i actually do think there is a certain kind of "ew sportsball" take I see from progs/lefties that isn't really productive. Sports are indeed popular with the masses, and sports fandom can be one of the few universal identities in an area this article is dumb af tho

This is the most honest and clear eyed post about what has been happening to American science since (literally) Day 1 of the Trump Administration Perfectly captures how frustrated I feel every since dang day

now, will this stop Tabares, RayLo, Mendoza, the Trib Editorial Board and all their happy ilk from saying ending Shotspotter was a disaster and the left and MBJ have the blood of hundreds on their hands? No, b/c they're lunatic bootlickers

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Forcing service workers to stay trapped in poverty wages? Almost unanimous. Tax break for billionaires? Unanimous. Not allowing cops to be members of hate groups? Tight vote, long debate. The real issues of the day, if you will

median DuPage County Republican elected official: renters are untermensches and the state must adopt an explicit policy of separation (maybe Afrikaans has a word we can use?)

Chicago Alderman who is pathologically unable to resist seizing on the most flimsy of excuses to stonewall every meaningful ordinance or piece of legislation: “Nothing ever gets done in this city! 😫”

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

i wish half this kind of opposition existed against actually evil businesses (video slots, payday lenders, etc) instead against an "ice cream shop that also sells other foods" like be so fucking fr

A lot of USan's accepted the post 70s neolib consensus because it DID reduce the cost of consumer goods/services for most ppl. Wage stagnation, offshoring, tax cuts, corporate deregulation, loss of unions, reduced govt services (aka social wage) were mostly acceptable B/C goods stayed / became cheap

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

There's been a big pro trump sign up on on a building near the Kennedy just past Ohare for a few years now that says "Trump 2024 I miss cheap gas '1.78 a gal!' and mean tweets!" Just saw it again last week Wonder how that guy is doing rn

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world" www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This is indicative of a mindset which essentially says "there can be no such thing as scholarship or intelligence when it comes from a group I've been conditioned to demonize" and we'd all be better off if we realized these people are simply like this. There's nothing to persuade here, it's bigotry.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

So much love to my state senator ❤️ absolutely disgusting behavior. I wanna say I'm surprised but frankly I'm not.

Today, our hearts are bursting with love. Welcome to the world, my son and yours: Abolish ICE

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

Rest in Power to a Chicago civil rights legend. Highly rec folks check out Abby Phillips recent book "A Dream Deferred" about the late Rev. I knew Jesse ran for president on a fairly progressive platform at the time but it's fascinating to see what he was championing in the 80s.

Good news: there's no durable majority for fascism Bad news: we are locked in a life or death struggle against fascism and our victory depends on people with less understanding of how the world functions than my 14-month old

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

See also - "we ALL know he's racist." Oh do WE? Really? What I have experienced for the past 11 years is a DOGGED insistence NOT to foreground this fact and instead to INSIST that "economic anxiety" is what mainly explains his appeal to his fans. LOL...

PLEASE don't let Raja become our Senator folks 🤮 I would probably spontaneously combust if IL elects a Hindutva senator I don't really like stratton but we seriously cannot risk Raja. I'm voting stratton b/c shes got a window. I like what kelly's saying (now) but she just doesnt have the juice

Juliana Stratton is the obvious pick. I hate even having to weigh in here. It's plain as day, and the frontrunner is so bad. Folks, this needs to get turned around. Like desperately. Phone bank for Stratton, talk to your friends, anything, just please, Illinois, NO.

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

sorry maybe this is an unnecessary level of stating the obvious, but sometimes when someone says they don’t think puerto ricans are “american,” it isn’t an opportunity to do a little civics gotcha & tell them about the insular cases. they just mean they think real americans are white.

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

New Chicago city budget proposal: the Tribune pays a $10k environmental waste removal fee directly to the city every time they publish an editorial Listen yall, times are tough, we can't be polluting the airwaves with bullshit

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Every person who killed that guy or made decisions leading to it is going to skate, laugh about it, and plan to do it again unless we elect someone in 2028 that has a creative understanding of what executive power can do and uses it against these fucking animals

What it feels like to live in America and believe ALL people should have basic human rights.

I just thought everyone should see this

(maybe unpopular opinion) we should start talking about ending gambling in IL its bad for the public health of our communities and the the city & state are doubling down on encouraging MORE gambling and having ppl develop gambling addictions

over/under we see old man bruce collecting sigs for school board district 2B during GOTV weekend & EDay in Best Ridge man will be out here in the cold outside the northtown library, probably reusing his signs from Nov24 i guarantee it

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately. The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

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