this is still true more people need to be outside regularly, ICE and DHS are targeting people with melanin in our skin we will need real physical defense

I have a theory that American culture is isolated for many reasons and that longing for a small town is actually just longing for real community. But you can build community anywhere! You just have to put in some work. And indiscriminate kindness works, but it's very unpopular.

i know my building has a lot of elderly folks who live here on fixed incomes, a lot of people with disabilities or needing care for chronic conditions live near the medical care they will need an argument that troops on Michigan Avenue will harm tourism sn't it none of us want to be taken

Had to pause on this line. Removing trans girls from school sports was ~totally~ about removing "boys" from girls' sports... and then as a result we are explicitly adding cis boys, like actual boys not just a transphobic moniker for trans girls, to girls' sports.

God I love watching overburdened tacticool failsons getting their ankles broken by a normal guy

The deployment of ICE agents in downtown Chicago today reminded me of the flash marches that neo-Nazi groups carry out when they all pile out of vans and march around for a bit to make propaganda videos, then quickly leave. Except these assholes have the force of law and kidnapped people.

Not a fan of the bent carrot adds at all.

Border patrol out on Michigan avenue today in Chicago doing the same dumb shit cpd does, but in full tactical gear. Some are masked.

Anyway, Sarah is great and we should all get out and talk to more people and connect with our communities and keep practicing working together on everything from toilet water to totalitarianism.

I hope popular posters on here feel like they can use the mute and block buttons enthusiastically, but I also have to imagine just dealing with the replies and notifications to begin with has got to not be worth it.

You ever find yourself in a good mood during the fall of civilization and feel a little guilty about feeling good? Is that the vestigial Catholicism talking again, or is that a universal experience?

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

And unfortunately there is no containment and no one managing inputs or outputs really, we are living in a country run by a man who looks at AI conspiracy slop that shows him making an announcement he didn't make And apparently he's like "oh cool I did a great thing for the country today"

The horrors persist, but so do the 12’ Home Depot skeletons

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police. Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

Things are calm again. People are coughing from lingering chemical irritants in the air, but the federal agents have been behind their side of the fence for about 20 minutes, while the crowd gather nearby listening to one protestor gives a speech.

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

Whether it be in Broadview here in Illinois or in Portland, Oregon, the Trump Administration is intentionally creating chaos to threaten sending military troops to American cities and suburbs.

I've got a couple different orgs in Chicagoland I'm helping do these exact things, and I'd love to tell you about them.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

28. If the cops arrest you but then no charges are brought, there should be a small penalty for the cops. Currently cops can just threaten to arrest you bcs arrest itself is a deterent to most people.

5. Signs like this will, within our lifetime, appear as anachronistic as "whites only" water fountain signs. We'll have to tell our grandkids that, unbelievably, we used to make men and women pee separately. "What about non-binary people?" they will ask.

19. Almost all fines intended to discourage unsafe behavior (speeding, etc.) should be a % of your income. Otherwise there is no real speeding fine for rich people.

Did I do this right?

@lizzyisi.bsky.social i think you might like the horror film Heretic

Next week! Two of my favorite things: systemic reform @chicagoappleseed.org and nonsense @popupkaraoke.com ! Get your tickets here: bit.ly/karaokeforadvocacy

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

years ago, Mike Bloomberg proposed making micro-apartments in NYC and when the design rolled out everyone was like you're proposing dorms and he got made fun of hard this is how I feel every time someone brings up tiny homes we can have regular size housing for everyone

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

Sniper guy damaged/broke several windows from across the parking lot. That's how powerful these "non-lethals" are

Trans women are women and sometimes you have to actually do something about it instead of hope other people will, and that they do it in a way that doesn't impact you at all.

The sickest part of the current situation is that the Democratic Party bent over backwards and refused to even enforce existing laws to avoid to even the slightest appearance of impropriety. Then the Republicans with total control of the federal government are just dropping trou flashing goatse.

LOVE YOUR GODDAMN NEIGHBOR, HOW MUCH MORE CLEAR CAN IT GET YOU ABSOLUTE HERETICS

They are pro-administrative burden, it seems like

You come to a country but fail to follow its notoriously fucked up immigration policies. You enroll your kids in school, find a church, have a little business selling food or doing work for people that they don’t want to do themselves. You become part of a community. Then the secret police roll up.

it just lights my fire

another beautiful day in chicago, the greatest city in america

Babe’s has opened in Logan Square, giving women’s sports fans a place to call home. blockclubchi.co/46AbXUf

i made a helpful reference

I watch kimell and Meyers and Colbert and Oliver on YouTube and man some of y'all are really condescending about TV some people like. It's ok for there to be things you don't like. You sound like those assholes calling sports, 'sportsball'.

No one talks about the emotional fallout of near-misses when you’re biking and a driver does something that could have killed you.

Anyway, you are almost certainly braver than your employer and more morally sound than your elected representatives. I hope you find the time and space to embrace that and do something powerful with it!

I've been trying to use my 'waste time with my phone' time on ebooks and novellas after a weekend off the phone bike camping (and touching grass).

A small but growing movement has sprung up in Nashville that is radical in its simplicity: People are building wooden benches and placing them at bus stops where there is no other place to sit. nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22/g...