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Protests against ICE have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, with frog-suited activists and nude cyclists entering the fray as lawsuits and recriminations fly and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker threatens political prosecutions once electoral fortunes turn — the latter a twist on what beat cop Jim Malone (Sean Connery) called “the Chicago way” in the 1987 classic, The Untouchables.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Audio and summary
1861 version:
‘Slaveholder’Policies Are at the Heart of Southern Democratic State Stand-Offs—Center for Democrat Confederate Plantations Studies.
You really have to marvel at the consistency of Democrat policies over the last 150 years. All they did was replace the KKK with Antifa.