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"All columnists should be beaten to a pulp and converted back into paper!"
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That headline writer has a bright future
On your day off from school, curl up with this week's issue of The Phoenix!
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CBS News poll: By 56-44 margin, Americans want statewide mask mandates, while 57 percent of parents want masks required in schools, compared to 36 percent who want them optional
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Has Facebook tried rubbing ivermectin paste on its servers?
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UPDATE: Pritzker office responds to GOP complaints about mask mandate: "Republicans need to spend less time complaining about doctors’ recommendations for ending this pandemic and more time actually trying to end it – by encouraging their supporters to get vaccinated"
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Republican Mark Curran has conceded to Democrat Elizabeth Rochford in the 2nd Illinois Supreme Court District
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UPDATE: Pritzker campaign: "The next mayor of Chicago may be called upon to lead in a similar type of emergency and residents deserve to know if their next Mayor will listen to experts or instead to right wing talk show hosts when making decisions about people’s lives"
Vallas said that Pritzker’s executive orders allowed governor to act like a “dictator”
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NY Times says the tornado hit the Amazon building in Edwardsville at 8:35 pm. A tornado warning was issued for that locale at 8:06 pm. What, if anything, did Amazon do to protect its workers?
Tornado Warning including Saint Louis MO, Saint Charles MO, Florissant MO until 8:45 PM CST
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Bailey reacts to IL Supreme Court ruling by vowing to commit suicide by cop
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The only thing "botched " about the raid on Anjanette Young's home was that a wrong address was targeted. *Everything after that* was done on purpose. Everything.
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This has been going around all day and somebody finally explained to me what it meant.🤣 Maybe I should get out more
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My rapid test came back negative. PCR test scheduled tomorrow. I feel fine. No symptoms. Please, people, get vaccinated.
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Ban kids from going to the park and then act all surprised when they go to McDonald's instead
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Florida's positivity rate was 2.54 percent on June 6. That's almost exactly where Illinois is today. Florida's positivity rate today is *12.39* percent. A lot can change in 2 weeks. Please wear a mask
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Whoa. The racists are truly out in force in the replies
Just 68 years ago, Emmett Till was only 14 when he was lynched by white supremacists.
The creation of this monument is an important step in remembering his and his mother Mamie’s stories and the legacy of the horrors of racism.
We must never forget or diminish their history.
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All residents and staff at state veterans homes have now been offered the vaccine. Check out this tiny staff acceptance rate. Heads need to roll and the union needs to step the heck up
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Park Ridge library had to close *again* today. Hearing about a dozen Illinois libraries have received threats in recent days
Libraries in Morton Grove, Park Ridge, Gurnee and Wilmette have reported receiving threats.
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Only politician I've ever seen cheered at a Chicago ballpark was Jesse White. Otherwise, politicians get booed. Even presidents. And every time people make a big deal out of it for some reason.
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I am on a porch overlooking the ocean near the equator. The night sky is crystal clear and I can see every star. It's warm with a strong breeze. Everything is perfect. I won't be tweeting for awhile. Goodnight
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Pritzker on why state is stepping in: Chicago ‘isn’t moving fast enough’ and ‘We cannot have people freezing on the streets of Chicago’ and the city did not make the case to legislature for direct funding
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Rep. Buckner: ‘If the federal government cannot adequately deal with the housing issue for tenured Chicagoans and our new arrivals, then Chicago and Illinois should be prepared to rescind the offer to host the DNC’
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Posted on my blog but thought I'd tweet it out as well since it's a Twitter thingy
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Moody’s upgrades Illinois’ credit rating for second time in less than a year
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CNBC: Illinois moves from 30th to 15th top state for business
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An unrepentant convicted felon and incorrigible proven liar should not be given a free pass to say whatever comes out of his putrid mouth without even questioning it. Stop giving credence to this clown's ravings. /rant
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During the storm yesterday, my neighborhood USPS person delivered a package to my doorstep.
#StuffWeTakeForGranted
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Just in case you're considering it, voting twice in Illinois is a Class 3 felony punishable by 2-5 years in prison. Also, by law, no votes can be tabulated until polls close at 7 pm on election day. Showing up on election day to see if your vote was counted is useless
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I didn't realize I surpassed 30k followers. Thanks! 14 years and still no blue check. We don't need no stinking badges!
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Scabby the Rat survives
Today, a majority of the Board found that a union’s use of rats or other inflatables, along with other bannering activity, does not violate the National Labor Relations Act, even when targeting a neutral employer. Read more:
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He’s saying somebody hacked his account in order to like random racist/offensive posts going back months? Was there a body double at those two Awake Illinois events? Does he not actually prefer ketchup on hot dogs? Are we in a John le Carré novel?
After first saying he would track down the campaign volunteers who liked bigoted posts, Paul Vallas now tells
@cbschicago
his
@paulvallas
account was hacked
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Governor believes he has something valuable to barter
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Reporters should probably be pointing this stuff out in their stories
So...driving 24 miles round trip to fill up your tank...to save 9 cents a gallon. If you drive a midsize car you save under 1.50 in gas tax on a 15 gal. tank while using nearly a gallon of gas. Congrats, you saved negative $1.50 and wasted an hour of your life.
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Absolutely NOBODY is being "locked down." C'mon. Enough with the panic-inciting clickbait headlines. Don't we have enough problems right now without this?
Pritzker issues lockdown order requiring Illinois residents ‘shelter in place’ starting Saturday at 5 p.m.
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UPDATE: Call for inspector general probe of Rep. Chris Miller
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Gorgeous city visuals and an exciting, new type of NASCAR race. Plus, Chicago watches when they’re the center of attention. Huge number of eyeballs and that drives ratings. NASCAR needs to up the payout tho. A lot. Chicago is now essential to its comeback. $$$
NASCAR's first-ever street race in Chicago averaged 4.63 million viewers on NBC.
That makes it the network's most-watched NASCAR race in six years and the 2nd most-watched NASCAR race this year behind the Daytona 500.
Huge numbers for NASCAR 📈
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The real heroes of this crisis are the people who do the work we took for granted. I'd add to this list those who keep our water, electric and natural gas services operating. Sanitation workers, HVAC, plumbers, electricians, manufacturing workers, bank and credit union staff...
While many of us are staying home, others are continuing to work to provide essential services. ⚙️ Doctors, nurses, mail carriers, grocery store workers, gas station attendants, and everyone else whose work keeps our communities going: Thank you.
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Somebody had to say it
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I felt extra grumpy over the weekend, so I apologized to 2 people for my attitude today (including my mom), and they both said they couldn't tell the difference. Man. I'm so sorry
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I still miss JBT and think about her all the time.
On this date in 1994, Judy Baar Topinka was elected Illinois State Treasurer, the first woman to hold that post.
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Props to the LG for destygmatizing what is now legal and normal
Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton makes a purchase as Sunnyside Lakeview opens in the first minutes of legal recreational cannabis in Illinois
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All the problems in the world and this state legislator needs to make himself the hero of a fairytale about imaginary oppression. People are such drama queens
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I asked a professional reporter on the scene of the
#chicagoprotest
today how many folks were wearing face coverings that he could see from his vantage point. "Almost all" was the reply.
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US Census admits it undercounted Illinois population by 2 percent
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I think I'd probably better deposit that Bloomberg ad check soonish.
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"First the mask, then the vaccine. What's next?" I dunno, maybe economic recovery and declining death rates?
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What I've learned over the years (Rauner, Quinn, Blagojevich) is it's almost never a staffing issue. It's the principal
Just got this email via FOIA — more insight about City Hall staffing/turnover/culture under Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Read our May story also
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Rep. Buckner says Bears’ stadium demands “boil down to a $6 billion privately held company that doesn’t want to pay taxes”
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People. We are all Americans. Please stop this
Russian Tea Time restaurant in downtown Chicago was founded by Ukrainians. Now it faces misplaced backlash. Story by
@angie_leventis
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My paternal grandfather LaVerne and his sister Nelda at the 1933-34 World's Exposition in Chicago
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Now explain George Ryan
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It wasn't an interview. He was substituting for Dan Proft on WIND radio. He made the comments on the show as a coh-host
Vallas says his past “dictator” comments about Gov. Pritzker were “really focused on the CTU”: “Look, I've done 4000 interviews … Some people could pick something and argue that I'm too far to the left … you don't know how they splice things or what they pull up.”
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Don't get me wrong. I love the show. But the more I think about it, Joe Exotic reminds me of Rod Blagojevich
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UPDATE: Turns out, Lipinski couldn't run as an independent anyway because he said he took a Democratic primary ballot last month
Daniel Lipinski: Instead of running for Congress, I want to help build the emerging ‘Independents Movement’
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Rep. Curtis Tarver (D-Chicago)
Alright, what member of of the Illinois House is this?
Brief look at state law, House plates are assigned by length of time served, with lowest numbers going to those who have served the longest.
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Oppo: Vallas on Trump impeachment in 2021 while on Proft's radio show: “I always felt that it was a witch hunt.”
UPDATE: Vallas releases statement attacking Trump after reports of NY indictment
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The disclaimer above the ad claims this is a political advertisement, but no such campaign committee has registered with the state and no such LLC exists. So, who paid for it,
@suntimes
?
Wow‼️ On page 3 of the
@Suntimes
- highlighting
@ChicagosMayor
major wins in his first 10 months of office. Big progressive moves 🫡
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With 52 of 52 precincts counted (and some mail still to come) all three of Awake Illinois' candidates are trailing in the Quincy School District 172 race (Kaufman, Allen and Randolph). Quincy is pretty darned conservative.
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With 57.6% of the votes tabulated, Awake Illinois' Elmhurst SD 205 candidates are all losing (Nudera, Li, Chavez and Esker Schaer)
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Still no symptoms at all and got an easy-peasy PCR test today at Walgreen's drive-thru. Was told to expect results in 3-5 days, so lots of folks must be getting themselves tested. Please, get vaccinated.
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Study links big Chicago youth homicide spike to Rauner budget impasse
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This is the exact opposite of what usually happens in Illinois when somebody moves to the top of the legislative food chain
New IL Senate President
@HarmonForSenate
tells
@AmandaVinicky
he will be leaving his law firm to focus full time on his public job. That law firm has in the past been involved in business with state govt.
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Illinois’ statewide mask mandate appears to be working when compared to the plight of other Midwestern states
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Hey
@suntimes
you know I love you, you even publish my columns, but your website can be so annoying. Even when I enter my username/password for my paid subscription (for the umpteenth time) I still get this overlay. Please, please fix at least this. Thank you! 💕
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Famous person reports attack = News
Cops say investigating as possible hate crime = News
Cop sources doubt person's allegations = News
Alleged victim doubles down = News
Cops arrest and release two persons of interest = News
People who use ↑↑↑ to bash news reporters = Morons
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US Rep. Mary Miller at DC rally: “Hitler was right on one thing. He said ‘Whoever has the youth has the future’”
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That's some staff dedication right there
Majority Whip Durbin said he’s keeping his comments “brief” ☔️
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Excellent thread on digital security, but make sure you read to the end for an extraordinary revelation
A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6
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Imagine being so racist that you would boycott a restaurant for donating money to Black small business owners.
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It's 2021. Email has been available for decades. Please don't hit "reply all" when asking the sender a question. Also, for you senders, try this newfangled thing called BCC. Thank you kindly, but I cannot believe this is still happening
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One of the reasons why ballot-counting lasts up to two weeks in Illinois and elsewhere is because overseas ballots from active-duty military members take time to trickle in - and those votes can be crucial in super-close races. Something to consider on this Veterans Day holiday.
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Marie Newman, mapped into the 4th CD, says she will run for reelection in 6th District, likely against Sean Casten
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Could you just do this please so we can all get a semblance of normalcy?
CDC says the coronavirus pandemic could be under control in four to eight weeks if everyone wore a mask starting now
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Illinois’ paid tourism spokesperson
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Campaign signs include a legally required "paid for by" disclosure. These are therefore not campaign signs. They're litter.
Wild seeing State Rep Theresa Mah personally remove campaign signs critical of her outside the Columbia Explorers Academy polling location, and put them in her trunk before driving away. The signs were with the rest of the campaign signs past the electioneering cones.
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The contract that he just negotiated? What?
BREAKING: Mayor Brandon Johnson's office is now asking the City Council to reject a tentative contract deal that would enable the union for most
#Chicago
cops to bypass the Police Board and, instead, contest the most serious discipline cases behind closed doors in
#arbitration
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