Politically_Illinois ⚾️
YIMBY AOC Appreciator
3A Caucus Chair
Cubs Enjoyer
Also a substack guy: politicallyillinois.substack.com
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- They did, thank you lord
- Illinois is also doing this and it has been to much less uproar for the straightforward fact that where is the money coming for this? The Medicaid expansion was a bad choice from the start, never should have made that irresponsible promise
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️thank you elon musk and donald trump for destroying this country’s ability to generate wealth for the future. we salute you. MAGA.
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- This is the stuff I feel like I missed out on: physical print culture
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This is just not true. The majority view among researchers at this point is that work requirements do not work. There is a reason they do not cite a single study here. - Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️its genuinely insane to see the press on a "democrats must self flagellate over biden being old" when this shit is happening
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Joe Biden relitigation is catnip for the press because it gives them a chance to avoid saying difficult things about the present situation we are all in while also getting to talk about themselves
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️the text of the constitution, the legislative record, the common understanding — literally all available evidence points to a single conclusion, which is why the hacks defending trump’s order have had to turn to unrelated esoteria to make their argument
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️it's very tough for any of this stuff to break through because Dems lack an equivalent of Vichy Twitter or Fox News that promotes these stunts for them. People literally do not hear about them unless there's a discourse cycle over how stupid they are.
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- I hate when I miss important calls! Ugh! Might cost me this job FML, hopefully they grant me mercy and reschedule.
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️pretty fucking infuriating and disqualifying that the Bulwark article was right
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️something to be said about how these people view americans as inputs to be used up by capital
- Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️And as soon as Democrats stopped flying to the gulag and everyone stopped talking about it, Trump’s immigration numbers started climbing back up
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️a Democratic party led and directed by bizarrely pro-Israel New York machine politicians is not an opposition party fit for purpose
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️The Founders feared foreign influence over leaders and assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives. And yet the ostensible proponents of originalism look away.
- Well I was a fool. Turner walkoff and Ballesteros only gets a fielders choice
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face. Totally dystopian.
- Read it and weep. The reason why YA is being assigned in middle and high schools now is because that’s all the teachers can read now. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
- This test is from 2015 it appears and these are the people who grew up to be teachers. Bad in, bad out. We need a complete overhaul of education
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️I think this speaks to the fact that a lot of people still think of this as a game. And it's not a game that they're even playing, it's a game that they watch their favorite streamers play while they're safely in the chat
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️pretty funny that believing “he was seeing how far DHS would go as a cautionary tale” is real and not a hasty post hoc explanation is supposed to be evidence that the modal Hasan listener is *not* an impressionable dumbass
- What if instead of a business it was a mob crew?
- Holy shit walk off cubbies!!!
- Cubs have gone 6-5 this May, miserable. They need to win this game
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️not a single thing in the Gulf States was created by the people who live there, including the oil industry which is the source of their wealth. an entire civilization of slaver landlords.
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️IMO the affirmative case for religion isn't that it makes people feel better or that it's real, it's that about one third of society needs a church actively telling them to be high trust and pro social or they default to their natural state of adolf treatlerian conspiracy peasants
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Wow it’s almost like screaming about how something is a crisis makes the public upset about that thing, and then changing the subject makes the public calm down again
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible”
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- Without a doubt this sentiment is one of the main axes of modern politics. Fortress nationalism of trump & co versus some variation of abundance and renewal
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️by the standard laid out here, famously corrupt fictional character clay davis was not engaged in corruption
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️also notable here that Hasan is a native-born US citizen.
- “The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
- Unrelated to the Trump plane but this is the defense that has been fairly successful in protecting corrupt Illinois politicians. Senator Emil Jones got off and the corruption charges Speaker Mike Madigan faced failed too.
- AN IMPERIAL REPUBLIC IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY. OUR IMPERIAL PERIOD (which trump glorifies) WAS A TIME OF RETREAT FROM DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM IN OUR HISTORY! AAAAAAHHHHHH
- Democrats need to adopt some “alpha energy” and force Donald Trump to “own” his policies, Senator Elissa Slotkin tells David Remnick. Read the interview: nyer.cm/V7Ym0za
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️"impeachment or losing an election is the only way public officials can be disciplined for literal crimes" is not how literally any political system has ever conducted itself
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️This isn't right even as a matter of literal definitions. Bribery requires quid pro quo. "Corruption" is not limited to bribery. It is corrupt to personally profit off your public office even if it's not direct bribery. Don't finger-wag about "terms matter" if you're going to misdefine said terms.
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Hopefully this will be my last post on the subject but this shit is so corrosive; it makes me furious. The vast majority of crimes have intent requirements, meaning things the state must prove about the mental state of the defendant. Virtually none of them require an explicit admission of that state
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️"nothing ever happens" theory replaced with "things get worse, but slower" theory
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️It's an inability to process that the things that are happening are actually happening that might do us in. An unwillingness to accept that things we've willing to tolerate brought us here and may bring us here again. The death we are choosing is suicide by self-image. "In America?" Yes, in America.
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️I had literally just signed the paperwork on my dolls/tiny screws factory in the US. 😩
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️not to add to the dogpile, but the reality here is often the opposite. tacit corruption can easily be worse because it's more deniable and a lot more lucrative
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️The problem in the US is that more often than not the way violence and disorder are addressed are too heavy-handed and over-reliant on certain forms of policing that are inherently biased, however on here the answer is "there is no disorder and it is fine, actually"
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Dems in Congress's fun reward for not expelling all the disqualified insurrectionists who voted to overturn the 2020 election (as the United States Constitution requires) is that Republicans in Congress are now demanding their arrest.
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️Well, you see, the First Rule of Law Enforcement is that you make it home to your family everyday, whereas in a military you actually have to risk your life for the greater good
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- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
- You must sacrifice your morals so scam artists selling Monopoly money can be made wealthier with tax payer money.
- The administration wants to arrest without charges people on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant but we always gotta circle back to the economy…. Whyyyyyy are they like this?
- Reposted by Politically_Illinois ⚾️But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
