Chicagoan in love with urban ruins, labor history, buildings, food, poems, and where I live. she/her ask for signal
not gonna boost that liberal currents essay that tries to hold up Minnesotans as fully nonviolent. Every day up there was active resistance to state violence. Alex Pretti was armed. MLK would not have been on your liberal side. Later in the movement he acknowledged this. medium.com/timeline/by-...
“In 2025, CPD officers used the highest level of force against a member of the public 47 times, according to the report. Approximately 65% involved Black Chicagoans, records show. Less than 30% of the city’s population is Black.”
Heather CheroneNEW: Chicago police leaders failed to publicly account for all of the times officers used force against members of the public in 2025, missing a deadline set by the federal court order requiring officers to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights. @wttw.bsky.social
a perfect circle of crime when it’s perpetrated by the most powerful on behalf of the second most powerful to help maintain their power over the disempowered.
Julia Carrie WongI don’t understand what’s going on with companies just announcing that they’re doing crime and no one arresting any of them
“The Tribune Editorial Board was skeptical about what the marches and demonstrations could achieve: “They service principally to inflame mob sentiment and to create fiction.” Oh how times don’t change.
Chicago TribuneRev. Martin Luther King Jr. encountered one of the angriest mobs of his lifetime not in the South, but in Chicago 60 years ago.
they’re all a bunch of losers despite being wealthy -desperate for widespread social approval that will never come to they join this fascist arm and enjoy the benefits of not only destroying the society which rejected them but constantly creating worse versions of the original. Baudrillard weeps.
Brandy ZadroznySomeone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
In 2017 Mike Pence was the first VP to attend the March for Life rally where the opening speaker musical group said: “We demand the immediate eradication of abortion. As we follow Jesus, this atrocity will stop with us." That’s one example of the LONG history of the right vilifying all abortion.
takethepith"Abolish Prisons" is a slogan that will immediately turn off 95% of people, regardless of the nuances in the literature. Far more harmful than helpful. The right clearly always wanted to make abortion illegal and punish women who got them. But they didn't make that their slogan! They knew better!
excited to read this and roll my eyes straight out of my head and into the Chicago River at the therapy-speak design choices.
shawnnew: officials are building a $7 million “trauma-informed” visitation center at the cook county jail, part of at least $400 million in projects planned at the jail over the next decade. it’s supposed to make for a more “humane” experience—but it’ll do little to address the dismal conditions at ccj.
it must be so nice to live in total fiction.
Jessica TarlovYour average Republican is pro-IVF, skeptical of six week heartbeat bills, against deporting productive, law-abiding immigrants, and for gay marriage.
The violence of this immigration system ricochets in many directions, we will not be able to stop the massive bleeding in its wake. I speak mostly on the human cost of sacrificing so many people’s dignity through incarceration but our healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing - it’s going to get worse.
Gravel InfluencerAs I've said many times, the revocation of TPS for Haitians is horrific on its face, but it's *also* going to have a devastating cascade of effects because Haitian workers are the backbone of health and human services supports for elderly and disabled folks, especially here in Massachusetts.
some of you didn’t grow up with a dad who worked construction and got paid in favors from a “meat guy” and it shows. you never ordered from the meat guy, he’d just show up with a box of frozen steaks, scallops, whatever was there and you accepted it. thank you meat guy for many childhood dinners.
Ben CollinsI love the people who are like "there's gonna be a robust, seedy black market for meat purchased from Zohran's Communist grocery stores." These people have never been aggressively pitched stolen steak out of the back of a Honda Civic before? Non-desperate people don't buy random sidewalk meat.
It’s just straight up hilarious that some people are afraid of this man.
Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑I'm sorry this is one of the funniest pictures I've ever seen