Franklin D. Brosevelt

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

Dark money campaign in IL-09 changed their shady website last night not to dispute reporting but to smear it with the fact that I worked w/ Abughazaleh's boyfriend at NBC 3 years ago. To be clear: Ben is cool. We used to work together. And that had no influence on this 100% true story. Send me tips!

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

nobody wants this shit. we want the taxes we do pay to go to schools and healthcare instead of being used to flatten buildings full of children in Iran. how are you so bad at this

I GET KNOCKED DOWN
I DONT GET UP AGAIN
I REALLY LIKE IT ON THE GROUND

I STAY KNOCKED DOWN
I DONT GET UP AGAIN
ITS REALLY COMFY ON THE GROUND

We’re in S3 now, and we’re getting deep into the “Betty Draper is a Republican NIMBY” side plot, and I don’t much care for it

@innuendostudios.bsky.social said it years ago, and it’s still right today

The Dow
The Dow
The Dow is on fire

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Bari’s really putting the BS in CBS 🤓

• If there's one thing controversial CBS News editor Bari Weiss has earned praise for it's her hands-on booking of big names for the network. But there's one booking she seems to have blown up: New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, who had been in talks to appear for an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning with Robert Costa. Mamdani's team, I'm told, has long been averse to appearing on CBS given the coverage his campaign got from Weiss's The Free Press, but her recent social media post reacting with a fire emoji to an Iranian activist's diatribe against Mamdani was the "nail in the coffin" for him appearing on the network, two sources with knowledge told me. "Bari and her people have a clear axe to grind for him," said one former CBS producer. (CBS News did not respond to a request for comment.) And the network's turn away from news and toward opinion is proving to be a broader problem. "It's not just Zohran," the source said. "It's really

lol. CBS had been trying to get Zohran Mamdani for an interview, but Bari Weiss' deranged tweeting caused him to turn it down

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It’s just austerity by other means. It’s so myopic and disappointing

Mary Ann Ahern is reporting the results of an independent poll for the Illinois senate race

Stratton 38%
Krishnamoorthi 33%
Kelly 18%
Undecided/Refused 11%

March 10-12, 678 surveyed, +/-4.0%
Source: 'American Future' (DraftKings PAC!)

Julianamentum?

Cryptocurrency, AI join in $31 million super PAC blitz in four congressional primaries Together with pro-Israel funds, the tech money is swamping Democratic rivals in the Chicago area and, according to one government watchdog, distorting democracy.

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A few notes about our finding that “super PACs” — topped by pro-Israel, cryptocurrency and artificial-intelligence interests — have spent more than $31.4 million to influence voters ahead of primaries Tuesday in four Chicago-area U.S. House races.

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$7M in IL-09 woah

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The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Evergreen stuff from Lenin here

Ramirez truly is the best IL has to offer right now, and I wish she had more national clout

Oh, the establishment people are getting *desperate* to stop her

Even in a blue state like IL, the left sadly just doesn’t have enough juice to recruit someone good to run statewide

Not gonna break down my choices for MWRD and judicial elections because this thread is getting too long already. Just get out there and vote if you haven’t done so yet. Primaries are where you can make the biggest impact 11/11

Board of Review was a tough choice because both candidates (Steele and Nicholson) suck. I went with Nicholson, but I don’t feel good about it. Maybe someone good will run in the next cycle 10/

County board president was an easy choice even with Preckwinkle’s flaws. Kaegi urgently needs to win reelection for assessor. County commissioner was also an easy choice. Gainer is a do-nothing coasting on name recognition and incumbency, and Drake Warren has some genuinely good reform ideas 9/

If I was voting only on policy with no consideration for FPTP viability, I would have gone with Kumar, who was especially generous with his time when talking to me. We truly do need RCV in IL 8/

The choice in HD-13 was really hard. Knapp, Kumar, O’Brien, and Palecek are all good candidates and people, and I had nice chats with all of them. Palecek was the pick based on a combination of policy and viability to beat Braun, although O’Brien was a close second (my wife voted for him) 7/

I think Amiwala and Simmons are great, and if we had RCV, I might have ranked Simmons 1st. Biss isn’t terrible, but as I’ve said, he’s to the right of Schakowsky on I/P and would likely be too afraid of pissing anyone off to get much done in office. I’d be a bit disappointed if he won 6/

She has made some missteps but (a) has quickly acted to correct them when pointed out and (b) hasn’t made any mistakes beyond what you’d expect for a 26-year-old first-time candidate. And of the 3 good candidates in the race, she has the best chance (by a lot) of winning 5/

I’ve followed Kat since her Media Matters days, so I know she came by her views honestly. A few Big Accounts on here (coughJoadcough) disagree, pointing to her teenaged Republican years, to which I respond with *dismissive jerkoff motion* 4/

For IL-09, everyone pretty much knows I’ve been a Kat supporter since day 1. Her brash, in-your-face, push-the-envelope style, while understandably annoying to some, reads to me as exactly what this party needs even though her substantive policy positions need some work 3/