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Audio and summary Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks – Wirepoints
April 14, 2026
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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.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago Fiscal Crisis Worse Than Pre-Bankruptcy Detroit, HIV Surge and Public Health Threat From Open Borders Goes Unreported
April 10, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades
April 3, 2026
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times falsely blame Texas Gov. Abbott for 2020 to 2024 surge in Chicago Latino HIV, AIDS infections – Wirepoints Quickpoint
March 31, 2026
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Defund Social Media!
“The arbitrary and capricious manner in which Twitter handles the news…”
Not so sure about that – seems Twitter’s censorship is focused on conservative thought, opinion, and articles potentially damaging to Democrats and their minions.
Have stopped using FB and Twitter – As a firm defender of the Constitution, I will NOT help monetize censorship!!!.
lI quit Twitter. I am on Parler. Screw em. Best way to hurt them-don’t use them don’t link to them. It’s an opt-in product. Society performed before Twitter, it will perform after Twitter. No one needs to patronize a service that hates you.
Until Parler is bought out a la drudgereport. Money talks, just ask Jane Roe
I believe most businesses are prone to performing like pendulums. Competition, changing technology, regulatory environments, consumer preferences – all of these evolve relentlessly. In the business world, “how fallen are the mighty” examples abound. Newspapers-n-ABC/CBS/NBC network news, for instance. The on-line digital age took these legacy journalism powerhouses like Grant took Vicksburg. Backed them into a corner, starved them of revenue, and shelled them round the clock until there was no one left to write in the Daily Galuthumpian Protesturnical’s newsroom, and no toothpaste-n-tampon vendors willing to buy commercial time on the Nightly Blather broadcast that no one tunes into.… Read more »
Just shut up, Jack Dorsey decides what is news and what isn’t news now. You see, the law has no say so, lawyers have no say so, judges have no say so, half the Journalists and researchers have no say so, why half the country has no say so, only Jack Dorsey alone calls the shots now with the advice of his like minded friends, the other half. Its two countries now.
Jack Dorsey is told what is news by China. Wake up people.
There are “new Twitter “, “new Facebook “, “new YouTube ” etcetera platforms developing on blockchain.
Not only are these difficult to censor at input phase (being decentralized autonomous organizations by design), they are unscrubbable.
All it takes to defeat censorship is to achieve a critical mass of non-participation in censored platforms.
(Blockchain social media platforms tend to pass-through ad revenue almost entirely to content producers. How will old-economy censored platforms compete with that incentive model?)
I hope that they can be defeated as you outlined, but nonetheless it is horrifying that they are doing it, and apparently feel confident doing so.
Hi Hey Jude!
Soon the progressives will be telling us to “just get over” their censorship too. Politics is no longer just an abstract philosophical discussion for those of us not directly involved. Ideas have consequences, and we are seeing those consequences more clearly every day. Pay attention, all those who voted for what seemed like “kumbaya” candidates. They are showing their true colors.
Pay attention, my kind neighbor who believes that supporting BLM and the Democrats will usher in a new utopia of racial harmony and unity. Pay attention, my religious friend who believes that by voting Democrat she is following Jesus and Pope Francis in helping the poor of the world. Pay attention to what is actually happening!
Hi Heyjude!