The officers’ attorneys filed the federal lawsuit a day after Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the fund’s creation during a congressional hearing. https://to.wttw.com/3RkS93u

Remember that utter mess last year with a proposed Popeyes in Evanston that was fought by a woo-woo wellness center next door (whose owner wanted to become landlord of the building instead), briefly turned into a congressional campaign flashpoint, and was eventually denied a permit? It got worse.

This isn’t a tough choice at all. AOC by a country mile

WHO Technical note for the disembarkation and onward management of passengers and crew in the context of an Andes virus-associated cluster MV Hondius cruise ship. Read here: bit.ly/4u1BT5I

NEWS: Mayor Brandon Johnson voluntarily returned tens of millions of dollars in COVID grants to the federal government months before expiration — funds that could have gone to disease surveillance or racial equity programming. Story by @aliceyin.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/10/c...

CDPH has undergone MAJOR restructuring including dismantling the dedicated Maternal, Infant, Child and Adolescent Health division they rolled out in 2023. They've cut back so much and what I had heard is that it was bc grant $$ ran out.

At Rep. Lauren Underwood’s brunch on the river today, Rep. AOC and IL-9 nominee and Evanston mayor Daniel Biss with a brief conversation Lots of big names in attendance, as you can see from this table alone

Fox News parachuting in to write about something despite having no clue what they're actually talking about...color me shocked The ARPA-funded guaranteed income program has nothing to do with the reparations program, but of course, they wouldn't know that

I did a thing!

🚨#IL-9 🚨new redistricting map just dropped

A Northwestern spox said in a statement that the university was aware of the incident at the construction site of the new Kellogg building, adding "our thoughts are with those involved.”

Some have asked where I stand on the bill to repeal Illinois’ anti-BDS law. I support it. Here’s why: danielbiss.substack.com/p/a-note-on-...

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

Go to ilchr.org/slips and follow the steps. It takes less than a minute, and any Illinois resident can do it. Submit by 11:59 PM tonight to make sure your voice counts!

Uhhhh, how did I never hear about this? www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

New Suffolk/Tribune favorability numbers show a split 2027 Chicago mayoral field: Alexi Giannoulias: 42% fav / 7% unfav Susana Mendoza: 38 / 11 Brandon Johnson: 34 / 44 Mike Quigley: 21 / 12

Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order today banning state employees from using insider information to bet on prediction markets:

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Had the biggest jump scare ever when I saw my TikTok comment being reposted on tumblr 😩😩

New from me: Pritzker on his BUILD Plan: “When you run into people who are maybe opposed to this, ask them, 'What are we going to do then? What is the alternative?' There really isn’t a good alternative to this.”

to no one’s surprise i am still a zutara shipper

It’s so weird whenever the creators of a show have beef with their fandoms. Like wdym Bryke is STILL beefing with the Zutara fandom? It’s just a ship (mind you, a ship that has kept the ALTA fandom alive for YEARS), chill out.

Between campaign expenditures and outside spending, over $22 million was spent in the 9th district Democratic primary to succeed Evanston congresswoman Jan Schakowsky From me: evanstonnow.com/over-22m-spe...

If you need a reminder about what the outside spending looked like as a whole: AIPAC's shells ended up spending over $7 million, with more than half that in pro-Fine ads, and then about an even split of anti-Biss and anti-Abughazaleh

My first day as a Bluesky engineer, I hope everything's going okay!

zutara cathedrals everywhere

Love this! Cat-holicism wins! I'm feline that it's Cat-astrophic for Trump fur sure! 😏🐾

This super PAC is a quarterly-filing super PAC, so it only files every three months (probs won't ever spend money again, but that's another point) Because it was formed and funded until after Dec. 31, 2025, it was able to hide its donors until today

Tell your Congressional rep to oppose H.R.8250. There are different reasons you can give your rep for opposing it. I told my rep to oppose it because it will lead to more data breaches. Just last week I received an email that I'm a Settlement Class Member in another data breach lawsuit.

So I'll definitely do a closer look at who spent what and where they spent it, but the most interesting thing that jumps out at me first is staff: Laura Fine paid a salary to almost 30 people Kat Abughazaleh paid a salary to 12 people Daniel Biss paid a salary to 4 people

Evanston learned Flock was sharing data with other communities that then shared data with ICE, so mayor/Congressman-elect Daniel Biss canceled the contract for violating the terms, & had city workers cover up the cameras until Flock retrieved them.

$48.68 per vote

$104.65 per vote

“The pope is incorrect on matters of theology” is actually a pretty common take among American trad caths 😭😭 Something something he’s not speaking ex cathedra something something discipline not dogma 🫠

With all the news about Trump beefing with the pope, this is my PSA to GO LISTEN TO GEN Z EX CATHOLICS! We have a unique perspective of the far right sect of the church because we were thrust into it with the rise of American Catholic media and missionary companies like Ascension Presents & FOCUS

Going to start a thread on final FEC reports for IL9 as they roll in over the next 24 hours First up, State Rep. Hoan Huynh, who chose not to run for reelection in Springfield but placed 7th last month Raised Q1 2026: $25k Spent Q1 2026: $398k COH: $9.35 docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

Seriously though, this preview of what members of the ILGA want THE ENTIRE INTERNET to look like if they pass @jbpritzker.bsky.social’s ‘Digital Age Assurance’ law HB 5511. www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

A new office cat joined this week. Steve is doing the onboarding. Steve loves cats.

New from @amartinez99.bsky.social and me: Last night, the Evanston City Council rejected a pitch from 1st Ward Ald. Clare Kelly to create a local property tax circuit breaker for qualified homeowners who have owned a home for 15+ years, providing property tax relief More:

Peter Magyar, the new Prime Minister of Hungary, is a cat guy!

watching these guys trying desperately to defend something so utterly inauthentic and blatantly and cynically staged will never get old lol

Can’t wait for the “the Vatican is a war zone, you can’t even walk in there without being assaulted, robbed, mugged and even killed”

Because Da Pope is from Chicago this means Illinois’s elimination of parking minimums also applies to the Vatican.

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

crimepope

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County is stepping in to help make the annual ritual of spring cleaning more sustainable by hosting the fourth annual Trash Bash series, offering people a one-stop shop to unload items for donation or recycling. https://to.wttw.com/4c3gCCn

not to brag, but I grew these ponkan mandarins in my apartment, and that’s pretty neat.