Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Defend Ismael Jimenez! Defend Teaching the Truth! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!) Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance. 1/

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

schools are also a place to see how the city and chicago public schools enact anti-Black policy through policing of leisure spaces the curfew signs are extremely common at CPS high schools but often posted on the walls closest to the basketball courts

One of the most trenchant things I’ve read about Epstein & the bigger protect he was wrapped up in.

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

“Why haven’t construction workers become as productive as me, a person looks at screens 14 hours per day?” The world may never know.

I am hosting this FREE workshop to help us navigate this current moment with our little ones. Please invite your comrades, community, and kin. We are not helpless and we are in an intergenerational struggle. ASL & NOTE TAKER PRESENT

📣 New Statement from BCSS on civics, democratic responsibility, & the role of educators in this moment. We affirm that civics education is not neutral. It bends toward liberty & justice through critical inquiry, historical truth, & collective responsibility.

A new statement from the Big City Social Studies Group - "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students." bigcitysocialstudies.org/video-and-so...

A new statement from the Big City Social Studies Group - "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students." bigcitysocialstudies.org/video-and-so...

Statement on "State Violence & Civics Education in a Democracy" from the Big City Social Studies Group. "Civics education in a democracy bends towards liberty and justice, not of its own accord, but through the efforts of educators and students."

Reform the campaign of terror?

i agree with the speakers here that we should have conservatory model arts high schools in chicago we shouldn't have just one, we should have many and they should be district run

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

Video, trigger warning www.facebook.com/reel/1207062...

Video, trigger warning www.facebook.com/reel/1207062...

Counterpoint - Don’t distinguish. Just run on it.

i focus a good chunk of my research on what is going on inside York High School (Cook County Jail) and Jefferson High School (Juvenile Temporary Detention Center) and despite them being called high schools chicago arrests and imprisons kids as young as 13

"Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement". If your organization has a hootsuite account, contact their sales (they don't have tech support so don't bother with that) & threaten to cancel

Unfortunately, it’s only Dems who see early polls on an issue & decide it’s a lost cause instead of using every tool to, you know, change public opinion.

Great zine to print and share covering the basics of what's at stake for trans folks & everyone in the Supreme Court cases on trans girls right to participate in school sports from Gender Justice Leadership Programs ourtranstruth.org/trans-athlet...

Good question, from one of my mom's SNCC posters. Photo by Danny Lyon.

IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES.

Years ago I read an interview with Jerry Butler where he was asked, what if Curtis stayed working in the cigar shop & never pursued music full time. Butler replied, “Then he would have been the Curtis Mayfield of selling cigars.”

it would be cool if CTA handed out headphones for anyone who wants the accommodation to lower noise and the headphones could be plugged into jacks at the seats for easy listening, the CTA guided tour of Chicago "hop off here if you're going to go to the best McDonald's in the city"

What I love about Tony is that he’s what Weiss thinks the American Everyman respects, but he’s exactly the kind of guy the American Everyman loves to pick on. Dude will be out of the job by Labor Day.

Western Union about to launch WU coin.

Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance resistance-ice-immigration via @newrepublic.com

The mighty Merrimack.

The FIFA Peace Prize already paying off. :)

Contacting my Congress folks today to again ask them to halt all business & return to Illinois to organize at home. Continued participation in DC legitimizes the Administration & its actions. No more hearings. No more votes. Come home & build power with your constituents.

I don’t think this will go anywhere but choosing this moment to elevate someone who covered up a police murder would certainly be on brand.

Yep May 2024 (This man has set my teeth on edge for 20 years)

Food pyramid of simply bananas brought to you by Big Chimp

ICE have now shot 11 people in 4 months. It’s not a problem. It’s their purpose.

ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good.

Pinback button featuring "I Believe Anita Hill" https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2010.69.9

Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.

Please take a moment and support Latinx Studies in Illinois Schools. Latinx communities have a long & deeply rooted history in Illinois, yet this history remains underrepresented in school curricula.

It’s pure power politics and the choices are stark - accommodate them & degrade yourself or seek to organize greater power & face attacks.

Errrr…

Over at the old place, I kept an updated thread of the guerrilla memorials to Michele Robey, always mounted to an electrical box near the site of her murder police (Irving Park & Western, Chicago). I hadn’t seen one in a while, but this is new.

Detroit autoworker (Fantastic book)

If Vallas were Mayor, the Tribune Editorial board would be petitioning that he be declared a saint on this alone. Instead they continue their copaganda crusades against Brandon.