i was talking to the lawyer in my life about the Judge Ellis preliminary injunction that was issued today "all it takes is for one person to have thrown a rock to impact the entire class" certifying the class means reinforcing a notion that nonviolence is the only tool allowable against the regime

how does one prove they are nonviolent

navigating making plans with people in my life with the explicit "if it's calm" at the end of everything

as someone who sues government sort of regularly albeit for information and to work toward dismantling neoliberalism/neofascism, i could add a few things a process of lawsuit is not clean, sometimes the officials involved get mad, they retaliate when that happens, you can try to document it and

the other candidate is a new yorker and likely the more preferred candidate for the superintendent but we'll see what happens in the next month or so mostly, regular parents and students are locked out of this process so it just is what it is

this administration could discard the Court system and move with force more than it does now and i really want people to think critically about how they stay safe in that scenario

the library only has 4 copies of this book and i know who has them right now the library needs more budget dollars to get more books for sharp women in chicago

dr marrero is on the shortlist to become the cps superintendent of schools i think the cps board and leadership is weak at making safety for trans students in particular which i think reflects their transphobic and homophobic attitudes and also this guy's evaluation was just released and well

went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates Austin High School, chicago public schools

i can't help be skeptical of the demands that come out these neighborhoods, even if on the left i've never seen so many gated front yards in my life, nowhere to go if you're in trouble despite the no hate here posters, black lives matter means nothing when it's painted on fences

this was about north center, a place where the presence of people of color is conditional and only valued if we're there to serve whiteness it's not that she was taken in front on toddlers, it's that she was taken. period.

Spreading the word in case this is new info.

chicago public schools will have to explain more about this investigative memo database to the attorney general's office after i made a request for review into the structure of the data the win was in part, notifying the attorney general's office of the database at all

it's a mistake to cut the chicago public library budget, walk into any library and see people using the space it's not good that the administration's pushback on critique of their budget is to suggest they would just close libraries —right wing politics and i want to see 0 of these signs

one reason we don't need to specifically prove out if chicago police work with ICE or border patrol is because the ethos of policing is the same top to bottom

stained glass should be in more schools schurz high school front office, chicago public schools

consolidating toward an action network petition that makes cover for Gil Villegas's desire to decrease the number of overall units is a liberal playbook but we could pull left what if we had 100 units with many affordable units and no parking since it's not mandated to have it

eurocentric patronizing liberalism passing as left politics in chicago is embarrassing

I would like to know where else @abundanthousingil.bsky.social has power washed away affordable units in chicago now respectability politics never gets anything for poor people

the original proposal was 57 units and Gil Villegas' had a semi-secret meeting with land-owner neighbors to decrease the amount after concerns of parking arose land use on chicago avenue should not be a hyperlocal decision and we should know how many units would maximize the plot of land

a solid idea, food drives in your building or on your block an apartment building did a food drive and needed someone to pick up the collected food to be sorted and distributed we picked it up, sorted it last night and it's getting distributed this week have a food drive!

14. Finally the 3rd constraint is the police. One of the other big structural problems with running a state is that states rely on armed men to enforce the law, and those men especially in the United States are at best one step removed from straight up Neo-Nazis. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

saffron fall foliage 🏵️

the courts will employ a use of force usually through a county sheriff to deliver eviction notices this should tell us all we need to know about how courts will work for us

that our government is built upon a system of white supremacy and patriarchy is the problem first amendment rights are not real, it's very telling who is finding this out right now

to think free speech is real is to admit that Black and brown women's lived experiences count for zero

it's really interesting to see who celebrates the death of Dick Cheney while picking up his cultural transmission of Islamophobia locally

my biggest accomplishment today was using this gif in a conversation with someone about chicago public schools

i was thinking about a reflection i read recently wherein a man wrote about how he noticed the work of resistance and survival was mostly led by women and how he worked to push into that space even though the women eventually made space for him, he was completely unaware of his own misogyny

a pop up chicago card that someone made in the maker lab at Harold Washington library

i was talking about structured data with @anthonymoser.com yesterday and FOIA with @aoife.bsky.social and @sashaspark.bsky.social on Tuesday if CPS were to move to a remote learning option, it will automatically make a structured dataset of who is logging in

the city of chicago already painted over this

what stands in challenge to parents treating their kids as property isn't collective care it's young people having autonomy

fuck ice the city keeps painting over this, resistance is disciplined persistance

i was talking to a guy tonight while we were doing some food collection and he went to Byford elementary — he definitely thought my knowing history was magical when i guessed the high school he went to, he thought i was a witch

@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!

cotton candy sky chicago

i love that the big kids are also out 🎃

Ghada Amer, 'We are the granddaughters of the witches that you could not burn' ♀ #womensart

This entire city is in a constant state of hypervigilance, living off cortisol

this one is pretty good compared to last year, not as decorated but still shoved full of candy and no toothbrushes

chicago transit authority keeps maps of old routes in an online archive and i happened upon one a section of routes for schools in 1977, cta ran a bus route between ebinger elementary in edison park + byford elementary in austin 1977 was the height of desegregation bussing policies nationwide

you know how it sometimes is Not Great so you lay down and take a nap and when you wake up it's easier to deal with the Not Great well that's not working what else do people do

the high school is also on soft lockdown, what a day

I'm so tired of hearing how people can't take the time to learn how to pronounce someone's name. Take a few extra moments to figure it out, ask them again, don't be an asshole.

i cannot defend the idea that i want to be in a space that gives equal access to people who want to kill me

i was thinking about some of the ways we use language on the Left to connote inclusivity, especially if we're thinking about people who are precarious and usually at the edges of finding what they need but i don't really mean Parks for All unless it includes stockades to put the fascists in

can puritans just go away yet this is directly related to evangelism, christian supremacy, means testing and i am so sick of it

i am doing some data entry for school districts and i love getting emails from statewide institutions that are like if you notice an error, just you know, reach out to bill or dana, they'll be at their desks the funding attached to this data entry is in the billions

Rep Buckner was extremely interested in this piece, ensuring there is no fare increase for the next year, especially for seniors and young people the one year clock starts june 1, 2026 and i do think we have to work to avoid fare hikes for young people it would be better if CTA were free for kids