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Why is it that buying a house is always a process of learning how much the previous owner did not care about their house at all
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Why is it that buying a house is always a process of learning how much the previous owner did not care about their house at all
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Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record.
Newly released federal data shows that immigration agents booked in roughly 1,900 immigrants in the first half of Operation Midway Blitz – two-thirds of whom had no known criminal convictions or pe…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Nearly 1,900 immigrants were detained during the first half of Operation Midway Blitz. Most had no criminal record, newly released federal data shows. @joemahr.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social report
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/01/o...
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We love to talk about the times that the winter weather forecasts proved wildly exaggerated, but let’s give a shout-out to the meteorologists who got this big Chicago snowfall spot-on
96% chance of 6+ inches of ❄️ in Chicago this weekend …
A significant winter storm is likely to impact portions of the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest, and Great Lakes beginning Friday through this weekend, which will impact post-Thanksgiving travel.
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We love to talk about the times that the winter weather forecasts proved wildly exaggerated, but let’s give a shout-out to the meteorologists who got this big Chicago snowfall spot-on
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For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
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Since the bus to Woodfield is apparently getting off at Biesterfield to take Rohlwing/Martingale anyway, it'd be pretty easy to have the bus get off at Lake, connect to the 711 and 715 in Addison, connect to Metra in Itasca, and also pass through the Hamilton Lakes corporate park.
Or not, I guess
Or not, I guess
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Since the bus to Woodfield is apparently getting off at Biesterfield to take Rohlwing/Martingale anyway, it'd be pretty easy to have the bus get off at Lake, connect to the 711 and 715 in Addison, connect to Metra in Itasca, and also pass through the Hamilton Lakes corporate park.
Or not, I guess
Or not, I guess
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These proposed stops will still miss connections to Metra, because why would anyone want that
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
These proposed stops will still miss connections to Metra, because why would anyone want that
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I was at the protest today: SPPD was on site when I got there, but their numbers continued to swell. The crowd was loud af but not at all violent- nor were they impeding agents "doing their jobs" or residents. SPPD was in good spirits- many were smiling and laughing. The protesters were told to +
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I was at the protest today: SPPD was on site when I got there, but their numbers continued to swell. The crowd was loud af but not at all violent- nor were they impeding agents "doing their jobs" or residents. SPPD was in good spirits- many were smiling and laughing. The protesters were told to +
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Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Right now on reddit there's a guy inventing a new kind of brick to build his home with and it's going about as well as you can imagine
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Fascist Lopez is trying to get a bike lane removed in Brighton Park!!!
@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social
@bikegridnow.org
@chi.streetsblog.org
#BikeChi
#ChiBike
@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social
@bikegridnow.org
@chi.streetsblog.org
#BikeChi
#ChiBike
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Fascist Lopez is trying to get a bike lane removed in Brighton Park!!!
@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social
@bikegridnow.org
@chi.streetsblog.org
#BikeChi
#ChiBike
@bikelaneuprising.bsky.social
@bikegridnow.org
@chi.streetsblog.org
#BikeChi
#ChiBike
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I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
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As budget talks stall out, I keep coming back to this one.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
I'll close with a reminder I give every year: unlike our other billion-dollar-plus departments, CPD is almost entirely paid for with the general-purpose corporate fund.
Out of every dollar spent on the police budget, roughly 94 cents could be spent on any other city department, if Council wanted.
Out of every dollar spent on the police budget, roughly 94 cents could be spent on any other city department, if Council wanted.
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
As budget talks stall out, I keep coming back to this one.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
From a budget perspective, CPD operations are almost entirely discretional. (Mind you, pensions and lawsuits are another matter.)
It is an active choice to prioritize this spending above all other spending, year after year.
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This election fixes a weird problem Seattle has had for a while. Seattle has municipal courts. One of its muni judges, Pooja Vaddadi, is an ex-public defender. Unlike the judge she replaced in 2023, she doesn’t just take the word of police and requires the City Attorneys to prove their case.
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This election fixes a weird problem Seattle has had for a while. Seattle has municipal courts. One of its muni judges, Pooja Vaddadi, is an ex-public defender. Unlike the judge she replaced in 2023, she doesn’t just take the word of police and requires the City Attorneys to prove their case.
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like i think we want to imagine they're at least good at being evil, because it's humiliating to really accept that sharp and perceptive people can be creative and work hard and still be crushed by the unthinking weight of simple accumulation. but that is the situation
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
like i think we want to imagine they're at least good at being evil, because it's humiliating to really accept that sharp and perceptive people can be creative and work hard and still be crushed by the unthinking weight of simple accumulation. but that is the situation
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it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.
November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
it's hard to accept that power and wealth do not require you to be smart or savvy in some way both bc we're told they do and also because it's insulting, but. here we are.
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No, *not* ICE. Illinois State Police/Cook County Sheriff Officers/Broadview Police Department.
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
No, *not* ICE. Illinois State Police/Cook County Sheriff Officers/Broadview Police Department.
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at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
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Its a never ending metro sprawl of 10 million, there's a ton of ways to split us up, none change that its all one big place being impacted by the same thing
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Its a never ending metro sprawl of 10 million, there's a ton of ways to split us up, none change that its all one big place being impacted by the same thing
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The out-of-town thing pisses me off because while yes, I'm sure that she's annoyed that all these city people keep commuting into her burb to make a bunch of noise and disrupt the lives of residents, *my fucking neighbors* are locked inside that building. We're just following our people.
also by “out-of-towners” thompson means clergy from multiple faiths who sang, prayed, and tried to deliver religious services to the people imprisoned inside the broadview ice jail.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The out-of-town thing pisses me off because while yes, I'm sure that she's annoyed that all these city people keep commuting into her burb to make a bunch of noise and disrupt the lives of residents, *my fucking neighbors* are locked inside that building. We're just following our people.
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Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump's Chicago deportation blitz has hinged on aggressive and forceful policing tactics: Shootings, takedowns, chokeholds, car chases, chemical munitions, etc.
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
To get a better sense of the scope and the impact, we mapped incidents, spoke to those affected and analyzed policy.
tinyurl.com/3nrkaw55
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This is flatly untrue given that Landon Thomas was emailing Epstein from his work email. The NYT has had access to these emails since the moment they were sent.
We’re seeing materials that no journalists, not Julie Brown, not Ronan Farrow, not anyone from any paper, managed to get access to before now. The conspiracy theories bouncing around about NYT are nothing more than a show people’s ignorance of what goes into a real piece of investigative journalism
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is flatly untrue given that Landon Thomas was emailing Epstein from his work email. The NYT has had access to these emails since the moment they were sent.
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We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
We are invited to assume that the New York Times did not know what Epstein was telling Landon Thomas about Trump. I decline to extend that charity.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
If Epstein wanted the NYT to write about it, he should have made it about a Democrat and gotten a white nationalist hacker to leak it to them.
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it's wild how that policy only exists for e.g. broke single moms whose boyfriend picked up a sex worker in their car, or someone traveling with their life savings in cash, and not for sex criminal turbofascists slinging millions around to make the world a worse place
The next administration needs to remember civil asset forfeiture.
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
it's wild how that policy only exists for e.g. broke single moms whose boyfriend picked up a sex worker in their car, or someone traveling with their life savings in cash, and not for sex criminal turbofascists slinging millions around to make the world a worse place
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Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵