Currently slightly obsessed with David Hockney's portraits of his dachshunds.

It’s so funny (in a laughing to keep from crying way) that the men responsible for pushing Andrea out didn’t stay in their jobs for more than another year and a half. Far less for Anthony Driver, who left to go get 10k votes in the IL-7 primary basically right away

I fail to grasp why this man's open antagonism to any form of accountability does not set off very loud alarm bells for EVERYone

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

Awesome that there is nobody on City Council who is brave, principled, or secure (in terms of their ability to not get bullied out of office by the FOP) enough to do anything remotely like this!!!!

One reason why people go "ACAB" is because they won't even do the parts of their job that people would appreciate them for

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

There are too many lawyers among elected Democrats. We need more outside the box thinkers to think about the law.

elderly council of wizards mandates child gential inspections.

this guy has spent the last 30 years of his life huffing his own farts and being surrounded by people who tell him that his farts smell like chanel #5 and it shows.

"The research also found that the US has more new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution annually than any other country. In 2024, US children accounted for one in 10 new pediatric asthma cases attributable to vehicle pollution globally."

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

Notice what midwest county dominated by the third largest US city isn't on this list.

The Supreme Court ALSO gives Trump another pass on racism, declaring that his horrific and bigoted comments against Haitians are actually not evidence of racism and that the plaintiffs cannot show evidence of racial bias, essentially plugging their ears and letting Trump spew filth as policy.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

Huge thanks to my civic-minded friends and neighbors who are out keeping an eye on this absolute nonsense while I sit at my desk fuming about it. The waste of money, the damage to parkland, the obscene show of force - all of it for what?

Are we protecting our public parks, our amazing lakefront, an incredible resource held in the public trust for all of us to enjoy? Or are we destroying it by driving and parking multi-ton vehicles all over it? And creating a hostile and unwelcoming environment for everyone?

Are we serving the teens who were ostensibly going to "trend" on the lakefront this afternoon in Hyde Park? By chasing them away, onto city blocks that do not welcome them, into a city bereft of third spaces for them to hang out?

Who is being served here, Chicago? And what is being protected?

And people are defending it.

Mood

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Fascists get pardons (and maybe cash.) Antifascists get hard time.

The message: If you oppose people kidnapping your neighbors and disappearing them in concentration camps, you might get sent to prison for the rest of your life. The Constitution is nothing but a set of suggestions.

Millions of kids cut off from food support nationally. Hundreds of thousands of people cut off in Illinois - so far. Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is now filing maximum charges against people who steal food, including felonies where allowed.

You rarely see a perfect headline in the wild like this

clock it

Thanks to @21st.show for hosting this discussion of Eileen O'Neill Burke's battle against certificates of innocence and recent developments at the state level that could make those court orders more valuable and easier to get for some exonerated people. Listen here if you're interested!

I do not know how to find common ground with people who defend the government’s need to do shit like this instead of just using the money to provide basic necessities in the first place

the fact is mamdani, like so many other democratic mayors and governors, does not have control of his own police force, the law be damned. that our politicians are unable to even talk about this openly is a serious problem

One of the defining features of our era is that the intelligentsia has convinced itself that slavish adherence to the most powerful people on the planet is a form of a heroic bravery.

reminder that the last time trump was at madison square garden was for a literal nazi rally

police use tech to avoid doing work. they say they are "generating leads" but they are really just trying to google the answer. when forced to do work, see nancy guthrie, oops.

We must assume that these are also the values of the Chicago Bears now

lol, lmao even

Susana Mendoza filmed her mayoral campaign announcement video inside the Mexican grocery store in Albany Park that this happened outside of yesterday. In March she called for the man accused of killing Loyola student Sheridan Gorman to be deported to El Salvador, where deportees have been tortured.

"Evidence based policy" until the evidence is investing in CVI, mental health crisis response, running more paramedics / ambulances, opening more Level 1 trauma centers. Then it turns out they just want 10 trillion more cops (funded by a mix of ??? and also shuttering schools in Black neighborhoods)

just saw a guy from the apps that I chatted with briefly in the replies to this on twitter (a place only the most racist people alive post) calling her a shill or whatever and that was really scary…

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

Built entire centers for these trainers as the solution to the call for an end to racist police killings.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

fundamentally unjust in their founding, always playing the victim, claiming underdog status despite their materially dominant position - sorry but they might be cooking with this one

Vote blue no matter who so they can approve a police surveillance contract with a company illegally supplying the data to ICE and a sheriff trying to arrest a woman for having an abortion 😵‍💫

c'mon, man. just one more alpr and then we'll really stop crime

Of course there’s a 1990s cameo by the current state’s attorney

A new investigation by @injusticewatch.org reporter @danhinkel.bsky.social revealed that Cook County prosecutors are challenging efforts by wrongfully convicted individuals to clear their names and secure compensation.

In response to the year of negative reporting on Flock and its harms, the vendor has started hosting webinars on how police chiefs should engage city government at budget hearings. What you’re seeing is a corporate-backed propaganda campaign in real time.

Stephen A Smith is an experiment created by the CIA