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Starbucks now says that time-stamped footage from the store at 6332 N. Northwest Highway does not show any of its workers writing that message. Instead, the note appears “to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,” a spokesperson told Block Club.

Garretson wrote that a relative, whom she later identified as her mother-in-law, ordered the Mint Majesty tea with two honeys — an order known to be Kirk’s favorite drink — from the Starbucks. When the order was completed, the cup had “Loser” written on it, Garretson said.

“I’m talking 5 p.m. today, I want some form of action to the employee that represents this business that wrote ‘Loser’ on my mother’s cup,” the man, who is not seen on-camera, can be heard saying in the video, which was posted Wednesday.

“We’re looking for not corporate bureaucracy. I want immediate accountability; and if not, I will have this whole intersection lined with patriots today, I’m not even joking,” the man told a Starbucks employee.

What an emotional response jesus. Guy sounds like a loser.

Does everyone forget how to drive, merge and how to use lanes? Like leave a 3-5 car gap for new motorists to enter a lane. Don’t cut out of your current lane and barge your way across to a open section road only to create a pile of cars trying to get into a lane.. or even the idiots with your “fast toy cars” shoveling yourself into a on-ramp just sound taunt your gas guzzler to only come to a halt.. just pick a lane and stay in it. Left side keep moving, right lane allow folks to enter and leave the highway path.. it’s not that hard, a bit of patience gets everyone moving. NOT weaving around and creating pile ups..

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Chicago residents have been on edge at the possibility of President Donald Trump deploying federal immigration agents and the National Guard in Chicago this week. Several Mexican-American groups have now canceled or postponed Mexican Independence Day celebrations in response.

Mexican Independence Day falls on Tuesday, Sept. 16 and marks the day Mexico gained freedom from the Spanish Empire in 1810. In Chicago, the El Grito festival that was planned for Sept. 13 and 14 in Grant Park was postponed. The festival that pays homage to “The Cry of Independence” or “El Grito” drew 24,000 attendees last year. Organizers are in the process of refunding tickets, according to the festival’s website.

In Waukegan, a suburb around 45 miles north of Chicago, Fiestas Patrias, an independence day parade that was planned for next Sunday, Sept. 14 has been postponed as of Wednesday. Organizer Margaret Carrasco said she may cancel “Day of the Dead” celebrations at the start of November as well and postpone all festivities to December.

Carrasco said that she decided to cancel the parade because her neighbors and other Waukegan residents had heard about federal immigration agents staying at hotels near the Great Lakes Naval base in the last few weeks.

“They’ve been preparing for quite some time,” Carrasco said of the immigration agents. “We knew early on that this would be a massive attack on the community.”

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