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.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
The Democrats are drinking their own kool-aid with the abundance of articles like this in the weeks before the election. It’s really just a coordinated psyop, that every publication is doing at the same time, to rally Democrats to vote and to demoralize Republicans. But everyone in the know understands how dire things are. Joe Biden knows things are so bad that he’s giving a national speech tomorrow declaring that MAGA Republicans (75,000,000 voters in 2020) are a threat to Democracy. Their game plan to rally demoralized Democrats to vote is “vote Democrat or else Republicans will destroy Democracy”. This… Read more »
I would LOVE to see Biden give the speech without a teleprompter/cues cards and notes. Then it will be worth watching and recording.
He went off script the other day and started telling stories about black areas of Baltimore having the highest crime rates but the best basketball in the state. Of course the legacy old school media doesn’t report on that but there are clips of the insane comments all over the internet.
I’m normally demoralized voting in the once great state of illinios. But I still go vote. Now and then there’s a win.