Top business leader demands end to stalemate over City Council's pick for Zoning chair Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce President Jack Lavin said more than 40 development projects have been stalled by City Council's failure to agree on new permanent chair for the powerful Zoning Committe...

Is anything going well at city hall?

There has been a joke going around Labour MPs over the past week about three envelopes in Soviet Russia. “Whenever you run into trouble, open them in order,” the instructions go. Envelope one says: “Blame your predecessor.” So he does – and it works. The party officials are satisfied. A year later, problems arise again. He opens envelope two. It says: “Restructure the organisation.” He does a big reshuffle, changes some titles, and again buys himself some time. Finally, another crisis comes. He opens envelope three. It says: “Prepare three envelopes.”

Here's a good Soviet joke from tehgraun that I hadn't seen before.
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Yup, that’s the program. Has been for centuries. The battles look different but it’s the same old war against white supremacy that my parent’s generation thought they won. Boy, were they wrong on that.

The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence.
https://cnn.it/4lS986O

If you don’t live in a place, shut the fuck up about that place. The people there have it under control unless they’re asking for help. I don’t know shit about a one stoplight farm town. Not my business. Don’t live in Chicago, New York, LA, DC? Let us be.

We got a real-life VEEP series playing out on the 5th floor. Would be funny if it wasn’t our schools, transit, and city services on the line.

MAGA policy is composed primarily of ideas derived from comic book villains. Can’t have healthcare, but we’ll put a reactor on the moon.

Not just Illinois. The private opulence, public squalor program is not working. Seems like it’s all falling down around us and meanwhile we keep finding new ways to give more and more to the wealthiest Americans.

I hope if reincarnation is real I return as a mischievous bear.

This is evil

Stands basically idle while CTA tumbles toward a funding doomsday, but has big ideas on smoking. What a guy!

Trump Not Like Us YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

This is how you do it. Muppets on the attack.

“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.” -Navalny

Amen.

So federal immigration enforcement called into the CPD center to request assistance and they got it because CPD did the crowd control that allowed the deportations to proceed. Should be a far larger scandal and we shouldn’t still be waiting on an investigation. There will only be more of this.

a man is laying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask in his mouth . ALT: a man is laying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask in his mouth .

Live look at the US Constitution…

This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.

This is just the beginning of city cuts. Buckle up.

"Before you know it all you got is bankrupt states." @pingree.house.gov‬ of Maine tells it like it is in a dynamite conversation with @jenrubin.bsky.social

This is absolutely disgusting. At a time where our transit system is facing an existential threat, the Mayor doesn’t even bother conducting a good faith search for a new leader? Then dithers and hopes while Springfield plays politics with the region’s circulatory system. This is dereliction of duty.

TACO

Trump warns 'any' protesters at military parade will be 'met with heavy force' President Donald Trump threatened to use force against those who protest the military parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the Army on Saturday, June 14.

He’s scared and should be. Keep going, everyone. History and the constitution are with us! The people united can never be defeated.

Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story. Only 6,500 participants have enrolled in a program that has cost taxpayers more than $86 million — a warning for other states looking to impose restrictions on Medicaid in a second Trump presidency.

Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform.

Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

(Published Feb. 2025)

He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental h...

NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers.

By @maxblau.bsky.social

Good to hear AI will help me reduce my carbon footprint, as I've been running my microwave for 19 hours a day for the last three years and have yet to receive a single video of a dog speaking Spanish.

They’re going to be cutting Medicare too as they rack up an additional $2.3 trillion to our national debt. All to give money to rich people and corporations that are already rolling in cash. Down with MAGA!

Freedom to get sick and die. Way to go, MAGAts.

Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says New Jersey's interim U.S. attorney wrote on social media that Rep. LaMonica McIver is facing a charge of assaulting, impeding or interfering with law enforcement during an immigration protest May 9. N...

Not having court filings available for public review when announcing charges is horseshit. This is intimidation, plain and simple. The stuff of dictatorial regimes.

The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.

You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

MAGA rips healthcare from Americans to line the pockets of those who have more money than can be spent in a lifetime or even three. Democrats may have forgotten the regular people, MAGA is straight up fucking them.

Son says Alabama mother of six detained by ICE after 25 years in the U.S. Micala Pascual would be separated from an 11-year-old child if she is deported, her son said on Facebook

She showed up for her annual check in… www.al.com/news/2025/05...