We don’t want guardrails on ICE, we want ICE abolished.

🍉✨💚 One last push for our raffle raising money for 14 families displaced in the Gaza Strip. 🍉✨💚 We want to send at least $100 to each family and we are only $400 short of our goal. Entries are just $5. Follow the instructions at tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter

Uday’s family had to leave their apartment because they weren’t able to pay the rent. After already losing so much, they are back on the streets and desperately need money for a tent. Anything you can give makes a difference. Tinyurl.com/udayfund

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

There’s still time to enter the raffle for a watermelon gift basket supporting several families displaced in the Gaza Strip. Entries are $5 each. Follow the instructions at www.tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter ❤️🍉🇵🇸

Anyone know of any coat drives going on in the Chicago area?

I’m part of group in Chicago supporting several families in Gaza and we’re raffling off a watermelon gift basket! Inside you’ll find a bunch of goodies including a certificate for a custom pet portrait! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter The drawing and winner will be determined in January!

Do I know anyone in Chicago who can foster an adorable baby meat head for a few weeks?

Even thrift stores are wildly expensive now 😩

I’ve joined a group of folks in Chicago who are also helping support Palestinian families. If you donate to this link the money helps not only Uday, but several other families sheltering in the Gaza Strip: tinyurl.com/chi4gaza

Last day to enter! Contribute any amount to Uday’s family & share your receipt in the comments (or DM for my email if you’d like more privacy) for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Holidays are coming up & this would be a really sweet gift! www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

Uday’s family urgently needs $700 for rent. Donate any amount this week for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Share a screen shot of your donation receipt in the comments or if you prefer more privacy DM for my email address. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

Uday’s family needs to collect $700 for rent due tomorrow. Any amount you can give helps! chuffed.org/project/uday...

A federal judge says he will order the release of over 600 people who have been detained by ice on bond. If it’s within your means consider donating to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. We will need to raise a lot of money to get everyone home. www.mibfc.org

Now also feels like a good time to mention that during WWII women spies would put codes in their knitting (which is essentially a binary system, knit, purl) and cross stitch morse code onto things.

We can’t stop fighting, but this morning I’m basking in the knowledge that two out of the three largest cities in the US have socialist mayors. As Kelly says here “we can win.”

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Pritzker’s statements are a performance for liberals who aren’t on the ground trying to disrupt ICE. His latest stunt asking DHS to pause immigration raids bc it’s Halloween is laughable. Anyone who has interacted with ICE knows that traumatizing people, kids included, is their whole fucking deal.

Eman’s youngest child is injured and she needs money for rent so they aren’t thrown into the streets. Any amount you can give helps. If you can’t donate at this time but are able to help spread the word, that’s also very helpful! gofund.me/40d19bc3f

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

TODAY 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square Comfort Station. We’re having a fundraiser for 7 families in Gaza. There will be live music, and vendors selling all kinds of cool stuff including crochet, ceramics, jewelry, prints, pins, and stickers. It’s gonna be a gorgeous day, come say hi!

Cats Not Cops will be available as an 8x10 print or a 3” sticker at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza, this Sunday 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square comfort station. We are raising money for 7 families displaced in the Gaza Strip who need money for food, clothes, medicine, and tents before winter 🩷🖤💚

This Sunday, Chicago! Come out to help us raise money for 7 families inside the Gaza Strip. I will be there selling pins, stickers, prints, hand painted and sewn notebooks, bracelets and more. My reach here is very small so please help me get the word out, especially if you’re in Chicago ❤️

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

I’ve been sucked into medieval youtube and currently listening to a podcast about medieval dancing plagues. First, there was more than one! Second, they’re probs not from ergot poisoning. Third, I think we’ve reached time in history where we should absolutely bring those back.

I’ll be selling pins, notebooks, stickers, prints, and more Sunday, October 12th at the Logan Square Comfort Station to raise money for 7 families in Gaza 🍉 There will be a bunch of other super cool vendors. Check out the thread to see who all will be there 👇🏼

I will be selling these one of a kind, screen printed, hand bound notebooks 🐍✨ (along with lots of other hand made items) at the Cultural Fest for Gaza at the Logan Square Comfort Station on 10/12 2pm-5pm. The fest is raising $ for 7 families in Gaza. Hope to see you there! #logansquare #artfest

Come see me in Logan Square on 10/12!

✨10/12 at the Logan Square Comfort Station!✨I will be selling prints, stickers, pins, notebooks & more at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza on behalf of Uday’s & six other families. There will be food, live music, and art vendors. Hope to see you there! Follow @chifest4gaza on instagram for more info.

Uday & his family are living on the streets in Gaza City where the iof is continuing a ground invasion. They need to get out now but do not have the $ for transportation or a tent. If you have anything you can spare, please help them out. The situation is desperate. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.

I know you are seeing an overwhelming number of asks and the need in Gaza is overwhelming. But it’s countless donations some big, some just a few dollars, that have helped Uday and his family survive the last 23 months of hell. chuffed.org/project/uday...

Happening now: demonstrators have gathered in Chicago's city hall ahead of today's city council meeting. They're here to support Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto last month of a city ordinance that would have given the police the ability to impose a snap 30-minute curfew on minors.

Maybe it’s the onslaught of state repression and fascistic overreach but I haven’t been feeling all that creative lately, so it was nice to be reminded of past work I’ve made that I’m still proud of.

Socialism is nothing more than the idea that it's not okay for my fellow human beings to suffer if other human beings are hoarding resources. If you think it's bad for people to die of poverty whilst I collect more money than I can ever spend, congratulations, you're a socialist too!

If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.

I just hate that every few years massive peaceful protests break out and without fail the protesters start getting beaten gassed and shot while every media outlet and politician from both sides of the isle say shit like "oh peaceful protests are fine but THIS ONE just went too far".

Every day Uday and Hamza message me asking why people don’t seem to care anymore, and I try to assure them that people do care, there is just so much need. If you can give anything at all, I promise it makes a difference, even if it’s just letting a scared teenager know they aren’t forgotten ❤️‍🩹

READ: Israel plans to occupy 75% of Gaza and use aid to force Palestinians into concentration camps.

Our very fate lies in how we, as a civilization, meet this moment. Palestine matters because we have stated over and over and over again that all human beings matter. And if the West really believes this, it has done a horrendous job of demonstrating that so far. Kenn Orphan

Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip, the co-discoverers of insulin, sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1 so that it was affordable and available for everyone.Banting, in particular, felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that could save lives.

These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years. It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.

If you can spare anything, my friend Uday (Odai) in Gaza is desperate. His family has no food. Adults have been going without for days, and now there is nothing for the kids either  tinyurl.com/udayfund

Yana was diagnosed with FHS this week so we’re all having a bit of a tough time.