yeah because it was an eviction raid

And this is yet ANOTHER reason why full on adults preying on young adults is its own special brand of awful. Young people develop through caring relationships with older people outside their families and for people to exploit that for power is just gross.

The full Pro Publica piece is worth reading more than the aggregated piece in that retweet. Covers most of it: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

ZERO CHARGES, my god

New video out now! IDOT & CDOT seriously missed the mark with Redefine the Drive. Here’s how we can do better youtu.be/aspdaCREwWI?...

“Chinese elites see Trump as “very soft” on their country…He is described as a president unconstrained by liberal principles, who weakens America’s standing…China has learned how to intimidate America’s President…” economist.com/internationa...

Truman Show

Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations. Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

there is no bottom to their depravity

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

If it is 70 degrees out & you’re playing Christmas music in Chicago before Thanksgiving the you are my mortal enemy.

Curb bumpouts at every crosswalk, standard, to prevent this form of dangerous selfishness.

Leopard Face Eating Party strikes again. When will people learn the moral of the Gingerbread Man fairytale?

Imagine if the Chicago Teachers Union pension fund financed a new subway that allowed for train frequencies to increase on every branch of the L?

A federal program that deported 400,000 immigrants from 2008-2014 increased new-construction home prices by 16%, or $50k. This is net of reduced demand effects. 2023 paper haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

As a Bearcat fan, let me just say ... INTO MY VEINS!!!

I told alderman Ramirez-Rosa that this would happen when he agreed to this watered down unsafe street design for Milwaukee. I was at this corner for less than 5 minutes & able to catch both of these scofflaws.

Not a single aspect of this is correct. The increase in demand that has upended housing demand is the increase in upper income households exacerbated by people trading a roommate for a home office during covid. Immigrants are the most likely to live with roommates, extended family, etc.

Lots of buzz about the "affordability agenda," and how we get there. Well, this is it. Housing and transport are most of the cost of living for most people. We can make it expensive, or we can make it affordable. “The big difference is commuting. You don’t need a car.” apnews.com/article/hous...

The new Damen/Lake station is already the 10th busiest Green Line station. However about 2/3 of its ridership seems to be passengers shifting from the Ashland Green Line station. Which means there is likely room for a lot of new ridership growth. Looking at you, Ukrainian Village.

Now Trump take children. "Seven in 10 respondents said raising children is too expensive, a notable jump from 2024" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

My team’s Teams teamwork is working at work.

🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.” Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old” @motherjones.com:

I was wondering why a major meat supplier was now advertising the involvement of USDA food inspectors in their safety standards. That shouldn’t be a marketable fact.

Grok is an indoctrination tool for the fascist right. Twitter is an indoctrination tool for the fascist right. There is no reason to use either. You are not going to break through the algorithm. You are doing more harm than good simply by being on the platform.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.

Trump pardoned another MAGA child-sex predator 3 days ago. Trump had already pardoned Andrew Taake for attacking a police officer with bear spray and a whip on Jan 6. Now Trump has pardoned him again, so he avoids prison for child sex offenses.

Then why does he have the face, body, & name of a 65 year old?

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

So this means the #cf97 stadium will be unveiled halfway through a season where even more games will need to be rescheduled due to conflicts with Bears games at Soldier Field.

Guilty until proven innocent, is an especially bad policy if the defendant is dead before the trial starts.

"Ordinarily, a person who responds to serious accusations by telling colossal, ridiculous lies, trying frantically to change the subject, demanding an end to all inquiries, and trying to obstruct all investigation into the matter is all but telling you that those accusations are true"

Trying to launder pedophilia like this is disgusting. Yes, surely the younger the age the more horrific it is, but in no humane world is a a man who has sex with a 15 year old not a pedophile. And the culture that portrays and sensationalizes children as ‘barely legal’ like that is deeply sick.

Rule of thumb: if Roger Romanelli is leading a charge, do the opposite. For over a decade he has been a disingenuous outside agitator advocating for undermining street safety and transit usage at every turn on the NW side while living in the western suburbs.

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

ICE agents are targeting rideshare drivers at O'Hare airport, leaving immigrant drivers scared following the disappearances of friends with TPS, asylum status, refugee status, or green cards. Hear our organizer, Lori Simmons, talk more in Chicago Reader. https://ow.ly/bxEX50XqJ8o

Since this administration loves to charge people with making false statements (see, e.g., Comey, James), I assume they will be charging Maxwell for lying to Blanche and the FBI agents who interviewed her, right?

NEW: DHS ingested a trove of highly unreliable Chicago police records on people accused of having gang ties to feed an FBI watchlist and then just ... didn't delete it for seven months after being told to do so because no one noticed. Scoop from @dell.bsky.social, and is outside our paywall.

Admitting that you’re using the Situation Room for personal image damage control is an amazing admission of thin skin. Like galaxy brain levels of “don’t put it in the paper that I’m mad”

Person says in bio that they love minutiae. Also responds that they shouldn’t have to pay attention to every minute detail. Yeah, that’s a mute.

I'll be talking about my book on the Uptown Theatre with my coauthor Andy Pierce at 2 p.m. this Saturday (Nov. 15) at the Chicago Public Library's Edgewater Branch, 6000 N. Broadway, presented by the Edgewater Historical Society. It's free. Just show up! www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/node/3850

So elegantly worded

Louisville ads at an intercity train station that does not provide service to Louisville (no train station provides service to Louisville btw)

The Uninhabitable United States