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Hi I'm not good at promoting my work on here but I wrote this and I'm proud of it and wanted to share it! It's a profile of Fountain House, a cool and dare I say kind of radical clubhouse for people living with mental health challenges. I hope you'll give it a read!
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
At Fountain House, an inclusive community for people living with mental illness offers an alternative to hospitals and social isolation.
https://progressive.org/magazine/where-everybody-knows-your-name-monk-20260414/
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the Mountain Goats
10 days ago
*me reading any article about anything* you guys need to listen to more jazz fusion
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TomTom
18 days ago
How lucky are we Chicagoans to call this magnificent place home?
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Hi I'm not good at promoting my work on here but I wrote this and I'm proud of it and wanted to share it! It's a profile of Fountain House, a cool and dare I say kind of radical clubhouse for people living with mental health challenges. I hope you'll give it a read!
progressive.org/magazine/whe...
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
At Fountain House, an inclusive community for people living with mental illness offers an alternative to hospitals and social isolation.
https://progressive.org/magazine/where-everybody-knows-your-name-monk-20260414/
about 1 month ago
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Hi I'm not good at promoting my work on here but I wrote this and I'm proud of it and wanted to share it! It's a profile of Fountain House, a cool and dare I say kind of radical clubhouse for people living with mental health challenges. I hope you'll give it a read!
progressive.org/magazine/whe...
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
At Fountain House, an inclusive community for people living with mental illness offers an alternative to hospitals and social isolation.
https://progressive.org/magazine/where-everybody-knows-your-name-monk-20260414/
about 1 month ago
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Ed Burmila
about 1 month ago
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Does anyone know why the Red Line has had seemingly constant delays and disruptions around Sheridan and Addison for the past week or two that don’t seem to be Wrigley-related? I feel like I’m going insane
about 1 month ago
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dotting my Is, crossing my Ts, circling my Js, contemplating my Qs, tickling my Hs, jousting my Ps, doing unspeakable things to my Ys
about 2 months ago
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Great news everyone!!!!
blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/24/r...
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about 2 months ago
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Crazy how you can orient your entire life around capitalism being the problem and still discover in new ways each day that capitalism is the problem
8 months ago
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
2 months ago
just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival
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jad 📸
3 months ago
📸 Dreary winter skies did not remotely dampen the vibe on Argyle in Uptown today as the smaller of our two Lunar New Year parades returned. Always love to make the walk over here for it
#Chicago
#photography
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Labor Notes
4 months ago
Sign up here to join May Day Strong's call this Sunday, February 1:
www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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Support Mean Lesbians!
4 months ago
Byron is the real deal.
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Chicago's #1 Austerity Destroyer, MSW (NOT A MAN)
4 months ago
I'm joining the war on Byron Sigcho Lopez on the side of Byron Sigcho Lopez. You should too:
secure.actblue.com/donate/1.28tx
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taber
4 months ago
Skilled journalists in Minnesota have made deep contacts, studied what's happening, seen for themselves what we see without raising a single iota of ruckus Content Streamers have been consistently disruptive, aggressive, demanding, deliberately trying to raise the temperature everywhere they go
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Totally agree, I just wish there were some kind of angle to talk about both at once, you know?? like if they’d taken away people’s health insurance and social services and completely fucked the labor economy in order to fund this
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4 months ago
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This is the most baffling book-to-film adaptation I've ever seen. Credits rolled and my friend and I looked at each other and went "...huh!"
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4 months ago
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Can't believe this is from just two months ago. This shit has spread so far so fast
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4 months ago
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
4 months ago
y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)
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Star:Line Chicago
4 months ago
Okay, you all are overstimulated. Here’s your prescription.
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Serengeti "Dennehy"
YouTube video by Audio8Recordings
https://youtu.be/oqrtoFWglMY?si=91fkjccqpXWBw-1z
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SideStreets
4 months ago
According to this poll, we need more people to know about NITA. 2026 is the year of transit in Illinois!
drive.google.com/file/d/16AKO...
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Mags Display Name
4 months ago
www.unpopularfront.news/p/living-in-...
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Kathryn
4 months ago
Folks often ask what they can do, what’s the plan? Friends, we are the plan. Find your organizing home. Indivisible, DSA, tutoring adult literacy, serving on the board of your public library. Do the thing! Think about the ways you’re willing to be courageous, do more than feels comfortable.
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Need the Germans to whip up a long compound word for that feeling you get when everyone in the train car is clearly headed to the same protest
5 months ago
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
5 months ago
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! Stop the bombings! Early this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon. This could be the start of yet another war, based completely on lies. Our public funds should be used for people’s needs!
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5 months ago
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Lowkey obsessed with New Orleans, perfect place to spend Christmas
5 months ago
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Samwise "we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old" Gamgee
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5 months ago
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Laurie! Live!
5 months ago
Every frigid day like this, I think about this 2022 piece by
@katieprout.bsky.social
. No one should have to be outside today in Chicago, much less staying outside unsheltered overnight. That that might be preferable to the available shelter is incredibly damning.
chicagoreader.com/news/lukewar...
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Lukewarm welcome - Chicago Reader
The warming areas don’t just exist to warm you up—housed within DFSS community service centers, they’re also access points from which Chicagoans can be connected to other services that have the potent...
https://chicagoreader.com/news/lukewarm-welcome/
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Active Transportation Alliance
5 months ago
Right now, Chicago City Council is weighing drastic cuts to the very safety programs that have driven this unprecedented drop in severe injuries and fatalities on our streets — cuts that would mean more dangerous speeding, more violent crashes, and more families grieving loved ones taken too soon.
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Tell Chicago lawmakers: Don't cut funding for safe streets | Active Transportation Alliance
According to the Chicago Department of Transportation, fatal crashes have fallen 30 percent since their peak in 2021 — more […]
https://activetrans.org/blog/tell-chicago-lawmakers-dont-cut-funding-for-safe-streets/
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This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
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This piece that I wrote about Chicago ICE watch in October, before Greg Bovino and his goons flew south for the winter, is now available to read online!
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NO SUPPORTIVE HOUSING REFERRALS IN MORE THAN A YEAR
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6 months ago
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Spotify Wrapped season never fails to remind me of just how many Mountain Goats fans I've created in the past 15 years, one of my bigger life accomplishments so far tbh
6 months ago
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Lisa Diedrich
6 months ago
For World AIDS Day, ACT UP New York has created posters as part of their Healthgate campaign, which capture the deadly consequences of creepy RFK Jr as head of HHS. Dismantling Healthcare = Death! You can download the posters here:
actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
#WorldAIDSDay
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"I had no idea that the harsh winter ahead of us would be even more difficult than the trauma of losing my home in Rafah" A dispatch on brutal winter conditions in Gaza by Hassan Herzallah, whose home and university were both destroyed by Israeli bombings last year.
@theprogressivemag.bsky.social
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Winter Returns to Gaza
Despite a so-called ceasefire, people in Gaza are about to face harsh winter conditions while living in tents.
https://progressive.org/latest/winter-returns-to-gaza-herzallah-20251125/
6 months ago
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Stephanie 🍉
6 months ago
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Jes Battis
6 months ago
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my unshakeable faith that everyone currently making millions off AI will end up bankrupt or facing criminal charges ❤️
6 months ago
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Reposting this because of an infuriating experience I had today that fell exactly in line with what I wrote about in the article (context is from my insta story)
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6 months ago
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Also from October to April if you are valiant and pure of heart
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I can only imagine 🤔 hypothetically speaking 🤨 that this would be a surreal moment to live through if you had lived through psychosis at an earlier point in your life and had the incredible fortune to recover from it, only to then watch a huge psychosis spike unfold worldwide!!
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6 months ago
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Dave Byrnes
6 months ago
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.
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Dave Byrnes
6 months ago
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
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Laurie! Live!
6 months ago
when you have the conference room booked for a recurring meeting but the previous people just won't leave
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lucaisharsh
6 months ago
Chicago people sure love when there's an animal that isn't normally around here and we're correct to do so
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Lynda Lopez
6 months ago
Southwest Rapid Response posted a video story of Josue, a Chicago HS senior from Gage Park, whose mom was taken in sept while she sold tamales. She is currently in ICE detention in Michigan. This is a GoFundMe to support him and his mom.
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Donate to Josue- recaudando fondos para el abogado de mi mamá, organized by Josue Solano morales
Hola, amigos y familiares, Hoy me dirijo a ustedes con el… Josue Solano morales needs your support for Josue- recaudando fondos para el abogado de mi mamá
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hhse62-11000
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