440+ Fifths. Trump yesterday invoked his Fifth Amendment right, refusing to answer hundreds of questions in the New York attorney general’s investigation of his family’s business practices.
■ In a rare concession, he reversed himself: “I once asked, ‘If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?’ Now I know the answer.”
‘Liz Cheney’s kamikaze campaign.’ The New Yorker’s Benjamin Wallace-Wells: “Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, the Wyoming representative is willing to lose her seat to take down Donald Trump.”
■Crain’s: Bailey’s internet history finds him asserting “that Islam ‘is not a religion of peace,’ that CPS’ decision to let children use the bathroom that conforms to their sexual identity is ‘sickness,’ and that a young person born as a biological woman who thinks she may actually be a man needs to accept ‘reality.’”
‘We’d hate to think this is another case of a whistleblower being shown the door.’ A Sun-Times editorial raises concern that the dismissal of the official in charge of Chicago Police Department reforms reflects a lack of seriousness about the program under Mayor Lightfoot.
‘These matters have to be fixed.’ A Tribune editorial says that, before the CTA pours billions into the Red Line’s extension south, it needs to address crime on its buses and trains.
■ The CTA’s embattled president, Dorval Carter, was set to address the City Club at noon today in a sold-out session to be streamed live to the web.
Walgreens in trouble. A federal judge has found the company “substantially contributed” to San Francisco’s opioid epidemic—dispensing, in the judge’s words, “hundreds of thousands of red-flag opioid prescriptions without performing adequate due diligence.”
‘Kill your lawn before it kills you.’The New York Times’ Agnes Walton sounds an alarm about “the astounding amount of water needed to keep our lawns vibrant, the toxic herbicides and chemical fertilizers we saturate them with and the air pollutants that billow out of mowers and into our lungs.”
■Men Yell at Me columnist Lyz Lenz on the challenges of life in an era rife with “death counts, infection rates, mass shootings, disasters on our overheating planet”: “Sometimes there is nothing you can do but play Wordle.”
