Just unveiled the Building Up IL Developments (BUILD) plan and gathered a group to talk about housing in our state. The consensus? We need to build more and fast. Looking forward to getting it out to communities across Illinois.

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

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I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

I need to stop being polite about people making/sharing Al slop and start calling it out, for their sake as well as mine. Al makes you dumb! Much like the degradation of US public education in the 00s led to the rise of fascism today, Al is paving the way for something even worse.

I’ve seen a lot of commentary saying the regime is undermining itself by moving so fast and not letting the proverbial frog boil. But that assumes the end game is just deporting immigrants. If they want to deport/intern/kill US citizens, deporting immigrants *is* boiling the frog.

I interned at Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH in college and had the pleasure of meeting him a few times. He was so beloved in those halls and a giant in this city. If you don’t know much about him, even some cursory reading is eye-opening, because as others have noted today,…

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.

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

It’s been this way forever, but it still always makes me laugh that the bsky translate button just opens google translate in your browser. Very “let me google that for you”-coded.

I really think @julianastratton.bsky.social is the real deal in the IL senate race

the reveal of this video is perhaps maybe the biggest ‘of course it’s her’ to ever exist lmaooooo

Red Gatorade is for health, blue is for mana, yellow is for a temporary damage boost, and orange is for hydration

What do I care about them having my id Liz Lemon? I already sold my face, voice, AND genitals to multiple AI companies.

Our bunghole

I resonate so much with this. I got As and tested well in every subject except math, where I’d struggle to even pass. The way math teachers treated me was so humiliating, and since I could compare it to how other teachers did, it made me actively hate math and any career paths that involved it.

sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young

I'm convinced that he has lost the ability to do his job because he is afraid of right wing violence against his family, and when things get to that point you really have a duty to resign

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

Attention Chicagoans: this thread details local politicians who have received funds from the landlords who approved that horrific early morning ICE raid on a South Shore apartment complex

AIPAC candidates in IL- Miller, 2nd dist: Chicago S lakefront and SE side, S suburbs, Kankakee Conyears-Irvin, 7th: Chicago W side, Loop, inland S side, Oak Park, W Cook County Bean, 8th: N DuPage, NW Cook and N Kane Counties Fine, 9th: Chicago far N side, Evanston, near N and far NW burbs

A coyote walks through the Streeterville neighborhood Monday evening in Chicago.

Epstein sent the “loved the torture video” email to UAE Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem on April 24, 2009. Two days prior, ABC News had aired a redacted torture tape that a Houston businessman smuggled out of the UAE, leading to an investigation of a Prince and massive human rights scandal

When a headline says it all:

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week). This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.

The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.

After 15 years of construction, Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown light rail—Line 5—finally opened today. The 19 km, 25-station, $13 b line includes a subway section & creates an east-west connection across the city. It is expected to carry 123,000 daily. An extension to the west is under construction.

Tonight they’re crying tears of joy

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

If you were to run down a list of all the things distinctive about the United States in contrast to Old World Europe, most of it is stuff we instead have in common with Latin America. That's not some woke novelty, it's a deeply embedded centuries-old aspect of our culture and national identity.

Lisa Rinna was so fierce

I was blessed to see my most famous neighbors this weekend, the Graceland Cemetery coyotes 🤩

A hookup site for former Catholics called X Communication

Also beautiful that it was followed immediately by a Dem overperformance of 34 points relative to Harris in Louisiana, which is even less generalizable bc it was already Dem-held and in Cajun country, which still votes D locally. For once the media punditverse’s illiteracy is working in our favor.

every time I want to like MBJ when he drops an anti-ICE banger I'm reminded he can hardly be bothered to accomplish basic mayoral governance (and the bangers are toothless anyways since CPD will continue to collaborate with ICE anyhow)

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

When you’re knee deep in the passenger seat

“We only play together” couple on Grindr

Current* conditions near Evanston, IL:

With the most robust rail network in the American Midwest, Chicago has the 2nd largest number of car-free households of any metro area (behind only NYC) Most of those households live around the L, especially the Red Line and western parts of the Blue & Green Lines

“Enjoying Outlook so far?”

LFG! Nithya would be a fantastic mayor!

Jane Don’t every week in the confessional chair

Senators who keep voting for Trump judges, such as Durbin and Duckworth, are locking in these kind of cruel and lawless rulings for generations to come. Thanks guys!

Sen. Simmons filed a bill (SB3679) to establish a pilot program for an intercity bus network that is free ilga.gov/Legislation/...