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37K Followers 790 Following Investigative reporter. Little Village raised. Proud @ctguild. I'm just trying to make my city a better place. Buy my book: "The City is Up for Grabs."John Amdor @JohnAmdor
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12K Followers 5K Following Editor and reporter for Block Club Chicago. I'm often tracking politics, rooting for the Cubs & the Cats, and listening to Curtis or the Clash.@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg
10K Followers 668 Following Publisher @OrbisBooks, saint-whisperer @GiveUsThisDayLP. #TolstoysTalesofTrump. #MastersofSocialIsolation. Seeking meaning in the sacred and the absurd.Bro.Ken Homan, SJ @KenHomanSJ
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14K Followers 1K Following Book #6, Not So Sorry, on the limits of forgiveness, out 7/24. Writing faculty, UC Berkeley. Ask me why breast cancer sucks. https://t.co/LsS4aYSI0RRobert Peters @RobertJPeters
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5K Followers 5K Following “True successes are never cheaply won.” - IkeErin Hegarty @erin_hegarty
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31K Followers 2K Following Chicago's @35th_Ward Alderperson. I work to bring neighbors together to transform our city for the better. This is my personal and political account.Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
211K Followers 644 Following Senior National Political Reporter for @NBCNews covering Capitol Hill and the 2024 election. 🏛️🗳️ Part-time Formula 1 reporter. 🏎️Jake Berent @JakeBerent
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41K Followers 4K Following https://t.co/j4Mmx5LQ5T; https://t.co/3tGDQAvnErBill for giving birth? $26,737.50. We owe $350. I am never leaving public service.
I was just going to say something the other day about how it seems like I'm the only one who likes Express clothes. I mean I really like almost everything they sell! And nobody ever mentions them. Maybe I can stock up on my not-quite-stylish solid colored basics on sale now?
Charlotte, 7: "Mama, we can't have bread next week because its Passover." Me: "That's right. You know, you're not supposed to have pasta either." Charlotte: "No, pasta is allowed now. Pasta is a miracle."
The bond was a big deal but now I’m excited to work on one of the most pressing issues facing the City today: getting rid of the extraneous leading zeros in the new legislative tracker bill numbering system
lol hold on, so you're telling me that if I want to access testimony to Illinois state lawmakers, I have to either subscribe to a $150/month (at least) service OR I have to go to Springfield to pick up a *DVD* that has the recorded testimony?
@DriXander Beautiful message, beautiful wedding pic, and beautiful (not pictured) babies. Congrats on the joyous milestone! And may you find comfort in each other and your family while observing the heartbreak that you also endured on this day.
Preschool teacher: “So when it comes to his school pictures, you might be … disappointed” lol I can’t wait to see these
All she had to do to hold the clerk job was be better at it than Dorothy Brown. Stunning political achievement.
Mariyana Spyropoulos @m_spyropoulos decisively ousted incumbent Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court Iris Martinez by almost a 2 to 1 margin, winning everywhere except some Latino precincts. #electiontwitter #twill
this convo w/ @tony_domestico—enabled by @GriffinOleynick and the team at @commonwealmag, one of my favorite mags—was a rigorous joy. on narrative as theology, fiction as an Augustinian endeavor, criticism as a way of life, and much more. dig in! commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/critic…
Probably the coolest 30 minutes I've ever spent as a fly on a zoom call ... new @commonwealmag pod with @vcunningham and @tony_domestico commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/critic…
Here’s Lori Lightfoot talking to Mayor Rahm Emanuel during the transition meeting, where he warned her of an elected school board and she said; “Oh, I don’t want that.” She had just put it in a TV ad weeks prior. From THE CITY IS UP FOR GRABS, on sale now.
I’m calling my first beer today a “pint of personal privilege”.
Georgia, you can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s SINE DIE. Phew.
The way the news cycle is going I was legit trying to understand how Usher got involved with a Catholic parish in Charlotte...
Usher accused of embezzling from Charlotte’s largest Catholic parish wsoctv.com/news/local/wor…
This is a little over half of the yearly budget of the Cook County Public Defender’s Office; an office that employs about 700 people and handles most of the criminal cases in Cook County.
The Chicago City Council agreed to pay $57.2 million to settle three lawsuits claiming Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct, including launching an unauthorized pursuit that left a 15-year-old boy with a traumatic brain injury. news.wttw.com/2024/03/20/chi…
Someone should get their money back. #ilprimary
OK this is wild. First off, the Thornton Township Soup and Salad Bar ballot question was actually a $2 use fee (herein known as the Soup Tax). Second, the Thornton Township soup and salad bar ISN'T REAL, and was just a ploy to crowd out any other ballot questions (allegedly).
@coronajesus_ @JGrantGlover @KwameRaoul very little info out there but that’s the basic allegation
A Georgia private school in my city is requiring students to submit proof of citizenship of their dates to prom and it’s stunning just how low we’ve come.
This literally kills me. IT IS SO MUCH HARDER AND MORE IMPORTANT TO LEAD A UNION THAN BE SOME MINOR ELECTED OFFICIAL!!! Maybe the biggest issue with our 24-hour politics is that people completely lose perspective on how change is actually made.
Shawn Fain should consider running for something. This is very good. And he has had a very good year.
in the words of that great elder millennial illinoisan kevin mccallister this is my house i have to defend it
on this Equal Pay Day, i want to thank all my current and former colleagues @CTGuild who never hesitated to share their salary info with me and advocate for our lowest-paid employees. i will ALWAYS pay that forward until we defeat our newsroom’s wage inequities!