'Damn the bullets' / Chase's tweet retreat / $18 'Jeopardy!' win

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‘Damn the bullets. Damn the guns they come from. And damn the people pulling the triggers.’ The Tribune’s Rex Huppke says failure to take action against mass shootings is “is our nation’s great shame.”
The family of the California synagogue shooting suspect: “To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries.”
The Daily Beast: “A massive white supremacist network online right now” is “calling for people to carry out more terrorist attacks.”
A coworker told prosecutors that Aurora warehouse gunman Gary Martin issued a threat before the rampage: “If I get fired, I’m going to kill every mother____er here.” (Cartoon: Keith Taylor.)

‘The city keeps cars basically as ransom.’ A lawsuit demands Chicago stop seizing vehicles used in some crimes and return those whose owners were themselves never charged.
The Sun-Times’ veteran City Hall reporter Fran Spielman gives departing Mayor Rahm Emanuel an F for his ability to play well with others.
A recount concession means that, for the first time in 44 years, the Northwest Side won’t be represented by an alderman named Mell.

Moisture menace. Beware flood-producing downpours in the Chicago area over the next few days.
The New York Times: From Illinois popcorn to Washington State apples, climate change is altering the foods America grows.
Environmental groups are teaming up on a fundraising machine to unseat Donald Trump.
Trump and his family are suing banks to keep them from sharing financial records with Congress.
An ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush says it looks “terrible” that Trump’s campaign manager gave a paid speech in Romania.
Columnist Dana Milbank in The Washington Post:Let’s impeach Trump for being a great president.”

Chase’s tweet retreat. Shamed by presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and Twitter in general, Chase killed a post that went viral in a bad way.
Students at a suburban high school were planning a walkout today to protest a social media post showing students in blackface.
A company is apologizing for help-wanted ads that sought “preferably Caucasian” candidates.
Workers at Google, Starbucks, PayPal and others are planning a massive call-in to Capitol Hill tomorrow.

Goodbye, Winnetka. Ex-Gov. Rauner is selling his suburban home.
As massive legislation to legalize marijuana nears rollout in Springfield, Politico reports, “the General Assembly’s Black Caucus will likely play an outsized role” in what happens.

A $150 CTA fare. A fundraiser will put you on a daylong trip aboard a 1923-vintage railcar—lunch included.
Los Angeles has its own Green New Deal plan—to reach a zero-emissions transportation network by 2050.

A Jeopardy! win—by $18. Naperville native and University of Illinois alumnus James Holzhauer pushed his win streak to 18 games Monday … but just barely.
A fellow Chicago-area contestant he beat in his first game knew she was in trouble from the start.
Friends and colleagues said farewell yesterday to “bigger than life” Chicago sportscaster Chet Coppock.

Thanks … to readers Joe Lynn, David Jones and Mike Braden for help proofreading this edition.

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