One big anti-woke tax we have to pay comes from the evisceration of environmental regulation and the attacks on private-sector ESG. The costs of pollution, toxic emissions, and environmental destruction don't go away, they're just externalized away from the destroyer and onto society as a whole.

getting a nazi tattoo is a whole diff level of commitment. Its not nasty thoughts & it's not even dropping a slur, bad as that is, you gotta literally sit there for hours while someone sequentially stabs you, powering through the pain motivated only by the joy of eventually having nazi branded skin

Notably a state prosecution, not a federal one for threatening to kill a member of Congress.

Well if private equity does what it did to every other thing it touched, the military will be stripped for parts and sold to the highest bidder by 2035

Though I’m pretty sure most of my fellow leftist communist socialist liberals would also view “athletically allergic” as a bridge too far into Wokist Rhetoric even for us it’s called “being out of shape” and insofar as I’m aware no one other than MAGAs is offended by this

Lol

just a couple weeks ago, @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social’s @chicagoreader.com cover story explored labor issues faced by rideshare drivers and their fight for stronger protections.

all of ice’s abductions are fucked but targeting rideshare drivers at the airport is just so fucked. companies like uber + lyft helped create (+ have made billions off the backs of) a largely immigrant, low-wage workforce that lacks any of the legal protections and benefits granted to w-2 workers.

It's just racism. The most horrific people are doing the most horrific things daily because they hate everyone who isn't white or they are in service of someone else who hates people who aren't white. None of this is more complicated than that unless you have an agenda to make it so.

It's all the same guys. The ones in suits and the ones in fatigues are all repeating the same horrible shit about Chicago because they all believe it. They truly, earnestly believe they are in a war to exterminate Chicago and what it stands for.

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

The NY Times published an editorial citing Susan Collin as "a moderate Republican." Collins is a reliable vote for Trump's agenda, has voted against democracy at every turn and supported extremist judges. This is why people are abandoning legacy media--even while enjoying games, puzzles & recipes.

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

Major news outlets went really out of their way to avoid saying shit/poop. "Brown liquid," "appeared to be feces," "bursts of brown matter." Just say what it was: an AI video of Trump in a jet dumping shit on America, that's literally the video www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

is it possible to demonize demons?

The wholesale destruction of the planet for oil and gas sure will be a theme in future history books if we survive this.

Guy is literally like "oh you guys said No Kings??? Well I'm Kings!!!!!"

It's like the War of 1812 but this time the President is doing it himself

This part blacksky.community/profile/did:...

As spouse points out, this should literally be an ad for the DNC blacksky.community/profile/did:...

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

centrist: Where do we go from here? We have to find common ground. We can't just call the other group "Nazis." At the end of the day, we're all just rich white men with podcasts. Republican lawmaker: Welcome to Hitler Chat. I'm Hitler Republican lawmaker 2: Hello. I am Hitler as well.

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

hot take: we need to build a political and cultural movement for trans rights in the u.s. that doesn’t have our population constantly on defense

americans are increasingly supportive of immigration rights in light of ICE crackdowns but they are also less supportive of trans rights amid attacks on trans care, per polling the difference? politicians and cultural figures are talking about the first thing and not the second

Lmao wtf

I was in a food coop in college which followed kosher and halal dietary rules. We followed the most extreme versions, to account for those who kept very strict kosher rules, which would also satisfy those who were more lax. anyway, same with politics. go for broke, moderates can deal.

the Republican effort to frame literally all factual criticism of right wing ideology as "biased" and therefore illegitimate is literally a fifty-plus year project

Lmao

Exactly 24 hours until Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) closest approach to Earth. Our orbit won't be affected. Also the peak of the Orionids Meteor shower. The Moon is New tomorrow. It's all happening! 🔭 🧪

Honestly it's pathetically easy to pass the turing test, for the same reason we see faces in clouds

imagine if we directed this at harry potter next

Waking up every morning and checking the kidnapping report alongside the weather is not a thing anyone should have to do.

some light in all of the darkness. mount prospect, illinois, is 63% white. the suburb’s median household income is ~$104,000. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...

The Tribune reports Elgin cop Jason Lentz posted specific addresses on Facebook for ICE to check out. He was fired years ago after he posted that Ferguson PO Darren Wilson “Did society a favor” when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. Later an arbitrator put Lentz back on the job.

now here's someone who understands how to defeat the male loneliness epidemic

When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool

After hours of oral argument last week in Callais v. Louisiana, it’s clear that the Supreme Court is ready to decimate what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, making it much easier for states to get away with racial discrimination in voting. https://bit.ly/4nWYr4A

right wing bigots have admitted - the “trans women in bathrooms” issue - the “trans women in sports” issue and - the “trans kids getting surgery” issue were all MADE UP TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY are you paying attention?

[checks calendar]

republicans have fought to sabotage or entirely repeal the ACA every step of the way. they did very real damage

it’s no wonder we get offerings of police-approved parades and donate $5 and just vote. we can’t even make space to hash out what substantive mass resistance could look like and what it would take to get there. it’s like people are afraid taking that step makes the possibility of acting on it real.

do you want to say you fought back or that you watched silently as others who gave everything they had got scooped up and disappeared? is the plan to just lie? if they come knocking you’ve got a lil RESIST poster you can flip to be a flattering picture of trump? i don’t get it

we simply cannot discuss possibilities of response in any concrete sense without people flipping out. we can’t even get to measuring out offered options in terms of what’s realistic or harmful or accessible or complicated. we are limited only to things that summarize to: fascism sure is bad, huh?

something very strange about how eagerly americans will consume content talking about how bad fascism is as it encroaches but any discussion on how to actually organize against it sends people into fits of rage.

To be anti fascist is to be pro Palestine. To be against Ice is to be against the IOF— they are the same dehumanization in different uniforms. To believe in justice is to believe it should exist everywhere.

TODAY! Trump has once again tweeted a video of a magazine cover mocked-up to show him being elected president again & again into the distant future. THIS was his response to NO KINGS? Is he TRYING to make our point for us? Not only does he think he's KING, he's a mad king. 1/2

And don't forget that some food banks can buy 4x the food per dollar, so a donation of money really packs a punch.