Also we gotta talk about this. As far as tepid, canned political non-apologies go, this is A+ material. Clearly you do not respect all people. Clearly these comments *do* reflect your values. Accountability. Ownership. A proactive and genuine effort to repair harm. All absent.

If you are thinking of running for office - DO IT. We can’t keep letting people like this remain in powerful positions. Apologies don’t matter when your just blatantly a terrible person. Chicago deserves better. blockclubchicago.org/2021/09/02/ald…

More than 20 elected officials are calling on Gardiner to publicly apologize after he urged staff not to help constituents who criticized him and called female residents and City Hall staffers “b-tch” and “c-nt.” blockclubchicago.org/2021/09/08/do-… via Block Club Chicago w/ Justin Laurence

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday, when asked about these texts: the "suggestion that someone is going to be deprived of city services because of who they supported or didn’t support in an election" is "never ever acceptable." Justin Laurence & Ariel Parrella with the receipts:

This is a lot for so little time in office. Chicago deserves better.

WTTW - Chicago PBS Paris Schutz JUST IN: Rossana Rodriguez 🌹🇵🇷✊🏽🏳️‍🌈 Rodriguez Sanchez will introduce a resolution calling on the City Council to censure Gardiner and hold a hearing on whether he retaliated against political opponents.

This resolution to censure Gardiner from Ald. Rodriguez Sanchez is co-sponsored so far by Alds. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Maria Hadden, Matt Martin, Carlos Ramirez Rosa, and Mike Rodriguez.

i often feel that, in actual practice, my most radical policy position is “cities should be for people first and cars last”

Wow. It just keeps getting worse

If you lie about the thing for which you’re apologizing during the actual apology, are you really ‘deeply sorry’?

The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s no risk at all to the officers and no real opportunity to frame it as somehow leading to more crime. They just think they ought to be exempt from the rules.

The idea that drivers on the northwest side of the city are more obedient of traffic laws than in other parts of the city is just, I don’t know. I can’t come up with the words to describe how wrong that is. blockclubchicago.org/2021/10/27/dri…

🚨I wrote about what this surge is doing to the healthcare system. It's bad. Though less severe, Omicron is spreading quickly enough to inundate hospitals, which can't handle the strain cos so many healthcare workers had quit or are now sick. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

kansas said fuck your little first half lead

ROCK CHALK FUCKING CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!

Just to be clear fuck you Ted Cruz you fucking baby killer.

Hey @slcchicago Why haven't you addressed the bedbugs yet?

RT if you think CPS - Chicago Public Schools making students w/disabilities ride 4+ hours a day on school bus is criminal. Our estimated pick up is 5:49am (!) school starts at 8am. Bus makes 11 stops; running 2 routes synchronously. Pedro Martinez @chicagosmayor Sarah Karp Nader Issa

If trying to make sure the families of kids with cancer live terror isn’t semi-to-actual-fascism, I don’t know what is.