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GA girl. #1u poli(cy/tics) #chicago & #twill. works for @afscme31. #catholic. wife. mama. @agnesscott, @hhhschool alum. 🧵 galore. views mine.

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Trump urges Supreme Court to allow an exec order that could dramatically change mail-in voting ahead of midterm elections. apnews.com/article/trump-… DOJ asked SCOTUS to halt lower court decisions blocking changes in nearly half the country. More legal deets: scotusblog.com/2026/07/trump-…
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Watson v. RNC is the easiest election law case to reach the justices in years. It should not have been 5-4. vox.com/politics/49358… + Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s Leading Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theorist ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/watson-…

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The Ohio SCOTUS decision is a good time to remind folks about the importance of paying attention to your state legislatures. This is going to kick of a bunch of similar attempts across the country. The midterms are about so much more than Congress.
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Giannoulias's $22M is roughly 3x *combined* CoH of everyone who is considering or announced a campaign. He raked in $115,192 in bank interest from his campaign account, more than others, including MBJ, received in donor contributions. chicagobusiness.com/politics-polic… Petitions out tmrw!
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On the mayoral money race: chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2026… MBJ said no matter, “Every campaign that I ran, I won.” Few early 🚩in the reports: folks burning more 💸 than they’re brining in, using personal $$ to try & disguise the lack of support from other folks.
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Fine, I'll make a mayoral candidate thread even though it's too early. On Mendoza, I'll just say no one should be surprised about the places she's willing to go on crime. youtu.be/yLe6DtXmGeA?si… x.com/SharoneMitchJr…
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The SAFE-T Act did not create the presumption of innocence, a bedrock principal of our oft-challenged democracy that’s pretty important everywhere, but especially in a region that has such a long and painful history of wrongful convictions and police misconduct.

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Likud’s internal court overturns Netanyahu’s bid to cancel the upcoming party primary if it cannot be held b/c of a possible “wartime situation,” & to select its Knesset slate through an appointed committee controlled by the PM. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry… He’s shameless!
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@jzipple Praying for you!
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Jeremy Zipple, SJ@jzipple·
Personal update: this weekend, while visiting family in Houston, I was diagnosed w a brain tumor. Quite likely benign, Deo gratias. Surgery next week. A crazy few days but a blessing to celebrate Mass today w fam, hospital staff, & an SJ brother. The Sacraments keep us going. 1/3
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The Dems should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money &, on occasion, emotional eruptions. Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke DNC: nytimes.com/2026/07/26/us/…
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DNC launching new ‘war room’ to counter Trump & GOP: An aggressive rapid response operation to counter misinformation from the administration while also driving the daily Democratic message through an expansive network of micro-influencers. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
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DNC prez candidate Jaime Harrison drops out, endorses Perez: nbcnews.to/2mpyqM5 Who has roll call? Does this put Ellison out of reach?
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More than a hundred thousand Palestinians worked in Israel before October 7th, earning more than 2x prevailing wage at home. Most can no longer cross the border—and many are now destitute. The Israeli Employers Who Want to Bring Palestinian Workers Back: newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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Amputee soccer team a game changer for Gaza wounded: reuters.com/article/us-isr… Players aged between 13 and 42 play eight-a-side intra-squad games. Most have only one leg and play on crutches.
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A year after President Trump signed a law ending six decades of federal funding of public media, it's a time of reinvention, innovation & clear anxiety at public tv + radio stations nationwide. npr.org/2026/07/26/nx-… Since then, >500 public media staffers have been laid off.
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NPR’s C.E.O. Was a Right-Wing Target. Then the Real Trouble Started. nytimes.com/2025/12/30/bus… Did not realize she was close to my age and didn’t really have a background in journalism.
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Impressive: PBS Kids reaches 71% of U.S. kids aged 2-to-8. Interesting convo with the GM of children’s media & education at PBS on the future of kids TV + TV’s role in the education of children today. the1a.org/shows/2018-04-…
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I don’t think my 2 yo knows her colors yet, but every time we pass a red line station, she says, “Look, Mama, it’s a Howard!”
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Apparently there were 37 co-sponsors on this ordinance. Complete outsider on this issue as it relates to Council, but a regular CTA user, & I really don’t understand how the CTA head is so dismissive about accountability to electeds…Look forward to how this plays out.
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Ald. Jason Ervin & Ald. Scott Waguespack BLOCK Ald. Vasquez's proposal to require the @cta president to testify in front of the City Council from advancing. x.com/HeatherCherone…

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@capitolfax Twitter is making it harder to keep them going. New format means people see them less, search is broken 1/3 of the time…but she persists!
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Capitol Fax@capitolfax·
@DriXander The breadth and scope of your threads never cease to amaze
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In Ukraine, a secret group of volunteers are supporting their troops by making weapons using 3-D printers, transforming small apartments into high-tech printing armories. pbs.org/newshour/show/…
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In Russia’s war vs. Ukraine, electronic warfare, like signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, & innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict. The Invisible Battlefield: wired.com/story/electron… Ukraine changed electronic warfare forever.

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A federal jury this week found a Harrisburg man guilty of 5 gun-related charges tied to what prosecutors described as a small-scale gun manufacturing operation run from his southern IL home that included guns made with a 3D printer. capitolnewsillinois.com/news/southern-…
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He’s Known as ‘Ivan the Troll.’ His 3D-Printed Guns Have Gone Viral. From his IL home, he champions guns for all. The firearm he helped design is linked to terrorists, drug dealers & freedom fighters in at least 15 countries. nytimes.com/2024/09/10/wor…

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Trump Gutted Civil Rights Agency, Stifling US Scrutiny of Workplace Bias: nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/… + EEOC voted to rescind requirements that larger employers report demos of their workers — info used to help enforce racial & gender antidiscrimination laws. stateline.org/2026/07/21/tru…
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Hundreds of Texas school districts don’t know how many students they’re about to lose to vouchers: houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas… The redaction is mostly hitting smaller & rural districts, where admins say losing even a handful of students could significantly impact their operations.
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White Texans, students previously in private school or home-school make up bulk of voucher applicants: texastribune.org/2026/04/01/tex… 73% of applicants attended a private school or home-school during the 2024-25 academic year.

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Public $$ Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run. propublica.org/article/privat… 👀 The private school growth numbers. Last year, states allocated $10.6B to programs that can pay for private schools — a 29% increase over the previous year.
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Can charter schools teach religion? Fight looms even after Oklahoma state board rejects school: chalkbeat.org/2023/4/11/2367… The virtual Catholic school could resubmit their application as soon as next month.
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Most legal issues are civil, not criminal, so since 1981, every state has created programs to fund civil legal services. But in a budget passed this month, the GOP-dominated NC leg effectively cut this funding off: theatlantic.com/newsletters/20…🧵below is on criminal public defense.
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Public Defenders Were Scarce Before COVID. It’s Much Worse Now. pewtrusts.org/research-and-a… Still blows my mind a system built to ensure folks’ right to a fair trial is contracted out in some places, as opposed to being a public sector job w/the pay + accountability that goes w/it.

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It’s been years since I tweeted about Ukrainian politics outside of the Orthodox split (thread below), so I’m starting fresh. A comedian & actor best known for playing a teacher that becomes president on tv could actually be Ukraine’s next president: economist.com/europe/2019/03…
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Christianity faces one of its biggest splits in centuries this weekend: Ukraine moves to create its own Orthodox church out of Russia's orbit. nbcnews.com/news/world/ukr…

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It’s insane that Chicago doesn’t have an elected school board. chicagoreader.com/chicago/unelec… Also insane? We’re still having this convo as opposed to what an elected board looks like.
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@BebopOtt Love the DM addition.
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bebo, chicago rat czar 🐀@BebopOtt·
Potential Candidates for the February 2027 Chicago Municipal Elections as of 7/23/2026 89 Aldermanic & 13 Mayoral Candidates As always, please let me know if I've missed anyone!
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Rep. Kifowit uses the Benton situation to lift up the need to allow legislative staff the right to collectively bargain: capitolfax.com/2026/07/23/que…
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💣 From the Tribune this morning: Illinois House Speaker Welch’s office knew of (different) harassment claims against disgraced state Rep. Benton years ago. chicagotribune.com/2026/07/17/sta… She also says Speaker responded to her social media posts in ways that made her “uncomfortable.” 😬

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All the rumblings are out in the open: IL’s House speaker, ally to organized labor, faces a push from his own staff to unionize. Won’t voluntarily recognize: wbez.org/stories/employ… Chief Counsel’s statement is awkward given some members’ public statements on similar matters.
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Alright now: Johnson says Sen. Harmon gave him first job so he’s responsible for what happens in Chicago. “I’m not gonna tell y’all how much he paid me per hour. *laughter* Y’all gotta treat House & Senate staff a little better.”

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OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. theguardian.com/technology/202…
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How war in Myanmar is driving a deadly rare earth mining boom: grist.org/international/… Didn’t not realized Myanmar had surpassed China. The industry operates in secret, with no public records of active permits or companies involved.
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Myanmar’s Civil War Started With a Coup 5 Years Ago. The War Forgotten by the World Is an Apocalypse Now: nytimes.com/2026/06/24/wor… + Myanmar army killed over 700 civilians in six months, UN says: bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Mining minerals that may be needed for green energy revolution could devastate tribal lands. On antimony, an element that may be critical to manufacturing high-capacity liquid-metal batteries:🔓 nytimes.com/2021/12/27/us/… Biden must decide how to balance needs/costs of clean energy.
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Biden Promised Electric Cars, Which Need Lithium. A proposed mine is on sacred land testing the White House's pledge to electrify America's transportation system & give more of a voice to indigenous people in federal lands. npr.org/2021/08/26/103… Federal court hearing today.

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