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A Chicago journo should go interview the Australian kid who’s become an icon in Bears football fandom twitter…
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Once again missing the mark on things young people really care about…
“Crony capitalism” is downstream of the things they care about: soaring housing costs, jobs, cost of living, foreign & big money in politics and boomer luxury communism — none of which has changed since 2024.
Ron DeSantis explains why the GOP "screaming socialism" doesn't work anymore:
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that? Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism. The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist republicans who propagate these crony policies. The average person is seeing that and saying, 'Wait a minute, you're trying to bend the government to funnel benefits to this corporation or that industry. What about having a competitive market? ... Young people really aren't seeing that. They're seeing just a handful of companies that have an outsized influence on our economy and on our society"
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He is gay and has no juice with Black voters.
But has, without a doubt, the best political and campaign-focused mind of the Democratic party. He campaigned with winners (a lot of underdogs) and got constant face time.
With the plain states in play, I wouldn’t count him out yet.
Oddly, I think one of the biggest losers on the Dem side last night was Pete Buttigieg
If he wants to run for president, he'd have wanted a poor Dem night after which they look back to old stars, not a historical win that creates new ones with much stronger electoral records
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I believe Ossoff would be the best candidate in the general, but, famously, you need to win the primaries. Ossoff is well known in political circles, but EVERYONE knows who Pete is.
If he can help mobilize this type of wave in a midterm, I think he can overcome the voting block that would otherwise hinder his primary performance. Only to go on and lose in the general. 🤷♂️
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Worth noting that the most consequential midterms of my life was issue-focused, on the ground and happened without dangling a bunch of celebrity endorsements in front of the public…
Almost like no working class voters like to be told how to vote by rich actors and popstars!
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Tbh this was the least enthusiastic I’ve ever been about voting in local elections.
Just an extremely disappointing, old crop of lack-luster candidates in Illinois.
Jealous of literally every other state!
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Glad we have out priorities in order going into Tuesday's election!
Does anyone in the media want to ask Gov. Pritzker if his housing bill has any momentum or just the taxpayer- funded billionaire-owner's stadium subsidy bill?
New report says Illinois Chicago Bears stadium deal 'gaining momentum,' but Indiana officials skeptical.
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New: Illinois state data released today shows over half of CPS students aren't proficient in reading, math and 2-in-5 are chronically absent.
If this infuriates you, here's Illinois Policy PAC endorsements for school board candidates on Tuesday's ballot: @illinoispolicy
If I were a betting man I’d say El-Sayed squeaks out a 1-2% victory in Michigan and Talarico loses by about that margin and leftists draw the complete opposite conclusions of what that actually means about running a “good” left-wing campaign.
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Funny that Mr. “stadium subsidized by taxpayers” Reinsdorf is even cheap in his political donations, while the Ricketts are putting up 6 figures each!
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TAX THE RICH!
Recent pay hike approved by @iftaft for @stacydavisgates bumping her from $180K to $250K. Most recent published reports say she also received $195K as head @CTULocal1 in 2025 for a total now of $445K
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I’m never gonna afford a house dawg
Chicago home prices rising at twice the rate of inflation chicagobusiness.com/real-est…
