Patrick Dorn

The orientation I want congress to have: productive conflict is GOOD. Dems have a real credibility gap. They need to communicate clearly to the public what they are for. Hold the regime accountable and force Trumpists to oppose popular stuff. Don't muddy the message with watered down bipartisan BS.

No amnesty

One of the most remarkable ledes in recent journalism.

Illinois’s population of high-income earners ($500k+) almost doubled between 2013 and 2023, but the millionaires who do leave are real loud, cranky, pains in the ass about it so the Trib Ed board tries to make it a problem for the rest of us

Please indulge me while I post this once more for folks who may be too busy during the week and only peek at Bluesky on the weekend. The NY Times invited me to explain why I think they're failing in their duty to warn the public about the danger of a dictatorship. And they posted the video online.

Note: Illinois varies. Most counties have started early voting. But not Cook County (pop. 5million+). City of Chicago early voting starts @ 2 downtown sites Oct 1. Suburban Cook County early voting starts @ 6 sites Oct 7. Both Chicago & suburban Cook offer greatly expanded early voting sites Oct 19.

The mainstream media are trying to force-feed us Rahm Emanuel as If they’re parents who cooked a bunch of cauliflower and are pissed that their kids won’t eat it.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Analyzing countless records & videos to document these agents, while also reporting on-the-ground, takes a lot of time (and PPE). To ensure our work is independent and accessible, we have no paywall, ads, big grants, or billionaire funders. Our only financial support comes from you, dear reader.

My brother, if we win the Democratic Party primaries then we ARE the Democratic Party

Impactful local reporting from @injusticewatch.org and @chicagoreader.com Support one or both if you are able.

Yet another reason why Eileen O'Neill Burke sucks: Her CCSAO knowingly seeks arrest warrants for immigrants that miss court dates because they are held in ICE detention. Shameful.

The kids are alright

Here in Illinois, we’ve protected access to vaccines. But to prevent the spread of measles and other illnesses, we need to bring that fight to the federal level. That’s exactly what I’ll do when I get to Washington.

#16shotsandacoverup

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Evergreen!

FULL STORY: The significant increase in the number of times Chicago police officers have used force against members of the public since 2022 merits a “full-scale review,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office told a federal judge. @wttw.bsky.social

the Illinois Senate will have their first hearing about BUILD on Thursday and I'm looking for a few good Illinoisans to submit their first "witness slip" in the next 36 hours Open this page and follow the instructions in this thread: bit.ly/BUILDWitness...

Just shameful that CPD effectively vetoed the participation of independent immigration and legal experts. Those experts were specifically requested by the more than 2,000 Chicagoans who petitioned for this meeting.

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

Chicagoooo 🚫👑

Simultaneously, they mock & degrade women athletes for not being athletic enough, and then when a few of us are that athletic, they say we must not be real women. The end state of this reasoning is a world where “real” women don’t — and then can’t — play sports. Policing gender hurts women athletes.

See you there, Chicago

IL peeps, operating system age verification bills are quietly moving through Springfield. These are bad bills for privacy and free speech. Please see downthread for instructions on how to file a witness slip to voice your opposition. Takes 5 mins or less.

This is an obvious overreach & bad logic, but bigger picture: this was only possible because we lack privacy protections and every scrap of data about us is collected, packaged, and sold every single day.

RCV is the long term solution. In the meantime, kudos to @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social for commissioning not just one, but two IL-09 polls to help inform their readers. (and releasing the details and cross tabs)

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

This Friday! Rally with Senator Elizabeth Warren and her future colleague Juliana Stratton! RSVP link below #TeamStratton

📢 Illinois neighbors! Rally with Senator Warren for Juliana Stratton! Election Day is days away. Hear directly from Sen. Warren and Juliana at this historic event! Fri., Mar. 13th Northside Chicago, IL Address available upon RSVP RSVP required for entry act.julianastratton.com/signup/march...

THIIIIIIIIIS. And not just here. All over the place. Like, I’d love a future Dem President to say “I’ve scoured the Constitution and can’t find a ‘major question’ rule anywhere in it. So I’m just going to ignore that effort to arrogate power to yourself. That imbalance? Checked.”

Saw Natchez on Sunday at the Siskel Center. Definitely recommend the film. It was a thoughtful presentation of history vs mythology and the impacts of avoiding a reckoning between the two. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRGf...

Raja’s “record places him firmly in the camp of corporate-aligned, MAGA-lite politics. The kind of broken politics that smiles for the camera while quietly empowering state surveillance, billionaire deregulation, and authoritarian allies. Illinois deserves better.”

“We can’t support it because the costs of the lawsuits will be too high” buddy wait until you hear about the police department

#TeamStratton Link to the source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Indivisible Downtown Chicago endorses @julianastratton.bsky.social for U.S. Senate

😢 What a shame for all the talented folks at Columbian Model & Exhibit Works

The kids are alright

For IL-07 peeps, Indivisible Downtown Chicago is hosting virtual forums with a number of Dem candidates over the next couple of weeks. Check them out.

We will be hosting a series of one-on-one virtual forums with our top 6 candidates in the Illinois 7th Congressional District Democratic Primary. Be sure to register with the link below to hear what these candidates have to say: www.mobilize.us/indivisibled...

Every poll that's come out recently has shown Kelly in a distant third. Time to rally round Stratton.

/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.