So you mean to tell me that NOT ONLY has Eileen O’Niell Burke refused to prosecute ICE agents who have clearly violated the law, but she is ALSO prosecuting protestors? I think we know whose side she’s on.

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“The reports contain few details about each arrest. When they do, the accounts are sometimes at odds with body-camera footage.” Great reporting about the avalanche of charges levied against nonviolent protesters at the Broadview ICE detention center:

What we need to remind City Council members is that they share the blame for this, and that it’s incumbent upon them to be advocating in Springfield for progressive revenue solutions. And that they need to stop protecting CPD from cuts!

JFC. He’s been found dead. Aside from cruelty for cruelty’s sake, what legitimate reason is there for Border Patrol to pick people up from police custody and then drop them off at random locations? Let alone a blind man in poor health? www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

NEW: CPD's 2026 budget sets aside more than $2.75M for its communications effort, which includes a podcast designed to reshape the department’s public image. That's an increase of more than 700% over a decade, @jaredrutecki.bsky.social reports for @wttw.bsky.social

my skepticism with Waymo, at this point, is really around humans vs. robots, but that normalizing car travel in cities deemphasizes rigorous investment in moving people literally any other way (walking, public transit, bikes). which is ultimately a net negative

Story about State Rep Andrade’s desperate and completely dishonest attacks on his primary opponent

A friend got a targeted digital ad in support of Jaime Andrade from American Future and asked what their deal is. Well...this turns out to be a great story about an emerging pattern in federal independent expenditures in state and local races that are especially relevant to Democratic primaries.

The State of the Union: the president is a corrupt demented sex criminal who tried to overthrow the constitution.

Good lord the more I read the worse it got.

If Democrats want to improve their poll numbers they shouldn’t take a single word of advice from Jeffries. Decorum in the face of fascism is a farce.

The CEO of Siemens, a giant manufacturing supplier, flat out told me on Decoder that US factory buildout talk was partially theater, and that anything being built here should be as automated as possible because we don't have the skilled labor supply anyway www.theverge.com/podcast/8752...

Hey at least Brandon Johnson named a plow something he has no power to do. You know what he does have the power to do? He could *just do* the #PlowTheSidewalks pilot! He has made the willful choice to not.

Just a reminder that every high-profile shooting by an ICE/CBP agent this past year was done by a long-time veteran who went through more extensive training, with many refresher courses over the years, and at least a couple were instructors themselves.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

you have to click the story to see that the lead prosecutor for the Broadview 6 case that largely targeted Democratic officials and candidates got a "temporary detail" with the Senate Judiciary Committee... for Democrat Dick Durbin.

Hello, Chicago folks! I'm working on a story for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social on unhoused people who shelter on or near CTA facilities. If you do any homeless outreach at CTA stations, bus stops, or elsewhere in the city, or know those who do, I'd love to chat!

A whistleblower in City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin’s office filed a wide-ranging ethics complaint against her late last year, alleging the congressional candidate’s political staff pushed a questionable plan to boycott U.S. Treasury bonds.

Really telling that Rep. Jaime Andrade has turned off comments on his social media after circulating vile defamatory mailers, lying and claiming that Miguel Alvelo-Rivera is an ICE supporter. I used to think he was just milquetoast, now I know he’s a crook who will say and do anything for power.

"Another bystander found a life ring and lowered it into the water." Some may remember that life rings required long years of advocacy. That citizen-installed life rings were *taken down* by the Park District. That Ald. Hadden and Rep. Cassidy had to work to pass a *state law* requiring them. 🛟🛟🛟

I love the hater pope

Spent the morning in Barrington talking to residents about why Maria Peterson deserves their support! We need more transportation champs in the burbs — and she’s someone who Gets It folks!! Last election she came within *47* votes of flipping this seat. Every single conversation counts!

Surely there’s no problem with the head of the most powerful AI company in the world comparing powering his computers to the value of human life itself. 20 years of life is LIFE! Far more valuable and wondrous and mysterious than anything this loser could ever dream of creating.

Fucking yikes!

Just re-upping this because it remains amazing and we should all watch it once per week.

Extremely disappointing that @julianastratton.bsky.social was every bit as feckless as Raja Krishnamoorthi on Gaza at the most recent debate. We need a fighter who won’t stand down from truth. It’s a genocide, Juliana. If you won’t stand in the face of that, then what on earth will you stand for?

Really excited about what we’re building at BSC. This is going to be a year filled with change and big fights to defend safe streets and transit. But I have hope because we have a community of people with vision and determination for a better future.

Pitch in for Lio's hospital bills if you feel so inclined www.gofundme.com/f/help-lio-r...

Endorsing Raja on the basis of him adding “Trump’s ICE” as the so-called appropriate qualifier for “dismantling” is exactly the kind of steaming hot shit take you can expect when your target demographic is white men who piss themselves every time they think they’ve found a lefty.

Jaime Andrade's campaign just push-polled me by phone with this outright lie and nothing else. When confronted, the caller admitted she was with "Friends of Jaime Andrade" and hopes he can earn my vote. So... that's how desperate the IL-HD40 incumbent is with only 26 days remaining on the clock

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Transportation Champs Happy Hour! We had a great time with like minded people, talking with candidates about their priorities, and talking about what it takes to win more champs! Ready to act? Join us this weekend at a day of action! ⬇️

Holy shit. Jaime Andrade accused Miguel of working with ICE. Miguel is a literal rapid responder who organized safety patrols at day laborer sites. This is beyond the pale even for Chicago.

The beginning of the end for Walgreens.

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

lol. lmao.

Raja Krishnamoorthi also uses the language of "Trump's ICE" and man, I don't trust anyone who has to couch the idea of abolishing ICE.

Illinois really needs to update its audio/video recording access General Assembly meetings. It's really undemocratic that the only reasonable access is via a $175 / mo subscription to a private company.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

The Chicago skyline, seen this morning from Montrose Point

The real question I often hear is more simply knowledge of the community you seek represent Which is the whole point of being a representative. Of course that knowledge can be learned and trust built but as many know it does take time

Kat Abughazaleh is implying here that subtext of criticism about her not being from the community is because of her being Palestinian-American/“not born here” There’s no doubt racism/sexism that does exist in this convo, but I will say the concern I’ve heard in #IL09 is very much not that 🧵

Longtime fan of Kat’s work and have both defended her and criticized her campaign. This is so deeply off base and only serves to validate the concerns that many on the left understandably have about her campaign. “Only one who didn’t ask permission…” is……a choice.

Cow tools

Do I really want to spend 40 minutes of my life watching MBJ misdirect Hasan on all the ways his administration has directly and intentionally stifled progressive policy and organizers?

This logic is akin to Dorval Carter refusing to allow CTA to participate in the Fair Transit South Cook Pilot because fears that Metra service would cannibalize CTA bus fares. Rather than provide the best service and fare options and let riders decide, their fate was decided for them.

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends. www.404media.co/serve-food-d...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Safe streets and better transit are foundational to the affordability agenda send tweet

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.