Progressive Illinois politicians estimated that eliminating cash bail statewide would improve public safety.
The result: a 50% spike in the number of defendants committing new crimes while out on pretrial release in Cook County.
Under the SAFE-T Act, judges are legally barred from detaining nearly half of all arrestees, and they can't even consider threats to property as a reason to hold someone. In practice, the system protects repeat offenders from consequences.
Why are taxpayers funding a justice system that legally requires judges to release chronic offenders into the public?
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It took this CBS “news” outlet 8 paragraphs to say the man was illegally in the United States ignoring a deportation order.
It undermines our democracy when news outlets give aid and comfort to law breakers.
Can someone explain to me why I should devote even one iota of time and effort to helping the regime media outlets that President Trump banned from the White House?
This is beyond whether it’s a good or bad idea to have done it. Let’s assume it’s a bad idea.
Again, why would I or any other conservative choose to help them? Why would we spend any time at all supporting their cause, time we could be spending to support our own?
1. Would those media outlets help us if the tables were turned? Well, we already know the answer to that. They were eager participants in the cancelation of conservatives under Biden. So no, they would not help us. Why would we help them?
2. By helping them, don’t we help ourselves by preserving freedom of speech? No. See above. We already know they have zero interest in our freedom of speech, and, in fact, actively oppose it.
3. But isn’t it important for people to have a free press? Yes, in theory, but the unspoken premise is that these outlets are part of a free press. They aren’t. They are committed ideologues devoted to attacking us and undermining our country.
4. Aren’t you just bitter about the way the Washington Post printed a story about you full of false innuendo accusing you of something you didn’t do and failing to disclose readily available information that would’ve undermined that negative narrative? In fact, the regime press is garbage, as that incident reaffirmed. Why should I spend any of my time or effort caring about what Donald Trump did to them?
Remember, we only have a limited bandwidth for genuine caring, and can only focus on so many things at any one time. We all choose what we focus on. I choose not to help our enemies regain a position from which they can further cause us harm. Instead, I choose to focus my efforts on defeating my enemies in the midterms. Beware of anyone choosing to help the enemy at the expense of helping their supposed allies.
Hey, regime media, you’re on your own. I don’t care what Donald Trump does to you. Just like you don’t care what your lefty friends do to us.
🚨 JUST IN: Footage has resurfaced of CNN's Brian Stelter FLOATING the removal of Fox News from the White House press pool under Biden in 2021 — same guy who is this morning MELTING DOWN that Trump removed CNN, MSNOW and POLITICO
"Fox should be viewed as a political tool? Should it be part of the White House press pool? The privileges that come with news gathering?"
Note how he framed it? He didn't say "this is an attack on the 1st Amendment!"
He called access to the White House a "PRIVILEGE" — NOT A RIGHT.
That's not his tone today, because it's Donald J. Trump who made the move.
The solution is VERY simple: you are free to lie on your own time. If you want access, STOP THE ENDLESS LIES AND PROPAGANDA!
Gov. Pritzker is number 1, again!
In fiscal irresponsibility!
Illinois is #1 in growth in total state spending from 2019-2025, according to NASBO.
Sucks to be a taxpayer, though. We are still #1 in the highest combined state and local tax burden.
University of Illinois (@UofIllinois) is partnering with a technology firm to promote a training program that's only open to minorities, Blacks, and women.
White men are not allowed to apply.
This is ILLEGAL @AAGDhillon
The jestergooning of politicians must stop. Did none of you learn the lesson from the Covid nurses? Nobody wants to see you dancing on TikTok when 2K people are being shot in your city every year.
There are now 8 “green” surcharges on electric bills.
Billions of dollars in green energy scams
I did a FOIA with the Illinois Commerce Commission to find out how that money was spent. Got the result this week.
The couldn’t account for a single dime.
Every year around 9/11, I watch "The Man in the Red Bandana."
It's a tribute to former Boston College lacrosse player Welles Crowther, who died after saving nearly 20 lives that day.
Political debates don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Heroes like Welles do. ❤️🇺🇸
Illinois has quietly created a protected class of multi-millionaires, and they are entirely funded by your tax dollars.
While most Illinoisans are squeezed endlessly by inflation and the nation's highest property taxes, a select group of former state employees enrich themselves on a scandalously broken public sector pension system.
The math:
>184 state pensioners now make enough to sit in the top 5% of all U.S. income earners.
>The top 50 retirees took home an average of $437,000 last year alone.
>By the end of their lives, these top 50 will collect roughly $10 million each, 20 times more than they ever paid into the system.
>Despite this, the state’s pension funds only hold 48% of what they owe.
The culprit is A 3% compounding automatic raise baked into the law decades ago, regardless of the state's economic health.
@GovPritzker and some state lawmakers want to expand benefits further, adding another $13 billion in liability.
You are trapped paying for a system that was designed to go broke.
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Reporters use the label "far right" 3 to 14 times more often than "far left." The term implies that the parties opposing mass migration are undemocratic. In fact, they're winning elections. The real fascists are the ones censoring, banning, and prosecuting their enemies.