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A skeptic not a cynic. Believer in responsible arithmetic: 🌈s and 🦄s aren't policy. Fact forward. 🚲 #WestLoop 🇺🇦
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This is your periodic reminder that we elected a mayor of Chicago with virtually no prior executive experience.
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You know what would have kept Dexter Reed from being killed? Him being in pre-trial detention for his first felony gun charge.
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In line to get in to a boarded up grocery store. Peak Chicago 2020.
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There really seems to be some sort of mass psychosis about ShotSpotter. It’s a simple technology that’s not very expensive in the scope of the police budget that accurately pinpoints gunfire and is deployed in areas where hundreds and hundreds of Black kids are shot every year.
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The Bernie Sanders rally recently let out, and it’s like a white hipster bomb went off here in the West Loop as they walk up Racine.
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This is what happens when you call out the BS of your elected officials.
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If you want stores in your neighborhood to stay open and new ones to want to open, create the conditions that attract them. Everything else is theatre.
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@beta_co_
@Enichan
@CaseyExplosion
The study is from Japan, which has relatively low levels of income inequality.
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@EricZorn
@CWBChicago
It’s a great site and as you note they get their facts straight. Who cares who they are? I don’t.
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@PaleHose2020
@chicagosmayor
Right, bacause contact with one masked hairdresser is just like a massive house party.
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ShotSpotter is an investment in public safety made on the South and West sides. Explain again why the progressive left wants to undo this investment?
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If you want to know how deeply unserious the Mayor’s transition report is, the 223-page report uses the word “pension” three times, none of which passages concern finances. 1/
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@MorganEliseJ
More disturbing than the violence itself? Whatever we think the right policy response is, let’s at least have our eyes open to what happened.
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@peoplesfabric
He was in fact carrying a loaded gun while out on a gun charge. He’s the reason why we have about 1000 dead young men every year in Chicago, the majority of them Black.
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@m_murse
@Jacktoshicoin
@Apollosviper
@CelsiusNetwork
I love everyone discovering the importance of regulation.
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@BobbyJones75187
@neomenshevist
@asubparusername
@zxzRigelzxz
Life expectancy, poverty, displacement. .
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@MurphskyWurfsky
@RepSwalwell
Regular folks can get vaccinated, get boosted, and wear a good mask. Not complicated.
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@Catherineoscopy
@Daniel_Laurison
No you can’t, which is why your pay is lower. Your pay reflects your actual outside options, not some fantasy in a tweet.
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@ZachRunsThings
There was also a reply suggesting he go two miles west, which I pointed out is the mean streets of the West Loop. LOL.
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@MatthewBorus
This is absurd. Police need to enforce the rules, and it should be made physically all but impossible to get there.
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@CamomileOgden
If this is the most blatant, seems like what you have is a difference of opinion.
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Chicago crime is neither as bad as outsiders say (“it’s the next Detroit”) nor as good as Pollyannaish insiders claim (“everything is fine, it’s just the media”).
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@alitlstrawberry
@unlmtdbredstix
You are, among other things, badly misunderstanding your Covid risk.
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I’d like to see a Lightfoot / Vallas runoff purely to see how the CTU handles it.
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@thejtlewis
@patg00
It’s obviously a reference to total cases. You’re really reaching, which tells me you got nothing.
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@SwannMarcus89
@etubruton
Very hard to advocate for Palestinians in the US when their public face is a brutal terrorist group. Hard to think of a people that have been cursed with worse leadership.
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@CWBChicago
@JussieSmollett
Hard to see anything. If I had to guess, I’d say two men, probably African American.
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Chicago election Twitter will make a lot more sense over the next 5 weeks if you have a working definition of “fascist”, namely someone who disagrees with the poster on nuanced questions of public safety.
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@RogueKite
@shayanparsai
The person who is in denial is you. Voting third party is a wasted vote that you are making solely for your own vanity, not trying to make a difference in the world.
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@RobertJPeters
@ILRaiseYourHand
If we are going to look at root causes, family life is one of them.
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Pretty ironic that after fighting for years for an elected school board (terrible idea, but here we are), the CTU and the current unelected school board are tying to dismantle the selective enrollment system before an elected school board is constituted.
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Ballot referenda should be subject to a minimum turnout requirement.
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@CentristMadness
The fact that intelligence is heritable isn’t eugenics. It’s well established biology.
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@coreteachers
Are you just ignoring the part where he had a loaded gun AFTER being charged with a gun crime?
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@CriticaSinMiedo
@charliekirk11
Yes, 66% of *VEP*, which means you can’t apply it to *registered voters*, which are a smaller subset of the vote eligible population. Your calculations are therefore meaningless.
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@RitawWang
Enforcing a rule against camping out on private property doesn’t implicate the right of assembly.
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@beasharif
@MelissaAFrancis
He can’t admit it now. He’s facing real jail time, particularly with respect to the letter.
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@neomenshevist
@asubparusername
@zxzRigelzxz
But these lines are reflective of conditions in each country.
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@Mark_J_Perry
It’s almost like the Asian population here is the result of some sort of selection process.
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@HornedPoet
@mattyglesias
It’s a recipe for missing a lack of fundamental understanding. For one thing, once you get beyond high school, the “show” part (i.e. the proof) *is* the work.
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@amrourk
@FIVRE604
@CharlieDeMar
@cbschicago
It’s not illegal to get paid to fake an attack. The illegal part is reporting it as a crime.
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There was a sexual assault at Bartelme in the middle of the afternoon today involving what looked to be a food delivery bike driver and a woman sitting there working on her laptop. For those of you in the RWL Facebook group, his picture is up and he has a very distinctive pack.
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@abluecanary
Was it because of what the sign said or because it was a giant sign blocking views?
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The difference between a national endorsement (eg Bernie) and a local endorsement (eg Sawyer) is that the latter has their ear to the local voters and the former just picked his or her ideological comrade.
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Johnson won’t commit to keeping Whitney Young open as a selective enrollment school.
During press gaggle, Johnson was asked nine times by three diff reporters about whether he would get rid of selective enrollment schools. His responses indicate dissatisfaction with the application process, but not a clear yes or no on what would change
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@CWBChicago
Why are we letting hearing-skipping gun-toting animal abusers back on the street?
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@ChicagoPD19
Refusing to get a safe and effective shot that protects you and others is a childish act of selfishness and ignorance.
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This is the same guy who lost his mind last week when a gun-carrying man out on bail for a gun charge was stopped by the police.
Over the last hour, 10 people have been shot in Chicago & several were children as young as 7 years old. We need leadership to get tough on our streets, it’s been time to hold folks accountable for their recklessness.
Next week the mayor is pushing through another 70 million
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@CPD1617Scanner
Really brilliant idea to put a luxury grocer there. Meanwhile the Pete’s at Madison and Western does just fine.
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@Diffdrum1
@BauerJournalism
@BlockClubCHI
I want police chasing people, especially the ones responsible for all the murders.
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@GdnUSsports
I don’t know why you can’t hold two thoughts in your head at once — we can treat trans people with dignity while still protecting female (XX) athletic competition from XY competitors with a biological advantage.
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@Seamus_Malek
Maybe don’t let Hezbollah use your country as a base for Iran’s attacks on Israel.
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@audibleonion
@mattyglesias
Wage theft is a violation of law that’s harmful and to stop it we need to enforce the laws against it. I have never understood why this is supposed to be some sort of gotcha.
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@CWBChicago
Decisions like these punish engaged policing and are going to have long-term consequences for bringing gun violence down.
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Had to drop a kid off on the West Side this morning. There’s so much lawless, aggressive driving out there. And that’s above a high baseline everywhere.
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Turning it off isn’t going to make any difference in my wealthy, high trust neighborhood.
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@RobBobUK5
@mhysamonroe
@itsdaddan
@CartoonsHateHer
This is all so strange. Taking care of a baby is rewarding work for moms and dads. The absent dads are missing out.
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@mairaka
He was carrying a gun and out on a felony gun charge. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WE WANT POLICE STOPPING!
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We need two political parties in Chicago, and I don’t mean D and R. We need more like D and DSA, with primaries for each.
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@silent_irate
@detroitdoshdoll
@AttorneyScruggs
The average home price probably doesn’t take in to account renters. The question you are pondering requires data on the income of the average home owner, which surely exceeds the average neighborhood resident.
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@mxnotarobot
@willystaley
Because maybe they are little whiners encountering academic rigor for the first time ever.
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@BlockClubCHI
How much main and suffering would be prevented by keeping carjackers detained pre-trial?
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