“leftist men tend to view women in organizing as mere secretaries at best, or as sexual objects there to provide amusement and the occasional blowjob at worst” Yasmin Nair yasminnair.com/cesar-chavez...

Referring to Palestine, Egyptian football coach Hossam Hassan: "In the country where kids are being killed, they wear the jerseys of Argentina, Barcelona, City, Real Madrid. These kids love you and they love football. But they are being killed and you're still silent." Preach.

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“This is a moment when housing policy should be guided by evidence, by facts,” @claudiastellar.bsky.social said. “Fact: losing housing through eviction or involuntary non-renewal, destabilizes families, schools and employment. Feeling: non-renewals are simply a routine part of the rental market.”

Evanston's @claudiastellar.bsky.social said that arguments used by those opposed to the plan were based on feeling rather than fact, & these commty members lacked evidence for their beliefs, including the idea that just cause protections discourage development. dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/12/c...

“Placing SCOTUS in the context of this history reveals a pattern. Since its inception, the court has generally operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law, & to strengthen this baseline by consistently favoring & reinforcing the superior status of whites in the US”

Conventional wisdom tells us the Supreme Court’s dominion is the administration of justice. This misconception, however, prevents us from seeing it for what it truly is — a national defense agency. truthout.org/articles/the...

Two years ago, I wrote a brief piece for @truthout.bsky.social, arguing that we should view #SCOTUS as a national defense agency that has consistently worked to enshrine and defend white nationalism since its inception—a trend likely to intensify under Trump. truthout.org/articles/the...

@gulabjammin.bsky.social 💕

Full piece is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you're fed up with FIFA corruption, I hope you'll check out @fairsq.bsky.social's "Reboot FIFA" campaign. You can sign your name onto what we hope will be the biggest-ever class-action complaint against FIFA & Gianni Infantino www.rebootfifa.com

@mdoukmas.bsky.social wrote an excellent article for the @chicagoreader.com on the history and politics of police unions. I highly recommend everyone read it. chicagoreader.com/news/from-so...

Cape Verde didn’t advance, but they did something much more impressive: they humbled Argentina

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

I’m disappointed. For a wedding this anticipated, I expected fashion history. Where are the risks? Where is the drama?

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on why we must defend public libraries: “There is a reason the culture warriors hate the library. It is the same reason that Americans should defend it with our rights. No political spin doctor can sell us what is freely given at one: the right to think for ourselves.”

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on why we must defend public libraries: “There is a reason the culture warriors hate the library. It is the same reason that Americans should defend it with our rights. No political spin doctor can sell us what is freely given at one: the right to think for ourselves.”

Big city

Evanston's @claudiastellar.bsky.social said that arguments used by those opposed to the plan were based on feeling rather than fact, & these commty members lacked evidence for their beliefs, including the idea that just cause protections discourage development. dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/12/c...

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social delivered a powerful and deeply moving tribute at @gulabjammin.bsky.social’s funeral today.

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

#OtD 2 May 1967 armed Black Panthers marched into the California Capitol protesting a gun control bill which was targeting them. Supported by the NRA, Reagan signed the bill to stop Panther police self defence patrols. Learn more about the group: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social delivered a powerful and deeply moving tribute at @gulabjammin.bsky.social’s funeral today.

@gulabjammin.bsky.social 💕

@gulabjammin.bsky.social 🩷

Update on my beloved sister-friend, @gulabjammin.bsky.social: sharing funeral details and a new fellowship in her honor—the Amisha Patel Arts & Organizing Fellowship—to support artists creating work for grassroots social justice movements. grassrootscollaborative.salsalabs.org/amishafellow...

“Amisha grew campaigns in which the members wanted to be a part of the fight, and organizations were not at the table because a funder was offering resources, but because they saw the possibilities of collective action for real change at the roots” @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/amis...

“Amisha was constantly sparking change with strategy and heart, and always in collectivity. Her impacts are endless and infinite. She transformed countless people’s lives, while also transforming systems that will impact the fabric of the world for generations.” blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/30/c...

Thousands of Chicagoans are expected to participate in a May Day rally and march starting at Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph St., and ending at Daley Plaza downtown. https://to.wttw.com/3PbqaCA

Amisha Patel "asked you what your dream was & how she could b a part of organizing & reimagining w/you. She showed me that we did not have to summarily sit down 4 school closings just bc the powerful political machine said that they were going to close schools" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/28/c...

Amisha remains with us and we honor her life by continuing to fight for the future we deserve. Rest well, Amisha. We love you.

Amisha was a giant of our movement and she will be deeply missed. Her three decades of work to unite diverse communities to build power laid the groundwork for winning affordable housing, quality education, and more in Chicago and across the state of Illinois.

Yesterday, we lost a longtime Chicago leader, organizer, and my dear friend, Amisha Patel.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Update on my beloved sister-friend, @gulabjammin.bsky.social: sharing funeral details and a new fellowship in her honor—the Amisha Patel Arts & Organizing Fellowship—to support artists creating work for grassroots social justice movements. grassrootscollaborative.salsalabs.org/amishafellow...

@gulabjammin.bsky.social & I were roommates for 7 yrs. I can't begin to share how 💔 the loss of her psychical prescence is. She moved through the world like light–joy in her laughter, calm in her presence, fierce in her purpose, & boundless in her love. May she rest in peace & power forever.

"We need a political vision that is not just about one side winning & another losing. We need a vision where there is room for all [...] if we don’t have onramps for people to join us, we will never build the majority we need." @gulabjammin.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/fig...

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

@gulabjammin.bsky.social Presente! You have no idea how much you will be missed. Rest well, friend. Love you.

@gulabjammin.bsky.social & I were roommates for 7 yrs. I can't begin to share how 💔 the loss of her psychical prescence is. She moved through the world like light–joy in her laughter, calm in her presence, fierce in her purpose, & boundless in her love. May she rest in peace & power forever.

reminder: if you ever see somebody stealing food, no the fuck you didnt.

Remains more relevant than ever.

♥️ this! Grit Matthias Phelps introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. She found a few dozen old manual typewriters and created what her syllabus calls an “analog” assignment. apnews.com/article/type...

My flower painting 🌼

Well done. #NoKings

Jamacian artist Ebony G Patterson creates mixed media atworks including jacquard-weave tapestry to tell the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #Womensart

Trans rights are human rights, and they’re under attack. 🏳️‍⚧️ Join the Rally for Trans Visibility to demand safety, healthcare, and dignity for trans people, especially youth facing political interference in their care. 📅 Saturday, April 4 | 1:00 PM Sign up today! tinyurl.com/TDOVChicago2...

Ku Klux Klan materials found in a briefcase in the Mississippi Department of Public Safety were likely from 1960s-era investigations, an MDPS spokesperson says. The materials included full Klan regalia, ledgers with the names of klansmen, Klan pamphlets and more. buff.ly/KXhG3ee

Grady Judd endorsing immigration reform and calling for the Trump admin to pull back on deportation is seismic. He is a strong Trump and DeSantis ally who has been a hardliner on immigration for years.