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For the last year, an army of volunteers has been standing behind migrants arriving in Chicago – WBEZ (Chicago)
Since Chicago moved all migrants into city-run shelters, the response team efforts have morphed into a bigger network. Last fall, volunteers created a resource group on Facebook with more than 4,000 members. SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Chicago mayor wants $1 billion more for schools even though 43% of CPS teachers are chronically absent – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 11, 2024
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list, including $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools. Among the reasons his demand should be categorically rejected: the growing rate of CPS teachers simply not showing up to school.
Negligence or something more? Gov. Pritzker’s $827 million in taxpayer subsidies for Rivian. – Wirepoints
May 10, 2024
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Gov. Pritzker’s ‘ethics reform’ eliminates competitive elections and choice for voters – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
May 8, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about a new law passed by the Democratic supermajority and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that results in brazen election interference, keeping Republicans off ballots; about a referendum that tests the waters for a renewed progressive income tax hike; about how the Parental Notification referendum question was knocked off the ballot; and why laws like that pass so easily.
The caption on the photo should be “useful idiots”
AWFLs. I call them this to their face at community events. I walk up to their table promoting their degenerate values and I saw – you are an Affluent white female liberal scum. An AWFLs.
Do you think that it will ever dawn on these 4000 people that they’re enabling the destruction of their own country?
For the most part, no.
Yes, they know exactly what they are doing.