Your emotions will drag your intellect around like a dog, if you let them. @liberalcurrents.com @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Sick, does this mean I can use it to enchant my dagger

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name" is a biblical-ass curse. that is CONTEMPT

Zohran Kwame Mamdani, baby! I’m so happy I might as well live in NYC today.

Will John Fetterman please just get lost at sea already or SOMETHING

“Police hate to be outflanked—they can’t risk being surrounded themselves.” @crimethinc.com crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/i...

This makes me sick. I spent 10 years of my life in this neighborhood.

Don’t even get me started on lakefront properties!

Man i get all messed up when i get an email about the climate crisis that is drought and then right below the headline some AI company offers to read me the article 🫠 I am like what is the point you guys

“maybe all of the people who “don’t pay attention to politics” one day tuned out not because of their indifference to others’ suffering but for the exact opposite reason. It’s all too much to behold.” @lukeoneil47.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/every-headli...

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

Zohran Mamdani is the most approachable looking dude I have EVER seen. I love him.

May I present a drawing of an LOL doll that I just cannot unsee as our glorious leader #trumpisababy

Free Palestine

i will say it does feel a little cosmic joke-y to have done so much work on yr personal mental health/self-realization/addiction issues etc to end up smack dab in the middle of fascist collapse

One time during the 2004 election, at a rally in a Chicago hotel when Kerry took some important state, the father of whoever I was dating at the time and said “never overestimate the American people” and damn if I don’t think about that a lot

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

Luke and Eleanor, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson #booksky

75% of our students live below the poverty line, qualify for free lunch, and eat their only two reliable meals at school. Now these kids and more will have even less. Average temps at night here are in the mid-40s/low 50s. I’ve known students who lived in tents. The kids will suffer.

@jpmardelle.bsky.social Am Azoz, 16, I'm responsible for providing for my mom and sisters while trying to continue our life without my Dad The war has taken so much from me losing my Dad, home, and school. This is a burden I can't bear Please help us

I took a break from the news and now I’m back and it’s worse than before

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.' And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

Trust me, the church is the worst but there is just SOMETHING about a Chicago Catholic 💕

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Chicago’s Unitarian-Universalist community is top notch

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This is amazing and also a show of strength and character in a time of blatant capitulation and bribery.

LMAOOOOO A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español. The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal... By Erick Galindo

One of my favorite Michigan raptors, the red tailed hawk #birds

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

This is my hometown. Forest Park was my home for 30+ years. It’s a diverse community and has been since I was a kid.

The kitty that I got when I moved into my first apartment is headed to the great beyond on Friday. I’ve been crying randomly at work this week

I have said repeatedly that we should try not to do this. The only way I can see to avert it is to capitulate, to stop resisting, to let them come and take away anyone they want without due process of law, and even if some of you would make that bargain, enough of us won't that we are back here.

The Office. Never seen a single episode.

Tom Homan is a bitch

This is a recurring theme today. While I was grabbing beer(s) off the Western Blue Line stop (northern) around 5:30 today, I heard horns honking and whistles blowing. Looked up to see bikes and cars chasing what I assume were feds west, people shouting "La Migra!" as they passed.

PREACH!

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

wtf

All variants of fascism are concerned with the management of perception, but this administration's specific brand of fascism is especially performative. They focus on intimidating and demoralizing because it is what they know best—and because it is not clear that they could win an actual fight.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Members of ICE do not see brown people as people. They are “illegals,” objects that are not allowed, do not belong, and are to be declared war on. There is no humanity or morality to appeal to.

My very first cat that I got in 2009 has only 8 days left earthside. I got her when I was 24 years old and she’s been by my side for everything. Her mobility is very limited these days; she often doesn’t make it into the box.

My supervisor at work said they “don’t agree with the violence or illegals in Chicago” and I just looked at them for a minute before saying “it sounds like you’ve never lived there. I don’t call people illegal; I don’t really even believe in borders” and I think it was too much for them to compute.

I have an ex who lives near this Home Depot and I worry about him all the time. Is his family okay? His niece would be 12 now. Is she okay? What about his father and the family I met then?