Something like 90% of money spent on an automobile leaves the local community We spend an average of $700k over a lifetime on our cars Do that math Ride a bike Take the bus Walk

Yes, it’s like if the Third Reich modeled itself not after Rome but the Brady Bunch

As we look towards continued fights against the Quantum Center & data centers across Illinois, it's stories like this that remind us victory is possible, environmental justice is worth fighting for, and greed and poison are not inevitable.

Happy Thanksgiving

With us unable to even find Bangladesh on a map, there is certainly no Triangle-like pressure for force corporate reforms. But hey, it’s OK for Bangladesh to have worse workplace safety conditions than other nation, says Matt Yglesias. Only workers’ lives we are talking about here.

By 1910, some judges and juries began to find for dead and injured workers, scaring companies about their potential financial liability and pushing them toward recommending weak workers compensation laws to protect their interests. First was passed in 1911.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

When no fault divorce kicked in the late 1960s, female "suicide" plummeted 70%.

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago

If you’re seeing these, know that they are showing proof that much MUCH of the rightwing propaganda we are seeing is from abroad. Know also that this has been the case since 2016. The public square has been turned into a superfund site.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something

Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue… …and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

Physical preservation of sites of horror continues to be something I struggle with formulating an opinion on. But, I'm glad a site that once caused young people so much pain will now be used to provide greater access to education and independence.

A 20 year old woman in Minnesota was murdered at work by a coworker this week. Why? He didn't like the way she looked at him. And people are judging her gender presentation in an effort to justify her murder. America hates women. And children. It hates Black, Indigenous, Latine and Asian people too

There are no appropriate targets.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Companies cannot release profit to shareholders unless their workers are well paid and their CEO's pay is decided by the workers. University & college should be free & paid for by taxation. People should be allowed and encouraged by free education to retrain in mid career. Tax is good.

My most woke opinion is probably that we should not have personal property or legal relationships. I am sure we will always sort ourselves into families and have personal items, but the system of legally bound family units that accrue and pass down hoards of wealth is bad.

THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles

Am I just cynical af or what, I feel like these people always knew. They do what they do becaus they want to rape kids. These people have everything they want and they're still miserable so they want to enslave people, same as it ever was until someone has the balls to tax them out of existence.

Castle Rock v. Gonzales is, no joke, my Roman Empire. Once you learn the full details of this horrific case, you will never again be able to see policing as a force for safety or justice. It will permanently alter your understanding of state violence, gender, and race in this country.

As the Trump-Vance admin continues to fight for the legal right to let Americans go hungry, food insecurity threatens Native families disproportionately.

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

I am once again begging everyone to stop reading and citing this rag! their priorities are clear and a lot of the horrors we are living through have been directly fomented by the NYT. happy to share many other places to play games and read recipes that don't actively work to make genocide happen!

Im also here to remind yall that JOHN FETTERMAN was hand selected by Bernie Sanders and won his primary over a Black millennial gay man who was already working in congress because leftists couldnt vote for a Black gay Millennial man born in 1990——

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

This is exactly what I see every time I watch the mainstream mediathese days. Platforming fascists and conspiracy theorists in the deluded belief that it gives balance to an argument. Also, they ARE Nazis. Even the guy who came up with Godwin's Law says so:

🥰 2025 ELECTION HISTORIC WINS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, THERE WILL BE 14 WOMEN GOVERNORS IN ELECTED OFFICE AT THE SAME TIME!

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

“In a time when the levers of power are so limited, the steadfast organizing in Chicago remains a beacon of hope and essential guide for activists across the country.” - @silkys13.bsky.social This beautiful piece by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social encapsulates the loving & fierce power of Chicago ❤️

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Free Walk-up grocery market at Chicago Chicken & Waffles,3933 S. King Drive (in the adjacent parking lot) happening right now. Bring your own bags.

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

My internet is down, so while I wait for my router so I can get back to work, here's a list of ways to give & get involved in Chicago right now.

The absolute gall it takes to ask for a bailout while families go hungry.

Can’t emphasize enough that Mamdani *absolutely* has “lol fuck you, your hate makes me stronger” energy, he just delivers it with a huge charming smile and a welcoming message about making life affordable

"How dare this young, brown, Muslim man contest the order of things? How dare he have the audacity to run for – and be in the lead to win – the highest office in the country’s largest, richest, city?" Dr. Gowayed shares her happiness, hope, and fears after Mamdani won the NYC election. Read this.

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

This country said, "We're racist but not 'Im trying to die' racist."

Logan Square, you're alright

Zohran has already gotten 250k more votes than Eric Adams did 4 years ago when he was hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.

This was the target that the campaign has had. 1 million votes.