they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

Terrible statement, extremely in line with what kat vols said to my face during petition season, including: Kat is the only prog in the race, all IL Dems are Chuck Schumer, unaware of any recent policy wins, unconnected to any existing prog organizing, confusion over caring about carpetbagging/exp

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

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These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.

Cowards move the team back to Decatur where it belongs

Chicago’s City Council is fighting over a very small portion of the city’s budget because a majority of alders do not want to implement a corporate head tax on corporations that have over 500 employees, despite the city running a deficit otherwise (according to the budget office’s analysis). 🧵

Immigration is such a good thing, and the scale to which we should be facilitating it is so great, dozens of our cities should be having weekly mass naturalization ceremonies. They should be open to the public, and we should be encouraged to go greet and celebrate new citizens.

I'm a brain scientist and poetry is beautiful and gives my life meaning, and learning how to read poetry enhances that beauty. I had my officiant recite lines from one of my favorite poems at my wedding ceremony. I value poetry because I value the human condition and am not a soulless automaton

YES! Especially since this is the natural modern extension of the neoliberal economic argument for previous gens (home and retirement portfolio appreciation) "you don't need a welfare state, just get personally rich via your own smart choices and we'll stop the libs from stealing it from you"

We should absolutely be funding our libraries. However, why in this whole convo is no one mentioning that the same budget's proposed $1billion TIF surplus would provide $15 million in property tax money to CPL (much like how it provides $500 million to CPS)? Am I missing something?

When we checked into our hotel in Savannah the young white receptionist asked where we were coming from, I said atlanta (technically true since we'd driven from there, but also id just handed her my IL license) and she immediately launched into a tirade about how atlanta is a crime ridden shithole

i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

"I want everything in 1 bag, and I want that bag to be light!" chicago edition Dont want any tax increases? You have to cut services. Don't wanna cut services? You have to raise taxes. You want to maintain/expand services, you can either raise taxes on working ppl or the rich. that's it.

Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.

Beating up protesters with clubs = protecting? Can we pls get less weird parasocial posting about Pritzker as the Khan of the Plains and more actual accountability??

Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Everything I want to say about this will get me arrested.

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Additionally, a fundamental assertion of conservatism is certain "white collar" professions are for white men by right forever. Black and Brown ppl professional presence is intolerable. Dovetails into why caste is a useful framework here - they want the labor force permanently segregated.

The obsessive wokeness panic is about elite labor market competition and prestige. People use a lot of fancy words to obscure this, and offer some substantive criticisms as well, but that’s ultimately its driving force.

Illinois now is the time to try for a progressive tax again

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

I do not see identification of this federal agent in a "conspicuous" place on his uniform, as ordered Tuesday by U.S. District Cout Judge Sara Ellis, in this photo of him making physical contact with Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez

We saved transit.

Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

One of the most important and formative things my father told me as a child, when I asked him why he votes for Democrats for president -"Republicans would kick all of us out of the country if they could" Babe Ruth level called shot. 20+ years later and it just keeps proving to be true

I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

cant count how many "I only vote for the Democrat" ive gotten during dem primaries/races where everyone ID's as a Dem... phonebanked a older guy for BCH who blamed me/progs in general for about how much his date night dinner w/ his wife cost and said BCH would increase his date night costs

Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager

"everyone is 12" theory is being rapidly vindicated

Very excited. Could be better (cough cough public health and safety campaign demands) But a massive improvement from the last 2 budgets Lets work to protect these ideas and get it passed!!!!

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

I'm noticing this too - and similarly noticing otherwise not very political ppl in my life getting mad as hell about it Someone else replied to this drawing a connection to slavery abolition and that feels really apt. The brutality is so in your face that it's radicalizing many

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.