i feel like the epstein file has turned more into a political gotcha than caring for survivors and ending sex trafficking

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

It is absolutely wild to me that anyone in or around Chicago legitimately believes that Christkindlmarkt, a massive tchotchke emporium with overpriced mulled cider and glögg populated by nothing but the most holiday-pilled aunties from Big Ten country, is a security risk, requiring hundreds of cops.

Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/

Folks, I’m still looking for an immigration attorney who works on deportation defense (and appeals) for the family I wrote about here. IL and IN based preferably.

new: i read the 2026 cook county budget so you don't have to. spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).

South Shore residents of the apartment building raided by ICE expressed feeling abandoned by city and state leaders. One resident said tenants still haven’t heard from Ald Gregory Mitchell (7th Ward). The South Shore building is in his ward. thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...

i cooked enough dinner for 2 dinners tonight yall everyone say good job nat!

woulda been such a power move for zohran to have done trump like vance did the last pope

any cause a politician “lead”, or “prediction” they made was not done by them they only did the policy work if that. there was guaranteed organizers and community members who had been building on that demand or analysis long before it was politically savvy for x politician to be public about it

This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi... 1/

So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.

there’s nothing some kids can do that will make me say they deserve a beating. especially retroactively. anything they do is a reflection of us. if you’re upset about a horrific thing they did look at yourself and figure out how to change their environment and help them. prison/hitting won’t help

i really am a muva i provide for all of my people no matter what

still trying to wrap my head around zohrans meeting

a tragic story about a star who fell into the seductive arms of substances

or addictions & if they’ve been to prison/committed crimes

People will cling to the familiar even if it is killing them. If one doesn't understand this basic fact, then you will be so confounded on multiple levels.

the most gender I feel is walking around my apartment in just panties and a big t shirt

The president and mayor of NYC belong to the same political class, it’s not any deeper than that. lbsfr.

been thinking about this a lot lately: "I think everyone has an understanding of what is going on. I think people also understand whether or not they benefit in some way from what’s going on."

for the @chicagoreader.com's annual people issue, i talked to @natpalm99.bsky.social about policing, surveillance, abolition, weed, and finding hope when you need it most

i love my house (apartment)

"The program has the support of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling." Outrageous. All three of them.

idk i just don’t think a mayor meeting with trump and normalizing that is good no matter what he wants to do in his city

the cook county public defender's office not mincing words in its response to a plan to allow all chicago cops to directly file felony weapons possession charges. "This policy abandons prosectors’ duty to review felony charges and simply hands that responsibilities over to police."

girl same

it’s not equal rights for the people being bombed tho!

hey it’s me

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

also there’s no perfect victim. whether it’s a person who voted for trump who has felt the pain of deportation (or adjacent) or a survivor of sexual violence and laughing at either is shitty

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

Urban Center PAC sent out some text messages today. Did y’all get one? Here’s a refresher on what the Urban Center PAC is and who runs it. thetriibe.com/2025/06/whos...

How many ppl on here need to be told that Kamala Harris isn't gonna fuck them 🤣🤣🤣

i get it girl... we all feel this way for a couple months right at the beginning,

I act like I’m ok but deep down inside I still just wanna know what Kendrick said on that one part of wacced out murals 😞

NEW — A point of contention in today’s finance committee meeting was Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposed corporate head tax. “These individuals are more interested in protecting… the largest corporations in our city, than protecting working people,” Johnson said. thetriibe.com/2025/11/mayo...

tbh this prolly the biggest show of allyship a politician has done in excited to see what SHE looks like after HER transition

I keep seeing people saying "the Democrats" should create a list of bureaucrats who will be "held accountable" for their current actions. But anyone could create that list and also actually define what is meant by accountability. If it's mainly prison, good luck. But might it be other consequences?

legal marriage literally serves zero purpose other than to reinforce heteronormative relationships & patriarchal capitalist forms of ownership

They should invent Marriage 2 where everyone is assumed to be married to each other until they write on a document that says they aren't.

Everyone disagreeing ignored at least 3 points made in the original post > in socialism > as an institution > there should be no benefits over other relationships and living styles for monogamous couples over everyone else

I want to ban marriage as an institution. Ceremonies should be allowed but there should be no benefits over other relationships and living styles for monogamous couples over everyone else Ideally this would happen in socialism where private property isn’t a thing so that doesn’t matter either

idk sometimes it’s just nice to sit in self pity and be depressed about shit

Gay Sex in the Clinton Years

any song where herb spells shit out >>