Interesting 180° difference in how the Illinois AG handles wage theft versus, say, “organized retail theft,” which includes a multi-agency “task force,” $5 million per year to cops for spy tools, a PR machine, & tons of low-level arrests for property crimes, while biz owners stiff workers & walk.

I’m at Constellation for the Hamid Drake 70th birthday concert, part of the 35th annual (!) Winter Solstice concerts by Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang.

When police returned Reggie Williams’ wallet, an officer told him: Don’t do anything bad and keep your ID on you. To Williams, the warning echoed a slavery-era requirement that free African Americans carry documents to prove they weren’t enslaved. (Published Nov. with @mlk50.com)

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

What if I came back just to post goatse

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Here's the full statement from the police district council members and a link to the petition www.change.org/p/ccpsa-hear...

Glamis Castle, Scotland

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

I think on some level conservative NIMBYs oppose more housing because they dislike the idea of young people having more choices in how their lives are going to unfold

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

i just called the DC office of Sen Dick Durbin who is generally terrible and cannot be relied upon 202-224-2152 his staffer answered after the first ring and was unfamiliar with the bill. he has not taken a position on it. if you live in Illinois, please give him a call.

My heart is broken. My god.

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation' abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

One of the last changes made to the proposed spending plan removed a requirement that the Chicago Police Department publicly ask the City Council for more money if it exhausts its $200 million budget for overtime. CPD has spent $251M so far this year, records show.

85% of CEOs are white men. All but one US President has been a white man. 65% of all elected offices are held by white men. Roughly 30% of the population is white men. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???

By my count, Cristal Caballero would be the 14th Operation Midway Blitz defendant to have criminal charges dropped, with 17 defendants remaining. No convictions so far.

A thing to remember is that this happens a lot and the reason cops aren't better at this is that they very rarely have to be.

thank god there’s no war with venezuela (yet) but what a horribly pointless address that was. just an effort to make people forget that he’s a pedophile in the epstein files

“The guy I know from the Super Pedophile told me I can be forever president.”

The interior of the Livraria Lello, a bookstore in Porto, Portugal.

"My 'this is not about leverage' shirt appears to be inviting lots of questions that could easily be answered by my shirt"--the Chicago Bears, probably fine move to Indiana whatever bye. go be the gary bears www.chicagobears.com/news/an-open...

I think the Bears should have to submit a map that shows how far from Chicago they would have to go to stop calling themselves the Chicago Bears

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

My life savings for a mayor who can do fucking ANYTHING about the fascist CPD.

Also applies in Illinois, where Trump administration officials sent Texas & California National Guard troops That issue (and whether the president can deploy the Illinois National Guard over the objections of the Illinois governor) has been pending before the U.S. Supreme Court for two (2) months

did ronald reagan effectively utilize decency by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in nicaragua

Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs

Chicago Police Chief Snelling needs to be grilled by all elected officials and journalists about why the *Hell* this is happening. If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

Link to support 7500 South Shore Tenants Union www.southsidetogether.org

NEW from me: the cook county sheriff's office missed a state-mandated deadline to report that, from april 2024-march 2025, it owned and used 10 surveillance drones. it's the second time in as many years that a chicago-area police agency has violated illinois’ drone surveillance law.

as if buying and decimating local newspapers wasn't bad enough, the villans at alden global capital have also been gobbling up mobile home parks and kicking people out of their houses

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

watching this in public was a huge mistake, oh my god. the fact he's still eating like he isn't being violently thrown around is killing me.

On keeping hope right now, from @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on stream with @katmabu.bsky.social.

Another example of how fucked originalism is as a methodology. Basically directly imports schmittian colonialism into the constitution, like hey there were some white guys who made an apartheid state and hoarded the weapons for themselves and so we have to read it like a settler colonial hoard law

I finally got an answer back from CPD on Carlos Baker’s status. He’s the cop who fatally shot his partner, allegedly shortly after she ended their relationship. “Officer Baker is on Active Status, assigned to the 6th District and Detailed to Unit 376.” 376 is the Alternate Response Section.

The Trump administration has awarded Palantir a no-bid contract to build an AI system intended to prevent "SNAP fraud," among other things. The no-bid contract is for the implementation of the National Farm Security Action Plan and includes "security checks" on SNAP applicants.

Philip Rivers in the huddle

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

This entire weekend