday 3/5 @ 5:30p
📍 Logan Square Monument
Maria Pappas — Cook County Treasurer, professional senior model, amateur baton twirler, and a through line connecting three eras of Chicago politics.
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Relevance: As with a CCPSA meeting held last month, the focus tonight is on CPD interactions w/ ICE and Border Patrol agents that may violate the Chicago Welcoming City ordinance.
CCPSA said it invited Snelling to participate in tonight's meeting to discuss those concerns.
More here:
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
25.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 15489 🔁 8143 💬 855 📌 543TLDR: Jaime Andrade is pushing Facebook ads out that are paid for by Draft Kings, which is pumping millions into races across the country to influence gaming regulation, including dedicated funds for "electing dependable conservatives" and this was easily discoverable in a matter of minutes.
25.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 59 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 5
It me. I'm the friend. 😁
And I don't even live in the 40th, Draft Kings. Your data's no good and neither is your candidate.
cant.stop.laughing
24.02.2026 06:18 — 👍 2845 🔁 869 💬 14 📌 19I'm S Gronkiewicz-Doran, and I'm running for Alderperson of Chicago's 45th Ward. I can't wait to meet you, and to organize together to bring new leadership to the Far Northwest Side.
23.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.
24.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 897 🔁 307 💬 38 📌 89I had the opportunity to ask Jaime Andrade today about why he is sending out mailers with lies on them. He said "you guys do the same thing". So it sounds like we all agree he is sending out mailers with lies on them
21.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1That awkward moment when the debate moderator reads my Tribune endorsement to you live on stage...
20.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
What Baker did sounds exactly like what officer Michael Spilotro did here: unnecessary chase, no lights/sirens, and failure to report the chase—but the crash Spilotro caused killed a man, he is up for termination, and the city just agreed to pay $22 million.
Baker was docked two days’ pay.
Brendan Reilly is basically Paul Vallas if Paul Vallas sometimes got punched in the face and tossed out of bars.
17.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 166 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 4Just feel like this is the definitively Reilly moment, and what voters would get with him as Board President, whatever else happens.
18.02.2026 00:36 — 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
I do campaign finance research and fundraising is a place where A LOT of electeds are disingenuous with their constituents in part bc of the amount of money it takes to run a serious campaign.
I think a candidate must be honest (in fact AND frame) right off the bat when asked about their $.
Oblong, Illinois, is actually square.
13.02.2026 20:45 — 👍 65 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 2
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13.02.2026 05:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
I am interested in as much lore about Tyler Technologies as I can get right now.
13.02.2026 05:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is FORBES saying it:
"The voucher tax credit fits neatly into that broader project: route around public institutions rather than rebuild them."
Learn more from @ilfps.bsky.social here
hey, i've got a great idea. how about we gut that department in the state's attorney's office that reviews felony gun charges before they're filed and just let cops file them directly with the court instead
16.12.2025 17:39 — 👍 93 🔁 35 💬 4 📌 0Read the thread all the way down
04.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can't get this across enough. Everyone in Cook County, you have to vote for Kaegi in March.
Tell your friends, neighbors, coworkers.
Blurry background with black square that includes this text: Assessor candidate Pat Hynes took $25,000 from MAGA donors who cheered after ICE murdered Alex Pretti. Return the money.
Screenshot of a heated Instagram comment thread. A verified account named “anthonyloquercio” posts comments celebrating force against someone who “shows up with a weapon,” followed by hostile replies using insults and political language. Another commenter calls him out by name and job title, saying the comments are embarrassing. Below the comments is a cropped campaign finance record showing a $25,000 contribution from “Loquercio, Bob” to “Hynes for Assessor,” with the dollar amount circled in red.
My opponent, Pat Hynes, took $25,000 from a MAGA Trump donor whose family cheered when ICE killed Alex Pretti.
The Loquercios has given $372,000+ to Trump, McConnell, Graham, and others.
Democrats shouldn't take money from MAGA donors or people who celebrate murder. Return it.
Michael Sacks very much fills the "Villain-shaped hole" one imagines Ken Griffin left behind in Chicago
30.01.2026 16:41 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Candide the Musical covered this!
youtu.be/AlxxU-PPHd4?...
Screenshot text from website https://www.litcharts.com/lit/candide/chapter-4 The conversation turns to Pangloss' syphilis. When Candide asks what the “sufficient cause,” of his illness was, Pangloss explains that he received the disease from Paquette. He then goes on to list all the people the disease passed through before reaching him, beginning with companions of Christopher Columbus. Pangloss explains that syphilis, which comes from America, was necessary so that luxury goods like chocolate and cochineal—an insect dye—could be brought to Europe. Pangloss' long genealogy of his syphilis parodies the importance of genealogy to the aristocracy. Tracing the pedigree of your syphilis back to Christopher Columbus obviously proves nothing important, and the novel suggests that aristocratic pedigree is no different. This is also the first of many attempts to make the philosophy of optimism fit with the world's cruelty: Pangloss insists that his syphilis is somehow intrinsically connected to the many good things which come from the Americas.
Candide covered this! :D
23.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 15496 🔁 5786 💬 141 📌 1558
