Nora Wiltse

Could we just run a trial period on matriarchy and see if it helps

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $834 billion that he's worth today. He'd still be the wealthiest man alive & every senior would have dental, vision & hearing under Medicare.

She didn’t threaten his life. She threatened his authority and masculinity, and that’s what gets women killed.

Have the Bears ever considered playing a full scrimmage before kickoff so they’re at their best for the first quarter?

WTTW reports what Chicagoans have been saying for weeks: the math doesn’t math. The Corporate Caucus’s “alternative budget” is built on bad math and hidden costs for working families. City financial officials reviewed the plan and found: • fake savings that don’t exist • cuts that eliminate 5,100 youth jobs • fee hikes that hit the poorest Chicagoans hardest • legal risks that could blow the whole budget • assumptions that “jeopardize Chicago’s financial position” Meanwhile, the Protecting Chicago Budget is grounded in real numbers, real programs, and real impact — funding violence prevention and youth jobs by asking the wealthiest corporations to chip in, not by doubling garbage fees on families. If you want a real budget, not fantasy math: Tell your alder to support the Protecting Chicago Budget. Keep Chicago open. Keep investing in our communities. Tax the rich — not the people who keep this city running.

At the 18th Street Pink Line, Reverend Tanya Lozano asked one simple question: Who should pay for this city: the working families who make it run or the billionaires who keep getting a free ride? Chicagoans didn’t hesitate. Ping-pong ball after ping-pong ball landed in the same tube: Tax the rich. The Protecting Chicago Budget keeps schools, parks, libraries, youth jobs and mental health care wholewithout raising property taxes. Tell your alder to vote YES. Working families have already paid enough.

I was discussing vaccine recommendations with an older patient today who asked me if those were the recommendations before or after the guy with the worm in his brain, and now I have a new favorite patient…

Things like recycling and lowering your carbon footprint are personal responsibility propaganda campaigns to shift the burden of climate change and destroying the environment away from corporations and onto consumers.

After ICE agents raided a Chicago day care Wednesday morning and arrested a teacher that has citizenship documents, U.S. @RepMikeQuigley (D-IL) says President Donald Trump is using the city to condition Americans to normalize him using the military against his own people. "He's getting you used to using the military as a toy. He's getting you used to this. He's not one year into his second term here... This isn't a continuation; it's an escalation. And frankly, you're just starting to see how horrific it can get."

If you want to know what pitch perfect communication looks like from a political candidate under fire and on the eve of a crucial election, this is it, look no further. Brilliant, eloquent, hilarious. Even the haters have to admit it:

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Chicago and Illinois will never be silent—we’re here and morally defiant because we're on the right side of history. ICE has no place in our streets!

Oh shit! @ViennaBeef want to chip in? lol

NEW STUDY: A bold cash transfer experiment in Flint, Michigan is showing extraordinary results for babies’ health. Giving every pregnant woman $1,500 + $500/mo after birth cut preterm births & NICU stays, saving more in healthcare costs than the program spent!

According to Skewering History: The Odious Politics of Counting Gaza’s Dead by Dr Richard Hil and Dr Gideon Polya. They say 680,000 Gazan dead (as of April 2025), they also go on to say this includes an estimated 380,000 kids under the age of 5 years.

I think it’s safe to say that International Law is dead. The mechanisms to enforce it have all failed. The UN has failed. It has literally allowed a member state to kill hundreds of its workers. Every treaty, law, convention to prevent genocide has completely failed.

SCOTUS just legalized racial profiling, and ICE is already denying a person's right to due process — abducting, detaining and deporting whoever they want. This is how white nationalism overthrows a country.

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

I am genuinely stunned by how much of the institution we call the United States was actually held together by glue and twigs and the apparently traditional assumption that a big ass wolf would never come along to blow it down