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GA girl. #1u poli(cy/tics) #chicago & #twill. works for @afscme31. #catholic. wife. mama. @agnesscott, @hhhschool alum. 🧵 galore. views mine.

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Very excited to share something we built at @EconomicSecProj: the Affordability Dashboard. There's a bunch of scattered data, national and state, I'm always pulling, stuff useful for politicos, reporters, and activists on affordability, so we vibe-coded it all into one place. /1
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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There are no words. ICE agents ate lunch at a small local Mexican restaurant in Minnesota, enjoyed their meal, then came back later that night as the restaurant was closing down and arrested the people who had served them.
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an, er, unfortunate place to split a two-page headline 😭😭
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This is a disturbing court filing: A top ICE official ā€œshockingly answered ā€˜No’ when asked if he agreed ā€˜agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?ā€™ā€
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American politics is in a totally good place
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Someone in the crowd: ā€œGo Cubs!ā€ Pope Leo XIV: ā€œHan perdido! They lost!ā€
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Chicago running the table on patriarchs rn
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Thirty employees of the Chicago Sun-Times — around one in five on its payroll — have agreed to resign under buyout terms the paper’s nonprofit ownership offered in hopes of stanching persistent financial deficits. chicago.suntimes.com/money/2…
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Honestly, not living in IL throughout the Blago years, I thought it was mostly about the Senate seat too. I encourage you to listen to Public Official A to get a full picture of the corruption. All the episodes are available here: wbez.org/shows/public-offici…
.@WBEZ has been killing it with their political podcasts. Enjoying this one on Blago, hosted by ⁦@davemckinney⁩, b/c I missed that era but it’s constantly referenced + hangs over a lot. wbez.org/shows/public-offici…
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BRING BACK VINE
The Supreme Court rules the ban on TikTok can go into effect this weekend, rejecting the appeal to stop it.
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I was most excited about the skylight restoration and it does not disappoint (at least from what I can see in the photos).
The Illinois Senate has a fresh new look! (I wouldn’t know, it’s my first time in here)
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This is what it looks like when Chicago alderpeople debate for hours…
City Council finally passes Johnson's $17.3B budget — with no property tax hike chicago.suntimes.com/mayor-b… by @fspielman
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I'm so grateful to have hometown outlets like @injusticewatch, @Suntimes @WBEZ @chalkbeatCHI (just to name a few) that put together voter guides for local judges and the all-important school board race. Local news for the win!
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If I’m @VP, I pay @KevOnStage, Tony Baker and Takia to make this a campaign ad ASAPtually. Y’all watch until the end.
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Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school closure.
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16 Shots CuriousCity Motive Public Official A Making Nerdette South Side Stories For years @wbez has been producing gripping and informative podcasts that invite listeners to form a deeper connection with this city. We’ll all be worse off without them.
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This is unbelievably sad. The third CPS student killed right after school in less than a week. 2 CPS high school students killed in Loop shooting: ā€˜It feels normalized when it shouldn’t be’ chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2…
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It’s so classically Chicago that this park is currently named after a Capone-era public official who did time for tax evasion.
Neighbors said they were "ghosted" by the Park District as they pushed to honor Rogers Park’s first Black residents. blockclubchi.co/426DoSY
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