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This is one of 4 Chicago area seats AIPAC is working in this cycle without making official endorsements. People close to the races say AIPAC is trying to buy four solidly blue seats in Illinois without turning off voters.
February 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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What a STORY.

Incredible to read the whole thing

And then the statement that none of the officers on the scene thought he had committed any crimes

illinoisanswers.org/2026/01/30/o...
‘You’re One of Us’: After Off-Duty Cop Crashed Car Then Holed Up at Home in Armed Standoff with Police, He Got a Big Hug and Initially Faced No Charges
Officer Ryan Harter eventually was charged with misdemeanors — nearly three weeks later.
illinoisanswers.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Children today will never know the thrill of the Bud Bowl. I swear there were years I cared about the outcome more than that of the actual Super Bowl.
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Illinoisans deserve to know exactly where their next Senator stands, especially when it comes to national security and foreign policy.
My position is clear.
February 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Have you learned nothing in the past decade @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov? Do you think this is what the people of Illinois want you to do?
Aaron Peterson "refused to give a direct answer on whether Trump can run for president in 2028. ... refused to give a direct answer to the question of whether Trump lost the 2020 election." thealaskacurrent.com/2025/12/15/s...
By a vote of 58-39, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Aaron Christian Peterson to be United States District Judge for the District of Alaska. Democrat Senators voting aye: Duckworth, Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Kelly, Shaheen, and Whitehouse. Senators not voting: Crapo, McConnell, and Murphy.
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Good graphic design
White Sox are adding bidets in their clubhouse as requested by Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami

"One thing he did notice is we didn’t have a bidet in our locker room. That’s new to him. It was like, ‘Ok, that’s new. We can do that.’” -GM Chris Getz

(via @scottmerkin)
February 3, 2026 at 4:14 AM
When will you condemn this treatment of you peer by your own party @repbillfoster.bsky.social ?
January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Well I’m sure this is the one time that the feds are being honest and not example number 417 of them lying.
January 28, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September.

They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police.

If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Interesting. Looks like an Illinois plate @ilsecofstate.bsky.social
An ICE vehicle appears to have crashed into a telephone pole
January 24, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Went to check my weather app and it just shows me this. What the heck?

youtu.be/W8IebYyt_Ag?...
Glacier Is Coming To WCW Promo #1
YouTube video by WrestlingDisclosure
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January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Oh no, warnings from the people who are always wrong.
Several Illinois Democrats are joining calls to “Abolish ICE,” even as national Democrats grapple with warnings about the movement’s potential impacts on midterm elections.
Illinois Democrats join growing calls to 'Abolish ICE'
chicago.suntimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Oh, they’re really moving the team to Indiana
The Bears announced Thursday that Chase Rice, a multi-platinum selling artist, will play the halftime show of their divisional round playoff game against the Rams at Soldier Field.
Country star — and Ben Johnson's former teammate — will play Bears halftime Sunday
chicago.suntimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Wanted: the coolest man alive
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I mean, I think it’s appropriate to call the president a pedophile protector but I’m surprised to hear them say it
President Trump made an obscene gesture with his middle finger and mouthed “f--- you” twice to a person who can be heard yelling “pedophile protector” at him during a tour of a Ford factory in Michigan — a reaction the White House said was “appropriate.”
Trump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory heckler
A cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward someone shouting at him inside the Ford factory.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
How will I make my millions you ask? Why I’ll simply join a professional basketball team and be the greatest player that team has ever had within 3 months.
January 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I think this guy’s tanning bed was set to medium rare
Rep. Randy Fine: "It's time for Americans to say 'enough,' and if you get in the way of the government repelling a foreign invasion, you're gonna end up just like that lady did yesterday."
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I seem to be receiving a lot of judgment just because I joined the army for money
January 3, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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"Hi it's me the gun. I'm sorry I shot someone :("
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Wow, Chicago police broke state laws??? Color me shocked
News: On Day 2 of Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s chaotic return to Chicago earlier this month, a CBP supervisor dialed 911 as a convoy of federal vehicles sped north on Lake Shore Drive.

Records capture CPD, OEMC coordination with the feds as they headed to Evanston.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/a...
‘Help is on the way’: Audio captures Border Patrol, 911 dispatchers before CPD response
On the second day of Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s brief, chaotic return to Chicago earlier this month, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol supervisor dialed 911 as a convoy of federal vehicles sped no…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Former FBI agents can’t be talking like this
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.

This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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We observed lawyers from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office who showed up to wage theft court hearings unprepared. Since 1993, more than 300 cases were initially dismissed because no one from the Attorney General’s Office showed up at all. (with @crainschicago.bsky.social) buff.ly/WJHXcax
December 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
December 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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From the December Chicago FOP newsletter: Advice from the union's lawyer on what cops should do if they get pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving or shoot someone and are asked to give a BAC test.

www.chicagofop.org/images/docum...
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM