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in february, @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social wrote about the effort to ban physical mail into illinois prisons—and why it's just another way for prisons to throw money at private companies. chicagoreader.com/news/prison-...

Friday Links is UP! Featuring two amazingly disorienting books, @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social @almacampos.bsky.social @mollydevore.bsky.social @corli.thetriibe.com @kdonhoops.com and MORE! www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657802

new: late last month, a “make snap great again” sign appeared on the wall of an illinois department of human services office in lincolnwood. workers claim management hung the sign after trump enacted new restrictions on food aid. idhs denies any involvement. via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:

new: federal agents have targeted rideshare drivers at o'hare on at least ten separate days since october 10. in some cases, agents returned to abduct drivers multiple times in a single day, taking as many as ten to 20 people each time. via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:

Bumping this devastating, essential reporting by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social again. Rideshare workers, already treated terribly by the union-busting corps they work for, are being kidnapped from O'Hare as city-hired security guards watch.

Check out @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social's @chicagoreader.com piece about how rideshare drivers at O'Hare are being targeted. chicagoreader.com/news/border-...

new: housing advocates in chicago are calling on governor jb pritzker and mayor brandon johnson to enact a moratorium on evictions “as long as I.C.E. is in our city.” via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social

just a couple weeks ago, @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social’s @chicagoreader.com cover story explored labor issues faced by rideshare drivers and their fight for stronger protections.

Be sure and check out some of @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social's excellent labor reporting & updates on organizing at cultural institutions around town chicagoreader.com/news/labor/l...

It can be hard to make sense of the Trump administration's hurricane of nihilistic destruction. This great piece by @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com provides an on-the-ground picture of the damage done to Chicago orgs supporting LGBTQ+ health. chicagoreader.com/news/lgbtq-h...

“We as a society are really uncomfortable holding the people we know and love accountable for that harm, so we like to point the finger at people who have been previously held accountable that we don’t know.” this week's @chicagoreader.com cover story from @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:

In our new column Labor Pains, reporter @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social covers news affecting Illinois workers. Latest: Dispensary 33 became the first fully worker-owned cannabis shop in IL; Pritzker vetoes a bill to protect warehouse workers. More:

Chicagoan Victoria Park's indie rock project @pictoriavark.bsky.social released a new album, Nothing Sticks, in March. The band performs at a release party for the album on Sun 4/13 at @theemptybottle.bsky.social | ✍️ @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social

workers at first ascent's four chicago locations are organizing w/ the chicago & midwest regional joint board of workers united for better pay and conditions. they're one of 23 climbing gyms to organize in recent years. this week's @chicagoreader.com cover story via @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social:

If you can look at the U.S. right now and decide that the people we really need to worry about are *immigrants*, then I invite your dumb racist ass to fuck off into the sun. And if you're to the right of the fucking *city council* on this, you need to study your heart. Provided you can find it.