The dark-colored SUV was used in a March 19 shooting in the 3100 block of West Lake Street, police say.
Police released surveillance video showing an SUV wanted in a shooting last week in East Garfield Park that killed a man and wounded two others, including a 10-year-old boy.
The dark-colored SUV was used in a March 19 shooting in the 3100 block of West Lake Street, according to a statement from Chicago police.
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesPolice investigate the scene where three people were shot, including a 10-year-old boy in the 3100 block of West Lake St. Friday, March 19, 2021.
Marquel Robinson, 24, was shot and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. The boy was shot in the leg, while a 25-year-old woman was struck in the thigh and ankle, police said. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
The boy was the second child shot in Chicago in less than three hours that day. Earlier in the afternoon, a 4-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting in Washington Park.
Police asked anyone with information about the SUV to call Area Three Violent Crimes Detective Mckenna at (312) 744-8261.
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A man was killed and at least seven others wounded after gunfire broke out at a “pop-up party” early Friday in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
It was the second mass shooting at an impromptu party this month. On March 15, a shooting wounded 15 people, 2 fatally, at a party in Park Manor.
In Friday’s shooting, at least two men opened fire shortly after midnight at a “pop-up party” in the 2500 block of West 79th Street, police spokeswoman Karie James said.
At least six of the victims were men in their 20s and 30s, police said. One victim was a woman.
Several handguns were found at the scene of the shooting — a line of storefronts that include a daycare, salon and storefront church. St. Rita of Cascia High School is located across the street. No arrest had been announced.
Police said the victims were:
A 26-year-old man shot in his head was pronounced dead at the scene. His name hasn’t been released.
Another man, 27, was shot in his head and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.
A man, 22, was shot in the left knee and a man, 28, was struck in the left leg, police said. Both were taken to the same hospital in fair condition.
Another man, 28, and a woman, 41, both suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen, and were listed in serious condition.
A man, 32, went to the Little Mary of Company Hospital with a gunshot wound to the back.
An eighth person brought themselves to Roseland Hospital with a gunshot wound to the body.
The shooting happened at a storefront at 2515 W. 79th St., according to the Chicago Fire Department. City records don’t show a business registered at that address.
SAN ANTONIO — Former Bulls coach Stan Albeck, who also coached the Spurs, Cavaliers and Nets during a long NBA career, died Thursday in hospice care at son John’s home. He was 89.
John Albeck told the San Antonio Express-News his father entered hospice care Thursday after having a stroke on March 14. He also had a stroke in 2001 while an assistant coach with Toronto.
Albeck coached the ABA’s Denver Rockets in 1970-71, then directed Cleveland in 1979-80, San Antonio from 1980-83, New Jersey from 1983-85 and Chicago in 1985-86 — with Michael Jordan in his second season.
“We are saddened to learn of the passing of Stan Albeck,” the Bulls said in a tweet. “While he was only a head coach in Chicago for the 1985-86 season, he was a good man who will always be a part of our history. We send our condolences to Stan’s family and friends during this difficult time.”
He took San Antonio to consecutive Western Conference finals in 1982 and 1983. The Spurs had a moment of silence to honor Albeck before their game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night.
“Coach Albeck wasn’t just important to the Spurs, he was what I call a lifer,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. “People like myself don’t come close to loving the game as he did, and his whole family did. They participated in so many ways and followed him so many places.
“He would come to games, he would talk to players, talk to us as coaches. He always had a smile for us, a suggestion or two — because he’s a coach. … He is somebody we always respected and he brought a bright light to wherever he was.”
Albeck grew up in Chenoa, Illinois, and starred at Bradley. He got his first head coaching job at Adrian College in Michigan in 1956, and spent 14 seasons as a college head coach at Adrian, Northern Michigan and the University of Denver before joining the Rockets’ staff in 1970.
Albeck was inducted into the Bradley University Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 and the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.
A pair has been charged in connection to a deadly shooting at a Bridgeview Secretary of State Drivers Services Facility that sparked a chase into the south suburbs.
Matthew Givens, 23, and Cortez Hudson, 24, face a count each of murder and attempted vehicular highjacking, according to a statement from Bridgeview spokesman Ray Hanania.
Givens, of Lansing, and Hudson, of Oak Park, were expected to appear for a bail hearing at the Bridgeview Courthouse later Friday.
Jawaun Davis, 21, was killed in the attack, which unfolded about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the facility, at 7358 W. 87th St., authorities said.
He was standing in line outside of the facility when a person approached him and fired shots, Secretary of State spokesman Dave Druker said.
The gunman and a driver were chased by police into suburban Palos Hills, police said.
After abandoning their vehicle near at 99th Street and Roberts Road, the pair tried to carjacking a Tesla driver, Hanania said in an email Friday. The driver gave up his car and the pair entered it, but couldn’t figure out how to start the vehicle, Hanania said.
That allowed police to catch up and arrest them, Hanania said.
In a statement, Bridgeview Police Chief Ricardo Mancha said over a dozen other police agencies helped in the investigation.
“As always, it is due to the hard work extreme cooperation of all police agencies that consistently back each other up and tirelessly help one another,” Mancha said.
When Ric Menck was a young rocker in Barrington, he didn’t associate 1980s music with the synthesizer washes, booming drums and the slick sheen commonly found in such big-haired acts as A Flock of Seagulls, Def Leppard and Cyndi Lauper.
He was part of the decade’s alternate pop-rock narrative, driven by tight songwriting, lean production and guitars played with little distortion or flash.
Much of this music earned a nickname, “jangle,” as bands embraced Rickenbacker guitars a la Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, whose first hit was Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man,” with its “jingle jangle mornin’.”It also was part of the college rock scene that paved the way for such ’90s breakthroughs as Nirvana and Pavement.
“There was the MTV ’80s, and then there was the other ’80s,” says Menck, who now manages a Minneapolis-area record store while continuing to drum with Matthew Sweet and others. “When people started complaining about the ’80s, I’d say, ‘Well, my ’80s was pretty cool.’ “
Those ’80s are having a moment:
“The Pylon Box,” out Friday on CD after selling out its vinyl edition, is a four-disc set that showcases this groundbreaking Athens, Georgia, band. Pylon’s brittle, propulsive attack bridged the gap between that college town’s more famous exports: the B-52’s and R.E.M.
“Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987” picks up where Pylon left off. This two-disc compilation is a deep dive into little-known tracks released on independent labels.
Seminal art-rock legends Pylon released Pylon Box in November, including studio albums Gyrate (1980) and Chomp (1983), which have been remastered from their original tapes and made available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 35 years. New West Records
I was a jangle fan. And I recognized exactly one of these acts: the Windbreakers, a Jackson, Mississippi, band fronted by singer-songwriters Bobby Sutliff and Tim Lee. Lee’s ears also were opened by this collection.
“Half the people on that record are great friends of mine from way back, and the other half I’ve never heard of,” says Lee, now living in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Most of these songs are of the instantly catchy, verse-chorus variety as they spread sunshine even while lamenting love gone wrong. Many evoke R.E.M., which rose from college faves to arena-conquering superstars over this period.
R.E.M. tipped its cap back toward Pylon by covering its swirling 1981 single “Crazy” in 1985. In the hardcover book that comes with “The Pylon Box,” R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck calls Pylon “a huge influence,” and drummer Bill Berry testifies, “To this day I haven’t seen a better live band.”
The four Pylon members were University of Georgia art students. Three of them — singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay, bassist Michael Lachowski and drummer Curtis Crowe — worked weekend jobs at the nearby DuPont textile factory. The band took its name not from the identically titled William Faulkner novel but the safety cones scattered around the factory floor.
The industrial setting also informed the band’s aesthetic visually, sonically and lyrically. While guitarist Randy Bewley (who died from a heart attack in 2009) whips up inventive, circular figures, Lachowski offers one- or two-note counterpunches, Curtis Crowe puts the beat into overdrive, and Briscoe Hay delivers clipped phrases in everything from a murmur to a feral shriek.
“I was fitting into those spaces,” Briscoe Hay says from her Athens home. “It’s like we were a machine, and everybody had their place in it.”
Over the speed-surf attack of “The Human Body,” Briscoe Hay sings with typically intense commitment, “I have my safety glasses/I have my safety shoes/I’m putting in my earplugs/Use caution in what you do!”
In “Driving School” Briscoe Hay shouts, “Caution! Red Light! Bus Stop! Turn Right! Reverse! Forward! Neutral! Low Gear!”
“There’s good information in there, but these gotta be the funniest lyrics ever,” Briscoe Hay says. “We had our tongue in our cheek so firmly sometimes.”
Pylon’s deadpan humor contrasted with the campiness of the B-52’s, who didn’t stick around Athens after breaking through with their self-titled 1979 debut album.
“We were in Athens, stayed in Athens and were on the scene and at the parties when all the subsequent bands were emerging,” Lachowski says, referring not only to R.E.M. but also such bands as Dreams So Real, Love Tractor and Flat Duo Jets. “We were right there listening to them. And they were listening to us.”
But as the music industry’s demands were “getting more annoying,” as Lachowski put it, Pylon called it quits. (It regrouped to record a 1990 album not included in the box.)
Still, the band had a lasting impact on musicians such as Chicago producer/engineer Steve Albini, who saw Pylon as a Northwestern undergraduate and founded his band Big Black in 1981.
“Hearing them play validated a lot of ideas I had at the time, about how music could be all kinds of things, instruments and voices didn’t need to fit a pattern, and all of it could be presented frankly, without showbiz, and still be invigorating,” Albini writes in “The Pylon Box.”
Pylon’s second album, “Chomp,” was engineered by Mitch Easter at his Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Given how many chiming guitar bands he wound up producing — R.E.M.’s debut EP and first two albums plus Game Theory, the Windbreakers, the Connells and his own Let’s Active — Easter could be considered the Godfather of Jangle, but he’s no fan of the term.
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“The word ‘jangle’ still makes my hair stand up a little bit,” says Easter, who still operates a studio in the Winston-Salem area. “Some people think it’s actually like you sign a pledge. For us, it was just playing our [expletive] guitar and writing our stupid songs.”
Easter, like Buck and others, played a Rickenbacker. But the guitar wasn’t the point.
“Guitars had gotten so associated with blues electric guitar and a heavier tone,” Easter says. “That’s what these bands didn’t do.”
“We all went in different cars and wound up in the same place, kind of,” says the Windbreakers’ Lee, who cited inspiration from the Southern power pop of Big Star, the dB’s and Dwight Twilly plus Zion’s own Shoes.
“Strum & Thrum” documents how a sound became a movement before technology made it easy for musicians in far-flung regions to keep up with each other’s work.
“I was obsessed with all that stuff and was buying those singles when they were coming out, but there were not a lot,” Menck says. “I don’t know if I’d call it a scene, but there were five or six cool bands in every city.”
Two of Menck’s bands appear on “Strum & Thrum.” The collection kicks off with the Reverbs’ “Trusted Woods,” one of those bright jangly tunes that instantly embeds itself in your head. Menck said the Barrington band, which released one EP in 1984, played a total of just six shows, including opening gigs for the Bongos, the Bluebells and the Clash.
“We were about to go on tour opening for R.E.M., but we broke up after the second Clash show,” Menck says.
After moving to Champaign, Menck formed the Springfields with singer-bassist Paul Chastain, also his partner in the popular ’90s power-pop band Velvet Crush (whom Easter produced). With its arpeggiated chords and gentle harmonies, the Springfields’ “Sunflower,” floats past like a sunlit cloud.
“Strum & Thrum” also features Archer Prewitt playing bass on the Bangtails’ driving “Patron of the Arts” before he became a Chicago music fixture in the Coctails, the Sea and Cake and his own solo career. Future Smashing Pumpkins/Nirvana producer and Garbage member Butch Vig recorded the White Sisters’ “Misery, Me, & You” at his then-new Smart Studios in Madison.
Several of these bands are fronted by women. Barbara Manning sings 28th Day’s “Pages Turn” before finding acclaim in World of Pooh and as a solo artist. Donna Esposito supplies lead vocals and lead guitar to the Cyclones’ “I’m in Heaven” as well as the Riff Doctors’ Easter-produced “Say Goodbye.”
Credit Brooklyn label Captured Tracks not only for its savvy song selections but also the snazzy, relatively affordable “Strum & Thrum” package. The $35 two-LP edition, currently being re-pressed, comes with extensive liner notes plus a full-color, 86-page book featuring an oral history of the period. A two-CD set is available for $22 on the label’s website.
New West Records’ even more elaborate “The Pylon Box” offers the band’s first two albums, “Gyrate” and “Chomp,” and discs featuring an otherwise unavailable early work tape (“Razz Tape”) and stray recordings (“Extra”) plus a 200-page hardcover book. The $150 vinyl version sold out quickly, but the $85 CD collection includes the same book. “Gyrate” and “Chomp” can be bought separately on CD and vinyl.
Briscoe Hay says she’s “flabbergasted” that this short-lived art-music project is drawing an enthusiastic audience today.
Credit the music’s immediacy; While many ’80s songs, great or not, have a time-stamped feel, Pylon’s 40-year-old debut and much of “Strum & Thrum” burst from the speakers with contemporary power.
Shortly before Pylon pulled the plug on its first incarnation, Lachowski recalls, it was playing the same venues as A Flock of Seagulls, all while the clubs were outfitting themselves with video monitors.
“All of that was threatening,” Lachowski says. “[We felt] if this is where the culture is going, we’re probably about to become passe.”
Yet it’s the alternate-narrative ’80s that now are inspiring us to, as Briscoe Hay sang, turn up the volume.
Ethan Thompson understood the moment. Maybe that’s why he couldn’t stop smiling.
Oregon State’s senior guard had just led the Beavers to a spot in the Sweet 16, the latest milestone for a team picked to finish last in the Pac-12 at the start of the season.
“We knew it was in us, this success,” Thompson said, the smile plastered on his face. “We pictured it from the beginning.”
No. 12 seed Oregon State will now face eighth-seeded Loyola on Saturday (1:30 p.m., CBS-2) in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament. The winner earns a spot in the Elite Eight against the winner of the game between second-seeded Houston and No. 11 Syracuse.
The Beavers are one of four Pac-12 teams in the Sweet 16, joined by sixth-seeded USC, No. 7 Oregon and No. 11 UCLA. The Trojans face the Ducks on Sunday in the West Region, while UCLA meets second-seeded Alabama in the East. The Pac-12 hasn’t won an NCAA title since 1997 — the longest drought for a major conference.
But the Beavers are perhaps the most surprising of the group.
They earned an automatic berth in the tournament by beating Colorado 70-68 in the Pac-12 tournament championship game. Then they downed fifth-seeded Tennessee 70-56, their first NCAA Tournament victory since 1982, before an 80-70 win over No. 4 Oklahoma State to set up the game against the Ramblers.
“I’m so grateful for this,” Thompson said. “I just got a feeling that I don’t want it to stop.”
This is Oregon State’s first tournament appearance since 2016 and only the second since 1990. The Beavers have twice made the Final Four, in 1949 and 1963. The victory over the Volunteers snapped a seven-game tournament losing streak.
For Thompson, this is sort of destiny: He comes from a basketball family. His dad, Stephen Thompson, is an assistant on Oregon State’s staff, and his big brother is a Beavers alum who currently plays in Italy.
The elder Thompson played at Syracuse and was on the 1987 team that played Indiana in the NCAA championship game.
Except for perhaps the Beavers, few foresaw the success they’d have this season. After the dire prediction by the Pac-12’s media, Oregon State dropped early games against Wyoming and Portland — which went just 6-15 this year.
“Honestly, I’ll take the tough losses early because I think it taught us a lot of lessons on how to close out games, and we’re closing out games at the right time,” Thompson said.
Coach Wayne Tinkle agreed.
“We had a lot of guys hurt early when we were able to start practice. I think it was in the first 40 days we only had seven days where we had our whole team at practice. We suffered from tough losses, but we never threw in the towel. We never doubted ourselves,” Tinkle said. “We just do what we do. We just stay hungry and humble, and we keep working, and we peak at the right time. It shouldn’t have been a surprise. We just kept grinding it out knowing that we would get to playing our best basketball when it matters most.”
Thompson, named to the All-Pac-12 first team, averaged 15.3 points and 3.6 rebounds in the regular season, but he’s upped his game in the tournament, averaging 19.5 points and 8.5 rebounds.
Last year, Thompson flirted with leaving school early and trying his luck in the NBA draft, but he withdrew his name two days before the deadline and decided to return to the Beavers for his senior year.
He said Oregon State has excelled by keeping it simple and focusing on the fundamentals.
“We believe that we’re capable of doing great things. Whether that be getting a much-needed stop on defense, breaking the press, taking care of the ball, just take it step by step,” Thompson said. “If we take all the right steps, they’re going to lead to wins.”
Harold Shepard II got his first taste of being an entrepreneur by selling potato chips out of his backpack to classmates at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park.
The principal shut down his burgeoning snack business, but his late father, who founded and ran a data collection and storage firm, was impressed.
“It was the first time I got a double scoop of ice cream from my father,” Shepard said. “He told me ‘Congratulations, Harold. You’ve now discovered how to start a business and get shut down in corporate America.'”
Potato chips may form his origin story, but electric vehicles are the latest chapter.
On May 1, Harold and his sister, Tiffany Shepard, plan to launch a business that will send four electric vehicles into the downtown and River North areas to offer free rides.
The vehicles, which don’t exceed 25 mph, will be festooned in advertisements, which is how the company called GEST Carts, plans to make money, said Harold, 30.
“The rides will be free and will take you anywhere within the boundary area,” he said.
The hours are geared toward the party crowd: 5 to 11 p.m. Friday to Sunday. And the vehicles will run throughout the year.
Rides can be booked through an app-based system. Hailing a driver won’t be allowed.
The siblings, both graduates of Oak Park and River Forest High School, hope to expand into Wrigleyville and the West Loop areas later this summer.
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“The drivers will be paid employees, not contractors, and they keep 100% of tips,” he said.
The vehicles can carry up to five passengers in individual seats with accompanying seat belts and have LED lights that can be set to pulsate to music connected by Bluetooth from a passenger’s phone.
The vehicles — each will be a Polaris GEM e6 — will operate under city-issued livery licenses, which are also used by limousines.
Joe Schwieterman, a transportation expert at DePaul University, said GEST Carts will be good for Chicago.
“This will bring a novel element to downtown at a time when things are pretty dead and create a pleasant curiosity that will add to the city’s cosmopolitan image,” he said.
Schwieterman said the company’s small fleet makes it more of a novelty.
“Even if there were 20 of these vehicles rolling around, that’s not many for a big area like downtown and a few rides lost in Uber or Lyft is hardly a major concern,” he said. “If there were 2,000 of these things I might feel differently.”
Uber didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. And, in an email, a spokesman for Lyft didn’t address the topic of GEST Carts starting up.
Shoib Hasan, owner of Globe Taxi on the Northwest Side, wasn’t thrilled about the newcomers but has come to accept technology’s effect on his industry.
“It’s not going to be a help for us,” he said. “But I live in the real world, things change.”
Other GEST Carts licensees — all female or minority owned, a point of pride for the Dyes, who are white — will soon open operations in Detroit, Atlanta and Denver.
GEST Carts took shape a few years ago in Cincinnati, where Tiffany Shepard, an attorney who earned her law degree at Northwestern University, lived at the time.
She was friends with Patrick and Lauren Dye, the husband and wife who founded the company, who gave her a bird’s-eye view of how the business was run.
The Dyes began operating six cars in 2018 and each has been fully booked with advertisers ever since, Patrick Dye said.
Tiffany Shepard returned to Chicago two years ago and, along with her brother and pal Marrisa Wright, decided to open up an operation as a licensee.
“Harold is the day-to-day operations guy, I do the paperwork and numbers and the other non-fun stuff,” she said with a laugh.
Her little brother adds the gig to a long list of hustle jobs.
“I’ve been doing lemonade stand-type jobs my entire life. … I’ve worked in marketing, as an insurance broker, DJ, event producer, the list goes on,” said Harold Shepard, who focused on entrepreneurial studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He’s been piloting one of the company’s vehicles around town on test runs in recent months.
“It’s hilarious, I’ve had miniature interviews almost at every stoplight. ‘What’s it called? What are you doing?’ People are curious,” he said.
The GEST in GEST Carts stands for Green Easy Safe Transportation and is pronounced like the word “guest” — as in “Be our guests,” Harold said.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Don’t get her wrong, Carrie Underwood loves to sing about getting revenge on the cheating ex and belting out ballads on award show stages in dazzling gowns. But Underwood’s spirituality has always been at her musical core.
The seven-time Grammy winner has always made hits that speak directly to her faith, from “Jesus Take the Wheel” to “Something in the Water.” Now she’s releasing her first album of gospel music called “My Savior” on Friday, just in time for Easter.
“I’m lucky enough that I feel like I’ve been making spiritual music along the way in my career,” said the three-time Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year. “I love the sassy stuff and I love to get an attitude and get dressed up and do all that stuff. But it’s so nice to be able to sing songs like this.”
Recording the songs that she sang in church growing up in Oklahoma was always on the list of albums she wanted to make. After years of touring in between releasing platinum-selling studio albums, the global pandemic finally gave her the opportunity. She didn’t squander the time at home and put out two albums in six months, with “My Savior” following up on her Christmas album “My Gift.”
“It’s such a great time to just really slow down and be super intentional about what I’m doing,” Underwood said. “It’s not about the bigger, better thing. It’s about the smaller thing, the thing that’s inside of me.”
Among classic hymns like “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace,” Underwood also sought to bring a fresh sound, such as the acoustic rock-inspired “Nothing But the Blood of Jesus” that features a duet from Bear Rinehart from NEEDTOBREATHE. Gospel icon CeCe Winans joins Underwood on “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” with vocal runs that soar to the heavens.
Underwood also wanted to record “Softly and Tenderly,” a hymn that brought her and the crowd to tears when she sang it at the Country Music Association Awards show in 2017 during the in memoriam segment that also honored victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival. The performance was so emotional that even Underwood struggled to finish singing.
“In that moment that I sang that song, I feel like it provided such a peace in the room and it allowed everybody to be emotional and to be stirred inside themselves,” Underwood said.
Underwood will perform the new album during a livestream event from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Easter Sunday via her Facebook page. Donations raised during the event will benefit Save the Children.
In the American President, a 1971 film to which I often refer, President Andrew Shepard defends himself from his political opponent, Senator Bob Rumson, who has castigated him for being a member of the ACLU.
Shepard explains in a press briefing that the American Civil Liberties Union “…is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question: Why would a senator, his party’s most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the Constitution?”
Why, indeed?
Antifa is an ideology more than an organization. There is no antifa website, although if you type it into your browser, you will be redirected to the White House’s official .gov website.
Don’t read too much into that, though. While Right wing trolls are making hay about it, the truth is that anyone who owns a website can redirect it to any other website without getting permission to do so.
The owner of antifa.com is listed as WhoisGuard, a company run by the U.S.-based domain registrar, Namecheap. It’s like keeping money in a numbered, Swiss bank account.
The purpose of WhoisGuard is to keep secret the identity of website owners. While it remains unclear who actually owns antifa.com, all available evidence points to a sophisticated troll farm, one generally associated with Russian hacking and disinformation.
There’s no place to sign up for antifa, no membership cards or secret handshakes. There is no official logo or tee shirt, although you can find a plethora of tee shirt companies selling a wide variety of antifa-based merchandise.
The acronym antifa is simply short for anti-Fascism or anti-Fascist. As a bonus, affiliated groups also oppose racism in all its forms.
So, Ron Johnson, we have not one, but four questions for you, the same number of questions young Jews will asking around their seder tables on Saturday night.
We know where you stand on Black folks, Ron, not sure where you stand on Jews. I’d guess you’d like to stand on them, too.
Question number one: Why would any loyal American, much less a United States senator not support the idea of standing up to Fascism?
Number two: Don’t you respect the sacrifice of a half million Americans who died in Europe fighting the scourge of Fascism during World War II?
Question number three is more puzzling, the answer maybe more disturbing: Why would any loyal American support those who violently oppose Americans standing up to Fascism and racism?
Many people are asking question number four and the answer may be terrifyingly revealing.
The answer to question number four may even explain why watching Ron Johnson speak brings to mind an old joke about a talking rectum. The question is:
Does the Central Bank of Russia do direct deposit to the Cayman Islands?
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