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  • This rogues’ gallery of flagged officers includes William Wichern, a veteran Illinois Department of Natural Resources officer who repeatedly made racist, homophobic, and sexist statements to other officers; Crestwood police officer Arthur Roman, who was convicted and sentenced to a year in prison for assaulting two teens; and Emilio Marquez and Owen McGuinness, a pair of Rockford police officers who allegedly beat a man and fractured his rib while he lay facedown on the ground in handcuffs.

    Prosecutors can, of course, act in bad faith and withhold Brady evidence from defendants simply because it helps them. Examples abound in Illinois. In Cook County, prosecutions have hinged on a state trooper whose allegedly copy-and-paste DUI arrest reports earned him recognition as the state’s top DUI cop, and then accusations of “fabricating evidence.” In DuPage County, three prosecutors were charged and later acquitted of conspiring to cook up evidence in a case that produced a wrongful conviction and landed three men on death row. And in Chicago, prosecutions based on false drug arrests carried out by a gang of Chicago cops led by convicted felon Ronald Watts led to mass exonerations and more than $126 million in settlement paid by taxpayers as of last year. Since 1989, the National Registry of Exonerations reports 116 exonerations in Illinois in which prosecutorial misconduct was a contributing factor.








  • Miller is the worst kind of white-nationalist/Christian-nationalist. I suspect he’s now going to be acting as the de facto president while holding up the Trump sock-puppet from time to time and overseeing (and covering up) Trump’s mental and physical decline over the next couple of years. All that while turning the American Fascism knob up to 11. The guy is truly terrifying.

    He’s one of the main brains of the Trump-era dismantling of democracy and dismantling of the State in general (except for the military of course). I expect that right now he’s meeting with Republicans to finalize the plan to refuse to seat all new Democratic Congress-people.


  • Republicans have had their traitorous asses kicked, and now I want to see all their Orange “initiatives” rolled-back, starting with the Big Ugly BIll but also defunding and/or dissolving ICE (and paying some kind of restitution to the people ICE has murdered, at minimum), terminating the Iran war, restoring ALL DOGE cuts, rolling back defense spending to at least Biden-era levels, abolishing all Trump tariffs, offering our sincere apologies to Canada and the EU and restoring our economic and political relations with them to Biden-era norms. That and much much more, there’s so much shit to fix and Republicans should be made to suffer while those fixes are made. They fucked up the country and should feel the pain of restoring it like the traitors they are.

    But Democratic leadership tiptoeing around like Quislings, kissing up to Republicans as if Dems are still afraid of them and don’t want to make them mad because some people, the meanies at the top or fatbody traitor Republican LARPers in Kansas or some backwater might not like the new Dems in power? Too fucking bad, the whole lot of them had it coming and Democratic leadership needs get going doing the fixing and Republicans had better learn to like it. If Democratic leadership can’t get the job done without checking first to make sure that the feeeeeeelings of Republicans and their leaders (which includes Orange Diaper Baby of course) won’t be hurt then they can look forward to a short stay in power.