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Oh, actually yeah good call and probably why Fulton County is fighting to get them back.

They can get it back but at this point the chain of custody of the ballots has been broken.

Seems mostly based off of some rando conspiracy theorists who “did their own research.”

Alder Beale on Fran Spielman show says video game terminals will “help relieve some of the [tax] burden on everyday people in Chicago.” WHO DO YOU THINK USES THOSE VIDEO GAMBLING TERMINALS???

Kendrick’s was a piece of art, this is a straight up party.

And the women’s team:
- the daughter of Chinese immigrants who rebuffed an aggressive campaign to get her to skate for China
- the daughter of an Italian immigrant embryologist mom who named her after a Michelle Pfeiffer character
- the pansexual daughter of a Texas cop (who is her biggest fan)

I’m terrified for him and I want Amber to be less clearly terrified she still skated amazingly!

I’d probably go further than that because I think ballot complexity isn’t great for democracy and there’s evidence that the public doesn’t usually know who to blame in complex systems.

I default to if it’s primarily an administrative position, it shouldn’t be elected. Most obvious one here is the circuit court clerk. Absolutely no reason that shouldn’t just be appointed by the chief judge.

Hey @ilattygeneral.bsky.social I’ve now been waiting for a response to my request for review for two years now. Person handling my case doesn’t respond to my emails. Your system is broken.

Plenty of non-lawyers fully capable of drafting quality EOs (like say, policy people!) just Stephen Miller is clearly not one of them.

21. OIP also conducted electronic searches to attempt to identify how “Attachment A” arrived in DOJ. Searches conducted of DOJ leadership office officials’ Departmental email accounts using e-discovery software revealed no electronic trail indicating transmission of “Attachment A” into the Department, nor has OIP’s point of contact within OAG been able to identify how “Attachment A” was received by the Department.

Hilarious doc. I literally loled at this part

chart

coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year

the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown

D except I do use the facepalm one but when possible I substitute pikachu facepalm because it is adorable and the defaults are ugly

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Our small-clawed otter pup officially has a name, and it’s just as adorable as he is. The name Bao (Bảo) primarily means “treasure” and “precious” in Vietnamese, and this two-month-old growing pup is already stealing hearts as he explores and starts swim lessons with parents by his side.

MedPac analysis of how much Medicare Advantage costs Americans above traditional Medicare, entirely due to overbilling through fraudulent upcoding and favorable patient selection. https://www.medpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Tab-N-MA_Status-Jan-2026.pdf

ICE/CBP swarms into Minnesota after reports of massive government fraud.
Somehow they sidestepped the orders-of-magnitude higher government fraud from Minnesota-based UnitedHealth, who leads a Medicare Advantage fraud that MedPac (a government analyst) estimates as costing America $76 billion/year

How is this legal? Under what authority are they even detaining them?

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!

Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

Administrative warrants are of course absurd. There is no difference between an administrative warrant and no warrant.

I gave myself permission to do whatever the fuck I want. Signed, me.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

As someone who lives above a sports bar in Chicago I can confirm the Bears won. Though I’m more distinctly hearing a lot of “fuck the Packers” / “fuck Green Bay” chants.

It’s where he was indicted.

~<Every single institution> we have is counter-majoritarian:

- A hyper-gerrymanded House

- A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections

- FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution

- The EC

Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>

Steep Drop in Homicides Continued for Full Year After ShotSpotter Was Removed: Analysis Supporters of the gunshot detection system said it helped officers save lives when shootings were not reported to emergency services. ShotSpotter was never used to dispatch paramedics.

NEW: A steep drop in homicides in the 12 South and West side neighborhoods that had ShotSpotter sensors lasted a full year after Mayor Brandon Johnson scrapped the city’s controversial gunshot detection system, an updated analysis of Chicago crime data shows. @wttw.bsky.social

Still never got a good explanation for why working people living in apartments not getting subsidized garbage collection are helping to subsidize garbage collection for the rich single family home people who can def afford it.

Just got it on the first guess because of this.

A lot of the rationales are based entirely on overstay rates with nonimmigrant visas, but I fail to see how this supports banning immigrant visas. Collective punishment seems like the only explanation.

What’s the end goal here? Considering they can’t actually remove all these people to Honduras under the 10 per month agreement, what happens? Detain them indefinitely?