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How Right-Wing Media Keeps Baiting Chicago

How Right-Wing Media Keeps Baiting Chicago

Or -- How to Make Propaganda About the Most Boring Parts of Municipal Finance

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Explainers Don’t Explain Chicago Politics

Explainers Don’t Explain Chicago Politics

The only way to stop Mark Ruffalo Movie Crying when it comes to Chicago Politics is to understand power.

Andor Recap: The Space Procedural That Will Emotionally Wreck You

Andor Recap: The Space Procedural That Will Emotionally Wreck You

Recapping Andor, a Star Wars show about revolutions, power, and Diego Luna dissociating.

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The Only Way Pritzker Beats Trump Is By Making Illinois the Anti-Florida

The Only Way Pritzker Beats Trump Is By Making Illinois the Anti-Florida

Trump’s rewriting the rules. Illinois could rewrite the future.

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🚨 Chicago 312: Fake Budgets, Real Robots

🚨 Chicago 312: Fake Budgets, Real Robots

Chicago 312: A shutdown threat, made up revenue, rogue delivery robots, and South Shore tenants getting punished for surviving a federal raid.

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🚨 Chicago 312: Let's Fix the Budget Gap With An Alternate Reality Game Sponsored By ExxonMobil

🚨 Chicago 312: Let's Fix the Budget Gap With An Alternate Reality Game Sponsored By ExxonMobil

Chicago 312: A CPD consent decree check in, budget fighting, data centers, and moss doing more work than half our institutions.

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🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades

🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades

Chicago 312: budget standoff, pushback on DoorDash, the CHA in limbo, and why conservative media keeps winning the long game.

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Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Why organizers need vertical video, and how it builds narrative power.

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🚨 Chicago 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago Politics

🚨 Chicago 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: ICE in court, tons of post-shutdown fallout, and budget fights -- plus, a lot of discourse.

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What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Part of a new Chicago 312 segment on movement communications and narrative: what's working, what's not, and what's possible.

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🚨 Chicago 312: It's Not Their City

🚨 Chicago 312: It's Not Their City

Chicago 312: ICE raided a daycare. Springfield bailed out the trains. Chicago isn't Greg Bovino's city.

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🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)

🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)

Chicago 312: Rossana’s going full forensic accountant on Motorola and CDW, Greg Bovino’s taking thirst traps at the federal courthouse, and JB Pritzker is ghosting transit.

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🚨 Chicago 312: ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.

🚨 Chicago 312: ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.

Chicago 312: Chicago is capable of resisting and winning against ICE. It's a marathon not a sprint.

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🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week

🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week

Chicago 312: Federal troops, ICE in vans, fascist optics — all while Chicago continues budget season.

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🚨 ICE v. Bike

🚨 ICE v. Bike

Chicago 312: federal cops turning the city into a police state, local officials chasing Fox News airtime.

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🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview

🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview

Chicago 312: ICE militarized Broadview, Trump is the only one paying attention to the CTA cliff (bad news), and City Hall’s “budget menu” is still regressive.

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