I read Paul Vallas's personal Facebook page so you don't have to! (A thread.)
His posts, dating back to 2019 (to be found at facebook.com/paul.vallas.750), are consistent with his well-documented appearances on right-wing talk radio. They are more proof that #BrandonIsBetter. (1/14) The majority of Vallas's FB posts valorize the "thin blue line" of the brave police. He states that police violence does NOT disproportionately target Black men. Instead he trots out right-wing talking points about "Black-on-Black crime" and the "handcuffed" police force. (2/14)

Paul Vallas boasts of his 5 years as chief of the Philadelphia Public Schools. But a close look at his tenure there shows that when he hastily departed Philly, he left behind depleted finances, federal investigations, & failed, heavy-handed school safety policies. A thread: 1/14 In 2007, Vallas’s final year in Philadelphia, school district officials announced a surprise $191M deficit. The City Controller reported incompetent financial management, “stonewalling on requests for information,” and “questionable reimbursements.” inquirer.com/philly/opinion… 2/14

The @chicagotribune has not printed the letter I sent a few days ago, and I don't really expect them to. So I'll just share it as a thread. I don't usually write letters to the editor, but I guess they really ticked me off. /1 Dear Editor,

Your April 8 editorial (“The pandemic few saw coming: Assessing how Trump, Pritzker have responded to COVID-19”) asks “Would another administration have performed better” than Trump’s, and concludes “Hard to say.” /2 chicagotribune.com/opinion/editor…