Expired food, infections, infestations reported at Chicago police stations serving as makeshift shelters for immigrants

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot has taken aim at Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas who has been sending immigrants to Chicago and other sanctuary cities as a response to President Joe Biden’s border policies.

In an open letter Sunday, Lightfoot told Abbott that her administration was aware he planned to resume busing immigrants to Chicago and other cities yesterday, noting that 8,000 have already been sent here since August.

She got a major virtue-signalling award when she embraced her sanctuary city policy, and now she’s after the Texas governor for taking her seriously.

He touched on one of our most enduring (and to some endearing) sacred cows.

ABC heavily edited its interview with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday because it didn’t like what he said about vaccines. In doing this, ABC demonstrated that it thinks the people who are unfortunate enough to watch the network are too stupid to think for themselves or evaluate truth claims on their own.

All we can say, good thing he didn’t diss masks.

more more more here on what interviewer claimed and how RFK rebutted her elsewhere . . .

Gets to the heart of the matter.

“In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city,” Johnson said on social media. “However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”

What a blather.

Trib:

Johnson’s condemnation of violence felt like an obligatory preamble hoping to ward off criticism. The statement’s real rhetorical energy came only at the end: Johnson and his fledgling transition team apparently saw the weekend violence downtown as a chance to offer a sociological admonishment to those who were frightened.

There’s more of that coming down the pike from this masterful double-talker.

No criticizing the kids, the mayor-elect says, even if you ran hard and fast at the sound of gunshots or decided to check out of…

Front page hard copy lede caught a reader’s eye:

Within seconds of stepping onstage to declare his triumph in the Chicago mayoral race, Brandon Johnson extended an olive branch.

To Vallas? Wow.

After briefly marveling at his improbable political rise, the newly minted mayor-elect said his first order of business was delivering a message to those who’d voted for his opponent, Paul Vallas.

Being the first winner ever to do such a thing?

Ask yourself that.

And then ask why he wouldn’t say that.

Did I read this wrong or miss something, but does not this account by Chi Trib religiously counter Vallas’ arguments — citing experts, experienced commentators and the like — but not his opponent’s?

Vallas regularly cites [CPS’s] per-pupil spending — though using a figure that’s nearly double the official state number and whose accuracy has been questioned.

Oh? Anonymously?

Chicago residents will be selecting between two radically different trajectories for hundreds of thousands of students and their families, said CPS parent Cassie Creswell, director of the nonprofit [oh, a bit more than that, indeed l0bbyist]Illinois Families for Public Schools.

Whose stand on vouchers is opposed to Vallas’ — see GAME OVER FOR SCHOOL VOUCHERS IN ILLINOIS! 

See also Illinois Families for Public Schools released a statement denouncing tax-credit scholarships in Illinois

where Creswell’s organization is self-described as “urging lawmakers to end the Invest in Kids Tax…