If you’re looking for the one area law enforcement has been defunded lol

Funding for safety net hospitals and support for people who are homeless or awaiting trial could be covered just by reducing Gov. Pritzker's proposed $ increase for state prisons. Especially notable as he could reduce the population of IDOC (and IDJJ) and close empty prison space with a penstroke.

Part of the dynamic here is that surveillance systems are too readily accepted as a cheaper alternative to larger necessary investments in public safety infrastructure, like better housing, healthcare, and safer, more well-designed roads for pedestrians and children.

happy memorial day

happy memorial day to all the US imperialists out there. hope you're all happy with the forever wars

this is definitely a huge problem in Chicago too. the queer job board I run is full of people moving up here for safety who are then unable to find work or cheap housing and the community just can’t support them all. it’s BAD

Happy Memorial Day! Abolish the US military

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

It's hard to overstate the Libbing The Fuck Out vibes in Edgewater Chicago in 2026.

Thankfully the block button is easy to access but it's still wild to me that there is a certain subset of online liberals that genuinely are like "genocide wasn't actually a problem and saying that it was is why voting rights were taken away". The failure of solidarity is breathtaking

Especially when the conspiratorial right is regularly making up and spreading new actual blood libels! That's what QAnon was!

you're not missing something, this is what is being said: -Burke should only act if CPD doesn't properly investigate -CPD didn't investigate at all -so there is no proof CPD didn't properly investigate -so Burke should not act

Ah yes, the Wakeful Divine Delegate "Non-Performative Speech" asking Levi to fill out a form before helping #Palisade 51 #FriendsAtTheTable

Upzoning is also a corruption reduction tool

"don't vote for cops" is some of the best and most broadly applicable electoral advice you'll ever get

this is what reactionary centrism is. It's a call for a return to a bipartisan consensus on bigotry.

this has got to be the worst time in american history to make the totally sensible and correct argument that we should pay people in congress more than we do

the future is fab(aceae)

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Here’s another thing folks might not know, a truck does about 10,000 times the damage to a road than a car does. blog.ucs.org/dave-cooke/t...

"1. Lift the ban on rent control so cities can stabilize rents. 2. Invest directly in affordable housing at the scale the crisis demands. 3. Support cooperative and social housing models that remove profit from housing." None of those are incompatible with the BUILD plan or inclusionary zoning.

Sorry sorry sorry. I can't get past the "money changers in the temple bit". I shouldn't be surprised that the racist NIMBYs are also hella antisemitic but that is disgusting language to use to talk about a Jewish religious organization.

Thank you @teslatakedownchi.bsky.social !

As someone who lives in one of the big destinations of that migration (the north side of Chicago), I am very interested

Chicagoans will say "It's a beautiful day!" and it'll be 45 degrees with 15mph winds

in a dense urban areas there is no solution other than 'paying people to pick things up'. scofflaw littering might vary across places and cultures and reducing that is good, but some amount of stray trash is just inevitable

Here are the Illinois Democrats in Congress so addicted to criminalization they voted to give Todd Blanche more power over ~shoplifting.~ Please be sure to note two former Senate candidates, a bluesky poster, and a Chicago mayoral candidate who market themselves as Resistance

- Coriolis Sunset

*breath rattling* A better world isn’t possible. Couldn’t be me.

anyway. trans rights are human rights

Anybody who lives on the North Side of Chicago knows yesterday was an abject failure on the part of the city to coordinate a large event. I encourage everyone to contact their alder, the City Council’s Police and Fire committee (chaired by Ald. Taliaferro), and attend their next CAPS meeting.

This is why if you care about climate change you should support Pritzker's BUILD plan

a much smaller carceral and border "security" infrastructure

the green-labor conflict continues to intensify and this time the casualty is your electricity bills

I've been in enough volunteer-run organizational transitions to know that important files and information getting lost is the default state. Maintaining archives is hard and small organizations rarely put resources toward it!

Especially when redistricting in those blue states would actually REDUCE the number of Black (and Latine, for that matter) elected officials in Congress

bacterial stis are transmitted via mucus membranes, NOT JUST PENETRATION. so when I say put on a condom I do mean NOW

i need everyone to get more socialist NOW

Lady Gaga about the romance:

Wizards of the Coast is unionizing: unitedwizardsofthecoast.com

American-made cars are, of course, Ticketmaster on wheels and the gas-powered ones are also Bitcoin on wheels (because of the amount of carbon dioxide they fart out)

An observation: it seems like a lot of residents on the North Side don't like giving CPD the power to declare unilateral snap curfews on adults who drive cars.

Pretty disturbing show of force by police. Chilling, actually.

Reposting this now for no specific reason

I'm loving this trend of preventing physical infrastructure for shitty systems from being built. It's the same logic as opposing cop cities, new prisons/jails, and oil/natural gas pipelines!

sorry they didn't firebomb a walmart but they're teaching people English, volunteering with habeas dockets, doing laundry for people who can't go to the laundromat bc of ICE, driving people to see relatives in the concentration camps, knitting baby blankets. this stuff matters. you can do it, too.