Chicago Pride March Draws Thousands Despite Mayor’s Coronavirus Rules

Thousands packed the streets in Chicago for an unofficial gay pride march despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the first openly gay mayor, canceling the official annual event because of her worries over the coronavirus. Organizers insisted that the rally held in the city’s West Side Lakeview neighborhood was an attempt to “reclaim” the “grassroots” efforts to push gay pride, according to ABC 7. The gay pride parade has roots in the Windy City going back to 1972 and has taken place in the Boystown area of the city until this year, when it…

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AOC Is NOT Happy With Measly $1.5 Billion Budget Cut: ‘Defund the Police Means Defund the Police’

Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools. It does not mean counting cuts in overtime as cuts, even as NYPD ignores every attempt by City Council to curb overtime spending and overspends on overtime anyways. The fight to defund policing continues. If these reports are accurate, then these proposed ‘cuts’ to the NYPD budget are a disingenuous…

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Not wearing a mask can cost you $50 in South Beach under new COVID crackdown

Amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Miami-Dade County, the mayor of Miami Beach announced Monday the city would begin issuing fines to those who ignore rules requiring the use of facial coverings indoors and outside if social distance cannot be observed. The city’s new crackdown does not go as far as its neighbors across the bay in the city of Miami, which requires the use of masks at all times in public except for when exercising, eating or working outdoors or by very young or medically…

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