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Nail Rat
Dec 29, 2000
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

ah yes, the series that hasn't had a new release in two generations.

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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

CaptainJuan posted:

https://twitter.com/MarkMaxwellTV/status/1364417182281723911?s=19

Big Mike's replacement is being pushed to resign.
Blackface or sexual assault? I'm betting the latter.

isn't Madigan supposed to know everything that goes on in Illinois? how did he not know about this before?

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009

Badger of Basra posted:

isn't Madigan supposed to know everything that goes on in Illinois? how did he not know about this before?

Madigan covering up sexual assault was what started his downfall. He doesn't think hiring rapists is a problem.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Yeah but if so why has he decided it in fact is a problem two days after giving this guy a state house seat

CaptainJuan
Oct 15, 2008

Thick. Juicy. Tender.

Imagine cutting into a Barry White Song.
He probably didn't think he'd get caught, or at least not so quick

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
In fact the reason he probably turned so quickly is because he knew he just didn't think it would come out so soon

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

He would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that pesky internet.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

It really is amazing how many people get appointed to things without even a cursory background check.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
congrats to dan biss on becoming ceremonial mayor of evanston, lol

cant wait to see how he avoids touching the reparations program which still hasn't gotten cash out the door last i looked

CaptainJuan
Oct 15, 2008

Thick. Juicy. Tender.

Imagine cutting into a Barry White Song.
https://twitter.com/dmihalopoulos/status/1364734815057158145

Alex Acevedo ran for alderman in the 25th ward (replacing the retiring Danny Solis) and lost to a socialist lol

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009
Alex Acevedo also lost to Theresa Mah in a state rep race. His brother left a message on Danny Solis' phone blaming him for the loss.

https://chicagoist.com/2016/03/17/expletive_laden_voice_mail_caps_off.php

Bizarro Kanyon
Jan 3, 2007

Something Awful, so easy even a spaceman can do it!


Looks like some good publicity for Southern Illinois.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-m...SkIdrSuUdoC8dY8

quote:

A pickup truck parked at the United States Capitol and bearing a Three Percenter militia sticker on the day of the Jan. 6 riot belongs to the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approvingly quoted Adolf Hitler a day earlier.

Researchers on Twitter first noticed the Ford pickup truck with the far-right militia’s decal parked on the Capitol grounds in footage posted to social media and taken by CBS News.

The presence of a vehicle with a militia decal so close to the Capitol, inaccessible to normal vehicle traffic, raised questions about how it got there—and whether it belonged to any of the hundreds of suspects involved in the deadly riot.

But in an email to The Daily Beast, Chris Miller, Rep. Miller’s husband and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, conceded the truck belonged to him even as he pleaded ignorance about the militia group.

“Army friend gave me decal. Thought it was a cool decal. Took it off because of negative pub,” Miller wrote in an email late Thursday. He says he “never was member” of the militia and “didn’t know anything about 3% till fake news started this fake story and read about them.”

A request for comment to the office of U.S. Rep. Miller was not returned prior to publication.

The link between the truck and Rep. Miller was first reported on Twitter on Thursday by the @capitolhunters account, which is organizing research about rioters seen in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from a large community of volunteers reviewing thousands of hours of footage.

A pickup truck with the same make, model, color, and Illinois plate number as the one at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is also visible in a July 2020 photo carrying Mary Miller for Congress banners during a Fourth of July parade in Illinois. That same day, Rep. Miller’s Facebook page posted a picture of what appeared to be the same truck with the same Trump-Pence and Mary Miller for Congress banners attached to the same PVC pipe frame as she campaigned in the towns of Mattoon, Sullivan, Herrick, and Moweaqua.

Previously, the Millers have proudly posted pictures of the same model of Ford pickup truck, often emblazoned with the same stickers—like “herd quitter” and Guns Save Life, a website affiliated with an Illinois-based gun rights group—as the truck at the Capitol bore on Jan. 6. In at least one case, before Chris Miller’s election to the State House in 2018, the truck in question had a different license plate.

The couple have appeared with that truck at campaign events, sometimes with the vehicle plastered in pictures of their faces or “taxpayers lives matter” posters. The license plate of the vehicle at the Capitol on Jan. 6—registered to Illinois, but with a drawing of the state’s Capitol building—appears to be a design reserved for Illinois politicians, like Chris Miller, who took office in 2019.

The Three Percenter decal may have been a relatively new addition to the car, as it was not visible in images from this summer.

Elected last November, Mary Miller, a Republican, is perhaps best known for speaking at a “Moms for America” rally in front of the Capitol one day before the riot. “Hitler was right on one thing: whoever has the youth has the future," she told the crowd. She later apologized for the remarks and said “some are trying to intentionally twist my words to mean something antithetical to my beliefs.”

Militia groups have garnered new attention from law enforcement given the number of members arrested and charged with riot-related crimes since Jan. 6. Robert Gieswein, an alleged rioter identified by The Daily Beast who’s visible in footage of the first rioters to break into the Capitol, "appears to be affiliated with the radical militia group known as the Three Percenters," according to an FBI affidavit filed in the court case against him.

The group, which first formed in 2008, is part of a loose network of “anti-government extremists” who liken their crusade against the U.S. government to that of Revolutionary War-era patriots, according to the Anti Defamation League. Their name comes from the false claim that only 3 percent of U.S. colonists fought in that war.

Ties between militia groups and Congress have also come under greater scrutiny after some lawmakers suggested their colleagues may have played a role in the riot. Rep. Steve Cohen pointedly claimed that U.S. Rep Lauren Boebert led a “large” tour through the Capitol shortly before the riot. Boebert said she gave no tours to anyone outside her family at the time and there is no evidence as yet that any of the rioters benefited from inside help.

Boebert has, however, been criticized for her links to militia groups after she posed for a picture at a December 2019 gun rights rally where rally-goers flashed Three Percenter hand signs.

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Looks like some good publicity for Southern Illinois.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-m...SkIdrSuUdoC8dY8

oh god please let him be indicted for assaulting the capitol.

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009
Put him in the same jail as Acevedo and Arroyo.

E: Kodatt got paid 6 thousand bucks for his 3 days.

https://twitter.com/ILComptroller/status/1365319895118970882?s=20

The X-man cometh fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Feb 26, 2021

Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Looks like some good publicity for Southern Illinois.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-m...SkIdrSuUdoC8dY8

if IL ends up losing a seat, it'll likely be hers, if only to create a unified Metro East seat (currently it's split between hers, Rodney Davis' which has bits of Glen Carbon/Edwardsville/Alton in it, and Mike Bost's which has all of St Clair County)

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

University of Illinois got their spit test approved for EUA (for real this time, they tried to piggyback on Yale's test back in August and well we know what assume makes).

quote:

Pioneered by a team of researchers in Urbana-Champaign, the covidSHIELD test requires only a deposit of saliva instead of an intrusive nasal swab. It takes minutes to collect the sample and provides results within 24 hours of the sample reaching a covidSHIELD lab. The test notifies individuals of the presence or absence of the genetic material contained in the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Pritzker has already allocated $20 million in federal relief funding to expand the saliva test to the state’s nine other public universities and 48 community colleges. The money will cover the purchase of 1 million tests to be divided among the campuses by the Illinois Board of Higher Education

Test costs range from 20-30 bucks a test and any CLIA certified lab can process them. The test has done a pretty good job of keeping infections low on the various Illinois campuses by detecting outbreaks early.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

Yay! I was wondering why only university campuses were using that test and no one else. I thought it had already been approved. My wife works for UIC and has done this test multiple times and it is so much faster and easier than the other tests.

borkencode
Nov 10, 2004
Decided to look up my ballot for the upcoming local elections, and wow I knew the suburbs are more republican leaning than the city, but yeesh. No democratic candidates for nearly any positions, it's republican vs "independent" which I then researched and they're also republicans.

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

Looks like some good publicity for Southern Illinois.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-m...SkIdrSuUdoC8dY8

Fake news with their fake story and also I read what they were about and the fake news fake story was correct the whole time.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/FrankCalabrese/status/1367284508861603841

Lol what a disaster, inviting a million lawsuits and crimes just so pritzkers influence is blunted

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

What's wrong with Robin Kelly?

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Badger of Basra posted:

What's wrong with Robin Kelly?

Her own attorney advised her she can't fundraise soft money for/ state/local elections. Her being chair means way higher likelihood of lawsuits and criminal investigations all so that they could snub pritzker

Edit https://capitolfax.com/2021/03/03/lots-of-unanswered-questions/

mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Mar 4, 2021

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

mastershakeman posted:

Her own attorney advised her she can't fundraise soft money for/ state/local elections. Her being chair means way higher likelihood of lawsuits and criminal investigations all so that they could snub pritzker

Why can't she? And what's stopping her from just delegating that? I mean I get emails from the IDCCA regularly asking for cash.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Oracle posted:

Why can't she? And what's stopping her from just delegating that? I mean I get emails from the IDCCA regularly asking for cash.

Illinois politicians know only one thing, which is that they love committing crimes as much as they can. So the more rules against what they can do, they more rules they break

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009

mastershakeman posted:



Lol what a disaster, inviting a million lawsuits and crimes just so pritzkers influence is blunted

Michelle Harris is a Lightfoot ally, too. People don't want to be associated with her.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


I know this thread is a lot of Chicago posters but head's up for anyone in the QC as RI County currently has vaccine slots open for this week.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
Rockford is having thousands of dead fish washing up on pond shores

Big Black Dick
Mar 20, 2009

mastershakeman posted:

Rockford is having thousands of dead fish washing up on pond shores

It's happening at most lagoons in Chicago. It's a combination of the snow pack, the cold temperatures, and the quick warm up: https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/03/10/dead-fish-are-piling-up-at-the-citys-ponds-and-lagoons-heres-whats-going-on/

One Nut Wonder
Mar 17, 2009
Apropos of nothing, I'm so glad I voted for Marie Newman. She has the politics I want, and represents my district.

I also really loved her trans rights video. I am not trans, or know anyone who is. But my heart goes out to them.

https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1372209669066870786

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1372649216963661827?s=20

this is definitely just republicans trolling chicago but i called my rep and asked him to support it anyway

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.
You don’t want them to become alderdepressive, do you?

CaptainJuan
Oct 15, 2008

Thick. Juicy. Tender.

Imagine cutting into a Barry White Song.
crossposting from the chicago thread:

https://twitter.com/LTBcoalition/status/1374766168007979009

real rent control is probably not gonna happen in chicago any time soon, but at the very least repealing the RCPA would allow the governor to enact rent/mortgage holidays next time there's an uncontrolled pandemic.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/capitolfax/status/1377444297130311680

Illinois rules

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004


Cool and good politicians can just get off with a fine for accepting cash from foreign persons. That will totally teach them.

Ten bucks they were Chinese too, just to underline the hypocrisy.

Bizarro Kanyon
Jan 3, 2007

Something Awful, so easy even a spaceman can do it!


Good question is, why did he need such a loan of money, especially when he would then lie about getting it?

Niwrad
Jul 1, 2008

It wasn't a loan, it was a bribe.

Bird in a Blender
Nov 17, 2005

It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

Bonus points for the fine being less than the bribe. We really need to up punishments for politicians for all election violations. It's a loving travesty that someone can get elected to office while breaking every election law along the way, and they don't even lose their seat when they're caught.

xzzy
Mar 5, 2009

I am supremely shocked that the ruling class does not punish themselves!

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Dracula is doing a swell job in charge of the blood bank, folks, and furthermore

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Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib
https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1310352135083749381?s=19

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