fixed it: this 420 no one should be in prison.

in full compliance with 25 percent of the order lmao

Again, singing "YEEESSSSSSSSSS!"

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

Find something in your life that makes you as happy as Gavin throwing out homeless peoples stuff

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State's Attorney's Refusal To Drop Charges Against Nonviolent ICE Protesters A 'Waste' Of Resources

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

break them

If you love voting rights here's one for you. HB5414 Proponent The RACE Act restores voting rights to individuals in prison and expanding civics education within our correctional system More here: www.commoncause.org/illinois/wor...

This is correct.

If you’re working on or building a non-carceral community crisis response team and are looking for thought partnership or support with strategy, reach out to our free Transformative Justice Help Desk, staffed by IC Fellow Shira Hassan:

In Illinois you have the right to vote as a formerly incarcerated person. Even if you are still serving a sentence you can vote if 1) a US citizen 2) not currently incarcerated and 3) registered. YOUR VOTE MATTERS Check out toolkit from IL EndPP www.endpermanentpunishments.org/gotv

If you live in Chicago and you want to check your voter registration and see a copy of your sample ballot, the Board of Elections has you covered.

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

"that's illegal" Jesus Christ.

In the aftermath of the Willie Horton ad, that man left the campaign trail to personally oversee the execution of Rickey Ray Rector, a man with severe intellectual disabilities, to prove that he was “tough on crime”

Of course it's the people of color again having to say things... the white Democrats in that room are sitting on their hands.

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

It saddens me that people of color especially women of color have to immediately offer disclaimers that they aren't self-aggrandizing or potentially fraudulent whenever they get attention for their good deeds. I know why folks feel compelled to do this but it's unfair. You're great. No caveats.

Chicago's organizing community is mourning the untimely passing of Michael Caga-anan Aguhar following a medical emergency last week. His partner, Irina, and their toddler, Zoya, are going to need so much help and support to get through this. Please join me in donating if you can.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Bragging about the respectable path that delivered us to this moment.

The democrats won’t deliver anything but reform of ICE, not its abolition, not with Chuck in charge. They just want the killing force to kill properly & with regulations. The democrats love the police state. Whole party disposal service.

Tried and true authoritarian playbook: 1) Label a “problematic” person or group a gang member/terrorist/criminal 2) Gov’t violates rights 3) Public largely looks the other way because of label 4) Damage is already done if later the courts/media expose the truth www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

I keep seeing 'what can they do? they don't have the votes.' The answer is NOT THIS. It's actually better to NOTHING than to push this list of pathetic "reforms." It's better to do NOTHING than this.

ICE are just cops with different badges. We don’t need either

We have more than enough evidence that police reform (ie, more training, body worn cameras, better policies) does NOT work. It only makes them better resourced and better at justifying violence and killing. Same applies to ICE, CBP and DHS. Abolition is the answer.

Screams into void

I don't post about it much (vs how often I think about it) but the harm Rahm Emanuel caused Chicago as mayor is something people trying to do good work here -or simply exist- are CONSTANTLY contending with. Like when he closed half the mental health clinics. [2018 story] beltmag.com/fixing-chica...

"the police have long functioned as an army against dissident social movements. The police are the first line of defense against strikes and left-wing protests, while often serving as a cordon to protect Klansman, Nazis, and the alt-right."

We tried to explain that criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

"the slave catchers are different from the immigrant snatchers" ahh rhetoric

I think the history of police reform provides a very clear cut counter example

Cop “unions” are a repulsive stain on the American labor movement, and it’s truly an embarrassment that so few labor leaders are willing to admit that. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

I'm in my mid-50s. I started organizing against the violence of policing when I was a teenager. I've heard ALL of the so-called "reform" proposals. They are the SAME ONES that liberals are offering in 2026. Cops have never killed more people in my lifetime. Gotta do something different.

The calls for local police to protect people from ICE really feel like a rejection of the Movement for Black Lives. The demand was to defund and it still applies.

A soft, small, hopeful thing.

If Vallas were Mayor, the Tribune Editorial board would be petitioning that he be declared a saint on this alone. Instead they continue their copaganda crusades against Brandon.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Written by Biden, signed by Bill Clinton, with Hilary campaigning for it across the country, warning about (black) children turning into "super predators" that world require extreme measures to hold in prison. And they never stepped away from it for a second. They love sending people to prison.

This month I have to: - surprise 12 formerly incarcerated mamas at the local safehouse with $500 each! - sponsor the annual Christmas musical at the prison for the women housed there - donate our final donation of menstrual products to the parish prison To help us: tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

A genuinely horrible idea.