Chicago's resistance is making international news. Writer properly links and credits @blockclubchi.bsky.social tool. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!

Ruby Ridge & Waco were not easy situations for the feds to resolve. But they were at least *situations* that merited some sort of response. A bunch of non-criming, undocumented people living in an apartment building which was also occupied by many legal residents and citizens was not * a situation*.

Yesterday’s tranche of Epstein documents prove that the only value women have to the politically and financially powerful currently running this country is as children to rape or as lab benches for their racist eugenics projects. I never want anyone to ask me why I’m so angry ever again.

Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.

NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.

Really difficult to overstate the fury one should feel that the GOP and institutions like the New York Times went all in on transphobia as some mortal threat to women and girls while covering up something like this.

There’s “the bar is in hell” and then there’s … wherever we are now

Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

omg and IT HAD TO BE HIM made Kirkus's best romance of 2025 as well??

I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

But [t]he [pedophile] r[ing] emails

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Obviously the Epstein Files are bad and should be treated seriously, but what should also be treated seriously are the the concentration camps, the overt bribery in exchange for pardons, the looting of the public treasury, and the perversion of the justice system to persecute political enemies.

i blogged it defector.com/everybody-st...

Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

how the fuck do I uninstall word so that copilot is gone.

If, like me, you let Microsoft update in the last 24 hours and discovered they've found a new way to shoehorn in a Copilot icon that just... sits there, watching... You can uninstall Word and install the version from Nov 4th or earlier: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin begins her office's annual budget hearing by announcing that the city will no longer buy U.S. Treasury securities to protest the Trump administration's aggressive immigration raids. CONTEXT: Conyears-Ervin is running for Illinois' 7th Congressional District.

My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

is there a bond fund!?

they've just been terrorizing the city and our people because of racism and hatred. When I think about all the people they've disappeared and for nothing.

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microtropes are fun in a way tropes aren't anymore, and maybe you want to hear us talking about why!

"ProPublica examined months of Fox News' coverage and reviewed more than 700 video clips posted to social media by protesters." "Fox spliced footage from 2020 into its coverage this year and claimed it was from 2025." #Oregon #USA #Media #Protest #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Military

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

everyone living around light pollution and clouds right now:

crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."

when you're in k-12 ELA instruction, "the reading wars" is just what we call it when y'all discover *one* super biased article about the topic and pretend it's real.

My last word on the matter

me, still inside: idk, probably it's only on the north side.

this is a very niche chicago thing, but i was skimming more than reading this and thought it said (jagoffs) at the end, which in fact is what you would say about the bears in this situation

last time we tried to see the northern lights in the city, it was a total failure, so i didn't even try this time. WHICH I GUESS WAS THE WRONG DECISION?