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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 6m

I didn’t port chicago socialist mayoral office watchers over from twitter. so I’m out of the loop. but is the prevailing theory behind Brandon admins deficiencies still that everything funnels thru Lee (who in this and other instances is unavailable or unresponsive)?

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 30m

Chicago IG recommended that top Brandon Johnson advisor Jason Lee be fired for failure to cooperate. The mayor’s office disagreed. This stems from investigation into Bill Conway complaint that they improperly leveraged homeless camp removal for political purposes. A mess:

8 | Failure to Cooperate (C2023-000000357)
An OIG investigation established that a senior staff member in the Mayor's Office failed to cooperate with an OIG investigation. OIG was investigating allegations that the subject had conditioned the approval of public safety services in a particular ward upon the affirmative votes of the ward alderperson on particular Mayoral-backed legislation.
During its investigation, OlG attempted to interview two other senior staff members in the Mayor's Office, Witness A and Witness B. Both Witness A and Witness B reported that an attorney from DOL would attend their interviews. OlG declined to conduct those confidential investigative interviews with a DOL attorney present and issued written interrogatories in lieu of those interviews.
Both witnesses answered the interrogatories. In the case of Witness A, OIG agreed at their request to two separate extension requests (totaling over a month of extended time) of its deadline to answer the interrogatories. When OIG denied a third extension request and told Witness A that a failure to respond by the extended deadline would be considered a failure to cooperate, Witness A complied and responded.
As for the subject of the investigation, OIG originally reached out by phone in October 2024 and spoke with the subject about scheduling a subject interview. The subject stated they would call OlG back. OIG did not hear back and sent an email to the subject days later suggesting an interview date later in November 2024. The subject responded, stating that a DOL attorney would attend the interview; the DOL attorney told OIG that the subject might also retain private counsel. Consistent with its position on the witness interviews in this investigation, in which Witness A and Witness B fulfilled their duty to cooperate by responding the written interrogatories, OlG declined to interview the subject with a DOL attorney present and sent them written interrogatories on February 11, 2025. OIG's initial tr…

dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 32m

I love my modern conveniences

dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 34m

asking my ai how long the giant dedicated turd (that predates my starting here) has been in the alley

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 45m

email from work this morning that the front door won’t open with your key card and they can’t unlock it from the front desk either lol

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 58m

people really said whatever the fuck offensive shit they could constantly through the aughts it just didn’t feel as jarring then as it does now because it was the normalized meta to say racist, sexist and homophobic shit to people without consequence

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 10h

get his ass!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 11h

I will take you up on the offer

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 11h

legend of the game

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 12h

The Duchess

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 12h

the coffee bit is great especially when he already has one and just throws it out

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 12h

the BEP bit

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 14h

no ben did

dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 15h

wearing your firm’s swag around is so bizarre to me. have folks never seen or read sci-fi where the corporations own us all? not even that nice of a North Face backpack. you let them chip you for a book bag?

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 15h

it’s a curse

dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 15h

yeah it was probably where you left it last

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 15h

no

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 15h

matte wraps make your electric vehicle look like a wireless mouse

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 16h

Going back to their roots

Darragh Mc Kenna @darraghmckenna.bsky.social · 22h

This does not fill me with joy

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 16h

RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] - alright here we go. We’re devoting all your available Brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is:
1.- (Whisper.) “Are women bourgeois?”
2.- Oh god, that’s bad. Surely I can think of something better.

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 19h

forgot to come back to my newfound yet firm belief: COEXIST was a CIA op engineered to keep the self-styled intellectual docile. it was to put the woke back to sleep.

dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 23h

you know, I think all the coexist bumper stickers worked.

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Joe Ruthvennryte @joelastname.bsky.social · 20h

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 19h

yes

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 20h

Gaia… Mother Earth

Dr. Darrell C. @drdarrell-c.bsky.social · 20h

Really? What county do you live in? Or sarcasm?

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