I sat down with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is presiding over the city's lowest homicide numbers in 60 years—a story corporate media has largely ignored. We talked about the community violence intervention work behind that drop, why billionaire Michael Sacks is bankrolling a second run at unseating progressive power in Chicago, and why Johnson says he has no regrets about being the first big-city mayor to call Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide.
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This is the throughline of Johnson's tenure: safety comes from investment, not intimidation, and moral clarity doesn't wait for permission. Chicago is proving both are possible in the same city, at the same time, under the same administration.
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Mayor Johnson and others have certainly pushed the SCOTUS into an extremely tight corner, coming up with ways to prevent any curbs on Guns. I would think even corrupted SCOTUS must be exasperated at having to make the same threadbare arguments for guns, in the face of such overwhelming evidence of Murder, Suicide, Genocide, life altering injuries, mayhem, and idiotic malice.
/well Actually any taxes on the rich would be an improvement since most of them weasel (sorry weasels) out of paying any taxes . I wonder how much their lawyers and accountants bills compare to the taxes they should be paying? There must be some kind of triumphal ego boost the rich get by cheating and evading taxes, like it is some kind of laudable behavior to skip out of paying a restaurant bill? How chintzy.