We’ve been highlighting Courage Candidates all week. These leaders are ready to act when democracy is on the line. Meet the Illinois Courage Candidates: 🇺🇸 Julie Fortier (IL-12) 🇺🇸 @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social (IL-09) Pro-impeachment. Anti-corruption. Anti-authoritarianism. Courage belongs in Congress

Jedi: Fallen Order beaten

Can’t wait to upgrade to 5G UWU soon

So much love for Uptown. Always enjoying door knocking here and connecting with voters about my lifelong connection to the neighborhood and what a huge honor it’d be to REPRESENT Uptown in Congress!

Transit planner Jarrett Walker has been involved with bus stop consolidation in other cities. Some SBC readers opposed the op-ed we ran calling for speeding CTA buses by reducing stop spacing from 1/8 to 1/4 mile. Here are his thoughts on the subject. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/01/02/a...

I am not making discourse I am just pointing out that Cook County understands where white people belong. In HELL

Worse than W after Katrina?! Damn!

if you're here because twitter is down, we don't have a child porn robot or people posting about (((the jews))) here so idk what you would like about this website tbh

Last week, I sat down with State Sen. Mike Simmons for Evanston Now's first #IL09 candidate interview. The full interview is live on YouTube...check it out👇🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91d...

Simmons getting a lot of positive attention from the zoom commentators.

She did say this and I was certainly surprised!

The commenters in the zoom meeting don't like her response

regimecpa live response "She is gonna super lose, huh?"

Biss "First of all, we ought to abolish ICE".

Biss is talking a lot about that Jan endorsement. He just did in this forum

Watching the candidate forum for IL-09

I had to speak to my dad the other day. He is without a doubt the most pro-Trump person in my life and voted for that guy 3 times. Even HE thinks that ICE murdering that woman was unjustified. He still isn't fully anti-ICE but he does seem to think it was too much.

Do you ever think about how weird the reality we live in is?

Even David Shor's firm is telling Democrats in private communications that ICE is politically toxic right now. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

AOC knows ball!

Lmao!

Honestly a poll for this race would be nice to see who I need to vote for in case I need to vote strategically

I just got polled for Illinois house district 13. They asked who I leaned, gave a profile, asked who I leaned again, gave negative statements for attack ads against a few candidates (mostly Adam Braun), gave positive statements about only James O’Brien, and asked who I was leaning for again.

The man couldn’t get Indiana to gerrymander an extra GOP seat or two! How is he going to convince Democrats control to cancel their elections if he can’t convince some Republicans to gerrymander? Democrats hold the Secretary of State’s office in all swing states but Georgia!

ICE technically are the police but the average American thinks of them as something entirely different. “Defund the police” did cause democrats some issues but it really isn’t gonna translate the same when talking about ICE. For one, ICE has only been around since 2003.

The “Jasmine Crockett is less electable” narrative has another hole punched in it. The reason to vote Talarico is not that he is noticeably more electable. That does not seem to be true. The reason to vote Talarico is if you think he is a better candidate.

The headline is kind of absurd. You mean two people that live in different environments that happen to be in the same state can have different opinions? Next you are going to tell me that not everyone in the same city has the same opinion!

I know Pritzker deserved some shit for all talk and little walk in regards to ICE but at least he never pulled this “don’t give Trump what he wants” bs

But I was told he would only do this if you have him a reason by rioting!

How many units of Western Psychology do you have? I bet I have like 10

This weekend, our community gathered and organized in an overwhelmingly moving way. We’re loud and we’re proud to stand up for what is right. Abolish ICE.

That didn’t last long…

From Minneapolis to Venezuela, the Trump admin needs to be reined in by an active Congress—not one that relies on strongly-worded letters and performative politics to stop these fascists. I will bring the FIGHT! I stood in strong solidarity with 100s of outraged Chicagoans protesting last weekend:

Less than a point up in an internal? Yikes! Yeah, if Collins remains in this seat is lean red no matter who the nominee is. What a sad state of affairs

Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support

I saw someone on Twitter talking about moving to NYC and they got a bunch of hate and people telling her to keep out. I feel like anytime someone mentioned moving to Chicago on Twitter, Chicagoans got excited.

You've heard of the double endorsement, but have you heard of the triple endorsement?

New endorsement here from @trackaipac.com Three candidates – Kat Abughazaleh, Bushra Amiwala and Mike Simmons – are on the group's website as primary endorsements

If she does end up retiring, I feel a lot better about our chances to win Maine no matter who the nominee is. Both candidates are weak but they could probably beat a non-incumbent Republican.

Scoop – #IL09 candidate Daniel Biss placed an ad buy today for a TV ad focused on ICE, sources tell me A campaign spox told me to "stay tuned" for additional details But here's the 30-second spot

most of the people whose opinions I hold in high regard are on here but a solid 15% of this website is people who are both wildly self-righteous and extremely stupid

lol. Also, who is Big Ed?

Political mailer season has begun!

I am using the pokemon 30th anniversary image as my pfp for the time being until I find a pfp I actually want to use. But also my 2nd anniversary with my bf is Thursday and the Pokemon 30th anniversary is soon so this pfp is relevant for a while.

The campaign will be tough but she probably is our greatest shot at flipping Alaska. She has already won 2 statewide elections before!

Trump continues to weaponize the DOJ to attack his political enemies, this time Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. This is authoritarianism in action, plain and simple. We’ve got to keep naming it and we've got to keep fighting back.

We need things like this in Illinois immediately.

I grew up closest to the Wabash River. My high school’s closest river was the Ohio River though. Now my river is the Chicago River

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” is perhaps the most bitter lesson I have had to learn the past year. There is no reason the markets should be up today given the Powell investigation news yesterday.