Ray Long

Feds recorded calls of ex-lobbyist Mike McClain, close confidant of House Speaker Michael Madigan: sources - Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-… w ⁦@jmetr22b⁩ Send tips: 312-222-3448 or RLong@ChicagoTribune.com

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The point of public service is to serve the public — not enriching yourself. Trump’s corrupt crony capitalism can’t be defended or ignored. The price for the rest of us is unaffordable. His family is $4 billion richer since the day he took office. He put a “For Sale” sign up on the White House Lawn, and everything from insider trades to pardons to crypto scams are on offer. Trump’s family and cronies are better off while the rest of the country is struggling, and the voters are going to have their say in November. Mark it.

Gov. JB Pritzker was treated at Springfield hospital for complications after urology procedure @jeremygorner chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/gov…

Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat, Chicago's most famous saloonkeeper, dies at 91 chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/sam…

Justice Department to seek death penalty for Chicago man charged with killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/isr…

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrap up summit claiming progress stabilizing US-China relations as differences persist… chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/tru…

Pope Leo: “Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, and guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness, which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

The Cub series is almost here. It’s an intense weekend. The Sox are a different team. The culture that Will and his staff installed this Spring is a pleasure to watch. The hustle and grit is an everyday process. They play hard win or lose. Kudos to Getz and Venable. Stay tough

Bears Sked chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/chi…

Cubs win share.google/PeWcfmEUTqcYOJ…

Memorial Day ‘81, Dan Goodwin, aka Spider-Dan, climbed into city's sky, saying “If I was going to die, I was going to die on my own terms.” He is alive and well, has a book, has beat cancer and tells Kogan, “I felt like I was floating in space.” chicagotribune.com/2026/05/13/rem… @rickkogan

As fuel runs out in Cuba, CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Thursday in Havana with intelligence officials —and Raul Castro’s grandson, Raulito Castro (AKA “El Cangrejo”)— to emphasize it’s time for the regime to make a deal w/@BarakRavid & @DavidLawler10 axios.com/2026/05/14/cia…

Congrats! @royalpratt

Congrats! @laura_n_rod

A Pennsylvania man who allegedly had a "hit list" and threatened to shoot Democratic state legislators in online posts has been charged with making terroristic threats, court records show. abcnews.link/i1j9FRI

Mayor Johnson rules out school closings, mum on possible re-election bid chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielman-…

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) today on Trump nominees: The nominee for US Atty for Wyoming "was on Capitol grounds on January 6… and made the reprehensible claim that the police officers who risked their lives that day were guilty of ‘massive incompetence." US Attorney nominee for Northern District of Alabama, "called the prosecutions of January 6 rioters who attacked police officers, ‘the Salem witch trials on a national scale.’ There are videos—there is no question about what was happening here… Supporting nominees like this does not ‘back the blue.”

This is a huge development--a chance to firmly punish Russia for its savage aggression and help add to Ukraine's growing momentum. Perhaps a chance to finally end this war. UNLESS the @POTUS stands w/Putin, and Republicans in Congress are too cowed to oppose him.

Hegseth again stuns Pentagon with Poland troop withdrawal dlvr.it/TSXv2w

Let me get this straight. Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department is now considering settling that case. And one of the terms on the table is that the IRS drops all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses PERMANENTLY. He’s using the full weight of the federal government to protect himself and his family from accountability and potentially pay himself BILLIONS of your tax dollars. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…