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Hydrologic/Hydraulic Engineering/ Water Resources Consultant..... The problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place

Illinois
Joined June 2013
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In January 2023 — the last time an FAA ground stop was ordered — Mayor Pete (highly incompetent) responded by saying “glitches and complications happen all the time.” Then he did absolutely nothing. This Administration is actually doing the work to fix it.
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The “saving democracy” crowd seems to have a very serious problem with democracy. The Hill is out with my column on Democrats moving to negate results in the election with which they disagree... thehill.com/opinion/campaign…
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AI Seinfeld goes to the DSA convention 🤣
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You gotta hear about the time when the worst wildfires hit in California and the mayor was overseas and the governor failed to have water available for the firefighters…
Donald Trump was MIA today while 1.5 million Americans were stranded at airports at a scale not seen since 9/11. He does not care about you.
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This may have been the beginning of the end for Chicago CFO Ashlee Gabrysch. In a City Council budget hearing on Oct. 26, Gabrysch publicly corrected Mayor Brandon Johnson’s claim that his budget proposal closed the city’s deficit with 76% structural fixes, rather than with new borrowing or other one-time gimmicks. She correctly asserted the real number was closer to 56%. Today Gabrysch became Johnson’s third CFO to resign this year, saying that continuing in this role would “compromise my integrity and professional obligations.”
NEW: Chicago CFO Ashlee Gabrysch just resigned, citing an inability to give “complete and accurate” information about the city’s finances. This is the third CFO to leave Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office this year—plus a deputy CFO and the city’s budget director—following credit downgrades from three ratings agencies. "Throughout my career, I have remained committed to upholding the highest standards of financial integrity and transparency, and in my short time as Chief Financial Officer, I have faithfully discharged this duty,” Gabrysch wrote. “It has become apparent, however, that to continue in this role would be to compromise my integrity and professional obligations.” This latest departure from Johnson’s team highlights how little public finance expertise lives outside the mayor’s office. Chicago is the largest American city with neither an elected financial watchdog nor a city manager. The City Council Office of Financial Analysis is also woefully under-resourced compared to peer cities.
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With schools in California graduating illiterate and innumerate students, they’ll be counting the vote on their fingers until 2031.
Abolishing the electoral college would mean not knowing who won the presidency for 4 weeks while California keeps counting. No thanks.
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The media isn’t interested in this story of course..
OMG. Video reportedly captured on a Mahoning Valley Community Schools bus in Ohio shows a male student BRUTALLY attacking a female student as others laugh and do nothing. The bus driver and the aide also allegedly did NOT intervene to stop the attack. School officials also allegedly did not contact the female student's parents, and she was not seen by the nurse. We reached out to the school for comment, but they did not respond.
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🚨 OUTRAGEOUS! A male student was caught on video brutally beating a female student on an Ohio school bus while adults reportedly FAILED to intervene. The aide is now on leave, but that’s NOT ENOUGH. Every person responsible must be held ACCOUNTABLE! Absolutely DISGUSTING. 😡
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Kilmar beat his wife and is credibly accused of being a human trafficker. Yep- supporting that guy is certainly a risk.
REPORTER: Why do you support Chris Van Hollen over Chuck Schumer? EL-SAYED: “He's willing to take risks when it matters. Flying down to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a real risk…he went to check up on his constituent. That’s what leadership is about.”
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Ilhan Omar blatantly lied Thursday when she posted that “Trump is kicking 6.3 million MORE Americans off SNAP.” That’s not what’s happening. The USDA published a proposed rule on Tuesday to stop states from automatically giving SNAP to households that receive certain TANF benefits even when their income exceeds the normal limit. TANF is the temporary federal welfare program for low-income families with children. USDA estimates the change could affect about 6.3 million people years from now if it ever becomes final. It is still only a proposal. Nobody has been removed under it. Omar frames this as Trump yanking benefits from Americans. What she’s really defending is the looser rules that let people who don’t qualify keep receiving food stamps. The Big Beautiful Bill already tightened SNAP so illegal immigrants and others who don’t qualify couldn’t keep abusing the system. Omar wants those loopholes reopened. The point of SNAP is to help people who actually need it, not to keep handing it out to households that can already provide for themselves. It’s always the same with Omar. She’s constantly trying to help people defraud the American people. That’s how systems built for the needy end up helping nobody.
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Apparently, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's call to round up the "criminals" in Washington includes the conservative justices: "I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." The Democrats are fast becoming a party of berserkers...
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Sickening. Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered by Elias Rodriguez in the name of “free Palestine.” Gunned down in cold blood in the capital city of America. When Sarah tried to crawl away, Rodriguez executed her. Just days before their murders, Yaron had purchased a ring for his marriage proposal to Sarah. Two beautiful lives cut short and the communists are celebrating.
CUAD (cofounded by incoming Congresswoman Darializa) calls Elias Rodriguez a political prisoner. His crime wasn’t protest. He murdered a Jewish couple on the street as they left a party at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC.
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In 2007 Channon Christian and Christopher Newson were the victims of a carjacking by four black men They were taken out of their car, kidnapped and taken to a house belonging to one of the perpetrators, they then raped and sexually assaulted Christopher, beat him and took him to the railroad tracks where they then shot him and set him on fire Channon was held captive. She was brutally raped. Beaten. Assaulted. The sexual assault was so severe the medical examiner, who sees thousands of such cases, called it extreme. They then proceeded to pour bleach all over her body, down her throat, and genitals to clean their own DNA. There are so many more horrid details that I don’t even have the stomach to write it down. They were brutally killed, brutally raped and tortured. None of this ever became a nationwide crime story. But making monkey noises apparently will.
#NEWS: Ole Miss freshman Alaina Kunes, 18, is no longer enrolled at the University of Mississippi following the viral doorbell camera footage showing students making monkey noises and gestures outside an apartment occupied by three Black students. The university confirmed her departure but has not clarified whether she voluntarily withdrew or was dismissed. Kunes has since issued a public apology, describing her actions as “insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful.” She also said she intends to cooperate with the university’s investigation.
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Sure. Impeach members of the Supreme Court you don’t like or disagree with. Good thing Manu pushed back on this (he didn’t).
🚨JUST IN: AOC says the Democrats are looking at impeaching Supreme Court justices for "legalizing Trump's criminality." Obviously she means Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. KBJ, Kagen and Sotomayor are safe because they rule the "right" way. And you thought they were gonna focus on gas prices?
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Pritzker's “sanctuary” laws bar Illinois police from honoring ICE detainers, so criminal illegal aliens walk out of custody and back into our communities. That does not protect law-abiding Americans in our state. It protects the criminals.
#EXCLUSIVE: @DHSgov says they’re looking for a convicted violent felon after Illinois authorities released him back into the community despite an @ICEgov detainer. Shageldi Bashimov, a citizen of Turkmenistan, is currently a target for the agency—DHS says he was convicted of aggravated battery with use of a deadly weapon and sentenced to two years in prison in Chicago. ICE lodged a detainer on May 28th seeking to take him into immigration custody. DHS says Illinois authorities declined to honor that request and released him without notifying ICE. Bashimov entered the U.S. legally in March 2024 but overstayed his permitted time, according to the department. @SecMullinDHS is calling on Illinois and other sanctuary states to change their policies saying, “These reckless sanctuary policies are only going to endanger more innocent Americans…”
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was destroyed in March 2024. As of August 2026, MD was still *accepting bids* to complete demolition of the old bridge, with hopes of finishing demo this year. "REPAIR" is written & released four years bf one bridge is REPAIRED in MD. Projected reopening is 2030, but I'm sure that won't be done by then. ONE BRIDGE.
REPAIR is an honest look at where our country stands now, what's broken, what we need to rebuild completely, and what we can't lose sight of. Our future won't repair itself. We have to be the ones who do it. Preorder your copy today: premierecollectibles.com/wes…
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.@RepJayapal, in 2021, you accused Republican Chip Roy of “proudly referencing lynching” over his rope-and-tree remarks. Now you use “short rope” about Hakeem Jeffries and you’re “appalled” that anyone would interpret your words as invoking lynching. You want people to consider your intended meaning. Did you extend Chip Roy that same courtesy? Or does context only matter when you’re the one being criticized?
When I said, "short rope," I meant a short window to act. I'm appalled that anyone would twist my words to evoke the very real and horrific history of lynching and racial terror against Black Americans. I condemn that violence completely and the use of its imagery to intimidate anyone.
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