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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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🚨 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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🚨 just in time for tornado season

🚨 just in time for tornado season

Chicago 312: ICE is here no matter how National Guard drama plays out, Chicago’s budget “solutions” lean regressive, and the Charlie Kirk narrative machine is already rewriting history.

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Chicago 312: What Would You Do With 2 Million a Day?

Chicago 312: What Would You Do With 2 Million a Day?

Take 2!

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🚨 Soft Balkanization

🚨 Soft Balkanization

Chicago 312: Is it time to say the quiet part out loud? What will it take?

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🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨

🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨

Chicago 312: Chicago crime is at a 60-year low — but somehow we’re getting ICE, National Guard threats, and financially draining CPD lawsuits. You know what this could fund instead? MENTAL HEALTHCARE. Which we need for all the climate news.

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💥 Chicago v. Trump

💥 Chicago v. Trump

Chicago 312: the National Guard's staging at the Great Lakes, what it really costs to not fund transit, pressure on hospitals about gender affirming care, and why Chicago doctors who worked in Gaza are calling to ‘block the bombs’.

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Pension Payment Hot Potato

Pension Payment Hot Potato

Chicago 312: From Dexter Reed’s case to pensions to the Tribune losing its film critic, we're trying to pass the buck... or the potato? Which is hot?

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Why J.K. Rowling Thinks She’s Speaking Truth to Power

Why J.K. Rowling Thinks She’s Speaking Truth to Power

Jessica Mitford fought Franco, segregationists, McCarthy, and the American funeral industry, humiliating the powerful. JK Rowling named her daughter after Mitford, then spent seven years attacking... trans women. Why?

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Chicago is a City of Haters

Chicago is a City of Haters

Chicago 312: Trump’s power grab, why it's so hard to just tax the rich in Chicago, and the transit cliff coming for your commute...

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Chicago 312: The Outrage Machine Is Working For The Tribune, At Least

Chicago 312: The Outrage Machine Is Working For The Tribune, At Least

Chicago 312: “Deport her.” “Arrest them," and other normal democracy things to say.

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Moderates Are Failing the Media War: Pete, Rahm, and the Propaganda Trap

Moderates Are Failing the Media War: Pete, Rahm, and the Propaganda Trap

The issue isn’t about trans people in sports, the genocide in Gaza, or even Rahm Emanuel. It’s about whether a candidate understands power, media, and narrative in 2025.

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