John Kass
@John_Kass
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Mild mannered Chicago columnist, host of The Chicago Way Podcast, and proprietor of
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I've written my last column for the Tribune. But now I have a new home. And you're invited to go on this great adventure
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The Biden promise is that if elected, the hysterical screaming will end &
#CancelCulture
won’t come for your kids or for you. But if Joe Biden is elected, will he hold back the hard left?
No. He won't.
@MZHemingway
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My latest column: I will not apologize for writing about
#GeorgeSoros
. I will not bow to those who’ve falsely and wrongly defamed me.
And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom.
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Draylen Mason, 17, brilliant musician, was "like the light in a Rembrandt painting" his former music director said. Mason died 10 days after Anthony Stephan House was killed in another Austin bombing. Hunt the killer or killers down. Find them. Somebody knows.
#AustinBombings
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Quadruple bypass ✅ Open heart surgery✅ Amazing rehab from the great doctors, nurses, and therapists at Shirley Ryan Abilitylab✅ A month stay in the hospital finally ends. I’m going home love you all.
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My response to the
#GeorgeSoros
bs and
#cancelculture
in newsrooms:
I will not apologize for writing the truth about Soros.
I will not bow to those who’ve wrongly defamed me. Ever.
But I do thank readers and friends who stood by me.
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I've given 35 years to
@chicagotribune
, even more if you count my time as an eager Tribune copy boy running for cigarettes and coffee. It's been a tough few days. But maybe it's time I try writing a column for Wednesday about
#CancelCulture
. Let's see what happens.
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Hmmm. Tribune reports Kim Foxx drops more felony cases than her predecessor. But I wonder: who dropped millions in campaign cash to help elect Kim Foxx? Hmm. Who endorsed her? Any politicians?
@KimFoxxforSA
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I'm probably the last guy to defend
@BernieSanders
. But what CNN did to him on behalf of
#ElizabethWarren
was shameful. It hurt journalism, but it sure helped
#JoeBiden
, didn't it? A knife in the back from a "friend." My column
@chicagotribune
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Lightfoot, Foxx, Preckwinkle, Pritzker, Judge Evans. Look at what your liberal policies have done to Chicago, city of anarchy. You’ve killed the city. You make speeches about “equity”Disgusting and shameless
This is video of the poor CTA bus driver that was beaten last night downtown. This is SO disgusting that this is happening in Chi.
@TheMagMile
@ChiefDavidBrown
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
@AnitaPadilla32
@FoxNews
@CWBChicago
@WGNNews
@ABC7Chicago
@cbschicago
@ChiCityBusiness
@AmyJacobson
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Brilliant young people refusing to bend the knee to the cynical woke corporate media elite. Capitulation is not virtue.
@ThinkerChicago
you give us hope.
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The one-year-old in Chicago isn't a star like
#JussieSmollett
. 2 dozen detectives weren't assigned to his case. The Democratic left & media handmaidens didn't bend his narrative. He's just a little boy from Chicago, shot in the head.
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If
@BernieSanders
is to win this thing, and stop crazy Uncle Joe & his Comdr. McBragg act,
@SenWarren
knows what she must do: drop out & back Bernie. And then we'll live in harmony on The Big Rock Candy Mountain. In your hearts you know I'm right.
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Why has legacy corporate media ignored
@mirandadevine
's
#LaptopFromHell
&
#TwitterFiles
? Because they're in on it, that's why. The proof is coming out. My column
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Obama knew. Read this thread by
@JonathanTurley
President Obama is being quoted on Flynn, saying "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free." It is a curious statement. First and foremost, Flynn was not charged with perjury...
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Recovering well from open-heart surgery, heart attack and stroke. Doing my best. Overwhelmed by all the support from you great readers of Can’t wait to weigh in on 2023 mayoral race this coming weekend.
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Threatening to cancel Americans who dare question election results isn't a prescription for healing the nation. "We have a list" is playing with fire. My latest column
@chicagotribune
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During the
#GeorgeSoros
false narrative against me, I am overwhelmed by the kindness and support of readers. Thank you. Let's fight
#CancelCulture
together to preserve what's important. Americans speak their mind. My column
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The larger question is not about the left hoping to silence me, but about America and its young. Shaped by the thought police, they won't see themselves as craven for bending the knee. Instead, they'll see themselves as virtuous. That is the sin of it.
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Lawless Chicago Politics Killed CPD Officer Aréanah Preston. These predatory thugs with violent criminal histories should have been locked up and off the streets, but “progressive” politics let them keep hunting. My column for Sunday.
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Chicago failure Mayor Brandon Johnson is exposed as a complete fraud by the brilliant
@Charles_Lipson
@ RealClearPolitics
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I will not apologize for writing about
#GeorgeSoros
.
I will not bow to those who've wrongly defamed me.
I will continue writing my column, to encourage others. Thanks
@RealClearNews
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At the once-great Palmer House Hotel Chicago, no room service, no hot water for showers. Me: Is this bleeping Albania? Front Desk “No sir this is the Palmer House”
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Here it is.
#JussieSmollett
was bathed in the Chicago Way waters by Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx. She wiped him clean. Nothing like having Obama Celebrity Friends. My Wednesday column for
@chicagotribune
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Chicago voted for this barbaric violence by electing Soros approved Democrats. Shocking daylight robbery caught on video in Bucktown. Watch the video
@CWBChicago
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@DanProft
@MorningAnswer
Who raised these laughing hyenas who beat a child with Down Syndrome at York High school? Aren’t their parents proud? And who took time to film it rather than stop it?
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Time for Lori Lightfoot to resign. Chicago police wounded by terrorism in Chicago.
@chicagosmayor
you've demonized cops long enough, and this is the result. This anarchy belongs to you, Resign. Just go away. Leave.
Officers responding to disturbances on the northwest and southwest sides overnight were confronted by large crowds that injured three cops and damaged patrol cars. (VIDEOS)
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As the left shrieks about the "Twitter Files," you'll want the truth about Hunter Biden &
#LaptopFromHell
. Read
@mirandadevine
great book about the White House bagman and "The Delaware Way."
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Why aren’t you tweeting “I’m sick of this shit” about Chicago, about the children killed by street gangs every day? But you don’t. Instead you endorsed
@KimFoxx
to kiss the ring of Boss Toni
@ToniPreckwinkle
Hypocrite
I’m sick of this shit. How many people need to be murdered? How many lives torn apart? Until it actually stops?
We don’t have to live like this. And we don’t have to die like this.
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Bloomberg: mocking American
#farmers
is no way to unify the country. He might as well have called them
#deplorable
#rubes
. Way to reveal yourself
Bloomberg on why farmers can’t work in information technology
MB: “I can teach anyone how to be a farmer 1 dig a hole 2 put a seed in 3 put dirt on top 4 add water 5 up comes the corn”
The skill 4information technology is completely different you need more grey matter
#farmers
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the
@chicagotribune
reports Kim Foxx lawyers up for the Jussie Smollett special pros investigation, but she won't tell taxpayers how much they'll pay for her legal bills. How Chicago Way is that?
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When you open zoo cage doors and some creatures, so fearful of freedom they turn their backs to the open door and just sit there and whine. This is Illinois.
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Chicago is still counting votes. The election was more than a week ago. “You Count the Votes Over and Over Until They Add Up Right” Read my latest column for
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Do real victims of real crime in Chicago, crimes with real blood & real pain-not
#JussieSmollettHoax
--get a secret "OMG" text moment with chief prosecutor Kim Foxx? No. It helps to have supreme
#Obama
#Rahm
connections. the Chicago Way. My column:
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Thanks Obama. Thanks Biden. You are two arrogant fools. Handing billions to Iran which just slaughtered hundreds of Israelis is the act of an arrogant fool.
Trump: America First
Biden: $6 billion to countries that chant Death to America
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that OMG
#JussieSmollett
moment for Toni Preckwinkle's protege and Cook County State's Atty Kim Foxx who is avoiding reporters? It's here. Kim. That OMG moment? it's now. Madame Prosecutor? Kim? We've got questions that you don't want to answer.
Do real victims of real crime in Chicago, crimes with real blood & real pain-not
#JussieSmollettHoax
--get a secret "OMG" text moment with chief prosecutor Kim Foxx? No. It helps to have supreme
#Obama
#Rahm
connections. the Chicago Way. My column:
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Failed Democrat mayor of crime ridden Chicago—a former federal prosecutor who decries “gun violence”—now calls for “war” against
#SupremeCourt
for doing its job. Has
@chicagosmayor
lost her mind?
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Thanks
@brithume
Cancel culture tries to claim another victim. But he’s not backing down. Good for him.
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Miranda Devine: Wakeup Call Coming for Americans Who’ve Been Lied to by Media. My latest column for & link to
@mirandadevine
interview.
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Chicago's iconic Signature Room closes citing "economic" reasons, meaning people with $$ avoid downtown. Chicago criminals have no comment and pro-Soros lefty Democrats don't demand to hold a news conference.
@ChicagosMayor
@ToniPreckwinkle
@GovPritzker
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As promised, my column on the death of blue cities, “Would Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Let his Daughter Ride the CTA?” for JohnKassNews
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What frightens the political left:
@larryelder
’s powerful new film “Uncle Tom: An Oral History of the Black Conservative.” My
@chicagotribune
column.
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It's not guns. It's our culture. Belief in God is mocked, religion is belittled, tradition is deconstructed. We abort babies by the tens of millions, yet we're surprised
#schoolshooters
lack respect for human life? We till the ground for the young.
#2A
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Unapproved Chicago looting narrative: Get arrested for felony aggravated battery of a Chicago police officer & smashing
@Burberry
window on Michigan Ave? Go home on bail for only $500. My column.
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This isn’t some fantasy-land of cuddly, talking forest creatures and magic lions and giggling fauns that feed you tea and cakes. This is Cook County, the most crooked place in American politics.
#JussieSmollett
.
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Biden campaign pushed spies to write false Hunter laptop letter. Great story by
@mirandadevine
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Chicago is the dystopian future of urban America—violent barbarism unleashed by Marxist Democrats who hate America. Thanks for the warning
@CWBChicago
Two off-duty Chicago police officers have been robbed at gunpoint since Saturday evening. A third off-duty officer was beaten by a group of shoplifters while working security at Macy's in the Loop.
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In the big cities run by Democrats, an overwhelming sense of lawlessness.. Mayors talk and talk. But the people vote with their feet. And they leave. My column
@chicagotribune
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As Chicago is overwhelmed by tens of thousands of new illegals that Biden invited to illegally cross the border, Chicago's mayor is crippled by panic. He wasn't prepared for this. He can't handle the job.
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Defining moment: As her impeachment gambit goes down in flames, Nancy Pelosi revealed herself to be an angry child, ripping up Trump's SOTU speech. Rage isn't a good look, Madam Speaker.
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Iran is behind these hundreds and hundreds of Hamas murders of Israeli innocents. Track them across the desert like the Comanche. Find them. Kill them all. Ignore the bleating of pro-Iran Democrats like Obama, Biden and the Squad. I stand with Israel
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Carjackings now as you're stuck in traffic on 294 in Hinsdale? Just can't wait until
@GovPritzker
's not Safe-T Act releases more criminals.
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Joe Biden was asked direct questions about Democrats packing the Supreme Court and ending the filibuster. And he refuses to answer. These are fundamental questions on the future of the republic that Biden just won’t address.
#PresidentialDebate2020
#Debates2020
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.
@GovPritzker
's restaurant/bar shutdown means the death of those neighborhood places you love & the rise of crappy corporate franchise food. My latest column
@chicagotribune
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Thanks
@DanProft
. Thanks
@AmyJacobson
. You know I listen every morning. Like you said Tuesday morning, when you're alone, you learn who are the people who don't show up, and who stands up for you. Thank you.
@MorningAnswer
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the
@chicagotribune
A once-great Chicago institution gutted by weakling editor Colin McMahon and the rabid left wing
@CTGuild
that subjected the non-compliant to Maoist "struggle sessions." Now it's a pathetic shell of itself
I've given 35 years to
@chicagotribune
, even more if you count my time as an eager Tribune copy boy running for cigarettes and coffee. It's been a tough few days. But maybe it's time I try writing a column for Wednesday about
#CancelCulture
. Let's see what happens.
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What really happened to Chicago? The Democrats happened. My column from the blue belly of the beast, a dying city, in a corrupt county, in the worst run state in America.
@nypost
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To truly grasp the
#JussieSmollettTrial
, you'll need a guide to help you navigate the corrupt politics of the Chicago Way. I've spent my life watching this evil clown show. And I am that guide. My latest column for
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This is Chicago. Mayor Johnson, Boss Toni, States Attorney Kim Foxx, any comment on the guy with the machete
Brandon Johnson: "I'm becoming popular because, like, major stars are saying 'what's going on in Chicago,' people are excited about it."
This is what is going on in Chicago, and it's something to fear, not to be excited about.
Video:
@ChicagoPD19
.
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Deadbeat candidate Johnson pockets $175,000/ yearly on public payroll and yet STILL owes thousands to taxpayers?
#MayorDeadbeat
laughs at you
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Biden supports abortion. He announces that Easter Sunday is Transgender Day of Visibility. Democrats support him and the Marxists in Congress. Should Democrats get a single Christian vote in November? No
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Let them play,
@GovPritzker
All across the Midwest this weekend, families are leaving Illinois so kids can play in tournaments in other states. Not every kid does horse jumping. Kids need to run, jump, compete.
#LetThemPlay
. My column
@chicagotribune
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Has Mayor Lightfoot lost the city of
#Chicago
? Violence spreads, taxpayers flee, other prominent
#Democrats
keep their distance. She wears the jacket for all of it and stands alone.
@chicagosmayor
My column
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Chicago carjackings and murders up, public high schools still closed, as are many side streets & alleys. And yet Mayor Lightfoot has time for statues? My column
@chicagotribune
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There once were real newspapers in Chicago. Now, they’re just political hacks enforcing Democrat Socialist talking points
What message does this send to Chicago parents when the head of the
@CTULocal1
prefers a private school for her son instead of a CPS school?
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One year ago I was on the operating table for quadruple bypass surgery when a stroke came up and bit me.
But through all of that, you subscribers of have been on this journey with me. It's been a strange adventure.
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Saying goodbye to Zeus the Wonder Dog. My Sunday column for johnkassnews. Goodbye my valiant friend
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The Obamas ignored Chicago for 8 years. But Michelle talks of empathy, as
#DemocraticConvention
ignores political & street gang violence driving taxpayers out. My column.
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Can Holiday Shopping Co-Exist With Violent Crime? My latest column on a dying city.
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The Marxist Democrats don’t like this column, but slogans and obsession over racial guilt won’t save Chicago from circling the drain. And no matter the skin pigment, the bill always comes due. My latest for Subscribe today
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I am now running for mayor of
#Chicago
. And I'll win The Chicago Way.
#KassforMayor
. Believe in something, even if it means taxpayers sacrifice everything. Because
#IAmSpartacus
.
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Chicago murders up 50 percent this month. Who on her staff told
@chicagosmayor
that this was a good idea?
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Uh oh. Brandon Johnson reportedly owes city of Chicago thousands of dollars in unpaid bills, fines
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Editorial: Chaos and lawlessness in Chicago. What Lori Lightfoot and States Atty Kim Foxx are doing is not good enough for a city out of control.
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Thank you for writing this about me: Chicago Tribune’s John Kass will not take a knee to cancel culture
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They knew the Hunter Biden laptop was a real story, yet they suppressed it from the people. The corrupt corporate media are the public relations arm of the hard left that hates this country. Common streetwalkers are more honest. All they care about is the money…
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#Farrakhan
and the silent political left. They rage and emote wildly at almost everything. But when it comes to
#Farrakan
's hatred and anti-Semitism? crickets. Their silence is consent.
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Who killed Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston? Corrupt Democrat left wing "progressive" politics killed her. My column for Sunday
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Lots of talk about
#GeorgeSoros
after
#waukeshaChristmasParade
. When I called Soros out for funding leftist low and no bond prosecutors across the country, the woke union at my paper tried canceling me. I'm free, now, writing at
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My column: "Chicago media will not link Democrat Boss Toni Preckwinkle to the growing epidemic of crime, or connect the dots to George Soros and Kim Foxx. Those responsible for the anarchy and chaos won’t be held to account. And that is how a city dies."
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Epstein, Weinstein and media double standards on ABC & NBC. Yet how was Brett Kavanaugh treated, smeared without corroboration. You don't want to go there? Then get off this bus, because I'm going there. My column
@chicagotribune
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot must resign. Now. Chicago, a once-great city is being devoured by violent crime, anarchy and chaos
@chicagosmayor
#LightfootOut
My column
@RealClearNews
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"I don't think she knows what she's doing."
@Paulvallas
calls out Mayor Lightfoot on her failure to stop
#Chicago
looting.
My column.
@chicagosmayor
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Why am I defending Father Mike
@MichaelPfleger
& St. Sabina for their shutdown of the Dan Ryan? Because people are being shot by the thousands in
#Chicago
every year. And City Hall must listen. My column in
@chicagotribune
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As Kim Foxx awoke from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed into a gigantic loser. Want to know what I think about
#JussieSmollett
's 150 days in County Jail? On Friday morning, read
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You want a reason not to re-elect Chicago's Mayor Phallus Maximus, aka
@chicagosmayor
? This:
Lightfoot endorsed Kim Foxx for re-election
@SAKimFoxx
. Even though Lightfoot knew Foxx, a Soros-backed do-nothing prosecutor, was terrible for Chicago. Crime, mayhem and anarchy up.
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The left would rather we forget
#JussieSmollettTrial
, and just move on, and not mention his name. But I can't do that. My weekend column for
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Chicago carjackings and homicides skyrocket, taxpayers flee, side streets and alleys impassable with snow, public schools not open, but hey
@chicagosmayor
: You've got time to spend on your "committee" canceling statues of George Washington & Abraham Lincoln?
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The blood of young Laken Reily--murdered by an illegal alien--is on the hands of President Joe Biden--and he expects the left wing news media and Democrat voters to lick those hands clean as he shows up for a photo-op in Texas. Biden has no honor, Neither do they
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Hey
@ChicagosMayor
,
@GovPritzker
happy Christmas shopping season. Does having savages lose on Chicago's streets do wonders for Michigan Avenue holiday retail revenue? Maybe you could ask
@SAKimFoxx
& her protectress,
@ToniPreckwinkle
?
The man accused of throwing a log like a javelin into a woman's head on the Magnificent Mile was ordered detained to await trial yesterday.
The victim, a flight attendant from out of town, remains unresponsive with significant brain and head injuries.
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Looking for John Kass? I left the Tribune but I've found a new home. And you're invited
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Chicago Democrats have killed a once-great city: 8 women robbed in 11 minutes overnight as Lincoln Park robbery problem grows and grows -
@CWBChicago
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Video: You can hear the woman screaming as she's mugged on a quiet Sunday afternoon in Lakeview---Chicago lawlessness brought by radical left-wing Democrats like
@JBPritzker
@chicagosmayor
&
@SAKimFoxx
,
@ToniPreckwinkle
H/T
@CWBChicago
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What happened to the riots, looting, where they screamed at cops, gave them the finger and threw iced water bottles at the heads of police? Oh, is there an election coming? Have you forgotten what the violent left did to the cities just a short time ago?
#Election2020
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
#Chicago
’s street gang wars are slaughtering children. put the memes away and lead. My column
@chicagotribune
@chicagosmayor
#twill
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