A primary reason for this is the anti-democratic gerontocracy of the DNC. In the 2020 primaries, Biden was essentially ushered through past a weak sheepdog pantomime from Bernie. In 2024 there was no Dem primary, just a wobbly screen pass that QB2 Harris flipped right to Trump for the easy pick.
He’s gonna be the next one who gets “accidentally” shot by another cop.
Democrats seriously need a lot more purity testing. It’s gotten to the point where hating trans people, criminalizing the homeless, and committing genocide are acceptable (and losing) policy positions. Yep, need to put that party through a few more filters of human decency if they want to win more
Bush laid the structural foundations for Trump to militarize the state against its people in his War on Terror. So he doesn't get off as a lovable doofus. Biden did over his career beefing up incarceration & policing culminating in a presidency that allowed cops to kill more than ever before.
Purity tests are good, actually. Any candidate that doesn't strongly, vocally support trans rights is immediately a no for me.
What a collaborating weasel.
This probably won't be news to anyone here, but as a Chicagoan, supporting CPD is morally and ethically equivalent to supporting Trump.
It’s time to start burning the thin blue line flag. It’s divisive and stupid
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This ICE agent has been seen around Chicago for months leading raids and removal teams. If you think you recognize him, please shoot us a message—anonymity always protected
How many people say ‘authoritarianism’ instead of ‘fascism’ because they want to maintain the fiction that fascism and socialism are the same thing because they not-too-secretly prefer fascism to socialism?
Police do traffic stops in unmarked cars to cause confusion *on purpose.* It makes drivers more paranoid, people generally don't recognize vehicles without markings as "real police" and may be more confrontational or questioning. In turn the cops frame them as aggressive or uncooperative.
Hot pizza puffs split open and launched.
Chicago already has unmarked cars of goons driving around doing dangerous traffic stops and killing people periodically in the process. There's no way a multiplication of that doesn't lead to someone getting hurt or worse
Every day I get more convinced this was an internal hit covering up cops committing crimes and running guns which she seemed to be getting close to finding out about
She looked too hard into the Glock that went missing in the station after the buyback, going through the personal belongings of other cops and cooperating with investigators so they did a Serpico on her.
Finally, I said years ago, and folks who have followed me for a long time know this is true, that defunding the police was a moderate demand that is actually the basement in terms of what's needed. I said that liberals will be deeply sorry that they turned that demand into some kind of bogeyman.
Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag. Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...
I like to make breakfast sandwiches, sliders and burritos.
Ald. Gardiner bragged about this so much. Guess now he is the guy who lost Trader Joe's.
There was a fatal stabbing 5 years ago at Richard’s Bar which I believe is a cop hangout where the smoking ban is ignored. blockclubchicago.org/2020/03/05/m...
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“historic courage” Dude is a stooge of USA/NATO. Doocy is vile, but those questions at this point are spot on. Ukraine is finished, and the days of Zelensky’s puppet government are numbered. If he’s as clever as I think he is, then he’s already furnished his flat in London and opened his bank acct.
Looks like two came back overnight but all of them should have.
Dude probably caught an extra charge for “causing” that to happen.
I don’t lend out books anymore, after a few times of getting them back with bent spines, dog eared pages, ripped dust covers, Cheeto dust fingerprints or not returned at all, no more lol. If there's a book I really think someone should read, I'll buy them a copy before they get mine.
Maybe the only public ritual I hate more than 4 July fireworks is the air show in August (in Chicago). Once again, it’s particularly obscene this year, as we’re nearly two years into directly arming and supplying a genocide overseas. Using the same hardware for entertainment is unforgivable hubris.
The Zionist entity occupying Palestine is more than just a white supremacist, genocidal settler-colonial state. It is also a forward operating base for Eurocentric Global North empire, and a working laboratory for oppressive and inhumane technologies. The holocaust being inflicted against Palestine—
I’m sure there are differing opinions about this, but I believe the gratuitous focus on Donald Trump being a convicted felon is either pointless or counterproductive. His convictions brought him zero consequences, and in fact reinforced that the criminal system has nothing to do with justice.
Cops don’t deserve to have collective bargaining agreements.
as lollapalooza comes to an end, let’s turn our attention/ire to another summertime nuisance soon to arrive: the air and water show
Racist FOP Prez John Catanzara giving public comment at CCPSA’s meeting tonight, opened up by attacking Commissioner Abierre Minor, demanding that she look at him while he’s speaking.
The correct way to address Nazis marching in your streets.
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MAGA in a nutshell. Convicted sex offender Lawrence Taylor to Trump: "I don't know why. I don't know what we're supposed to be doing, but I'm here to serve, and I'm here to serve you."
Israeli settlers aren't civilians, they're armed violent colonizers. They murder Palestinians with impunity. They burn down Palestinian homes with impunity. They attack Palestinians with the backing of the Israeli army. Israeli settler violence isn't an anomaly, it's a feature
“Diego Garcia, another longtime friend of Herrera, said he had walked the neighborhood Friday and learned that police hadn’t requested surveillance footage from nearby businesses.” A night & day difference when a cop is killed or injured versus almost anyone else.
I don't want to hear shit about vote blue no matter who when it will cost the Dems nothing not to make a monster like Rahm Emanuel—who covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald, closed 50 schools and half our city's publicly funded mental health clinics, and also is a transphobe—the nominee.
Haha I learned about them when I was 16 at my first job at a fish market, there were no shortage of jokes.
His insistence that he “ate a brownie” is totally sus, like do people actually make weed brownies anymore in this day and age with all the ready made edibles out there? And then put them out on a table at a backyard BBQ? It’s such an outdated cliche and laughable stretch of the imagination.
At the risk of sounding sanctimonious...this *is* America. That's the thing! This man in body armor? His job only exists because slave patrols existed. You can't change your future if you don't acknowledge your history, and well
I’m not thrilled about it only because the guy was a cop, but Mr. Rogers gets a pass.
— there are probably enough voters even in Chicago who would be willing to let Rahm’s foul history pass, especially given how demoralized and debased the Democratic base has become since falling in line behind Biden/Harris’s live-streamed genocide and then fumbling another POTUS election to Trump.
— Rahm’s decision to not seek another term hints at just how exposed he considered himself politically, if not legally. Even winning another term would have proven a Pyrrhic victory; he might’ve spent much of his term in civil court and battling continued political fallout from the scandal. Still—
My guess is that many people in my general part of town (Lakeview, Ravenswood, North Center, the far NW side, etc., i.e. Rahm’s base), found Rahm’s behavior (and, by extension, that of CPD) acceptable. I believe Rahm could conceivably have won another term, in fact. That said—
Only a trash country could fix its collective mouth to utter the phrase ‘safety net hospital’ without irony. The fascists are capitalizing on pre-existing systemic violence. They’re not changing direction, they’re just flooring it.
I would like to join the chorus of people pointing out that 🇺🇸 Marines on 🇺🇸 soil acting as extra muscle for baby-snatching Gestapo pigs is a sure sign that this settler-colonial republic is cooked. We’d best be working on putting together some things that will survive beyond its collapse
When liberals make said assertion, they don’t actually want anything more than the pretense of doing good or mitigating harm. They want to look in the mirror and say (as if talking to the poors), ‘See? We did our best. Why aren’t you grateful?’ then go back to enjoying the fruits of the status quo.
Happening now: Elected officials and organizers in Chicago denounce an apparent show of force/reconnaissance mission by ICE/DHS yesterday at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture. Ald. Jesse Fuentes:
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I will bring this up forever if they follow through on this. Vote Blue No Matter Who dies with this
To establishment Dems, the biggest threat to their money and status isn’t Trump or the GOP, it’s young, charismatic progressives who they know will be more popular in a primary. That’s why they’re freaking out about Mamdani
The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 called for dismantling the NOAA, which provides warnings of natural disasters, such as the deadly floods in Texas. The irony is that Heritage wanted these cuts because it’s angry that NOAA helps prove the reality of climate change--the thing causing floods.
It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Whenever you hear someone start talking about Oct. 7, 2023 with, ‘what Hamas did was horrible…’, understand how that reinforces a Big Lie. The Al-Aqsa Flood was meant to take hostages, not commit mass slaughter. The mass slaughter was the handiwork of the IOF. electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...
I’m still sad about Hot Doug’s closing, he was 2 1/2 blocks away.
I was so happy when Jim’s opened up their north side location, it’s less than 10 minutes away from me now.
“What gutters?”
Yeah ours are actually interested, they go to the window and look out.
Probably gonna order some Chinese food later, just like Xmas.
“…when Congress forms a paramilitary to enforce white nationalist ideology, and calls it democracy, they’re not betraying the founders, they’re fulfilling their promise.” www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hR7UjM/
Romanucci zeroed in on a complaint in which a woman alleged Baker flashed a gun at her at a North Side bar & swore at her while she was on a date with another man. “Those aren’t even warning signs…those are just career killers.” Unfortunately, at CPD that’s more likely to lead to promotion.
democrats are sandbagging their own nominee for mayor while the nazi president threatens to deport him. "blue no matter who" was just a scam to get you comfortable with fascism, good job falling for it numbnuts
a lot of leftists said this was coming and were told we were hysterical by very serious liberals
Theydies & gentlethems, this person is not being ironic. They are clearly rehashing what I like to call Nader Math to smear Green Party candidates & supporters. This is not only unscientific; it is also morally deficient. Democrats lose because they are awful, not because a few people want better.
The Chicago Police Department overspent its 2024 budget by $207 million, according to city data. Even though it had a 2024 budget of nearly $2B,CPD spent $127M more on personnel and $80M more to resolve misconduct lawsuits than called for, according to the 2024 audit. @wttw.bsky.social
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If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.
The vote blue no matter who thing is just propaganda centrists use to shame progressives into backing them. They don’t ever reciprocate and would rather lose to MAGA than let someone in the progressive wing win.
This liberal/Dem framing of an issue - ‘Trump went about trying to do the wrong thing in the wrong way, unlike our people who do the wrong thing the correct way’ - goes well beyond Trump’s attempt to crush Iran’s sovereignty and is indicative of why we are where we are right now.
Also not to disparage cyclists, but a guy like that without a car smells like a history of multiple DUIs.
This very much seems like stating the obvious, but: our parks aren't safe for Black kids when the people responsible for keeping them from drowning are killing them. Where are they supposed to go? You cannot extricate this incident from the cursed "snap curfew" proposal. It's all related.
If you put all of your state’s official violence in the hands of fascists, then none of your other institutions are worth more than the whims of fascists.
“…a culture of impunity…” I was born into the late 1960s. Popular culture was heavily populated with accounts both documentary & fictional of the European Holocaust that had taken place only a couple of decades before I was born. All the accounts shared one theme: that this event was so horrible—
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Turns out the liberal tradition of feeding and nurturing fascists and continually slackening their leashes so they can maul the restive (and ever expanding) margins into submission and then hoping you can outmaneuver or placate the fascists when they get too powerful wasn’t sustainable.
Thanks, RBG.
not all jews are zionists, and the majority of zionists are not jewish but are instead white evangelical christians who believe that jews all need to be in one place called israel when jesus returns and they all get damned to hell for rejecting him so no, they are not inextricably linked
She looked too hard for a gun that was clearly stolen by another cop, went looking through their personal belongings and then talked to investigators about it. They probably did a Serpico on her.
He’s not bullshitting this time, I’ve been on many of those. We would document the incident with medical control and then leave in the ambulance while the FFs mand wagon cops would be getting ready to remove the “stinker”, as they termed it. Sometimes they would wear their SCBAs and still puke.
