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Want lower rents and more affordable housing? Then cut red tape. Under Mayor Johnson, Chicago’s Dept of Housing rulebook grew from 59 pages to 95 pages in three years. When it gets harder and costlier to build, fewer homes get built and families pay the price.

@nypost Buy smaller trucks that even larger cities around the globe do just fine with. Idiots.

Firefighters torch NYC bike-lane plan: 'DOT is like the KGB' trib.al/O6Uj48p

The Cook County circuit court judge who placed alleged cop killer Alphanso Talley on electronic monitoring for previous arrests is John F. Lyke Jr. He is up for retention in 2028.

EXCLUSIVE — Cop killer suspect's previous victim: "It makes me so mad that someone who pulled a gun on me was released." The man now in police custody believed responsible for shooting 2 CPD officers has a long criminal history. @BenBradleyTV has more: tinyurl.com/myjy59f2

The man suspected of shooting two CPD officers, including 38-year-old John Bartholomew, a father and 10-year veteran of the dept. who was killed, has a criminal record dating back to at least 2017, was on pretrial release in two felony cases, and escaped EM, court records show.

Latest on the Chicago cop who was shot and is in critical condition. I'm so angry. I don't know if it's because I left and feel like I left Officer Crespo (and Bartholomew) behind or because they didn't leave or what. The Chicago and IL electorates are a shameful bunch. That I know. I didn't do enough well enough while I was there and so I share in that shame. I apologize to their families. +++ "Officer Crespo was moved upstairs. He is very, very touch-and-go. He got shot in the mouth and it went into his brain and spine. He lost a significant amount of brain fluid, blood and parts of his spine. He is heavily sedated. His condition is extremely critical but stabilized."

School Shooting: There’s nothing we can do about this. Don’t politicize these tragedies. Political Shooting: We need a $400 million bunker built immediately and you hate America if you don’t agree.

When 11-year old Ahmir Jolliff was murdered on the first day of sixth grade Trump said, "it’s just horrible... but we have to get over it. We have to move forward." So fuck him and his stupid ballroom. Let's get over it.

April 26, 1991. Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Andover, Kansas F5 tornado. At its peak, wind speeds were estimated at 268 mph, making it one of the most powerful storms ever documented. This thread looks at the meteorological data and the historical impact of that day. 🧵👇 #Andover #KSwx Video credit: USAF McConnell AFBov

This story has it ALL. - Multiple time convicted felon - Out on EM (multiple times, despite previously being a convicted felon, the issue being judges) - Multiple failures to abide by EM terms (judges) - Paroled EARLY despite constantly proving to be violent and a danger (Parole Board) - Multiple concurrent terms for multiple felonies (IL law allows it, judges) - Standard 50% reduction in sentences (IL law) - Credit for time on EM (IL law) At one point, this guy had four pending felony cases, pleaded to two, walked in and out of prison the same day with credit for time served and got a standard 50% reduction in sentencing, got electronic monitoring for the other two pending cases. This doesn't even include the fact that EM participants are allowed 48 hrs of unrestricted movement. The criminal "justice" system allows criminals to thrive. It gives them every opportunity to continue their criminal ways and has essentially zero consequences until they kill someone, and by then, it's far too late.

The rap sheet of the man who murdered one Chicago cop and critically injured another. One year ago, he was arrested for aggravated vehicular carjacking and armed robbery...wait for it...WHILE on pretrial release (H/T Pritzker) for three separate cases at the time of the robbery and carjacking: a 2023 stolen vehicle and aggravated fleeing case; a 2024 charge for aggravated battery of peace officers; and a misdemeanor domestic battery case filed in January of 2025. Another habitual offender turned out again and again to violate law-abiding citizens by a political ruling class that could not care less about them. And now a cop is dead and another one is clinging to life. Illinois.

Sources: The man who killed a Chicago cop and gravely wounded the officer’s partner: • Is an electronic monitoring escapee • Is a parole absconder • Has armed robbery and armed carjacking cases pending cwbchicago.com/2026/04/cop-ki…

@RepNancyMace No

Please get on your knees and pray for President Trump and for our country right now.

@neoavatara lol moron

Trump does a lot of things I hate. But you know what he doesn't do? Promote political violence against his enemies. The same can't be said about the worst wackadoodles on the Far extremes right now.

@RobertMSterling @BenStiller You’re a fucking moron

Got it done

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares. That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months. Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero. Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite. The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project. Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders. BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did. The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished. A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money. That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.

@MeghanMcCain Stop wasting oxygen

I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House.

Full update: Investigators have found an “extra” firearm after a robbery suspect shot two CPD officers who were guarding him at a North Side hospital today One officer has died. The other is critical. The suspect, who fled the hospital, is in custody. cwbchicago.com/2026/04/extra-…

NYC is proving that shoplifting is a simple repeat-offender problem. And an easily solvable one. Shoplifting increased 64% from 2019 to 2023. It was the same 300 people committing a third of the shoplifting in the city. But only a small portion of retail complaints led to arrests, so retailers stopped calling police and just put their deodorant behind plexiglass, or have you press a button and wait four minutes to buy toothpaste. It's been stupid. Now the city and state are going after those repeat offenders with a few key tactics: 1) The state now lets prosecutors aggregate thefts across incidents, so five $200 shoplifts from the same Rite Aid becomes a serious felony, not misdemeanor slaps. 2) NYPD started banning serial shoplifters from stores with trespass affidavits so they prosecutors can stack charges when they came back 3) NYPD used data to put foot patrols in commercial corridors and officers at subway stops shoplifters used as escape routes. 4) NYPD encouraged retailers to call them about the thieves who show up everyday to steal small stuff, and then they followed through with arrests. Thanks to these measures, retail theft is down 20% in the first quarter of 2026, with double-digit declines in every borough. And the recidivism rate dropped from 20% to 13%. The NYC economy was hemorrhaging $4.4 billion a year to shoplifting. They're now reversing it pretty cheaply, just by tracking repeat offenders, arresting them, and upgrading their charges to make it easier for prosecutors to punish them.