This is how BP treats it's workers!

Inside the nearly five-month labor lockout at BP's Whiting refinery
The oil company has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for 140 days.
By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
Aug 6, 2026, 5:30am CDT




United Steelworkers Local 7-1 members picket outside the British Petroleum oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana in July 2026.

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TWA Flight 800

 Fuel Tank Fiction?

Willie Wilson is running for Mayor of Chicago

 

Not looking for a handout.....not this guy

Johnson turns up the heat on Springfield to deliver $150M in funding built into Chicago Public School budget
“I’m gonna do anything and everything that’s necessary. But, at some point .. you cannot expect me to solve everybody’s problems and the fact of the matter is I can’t,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday. “We need our state partners to continue to rise to the occasion. That’s what working people demand.”
By Fran Spielman
Aug 4, 2026, 5:08pm CDT




Mayor Brandon Johnson holds a press briefing at City Hall on Tuesday. The need for Springfield to address Chicago Public Schools was among the topics.

Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Tuesday to do “anything and everything necessary” to keep the

Yawn

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announces campaign for Chicago mayor

By

Adam Harrington

Updated on: August 2, 2026 / 1:01 PM CDT / CBS Chicago





simply full of shit, most of the time


Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias officially announced his campaign for mayor of Chicago on Sunday.

Giannoulias' team said his campaign would be "centered on restoring confidence and competence in

Big Pussy R.I.P.

The Sopranos star Vincent Pastore dies aged 80




US actor Vincent Pastore, who played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero in the hit show The Sopranos, has died aged 80, according to several US outlets.

Pastore was found at his home in the Bronx, New York City and there was no indication of criminality,

Could this happen here?

‘Ceuta Invasion’ as migrants from Morocco swim to Spain’s territory: Who caused this surge?
FP Explainers • July 31, 2026, 17:21:38 IST

At least 34 people are dead after thousands of migrants swam from Morocco and broke through barriers at Spain’s enclave of Ceuta. The sudden surge of people at the shores has prompted Spain to deploy additional troops, and Italy’s Meloni has also sounded an alarm. But why are migrants barging into Spain? We explain



At least 34 people have died so far as thousands of migrants are crossing from Morocco into Spain's Ceuta. AP

On Thursday evening (July 30), Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that

John Kelly is running for mayor of Chicago

 
not an idiot, running for the right reasons 

 This is a candidate to watch