Quick Hits

The Tribune tried to save NYC from itself:

• The Chicago Tribune issued a grim warning to New Yorkers about electing a socialist mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani in a bombshell op-ed Monday, the day before the Empire State’s primary elections.

  The paper’s editorial board paints a bleak image of Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic socialist Queens assemblyman who leapfrogged the longtime front-runner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a stunning new poll released earlier in the day.

  “A familiar dilemma: a moderate, business-friendly Democrat versus a democratic socialist. New Yorkers, take it from Chicago — we’ve seen this movie before, and the ending isn’t pretty,” the board of one of the last remaining big-city daily newspapers cautioned. 

They failed....and New York City will see an exodus rivaling that of the COVID years, with multiple corporations moving to Texas, Florida and New Jersey. 

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If this is true, can we get some reimbursement?

• Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Stacy Davis Gates said that children belong to them while delivering a speech at the City Club of Chicago.

  "Baldwin says the children are always ours. Every single one of them, all over the globe. And what comes next is 'CTU thinks your children are its children.' Yes, we do. We do. We do," Davis Gates said on Monday.

  [...] Davis Gates went on to say, "'CTU thinks all children belong to it. And they’re a socialist conspiracy ideology.' Well, I don't know about all that, but we like children. We educate them, we nurture them, we protect them, we support them, we negotiate for them, we create space for them. We even have them in our homes."

Is that before or after grooming and molesting them?

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Good riddance finally:

• Chester Weger, the man convicted of killing one of three women found dead at Starved Rock State Park in 1960, has died at the age of 86.

  He died Sunday, June 22, in Kansas City, according to his attorney Andy Hale of Hale and Monico.

  “Chester fought until the end to clear his name. He was innocent of the horrific murders but died just days after a LaSalle County judge denied his request to overturn his conviction. We are deeply saddened that Chester’s legacy is marred by this unjust conviction.

Fuck him and his attorney. He died a convicted murderer. They can put it on his tombstone. And if we happen to be in the vicinity of his grave, we'll piss on it, too.