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While both parties' presidential primaries have now been decided, the downballot primary season is just getting underway, with plenty to watch in two big Midwestern states. The main event is Ohio's volatile Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen....
by Jeff Singer
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'... I should be in bed nursing my illness (whatever it is), rather than doing today's BradCast. But given the firehose of news, some of it huge, that broke after yesterday's...
by TheBradBlog
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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Tonight's selections from Cheap Trick’s 1977 sophomore album, In Color .
As one who grew up in Illinois, aware of Cheap Trick a full year before the band’s Epic Records signing and February ...
by Al Dorado
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 09:01 PM PST
with 15 Recommends
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🕊️ Global Observatory.org - 2019 The Role of Women in Northern Ireland’s Peace Process: Q&A with Monica McWilliams by Samir Ashraf. For clarity, the Ireland-England conflict dates back at minimum to about 1540, and in some...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 04:50 PM PST
with 27 Recommends
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Big Win in NY-03. On to the Next Ones in CA, IL, and more! RSVP now for our Campaign To Victory Call Thursday, 2/15, 9pm ET/6pm PT First, many thanks if you were in the game making calls, walking neighborhoods, or doing anything else that helped Tom...
by Progressive Democrats of America
on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 11:35 AM PST
with 1 Recommend
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Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him...
by Associated Press
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 09:29 AM PST
with 54 Recommends
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Despite the risk of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, I’ve put together this TL;DR compendium of writings addressing the constitutional challenge now facing the country. I realize it is a lot to go through, but when the regular media treats Trump vs Biden as “the...
by xaxnar
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Mike Morales’s doctor advised him to take four weeks off for an important procedure, and the longtime crane operator readily agreed, secure in the knowledge that he wouldn’t lose a dime in pay or face other repercussions at work. Morales’ union...
by David McCall
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 11:47 AM PST
with 18 Recommends
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— — This story deserves to be repeated and repeated, until everyone gets it. Donald Trump refuses to sign a Pledge NOT to overthrow the U.S. government. Trump previously signed the Illinois Pledge — twice — but this time around he says “No Dice!” I...
by jamess
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 02:14 PM PST
with 55 Recommends
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Guest: Voting system expert Susan Greenhalgh of Free Speech for People Also: Our COVID chronicles continue Biden charges Trump an 'insurrectionist', tried to 'steal' 2020 election... We're still fighting COVID, but we think we're almost over the hump...
by TheBradBlog
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 06:24 PM PST
with 9 Recommends
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When Donald Trump and his campaign registered for the Illinois state primary this year, they refused to sign a voluntary loyalty oath stating that Trump wouldn't advocate for overthrowing the government. The Biden campaign pounced on the news, which...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 12:31 PM PST
with 302 Recommends
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Trump knows he’s guilty. Why else would he refuse to sign? Because he knows he’s broken a whole bunch of oaths already... WBEZ Chicago “For the entirety of our nation’s history, presidents have put their hand on the Bible and sworn to protect and...
by PvtJarHead
on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 05:30 PM PST
with 263 Recommends
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Happy New Year! Another new year, another terrific new law takes effect in Illinois. It contains similar EV friendly “right to charge” components as in nine other states, but also takes an innovative step beyond that. (For background on the various...
by Satya1
on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 03:19 PM PST
with 102 Recommends
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by Jessica Lussenhop and Topher Sanders
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by ProPublica
on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 10:59 AM PST
with 307 Recommends
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In 2016, my family and I moved to Skokie, IL, a town we grew up in and around years prior — a suburb that’s considered one of the most diverse in the US. We were pregnant with our second child and despite our desire to stay in Chicago, we couldn’t find...
by temps2020
on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 01:59 PM PST
with 22 Recommends
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In 1964, the elections for the Illinois State House turned into a sprawling mess with more votes cast, legally, than the entire population of the United States.
"Hidden History" is a diary series ...
by Lenny Flank
on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 12:37 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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In 1832, a war broke out in Illinois between the American settlers and the Sauk (Sac) under the leadership of Black Hawk. The war lasted 15 weeks and resulted in the deaths of 70 non-Indians. While ...
by Ojibwa
on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 07:10 AM PST
with 45 Recommends
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Because charity should begin at home/Rittenhouse, there are alligator tears for the Boogaloo Boy wannabee, including Candace Owens, the fascist gadfly who just got dropped by the David Horowitz Foundation. Don’t worry the Daily Wire still loves her,...
by annieli
on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 01:19 PM PST
with 547 Recommends
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9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of Taxpayers, Wildlife
by Tony Schick �
ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-...
by ProPublica
on Sun Nov 19, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
with 158 Recommends
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President Joe Biden went to Chicago on June 28 to give a landmark speech on � “Bidenomics," � only to learn in private during the trip about a soon-to-close auto factory, news that was a challenge ...
by Associated Press
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:46 AM PST
with 100 Recommends
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