ChicagoFlyer05
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Rahm’s anti-left views are held by many center-left elites in media and politics. And he is pretending to run for president in 2028 (doubt he actually runs because he knows his odds are very low.) So interviewing him can be framed as “news” and he bluntly makes anti-left points centrists agree with.
Stop trying to make Rahm Emanuel happen. It’s not going to happen.
Trump is unpopular, but how do Democrats frame their arguments for a comeback?
Two veteran politicos, Rahm Emanuel and Gretchen Whitmer, have thoughts
In NPR video interviews. Worth watching on a snowy day.
Two veteran politicos, Rahm Emanuel and Gretchen Whitmer, have thoughts
In NPR video interviews. Worth watching on a snowy day.
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Rahm’s anti-left views are held by many center-left elites in media and politics. And he is pretending to run for president in 2028 (doubt he actually runs because he knows his odds are very low.) So interviewing him can be framed as “news” and he bluntly makes anti-left points centrists agree with.
No Chicagoan is going to vote for this man to be president.
As he explores a potential White House bid, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told a Washington crowd Wednesday the changes he oversaw in the city’s school system could be a model for the rest of the country, despite the significant blowback they caused.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel leans on his Chicago experience as he pitches school reform in Washington
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel chafed at the idea a teachers’ strike and blowback to his closing of schools during his tenure would dampen enthusiasm for his future educational plans.
trib.al
January 22, 2026 at 1:02 AM
No Chicagoan is going to vote for this man to be president.
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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REMEMBER: Brandon Johnson could give CDOT and DSS the green light for the #PlowTheSidewalks pilot *this winter* if he wanted to.
He’ll claim he needs an ordinance, but truth is all he did was cut a deal to kill the program with the only alderman who’s worn a MAGA hat to City Council.
He’ll claim he needs an ordinance, but truth is all he did was cut a deal to kill the program with the only alderman who’s worn a MAGA hat to City Council.
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
REMEMBER: Brandon Johnson could give CDOT and DSS the green light for the #PlowTheSidewalks pilot *this winter* if he wanted to.
He’ll claim he needs an ordinance, but truth is all he did was cut a deal to kill the program with the only alderman who’s worn a MAGA hat to City Council.
He’ll claim he needs an ordinance, but truth is all he did was cut a deal to kill the program with the only alderman who’s worn a MAGA hat to City Council.
Today was a perfect example of why I only watch @allinwithchris.bsky.social on cable news. Great episode. Go Cubs!
@chrislhayes.bsky.social reports from Chicago: "Nothing about this city feels like a war zone—to use this city and others like it as a "training ground" is dangerously deranged."
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Today was a perfect example of why I only watch @allinwithchris.bsky.social on cable news. Great episode. Go Cubs!
Is @quigley.house.gov signing on?
Any Democrat not signing on to this will be remembered in the same way as every Democrat who voted for the Iraq War.
June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Is @quigley.house.gov signing on?
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It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.
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“It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research,” Gov. Pritzker said. “Time to stop thinking we can reason or negotiate with a madman.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
Snapshot: "These Republicans Cannot Know a Moment of Peace"
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruptions in response to the Trump regime's cruelty and "authoritarian power grabs"
www.americaamerica.news
May 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research,” Gov. Pritzker said. “Time to stop thinking we can reason or negotiate with a madman.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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Defund the police was a bad slogan, which is why it took massive expenditures of political and financial capital along with the deployment of widespread state violence to suppress it, and also why everyone knows it and we're still talking about it five years later
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Defund the police was a bad slogan, which is why it took massive expenditures of political and financial capital along with the deployment of widespread state violence to suppress it, and also why everyone knows it and we're still talking about it five years later
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“Department of Government Efficiency.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Department of Government Efficiency.”
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Tonight's meeting shows that Bukele knows he has to keep the people sent to CECOT somewhat safe. He knows that the eyes of the world and senior officials in the United States are watching him.
This is a good sign. I hope his wife's pain can ease up even the slightest bit.
This is a good sign. I hope his wife's pain can ease up even the slightest bit.
April 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Tonight's meeting shows that Bukele knows he has to keep the people sent to CECOT somewhat safe. He knows that the eyes of the world and senior officials in the United States are watching him.
This is a good sign. I hope his wife's pain can ease up even the slightest bit.
This is a good sign. I hope his wife's pain can ease up even the slightest bit.
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My autistic child is gifted in art and music and is an honors student. She's a smarter and better person than this piece of shit, that's for absolute sure.
1. As part of his dangerous anti-vaxx crusade, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. spread horrific lies about autistic people by saying they “will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date”
April 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My autistic child is gifted in art and music and is an honors student. She's a smarter and better person than this piece of shit, that's for absolute sure.
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Is this not the Trump admin defying the supreme court that Schumer said we should watch for?
NEW: DOJ finally files its response. They continue to refuse to provide any information about any steps they are taking to bring him back, suggesting they are not taking any. They again offer nobody with personal knowledge and simply cite Bukele's (utterly false) claim that he can't do anything.
April 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Is this not the Trump admin defying the supreme court that Schumer said we should watch for?
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I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping?
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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April 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
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Yup! And tech CEOs kids have access to a wide arrange of tech including laptops, Alexas, Apple Watches, and a slew of other tech. For many poor kids a phone is the only word processor and communication tools they have. The entire smartphone moral panic is about control, not kids wellbeing
Relatedly, I have a feeling the “tech CEOs don’t let their kids see screens” stuff is not true. I think it’s propaganda to make them seem more elite and drive pro-internet censorship campaigns
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Yup! And tech CEOs kids have access to a wide arrange of tech including laptops, Alexas, Apple Watches, and a slew of other tech. For many poor kids a phone is the only word processor and communication tools they have. The entire smartphone moral panic is about control, not kids wellbeing
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This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...
Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback
Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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Goal achieved: An unusual number of people in an unusual number of places. 1,300 globally. There were probably more than 10,000 speakers alone at rallies today. Baffling to think about this scale!
April 6, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Goal achieved: An unusual number of people in an unusual number of places. 1,300 globally. There were probably more than 10,000 speakers alone at rallies today. Baffling to think about this scale!
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this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
The Trump administration claims the right to throw a man with legal status into a black hole Central American prison, affording him no due process, to admit afterward it was a mistake, and then to get snide with the judge who tells them to fix it.
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
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It's now a filibuster though it didn't start as one, and it should be backed up with the tactics that we more commonly know as a filibuster but impose no cost on the people who employ them: deny unanimous consent for everything and make the majority walk in quicksand.
By request: some comments on the @booker.senate.gov filibuster.
1) is it a filibuster? YES. Filibustering is defined as parliamentary delay for strategic gain. As of this morning, Booker had not delayed anything, so I would have said "no." But now he has consumed a full day of Senate "work."
1/x
1) is it a filibuster? YES. Filibustering is defined as parliamentary delay for strategic gain. As of this morning, Booker had not delayed anything, so I would have said "no." But now he has consumed a full day of Senate "work."
1/x
April 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It's now a filibuster though it didn't start as one, and it should be backed up with the tactics that we more commonly know as a filibuster but impose no cost on the people who employ them: deny unanimous consent for everything and make the majority walk in quicksand.
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Strom Thurmond's record is 24 hours and 18 minutes which was done against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & in defense of segregation. Cory Booker, a Black senator from Jersey, breaking his record to speak out against a white supremacist President would be poetic justice.
Cory Booker crosses 23-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics
Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.
www.cnn.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Strom Thurmond's record is 24 hours and 18 minutes which was done against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & in defense of segregation. Cory Booker, a Black senator from Jersey, breaking his record to speak out against a white supremacist President would be poetic justice.
I'm so glad I decided to get the audiobook version of @elienyc.bsky.social's new book. Not just to really feel his anger and emotions, but to get the full effect of his founding father or Southern lawmaker voice and more that he does. A really great listen.
March 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I'm so glad I decided to get the audiobook version of @elienyc.bsky.social's new book. Not just to really feel his anger and emotions, but to get the full effect of his founding father or Southern lawmaker voice and more that he does. A really great listen.