I wrote the story in 2018: https://blnnews.com/2018/07/07/bloomington-is-at-war-thanks-to-tari/
It got a LOT of reads in 2018, but it has been read to varying degrees every year since.
A month and a half into 2026 and it already has more reads than it had in 2018.
Nothing in that article should be a surprise if you were even slightly paying attention.
I didn’t know this had its birth years ago. It has just accelerated recently.
6 years later and guess what; Sonny’s comrades have taken over both city councils, the County board, township supervisors, and the school board.
Congrats everyone, they won.
The “don’t tread on me” crowd will always lose to the “words are violence” and “XYZ is a human right” crowd. Time to organize use their tactics to restore Bloomington Normal. Run for office, encourage your enough neighbors to vote. Maybe we can reverse the trend.