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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’m very over “the executive branch suffers irreparable harm when it can’t do whatever it wants” bs

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

KBJ has them cold:

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trying to explain to my cat he’s famous rn and people are stopping outside hoping to see him on the cat tour.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m not sure this is actually a good policy solution. I read this as “we know you can’t live off of what we pay you for jury duty but we’re not going change that ever.” What about the unemployed or those employed at small businesses?

Employers will now have to pay their employees their full rate of pay while they are serving on jury duty under House Bill
4844. Businesses with 25 or fewer employees are exempt from the requirement, which begins immediately.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It sounds even stupider when you listen to it.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Started watching Muppet Treasure Island and realizing how many jokes I missed as a kid.

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Yakuzombie: Like a Draghoul @manofsuds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There's a take going around pushing back about Democratic party politics being inaccessible compared to DSA, and that all you need to do is show up to a county party event. May I present to you the Cook County Democrats July calendar vs the Chicago DSA calendar (I'm a member of neither fwiw).

There isn't shit to do with the Cook County Dems in July

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is nice and all but I would much rather they deal with making it easier and cheaper to just BUILD MORE HOUSING so that it’s not so much a landlord’s market to begin with.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Never forget in the story of Jesus the hero was killed by the State.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Your periodic reminder that the Democratic Party of Illinois is opposed to democracy reform that would in any way even maybe kinda infringe on their existing hold on power.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Y’all this is some crazy right-wing fever dream propaganda coming straight from the State Department

Today, Cuban agents and operatives maintain a foothold in hundreds of front groups, activist
organizations, solidarity centers, and ideological NGO and nonprofit networks. These groups
collectively represent one of the single largest, most sophisticated and dangerous vectors for
hostile foreign influence in modern American history. Many of the most significant upheavals in
recent American political history – from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the
explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses – can be linked, in some way,
shape, or form, to Cuban influence.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hey Chicago people! My sister and her coworkers at Enjoy (stores in Lincoln Square and Andersonville) are trying to form a union. Check out their insta - there’s a survey in the linktree to help them show community support. www.instagram.com/enjoyworkers...

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Really hope someone rn is doing their best FOIA work to find out how many other cops this has happened to.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

NEW: We reported two years ago that Chicago police had made 200,000 secret traffic stops, failing to disclose them as required by law. Chicago police then admitted the problem, & promised to 'fix' it in a legislative hearing. We just investigated again: The problem... got WORSE.

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Chicago Police Promised to 'Fix' Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse. - Bolts

This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a nonprofit news organization in Chicago focused on issues of equity and justice in the court system. In... Read More

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Pokémon fossil exhibit at the Field Museum is small but fun. Cool side-by-side comparisons of fossil Pokémon and the real life fossils they are based on. And Wednesdays are free entry for Illinois residents so you only have to get the special exhibit ticket.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Unfortunately we can’t have nice things like this because our constitution is way too hard to amend.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Mayor Johnson built a progressive coalition to win and has actively let down key parts of that coalition, and done damage to vision for progressive governing in Chicago. Not sure it’s appreciated the number of highly involved voters that are actively mad about this.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If police and firemen are military now does that mean we get civilian control over them finally

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Watching grown men pointlessly argue with the ref is the perfect counter to “women are too emotional”

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I walk across this intersection regularly and it’s not just the turns - drivers speed across well after lights when crossing pedestrian signals are on already. It’s not safe.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov maybe don’t sign the age verification bill because it’s actually a mass surveillance bill.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

An election omnibus amendment did get filed yesterday (gut & replace of a completely unrelated already in process bill). Still unsure if it'll get through in time but regardless - this is no way to do legislation in a democratic society. www.ilga.gov/documents/le...

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Pretty sure Alder Martin is the only alder in the room who actually read the report. At all.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

With all the Callais fallout, the thing I keep coming back to is that the problem is and always has been single member districts. The redistricting part of the VRA was a roundabout way to get at how SMDs aren’t very democratic. But it was always patching a fundamentally flawed system.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Why did the astronauts take their cell phones to space.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Head of CPD refuses to publicly speak unless he is the only person and no one can challenge his propaganda is standard practice for them.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As I said yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts will uphold birthright citizenship and gut the Voting Rights Act.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I find this tidbit rather funny in an otherwise extremely dark piece: “Bielecki added that ‘none of the bylaws prohibit me from [going to a youth commissioner’s residence at 10pm]’” lol that’s not why bylaws are for.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Having a CTA train “due” at multiple stops at once is weird. It’s less weird for buses since some of the stops are so close and they can skip if there’s no one to pick up but it really makes no sense for trains.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The Illinois Election Code is screaming for a complete rewrite. The GA adds and never deletes. It's got indorse and endorse. Info about vote by mail affidavits in the same section as perforated ballot cards. And far too many "this section may be modified"s.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Is it too much to hope for an actually effective, transparent, honest progressive mayor’s office in this city?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

RESULT: Community organizer Miguel Alvelo-Rivera has ousted state Representative Jaime Andrade in the Democratic primary. This is the Chicago-based HD40, & Andrade has been a longtime target of the Chicago left.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking forward to counting the incumbent dems who lost. I think that’ll say more about the state of the party here than the high profile congressional races.

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Chicago Board of Elections @chicagoelection.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Updated Chicago Voter Turnout as of Polls Closed (VOTE BY MAIL & PROVISIONAL BALLOTS CONTINUE TO BE COUNTED THROUGH MARCH 31) 396,028 total ballots cast 1,554,337 active registered voters in Chicago 25.48% citywide turnout SO FAR chicagoelections.gov/news/chicago...

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@drakefor10.bsky.social and @demiforillinois.bsky.social won election day votes in 9th precinct 47th Ward I’m stoked

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Polls are open in Illinois. GO VOTE.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I opened my mailbox and they jumped out at me.

Photo of opened mailbox with a bunch of mailers pouring out

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Playing totk again and named my golden horse Huntrix.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Under appreciated fact that indeed, a solid chunk of the population has always been a fan of fascism/similar repressive strongman government and this holds true around the globe.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I requested and received Illinois PAC Request for Review open/close date + outcome since the end of this article's data (filed since mid Aug 2018) and tried to roughly recreate to see what, if anything, has changed. www.propublica.org/article/illi...

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Citizens Count on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but Keep Getting Shut Out

The office of the public access counselor was supposed to enforce open government laws. Nearly a decade later, it’s backlogged and frequently ignored.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

John Hendricks, managing deputy corporation counsel, litigation, for the Chicago Department of Law, tells the Finance Committee has prevailed just once at trial in a lawsuit alleging someone was injured in a police pursuit.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m usually a fan of all things @andrefor40th.bsky.social but I’m not understanding the endorsement of Bridget Gainer. Policy aside, I want my elected officials to show up work and not treat the position that pays $100,000 as their secondary side-gig.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Forgot how much I love regular expressions.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Really wishing I had someone else as nerdy as me about IL election law right about now. So many judgement calls with trying to draft a bill and stuck in my own head is a poor substitute as a place to bounce ideas around.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Officers made an average of 732 traffic stops every day in 2025 that were not documented as required by CPD policy, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Usually I’m all for @atrupar.com’s short summaries of videos but in this case reading the quote and watching the video give entirely different impressions of what is going on. Video makes it seem much more like Tapper’s doing the standard “what is your response to what we know the criticism will be”

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I never registered until grad school, when there were required remote tests with that invasive software where people watch you and your screen. I had a panic attack. They made me go through the disability office to use the testing center in person. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

nytimes.com

What’s Driving the Spike in College Students with Disabilities

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kaireky @kaireky.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Finished my primary ballot to drop off today. Excited to vote for @drakefor10.bsky.social and @demiforillinois.bsky.social. Wish every race had someone to be excited about but I’ll take what I can get.

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