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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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Chicago: We Have Clinics Until We Don’t

Chicago: We Have Clinics Until We Don’t

Chicago 312: This week, from Gaza to the South Loop, the mask slipped a little further.

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Chicago Needs More Revenue.

Chicago Needs More Revenue.

Chicago 312: So much of city politics is about power plays between departments. Here are some of the ones happening this week.

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"Tax the Rich" in Chicago

"Tax the Rich" in Chicago

Chicago 312: Three people you’ve never heard of are helping billion-dollar landlords erase their tax bills.

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Zohran Mamdani Videos Are the New "Joe Rogan for the Left”

Zohran Mamdani Videos Are the New "Joe Rogan for the Left”

Chicago 312: The Silos Fall, the Safety Net Frays, and CPD Helps ICE.

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Chicago 312: Luckily, Chuck Schumer Changed the Name

Chicago 312: Luckily, Chuck Schumer Changed the Name

Call your rep. Demand a NO vote. Other things are happening too.

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