Chicago Daily Fuse

15/08/2024

Robert Reich is anticipating promoting the first-ever federal ban on corporate price-gouging in our food chain. Love this. Another example of a from .

A lot of hype from the GOP about inflation without considering corporate greed in the equation. We need a President that stands up for the rest of us.

Trump is an enabler and doesn’t build the coalitions needed for reform. Consider me back on the Hope and Change train.

We can have strong markets and fair regulation at the same time. They are not mutually exclusive. There’s evidence for this in our past and all over the world.

Go Kamala!

28/06/2024

Just the facts, Jack.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees,

20/06/2024

This is wonderful. h/t Perry Sailor. The blog earned Joe Posnaski a one year subscription from me. I've heard him many times on the radio as a guest on 670 The Score and my subscription is overdue. Because baseball.

The sky seems a little less bright today. The music sounds just a bit bluer. The stars feel farther away. Willie Mays is gone. He stopped playing baseball more than 50 years ago, and yet you can see him, even if you never actually saw him. He’s chasing a fly ball, and he will never get there in ti...

29/12/2023

For all the "Me, too, unless you're a Jew" people. For all the Anti-Zionist Hamas being nice to a hostage memes.

A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of r**e, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.

06/11/2023

DON'T LOOK UP!

WARNING: NOT SATIRE... actual message from Adam Roberts, digital editor of The Economist: "My colleagues in our business and finance pages have also written a lot on the Middle East. Were the war to escalate, how might the region’s economy be affected? Our Buttonwood column, on investing, offers some thoughts on how to weigh the economic consequences of a third world war."

01/04/2023

CTU called the filing "frivolous" and said it "generally ... can spend its money any way it chooses."

21/03/2023

“Which of the two candidates has the most significant, the most relevant experience? And which of the candidates is able to make the independent, sound judgements that are necessary to move our city forward? That candidate is Paul Vallas,” Rush said.

The endorsement comes as Brandon Johnson garnered recent support from Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Ald. Jason Ervin.

16/02/2023

Facing pressure to act, America’s chief rail regulator now insists he is “constrained.” He’s not.

29/01/2023

Ah, sweet pathos...

Kansas City fans worried when one of their team’s most recognizable supporters didn’t show up for a game. When he turned up in a Tulsa jail, they wondered if they’d known him at all.

26/01/2023

As part of a test to see what Facebook would approve, the nonprofit Global Witness submitted 16 violent advertisements. Only two were rejected.

10/01/2023

The company said in a statement that settling the remaining Illinois lawsuits was in the best interest of its owners. It attributed the decision to “years of biased media coverage in the greater Chicago area,” the cost of appealing a record jury verdict and the time and money needed to defend hu...

06/01/2023

New research shows that pharmaceutical companies have spent more on enriching shareholders than drug research and development over the past decade.

15/12/2022

View Gary Thomas Marx's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

25/11/2022