■The AP’s recap begins this way: “Trump with the long, twisting answers; the interviewer at times struggling to fact-check him … and then, eventually, both talking over each other as Trump flings insults her way.”
■ Know how Chicago Public Square often links to full video of events? Don’t bother.
He’s coming this way. To “fight the radical Progressive Left’s Marxist agenda,” Florida Gov.—and potential presidential candidate—Ron DeSantis is headed to Peoria Friday.
■ Ignoring the Chicago Police Department’s history of charging the wrong guys (2020 link), Mayor Lightfoot left the key word alleged out of her statement praising police “for working swiftly to apprehend and bring to justice the four individuals responsible.”
‘A travesty.’ A Sun-Times editorial mourns that, as Lightfoot takes “victory laps this week … the city is stuck with an event, brought under her administration, that raised red flags from the very start”: NASCAR street races.
‘The end of the COVID emergency really is about yanking back certain medical benefits.’ Columnist Neil Steinberg mocks: “Well, THAT’S over. Finally. Thank God.”
‘The ugly truth.’ProPublica reports that HomeVestors of America (“We Buy Ugly Houses”) trains its franchisees in Illinois and elsewhere “to zero in on homeowners’ desperation.”
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