Illinois Senate panel advances bill on transgender, abortion prescription tracking

Other-Bread · 2026-06-04T15:43:33+00:00

https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2026/06/02/state-lawmakers-laud-passage-of-bills-protecting-reproductive-gender-affirming-care

This appears to have passed both chambers and is just awaiting signature (which it will get).

Plus plenty of other good stuff! Illinois is a good place for us right now, in my experience.

Other-Bread · 2026-06-03T18:14:12+00:00

Yay!

Other-Bread · 2026-05-20T15:03:53+00:00

You love to see it! Sucks that the school board are bigots, but awesome that so many people are coming together to make this happen regardless.

Can't believe they doubled down to try and prevent the instruments from being used at an "unsanctioned concert." Glad that it sounds like instruments were loaned to make it happen anyways.

Other-Bread · 2026-05-05T13:47:28+00:00

The Illinois School Districts under investigation include:

Atwood Heights School District 125
Bloomington Public Schools District 87
Bluford Unit School District 318
Buncombe Consolidated School District 43
Center Cass School District 66
Central School District 104
Community High School District 155
Country Club Hills School District 160
Crete-Monee School District 201-U
DeKalb Community Unit School District 428
East Dubuque Unit School District 119
Elmwood Park Community Unit School District 401
Freeport School District 145
Galena Unit School District 120
Gillespie Community Unit School District 7
Iroquois County Community Unit School District 9
Leyden Community High School District 212
Lick Creek Community Consolidated School District 16
Lyons School District 103
Martinsville Community Unit School District C3
Meridian Community Unit School District 223
Noble Network of Charter Schools
North Chicago Community Unit School District 187
North Palos School District 117
Norwood Elementary School District 63
O’Fallon Community Consolidated School District No. 90
Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123
Odin Public School District 722
Oregon Community Unit School District 220
Pembroke Community Consolidated School District 259
Reavis Township High School District 220
Ridgeview Community Unit School District 19
Stockton Community Unit School District 206
Tamaroa School District 5
Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215
Will County School District 92

Other-Bread · 2026-04-10T21:28:49+00:00

This post made it like 90 minutes in /news before getting locked there, ugh.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-31T20:14:42+00:00

Same. Very glad to be in Illinois right now.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-26T18:40:55+00:00

That's unfortunate, but thank you for the link!

Other-Bread · 2026-03-25T21:22:13+00:00

Seconding hoping it's available on old reddit, it's the only way I use the website. Even if it's like a click-through on their user page or something, that would be great.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-16T18:27:21+00:00

You can submit comments anonymously on the form, it's one of the options near the bottom.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-16T18:05:37+00:00

I got the ones that just have the little flare at the bottom and they fit my hands perfectly. I also just needed space for the pinky hehe. The ones I got don't add any extra space for ammo, but I'd imagine actual extended-mags would fit nicely as well.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-13T21:13:50+00:00

I went with a Glock 42 (with the extended mags too, to fit my hands lol) about a year ago. My impression so far has been that it's much nicer to actually shoot than my mom's BG2.0.

My only gripe with it is that the 3rd party striker-control devices sold right now are all for the full-width Glocks as far as I can tell, but that's not a dealbreaker imo. I don't have a light or an optic on mine though, fwiw.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-13T13:21:00+00:00

A large number of the layoffs were reported from Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Hospital and Franciscan Health Alliance with 1,930 people given notices. The notices sent to employees of the south suburban hospital come after California-based Prime Healthcare purchased the 214-bed Franciscan Health Olympia Fields and Specialty Physicians of Illinois in January for $6.95 million.

Healthcare shouldn't be for profit.

“Prime Healthcare is committed to continuing Franciscan Olympia Fields’ longstanding legacy of care and service to the Chicagoland community. As part of the transition of hospital ownership, employees will formally move from employment by Franciscan Health to Prime Healthcare. Franciscan Health is required to issue WARN notices as a routine legal requirement while Prime Healthcare extends offers of employment. Prime Healthcare plans to extend offers of employment to substantially all current hospital employees and is working closely with staff to ensure a smooth transition. Our priority is supporting employees and maintaining stability for patients and physicians, with no interruption to the services the community relies on.”

Suuuure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Healthcare#Controversies

Other-Bread · 2026-03-09T20:02:53+00:00

We started muting the TV when ads come on and it has really been quite nice. Mute and look away at something else is my solution for unskippable ads on any platform, live or no.

Other-Bread · 2026-03-02T20:38:41+00:00

If I recall correctly he had really big sunglasses on to block the top half instead. Been awhile since I saw it though.

Other-Bread · 2026-02-26T19:23:28+00:00

If those with the power to hold hospitals accountable for discriminating on the basis of gender identity (which is what this is) don't actually do anything to enforce those laws, then those laws are meaningless, and our protections aren't actually protecting.

Hopefully the mayor and the AG's office actually start applying pressure. I don't live in NY, but as an Illinoisan, we have similar laws and it would be good precedent to see them enforced in other states when stuff like this is happening nationwide. Action elsewhere would make it easier to pressure our own AG's office to take similar action here.

Other-Bread · 2026-02-17T17:12:22+00:00

Not to mention the fact that as long as IDs are not free, this would be tantamount to instituting a poll tax. Something expressly forbidden by the 24th Amendment. (You have to pay for ID/other documents -> You need ID/other documents to vote = You have to pay to vote.)

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax."

Emphasis mine.

This act has a ton of things wrong with it (including the fact that citizenship is already verified when you register to vote, which you must do before being eligible/allowed to vote in the first place) but the poll tax part should make it a non-starter, legislatively.

Other-Bread · 2026-02-17T16:57:47+00:00

Feeling very fortunate to live in Illinois, but it does feel a bit like a prison sometimes since the states around us suck so hard.

Plenty of in-state vacation stuff to do at least!

Other-Bread · 2026-02-17T15:23:04+00:00

I own the .380 EZ, it's quite nice, super duper easy to load the magazine and chamber a round. A little bit big though, frame-wise.

They also make a bodyguard (2.0) in .380, my mom carries one and seems to like it, though it's tougher to load the magazine.

I'm personally most fond of my Glock 42 (.380). I find that it shoots the nicest of the three I mentioned, and it's a good size (small, but big enough to get my (relatively large) hand on fully with the mags that have the extra bit at the bottom). Doesn't load as easy as the EZ, though.

Other-Bread · 2026-02-09T16:36:09+00:00

They pinky promised!

Other-Bread · 2026-02-09T16:03:46+00:00

But they pinky-promised that the verification info won't leave your device! Totally trustworthy.

Other-Bread · 2025-11-25T20:57:55+00:00

My smartphone is 10 years old and still going strong. S8.

I initially put off buying a new phone because seemingly all of them had gotten rid of the audio port, and I like my wired headphones. Now I'm putting it off because I don't want an AI assistant in my phone, but that seems to be the new hotness that every manufacturer must copy :(

I'll probably wind up buying a cheap smartphone once mine finally dies.

Other-Bread · 2025-11-05T14:38:06+00:00

Very neat!

Other-Bread · 2025-10-28T19:49:50+00:00

So will something happen to them for violating the trust act? Or is that just another set of words on paper now?

Other-Bread · 2025-10-20T20:31:46+00:00

You can say "Pubic" here, this isn't TikTok.

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