on the other hand its hard when you think you have a connection with someone that's timeless, diaspora kids and all that jazz but they don't feel the same

I remembered today I stopped dating someone bc he had a peanut allergy and was active in an IPO.

in our year of the lord 2025 why would you be proud of brandon johnson positively noticing you ? how much is your head up your own ass

i think its easier to punch down on socials when you dont produce anything with your political work, but by all means lets rename salt trucks 'Abolish ICE' with the mayor's approval LOL. that definitely stops CPD / city of Chicago from coordinating with ICE & other feds

Buy TENTS & SLEEPING BAGS for CHICAGO northside neighbors. We (Food Not Bombs Rogers Park) get 40+ people every week at our Touhy Park distro, and constant requests for cold weather supplies. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... or if you want to drop off used items, reach out!

the absolute absurdity of chicagoland nonprofits trying to farm out their clients to mutual aid groups. thresholds demanded to know what services FNB provides lol GTFO

I have bagged my 1000th loaf of bread lol

CCPSA is a sink to capture any anti-police organising, almost no questions or even alders in the budget hearing because their work is normalising / containing anti-police sentiments & they've been p successful in the down time www.chicityclerk.com/committee-bu...

EFF are libertarian idiots, this is a bad lawsuit

I love living in a city whose cultural class romanticises survival & creativity under conditions of poverty elsewhere & has no curiosity or regard for the people who do it in their own city

nicole lee is using her time to ask cpd about how traumatized victims of crime are

TBT to when i called 311 about a lost dog in the winter that i let into our small community space & they told me animal control couldnt help me but then dispatched police & gave them my phone number, good reminder RayLo

what a banger www.chicityclerk.com/committee-bu... www.chicago.gov/content/dam/...

these alders are dumb as fuck. what about people who don't have alders calling on their behalf, do they get help? what a show

we watched DFSS staff coordinate with Streets & Sans & CPD under Parks Supervision start demolish of unhoused people's temporary living structures while they were inside in Legion Park.

this is absurd www.chicityclerk.com/committee-bu...

it's bad form to make a cold list of food pantries & circulate it as helpful !!!!! the internet isn't a guide for IRL rules & material offerings of a food pantry.

got to Target minutes after ICE kidnapped someone. Spoke to people otg who said they were probably staging at Rosehill. Drove over to Rosehill, another patroller I saw was talking to an employee. Patroller said ICE was using A CEMETERY AS A HOME BASE for kidnapping people in our neighborhood.

tattletales always align with power (!)

maybe OCAD can have a word with Beatrix Ponce De Leon www.organizedcommunities.org/resources?ty...

NPR is a centrist monster. horrendous

this is literally gonna kill so many convenience stores and make food deserts even worse. it might end up being literally impossible to buy food anywhere, even gas stations, on the south/west sides of the city

is this the sign the city wants to post

progressive aldermen in chicago are celebrating the creation of this sign politicos would rather their neighbors be snatched and hold onto their political money so they can act helpless in formal power than deal in reality and feed people

I am so sleepy, 7am therapy is not for the weak on autumnal mornings

let's pair a photo from ICE at the parking lot of the 24th police district this morning

anti-ice rapid response groups are not neutral good

budget hearings are just a performance of alders' manufactured outrage, helplessness, and ..... ?!

saleh bakri is the best looking bakri

finally made it into a bed, three cheers for me

you "can just do things" but this elides that you actually _must_ just do things

did swap o rama organizers make promises to vendors? this article is missing the v important context that the MO & supportive alders like Byron are putting up absurd signs that declaring private property offers protections from ICE

#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...

i think i will go as bread & roses for halloween this year youtu.be/UtaML9D2p8k?

LOLOLOL AT THIS ORG CHART

to prioritise funding 'free speech' activities materially above supporting neighbors to outlast ICE snatchings is something!

there is not a small number of people who can no longer go to the grocery store or the food pantry, there are many who are taking risks we have a small wishlist and i will keep sharing it, we keep hearing from families who trust us or trust their networks to trust us bit.ly/distributefoodchicago

there is nothing more magical than soviet cartoons. being forced to go to sunday russian school was worth it lol don't tell my mom youtu.be/d7NpFhucGbg?...

nothing reminds you of living under occupation like living under occupation

when a woman only does work for men, the rest of us can see that o.0

the white saviors, including chicago coalition for the homeless, operate in the same direction as the fascists someone is here quoting an unhoused person, our power as people is not in the Open Meetings Act allowing the State to determine process makes the cover to blame us for violence we endure

there are a number of women here invoking "women and children first" language without any acknowledgement that this is historically how white women make the pipeline for lynchings of Black men they just want their kids to play in the park guyssssss

we're here at Austin Town Park Hall, ready to rumble

the notion that fascism is external (trump, republicans, federal) and not embedded in everyday capital & then extended when possible in our local agencies, by even 'progressive' politicians is only a narrative from the people who are not feeling the material harms. follow along ...

it's super hot when your partner is spending their evening doing labour to ruin an agent of the state's whole day

I'm actually really proud of the work I do, I can see how the trust & relationships & practices will be even more needed now but not so outside of what we already do together.

making a list of lawyers who will answer my calls 0.o

push past the frames of "they can't do this" because they can and they will continue to escalate

nothing like joining one(!) nonprofit directed organising call about ICE & then that nonprofit giving/selling your number to other nonprofits. incredible safety practice guys, thank god you insisted we defer to your plan to centralise our efforts & coordinate also with alders.