Report: Speaker Welch’s office knew of harassment claims against Rep. Benton years ago

I think it's interesting that 10+ months after Midway Blitz started, the public is being asked to report mistreatment to CPD one business day after Supt. Snelling departed.

Supt. Larry Snelling also promised an after-action look at the CPD's response to the Brighton Park shooting - the officers ordered not to respond, then to respond, whatever else - and that hasn't happened either. CPD has no records, complete or in draft form.

i spent the majority of last year quite literally not knowing if i was gonna have a job the next week. nonetheless, my comrades and i volunteered pay cuts/furloughs to save the paper that we love. how do our new owners respond? by trying to slash *existing* benefits that we’ve had for years.

That M.Y. nonsense made it past my mute because the person who tracked that 💩 in didn't use alt text 👎 Anyhow, the worst thing about it is not calling the D establishment too left-wing -- that's just his usual simple grift It's this failson nepobaby focusing his ire on *affirmative action*

Happy calendar-emoji day, the one day a year where the calendar emoji shows the right date 📅

Counterpoint: I'd hesitate to translate this from Southern White Woman Whose Agency Depends on GOP Funding into a ringing endorsement as far as the rest of us are concerned

Human Rights Watch and the ACLU investigated Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss, the largest US immigration detention site. They documented beatings, medical neglect, and abuse. 🧵 www.hrw.org/report/2026/...

really says something about the state of the nominal left that someone like Prelogar, who was probably the most sought-after Democratic lawyer at the end of the Biden administration, would go straight to working for Kalshi. absolutely pathetic.

When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway

Leave my boy Taco Bell out of it, it was bitch ass Taylor Farms, the world's largest salad processor. Fight the real enemy Big Salad

taco bell has been an important failsafe in my so-far-successful quest to eat beans every day for the last several weeks and I am tired of the slander!

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

Aside from ending the 287(g) program, we need to claw back the billions in federal funding that is being funneled into local police departments and county sheriffs' offices across the country. Turn the 287(g) cash cow for cops into the reparations fund for victims. bsky.app/profile/titu...

I wanted to visualize what it looked like when the 988 hotline’s LGBTQ+ youth services shut down. This is what it looks like: almost 70,000 people reaching out for help, then nothing. As of today, it’s been a year since "Option 3" went away.

"CPD did not respond to multiple requests for an interview with Snelling or interim superintendent Fred Waller and ignored written questions about the findings." Maybe the CCPSA and mayor will vet a future CPD Supt. re: likelihood to arrogantly stiff-arm every single effort at public accountability

If I'm understanding this correctly, it seems the cops looked at the reporting and decided they could discern what made it possible for the reporters to discover their perfidy, and that they could effectively use that information to better cover up their secrets. Only to be discovered doing it.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Damn

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

I took a furlough for this paper when I was 6 months pregnant. The story I pushed out before I pushed out my kid recently took 1st place for long form features in the 2026 AAN Awards. Still, Noisy Creek wants to pay me (& my Reader comrades) less than our peers at the other outlets they own. 🤔

this is what I get in airnow.gov for 60626 right now

NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.

You know, as someone who concerns himself with time series data, it’s my professional opinion that when your time series obliterates the y-axis that it’s usually a notable event.

This is great and largely a measure of how present observers are (not necessarily use of force) so: keep up the good work IL

FYI national professional standards say there should be 100% pay parity between prosecutors and defenders And as far as I'm concerned, the prosecutors who oppose this* don't care about the Constitution *basically all of them from what I've seen

"Hundreds of workers representing low-income defendants in Brooklyn and Queens walked off the job Thursday morning, after failing to reach a deal with management on wages and benefits before an 8 a.m. strike deadline." — @clauirizarry.bsky.social reports www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/16/b...

They are great lawyers but public defenders in NYC get paid crap relative to what prosecutors get. Pay the smart, canny Legal Aid lawyers who work like dogs to protect poor people in criminal, housing and family courts. Their work keeps people housed and creates better outcomes in the courts.

They are getting worse but something consent decree something something, better throw more money and training at them.

Hold up, I thought ICE didn't behave like Professional Law Enforcement?

This article from 2020 said this “The MLS does not have a formal policy but usually starts to evaluate its options when the AQI level rises above 150 near a game site. The NWSL starts to consider postponements when levels are in the 180-200 range.”

Does the NCAA have AQI standards for practices and games and if not this is another great reason college athletes should be unionized

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But a new investigation from Injustice Watch and @boltsmag.org finds most stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating disclosure. www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-cou...

His ex-wife said “that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship,” and he asked her to lie for him. Exactly the kind of chud you’d expect to work for ICE.

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Of all the terrible pols IL is able to muster, I am convinced the most underacknowledged villain is the SoS

I similarly feel like this about court reform if they're not serious about immediately taking on the Supreme Court, I don't want them in the White House, the Senate, or the House they need to be in their own house--stay their ass at home lol

"A low risk assessment score signals that a judge should release a person, and yet, of the 30.5% of the people with a low score, judges detained or subjected 80.4% of these people to electronic monitoring."

In Spring 2025, we trained more than 50 community members to observe & document detention hearings in Cook County for a one-month period. Today, we're releasing our findings in our new report "Changing Landscapes". Learn more & read the report here: endmoneybond.org/community-co...

“Illinois made the right decision by ending money bail, but two years after implementation it is clear that court stakeholders need to do more to ensure that our communities are fully benefiting from this historic civil rights legislation.”

To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.

in the gospel according to jdvance, poor people victimized by Purdue pharma lack moral character but having your elementary schoolkid arrive at golf practice via helicopter is noble and healthy

Summer camp didn't seem to be modifying their activities based on AQI so we kept kid home today. Glad we have flexible work ability and wfh and are thus able to pivot.

6. Monetary fines levied against all administrators via CIVIL litigation. If laws won't allow for this, pass laws at all levels of government that would allow for this.

It still pisses me off that EVERY. SINGLE. DEMOCRAT. IN. THE. SENATE. voted to confirm Marco Rubio. Yes, Warren. Yes, Sanders. Yes, Van Hollen. Yes, Whitehouse. Yes, Hirono. Yes, Booker. ALL. OF. THEM. The vote was 99-0.

If people aren't obsessed by the criminal punishment system, there are a number of ways to make sure there are consequences for bad acts.

4. Televised hearings where all administrators must publicly testify. Any people who have professional licenses like lawyers etc... are stripped of their licenses. 5. Public memorials in every state that tell the story of what happened. Funding would come from the Federal government.