Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god

If one subscribes to the theory that much of what the admin does is intended to push boundaries (in this case, literally) to test resistance and the law, suddenly Charlotte makes a lot more sense.

Universal healthcare, universal childcare, affordable food and housing should be the norm. Those things are NOT radical - we’ve just been brainwashed by unbridled capitalism to believe they are.

Look - anyone of any political persuasion who was part of Epstein’s pedo ring in any way should be thrown in jail forever. I don’t care if it’s Dems. But if they try to claim no Republicans were involved …. Just no. The fucking evil bullshit these people are pulling every damn day …

This makes zero sense …. Unless the government is being run by people who love eugenics. Oh …wait …

If anyone has connections in Charlotte, NC or any other city where ICE/CBP are ramping up operations or announcing intent, I’d be happy to tap them into our Chicago whistle network. Please message me on Signal if you’re willing to host assembly events or receive supplies! emidly.08

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

We are not going to get out of bad civic health by praising people who knowingly broke civilian oversight routinely and congressional laws lol.

My brain is struggling to process this “news” that is actually real and the government is pushing data from Door Dash as if it’s actual reliable data and not corporate PR. This isn’t fake. It is absolutely real. It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking awful for the country.

This is a great, simplified explanation of how the assessment process “works” in Cook County & how it’s skewed in favor of commercial real estate owners.

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

So - eight Dems voted for this as well? I thought we were looking at a “clean” CR. Isn’t that what the GOP said they were doing?

Please - donate cash to food banks. Put non-perishable food in a local food pantry. Put other food in a Love Fridge if you have one in your neighborhood.

CBS2 running an informal poll some of you may have an opinion on “Do you agree or disagree with Senator Dick Durbin's vote to end the Government Shutdown?” www.cbsnews.com/chicago/conn...

Spare (unexpired! Unopened! structurally stable!) shelf-stable food goes to your local mutual aid — little Free Pantry, Community fridge. Cash to food banks. www.littlefreepantry.org freedge.org

Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive. Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.

Rescued this teddy from the sidewalk near Sheridan and Winona If you live in the area, share to help it find its owner

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional. crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...

This is disgusting.

I had to give my ex half my retirement fund just to get out of the marriage. Why? Because we BOTH decided that he would stay at home and manage our kids’ acting careers. I’m sure Adam benefited from having his wife stay home to do all the shopping and cleaning and other shit he never had to do.

This deal fails on the one thing we promised to deliver for the American people. Millions of Americans' health care costs will skyrocket, and we have nothing to reassure them with but the hope that Speaker Johnson will do the right thing. For that reason, I am a no on the Senate deal.

I love this!

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

For the blue no matter who crowd - telling me that if I don’t like my Dem elected, I can “just primary them” … you clearly don’t know how hard it is to oust an incumbent OR you’re just making a stupid argument.

Sickening. I hope they enjoy the snow since most of them aren’t from here. If they think this will keep us inside and afraid, they’re wrong.

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

son brought home a pinto bean plant from school last spring. it yielded one (1) bean, which we planted. *that* plant yielded ... one (1) bean, which we have also planted. Five months of cultivation has yielded two beans. anyway, you were saying something about "grow your own food"

Note that you cannot leave a voicemail message for @durbin.senate.gov at ANY of his offices which is bullshit. I will send a message via his website. But since he’s retiring, it seems like he cares more about his buddies in the GOP than his constituents so I’m not holding my breath.

I was dismayed that Justice Jackson granted the stay that the DOJ requested but that’s because I didn’t realize what she had actually done. She did the least bad thing she could have done under the terrible circumstances of this situation.

This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.

They want to make America return to 1776 and rewrite the history books.

It's important to remember that authoritarians want to create a dog-eat-dog atmosphere where people are willing to throw others under the bus. They want to shape reality in their own image. They want selfishness and cruelty to seem inevitable. But we need to nurture an atmosphere of helping others.

This is a beautiful essay about the heartbreak of fighting ICE/CBP but also the absolutely breathtaking coming together of community to protect and lift each other.

This is a great essay that points out just how ridiculous the “reporting” is at the NYT. Claiming to be “unbiased” while they elevate biased ideas from the right as if they are on equal footing with decades and centuries of scholarship is a choice.

If I recall correctly, it was the GOP that insisted health insurance companies be situated as the middle men between consumers and healthcare providers. Wasn’t that the Romney Plan? So now Trump wants to get rid of insurance companies? Interesting …

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

The feds are afraid of a bunch of people praying outside of a facility holding immigrants? I thought they were all about freedom of religion? You mean to tell me the GOP is full of hypocrites?!?!? Really?!

This is happening hundreds of times every week in Chicago. I know someone who was taken at a court hearing, moved to Indiana then to Kansas. Released in Kansas with no money & no way home but was lucky to have friends who took care of him. He left a wife & 3 small children behind all summer.

The wildest part about the whole "we should pay politicians a lot more so that they're less incentivized to take bribes" idea is the notion that rich people are less corrupt. The people who own the most, who have the most, are often the ones who will do anything to obtain more.

So Facebook was tracking me on the internet making millions off my data and I just got $4.01 in a settlement. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No single person needs this much money. And I have no idea what drugs the institutional shareholders were on when they voted for this bullshit. All I can say is I’m glad I’m no longer in finance facilitating shit like this.

Again, a horrific ruling by a corrupt SCOTUS that is clearly using personal biases against trans people to approve ridiculous Trump policies. This makes literally zero sense. There is no compelling government interest in having passports use gender at birth.

Imagine if this used literally any other country in this piece - it would be ridiculous. As it stands, it’s not only ridiculous, it’s dangerous.

This is a very bad ruling. This will create awful outcomes for trans people with zero legitimate government purpose.

May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat Shalom ❤️

www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11... This is absolutely disgusting. The claim that the driver was “an assailant” and that by trying to bring her kids here she was “facilitating human trafficking.” Also they claim Biden was facilitating the invasion of the country by getting her work authorization.

They counted on making Chicago mad and provoking violence but what they did instead was viscerally disgust any human with even the slightest sense of morality and it’s not gonna go the way they want

🤣🤣🤣 OMG they just can’t help themselves lol

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.