1/ City Council members spent Monday questioning @ChiPubSchools’ re-opening plan. Let’s get into it (and other public meetings #CHIdocumenters are covering this week)! 🧵

2/ @ChiCouncil Committee on Education & Child Development hearing on CPS' calculation that benefits of in-person classes for PreK + special ed students outweigh #COVID19 risk / Mon, Jan 11, 9:30am 🐤 @MegannHorstead 📝 @PortalatinA https://t.co/1RQR35bC5t https://t.co/n3Olk64wFy
3/ @IDPH’s Task Force on Infant and Maternal Mortality Among African Americans (IMMT) met to finalize its 2020 report to the Illinois General Assembly / Mon, Jan 11, 1pm 🐤 @hd_documenter 📝 Amira Olinguo https://t.co/KyhU67FBin https://t.co/04VQj0EW9w
4/ @cta’s #ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Advisory Committee discussed elevator/escalator repairs, signage and website accessibility / Mon, Jan 11, 1:30pm 🐤 @marycateryan 📝 @Jennife92877737 https://t.co/umQc25xmYw https://t.co/zh7Mv6e0rw
5/ At @cta’s Committee on Finance, Audit & Budget + board meeting they’ll likely approve contracts to obtain greener fuel (biodiesel and ethanol gasoline) for non-revenue vehicles / Wed, Jan 13, 9:30am 🐤 @MikeTish4 📝 Parker Valentine https://t.co/gWH0awJ9VM
6/ City Council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations will hold a public hearing-slash-briefing on the city’s ongoing response to #COVID19 / Wed, Jan 13, 10am 🐤 @caleighchidoc 📝 @Rose26rv https://t.co/i6GnfLRL34
7/ @Metra’s board will discuss “new coach car procurement”, which could speed up the whole train system 🚉 and include more space for bicycling commuters 🚴 / Wed, Jan 13, 10:30am 🐤 @tedledford 📝 Chloe Vitale https://t.co/XvuRql778K
8/ @ChicagoParks agenda includes a lease proposal w @ChiPubSchools in Belmont-Cragin’s Riis Park. Per @BlockClubCHI the new elementary school would serve a growing population of Latinx families / Wed, Jan 13, 11:30am 🐤 @ridgewaychris 📝 Rebecca Zellelew https://t.co/eu9cnHk4do
9/ An agenda for City Council’s Committee on Environmental Protection & Energy isn't up yet but items in their court include emissions regulations/fines + creation of a Chicago Climate Commission / Thu, Jan 14, 1pm 🐤 @pizza4justice 📝 @camillasfphoto https://t.co/d9j82q8ugK
10/ The Chicago Commission on Human Relations will meet. While the city made a lot of budget cuts, many aldermen thought CCHR, which investigates discrimination complaints, should get an increase / Thu, Jan 14, 3:30pm 🐤 @delvecchiograce 📝 Ayanna Watkins https://t.co/FxYujLDvfD
12/ That's all we have so far. Missed our 2020 rewind thread? Check it out here: https://t.co/GeweqpM1bO

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Rachel Riley is listed as patron.
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Every single public defender. Every single day.


Bail arguments, motions, oral arguments, hearings. Judges don’t know, follow, or care about the law. Prosecutors are willing to take advantage of it. And mandatory minimums, withheld evidence, & pretrial detention coerces people to plead before trial. When theres a jury. A shot.

But defenders still fight. And still win. Most times wins aren’t “Justice.” It’s power of repetition of argument in front of same judges. Introducing those in power to the people they oppress. Not just a RAP sheet or words on a page. Defenders make it harder to be brutal & cruel.

I worked as a public defender at an office as well resourced as any in the country. Social workers, team of investigators, a reentry team, support staff, specialist attorneys in immigration, housing, education, family. Relatively low caseloads (80-100). And yet still injustice.

Most think that balancing the scales of justice means more funding for defenders. Thats part of it. Enough a attorneys to actually be at bail hearings. Wrap around services to be able to help people trapped in the system end up better off in their communities. Lower caseloads.
I shared this on my FB page and asked, can ya really blame him?

I was half kidding. I also assumed someone would think of what I did pretty quickly and waiting for the comment to mention what I assumed was obvious.

The timing. I was sure someone else had thought of it.


But no one did. 20+ comments in people discussed the morality or bad sense or libertarian perspectives. Someone even said I’m thinking about doing that. No one said what I thought was obvious. Have you thought of it? Is it obvious to you?

Here’s a clue...recognize it?


How about this?


The author discusses it with Mike Wallace in 1958

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