A Black teenager was accused of stealing a backpack and ended up dying by suicide because he was kept in solitary confinement at Rikers for years. His name is Kalief Browder. He spent over 700 days in solitary confinement AWAITING TRIAL. I guess in racist America that’s worse than this.

An FBI agent told me to my face once that there were so many moving pieces, that I would likely end up with more charges than my trafficker. Full disclosure, this is the america ive always known.

Over the last hour, our office has gotten more than 100 emails urging support for a bill to allow @waymo.bsky.social to operate in IL. The sending pattern (dumps of 40-50 at a time) suggests that these are bot generated and 99% of them say they’re from an address outside the district. 1/2

It's a different country now. I hope leaders in Europe and Canada know. "The United States did not join a joint statement by nearly 50 UN member states condemning Russia’s new threats to strike Kyiv and calls to evacuate foreign embassies." theukrainianreview.info/u-s-declines...

For your consideration - Waymo being really good public stewards and hogging up rare Chicago EV fast-charging stations at this Target that they appeared to be using as a staging area. (taken April 26th) At a Costco station on Plugshare someone noted they were taking up 5 of 10 stalls 🫠

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

Court transcripts are in from today's closed-door hearing in front of Judge April Perry on the Broadview Six case. Perry discusses the case's grand jury transcripts. She doesn't sound happy. "I have never seen the types of prosecutorial behavior before a grand jury that I saw in those transcripts."

Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

This is not a thing. Stop reporting like it's a thing.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

30-year yield ended Tuesday up again, rising as much as seven basis points to 5.20%, a level last seen in 2007. And the market is now pricing in rate hikes by the end of the year. #EconSky www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuck @durbin.senate.gov

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

Since Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, over 700,000 Israelis have settled there. In recent years, settler violence against Palestinians has grown common. The Israeli military and police have routinely failed to stop the violence and often intervene for the settlers, our investigation found.

Chicago has flat population growth but an increasing number of households, which is a large reason housing is in such high demand

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Worker productivity has exploded over my lifetime, but that never translates into higher pay or shorter hours. The benefits are reaped by the investor class while workers wages have gone down relative to inflation. Elon said AI will make work “optional” in the future. I say we tax that into reality.

Chicago map lovers (you know who you are and there are too many of you to tag), look what's just been released! node.uchicago.edu/collection/m...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering no longer collecting demographic information, including race and sex, from major American companies, departing from a practice that began during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

Worth a read. This is insane. Trump sues his own government and negotiates a settlement with people he appointed and ends up with a $1.7 billion slush fund to dole out to whoever he wants. Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, and stupid in every possible way. America is so cooked.

32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169

From the ICIRR page on heightened ICE activity across Chicago and its suburbs.

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

EXCLUSIVE | The president's sons are planning a new Trump Tower with help from a company linked to a sanctioned pro-Kremlin billionaire.

20,000 trucks a day. A great read from @camrodriguez.bsky.social on the proliferation of warehouses in Chicago's far-flung suburbs and the increase in fatal truck crashes and other downstream effects. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SCOTUS invoked the Purcell Principle, which is that courts shouldn't make changes that affect an election too close to an election, to block a decision that would have required Texas to change its maps *last December* but now since it advantages Rs it's fine to change maps after voting has started

McConnell denied Garland a vote nine months out under the guise that there was an election soon and then jammed through Coney Barrett a week before Biden won. They have been flipping the bird to the concepts of norms and fairness for decades and the democrats have done jack shit to fight back.

The blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge is hosed off into an Alabama River run red with racist history. A sad day in Alabama.

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org

They could not be clearer. Their goal is the restoration of white supremacy and the disenfranchisement of voters of color, a return to the days before the VRA and the entrenchment of permanent Republican dominance.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

BIG NEWS: Liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht leaves the Democratic Party. “Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled,” Wecht said.

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

BESPOKE: “.. The only precedent for when the S&P 500 has been at record highs while fewer than 60% of stocks were above both their 50- and 200-day moving averages: December 1998-March 2000.”

There is a community meeting about this 355 unit lakefront tower tonight. Please show up and advocate for more housing, and a bigger tax base. Monday, May 11, 2026 07:00 PM Location: Chabad East Lakeview 615 W Wellington Ave actionnetwork.org/events/2800-...

ICYMI: CPD shooting and killing a man next to a full CTA bus abc7chicago.com/post/copa-re...

Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

To be clear: I called my Alder’s office yesterday to complain about the scale and span of the closures and it was news to them. There was no democratic process for this procession. No community input or consideration. Police just did this and barely bothered to inform anyone, least of all our reps

it’s so crazy that Virginia voters amended the constitution to allow redistricting while Florida voters amended the constitution to ban gerrymandering… but the Republican hacks on both state supreme courts overturned the will of the voters to ensure that republicans get their preferred outcome

Samuel Alito helped gut the Voting Rights Act using “fudged” voter turnout data built on a methodology experts say was designed to mislead. The same Court screaming about “election integrity” just relied on bad math to weaken protections against racial gerrymandering. newrepublic.com/post/210174/...

Masked federal agents held a teenage boy at gunpoint, pushed him facedown on the ground, and arrested him. Cellphone video showed the 19-year-old bleeding out of his head as ICE agents put him in their vehicle. Only in the car did agents realize they arrested the wrong person. trib.al/o2TQBEz

The Illinois Municipal League introduced the bill that would encourage municipalities to ban solar from rooftops and also outside their municipal boundaries. Apparently local control isn't enough, and they a 1.5 miles unincorporated anti-solar belt too. @votesolar.bsky.social

Tennessee: a picture says a 1,000 words. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

John Roberts is a wildly successful partisan operative in part because he convinced people he's not a partisan operative nothing to see here, folks, just a normal judge doing normal judge things, no court reform necessary ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

OH07 GOP Rep Max Miller(OH07 R+11) has been credibly accused of beating his wife with picture evidence www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow