a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.

A perfect counterexample has been Mamdani. Running not in Maine but the biggest media market under the most glaring floodlights and not only has he survived, but absolutely crushed it. Yet many of these same people have to be dragging kicking screaming to support him. Maybe their judgment is sus.

they'd rather lose with whitey than win with us, and it could not be more clear

Gonna keep posting this link until the government opens up. If you don’t need to get food from a food bank, please consider donating food to a food bank. We gotta help each other if we are gonna survive. Please share this. foodfinder.us

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House. This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

Whenever a dude defends a sexual assailant I ask why they CHOSE that hill to defend. No one defends something like that without cause. I now assume anyone defending sexual assailants has done something themselves that they know wasn't consensual. I don't have time trying to excuse their behavior.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Colors of Autumn, Colors of the Rainbow. October at Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park, Chicago

Tapping the sign...

Most tattooers I know will cover up Nazi tattoos for free. If it was a mistake, if he wanted the tattoo gone, he would’ve taken care of it.

they’re not used to the “get another one!” or “get a next one!” response — they’re used to the world massaging their gaps for them, and by gaps, i mean racism, misogyny, xenophobia, but right now, it’s mainly white men & some white women in their corners, while we all look at them like they’re nuts.

white men are starting to see, hear, and feel how disposable they are and have always been to all of us, despite generations of them telling us to varying degrees how disposable we all are. and they are NOT handling it well.

We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV. The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children. We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.

WE WILL NOT. not when asbestos and lead are being tossed into the air from the grotesque WH demolition as we prepare for a holiday season with no benefits for children and families. NO.

I don't want your brother in the senate either... see how that works????

i see and know the actual wrath of christianity, so the hypothetical wrath can't scare me. a potential future hell cannot scare me when your doctrine creates literal hell here on earth in the present.

Republicans on the Supreme Court are poised to gut the law that finally ended Jim Crow, and Southern Republicans are eager to gerrymander Black voters out of representation like it’s 1925 again

Ahhhhh ok. Yeah we WERE about to get Fetterman'd/Sinema'd/Manchin'd again. Money'd class just got lazy on this one and/or underestimated how desperate mofos were for someone not in the establishment that he popped off too early in the process and got found out...

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.

This is an opportunity to think more expansively and creatively about the institutions that you already regularly interact with. How can you leverage your connections to support others?

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.

This exactly how Black folks feel about the Confederate flag

Nazis are not an abstract concept. They're not a myth, they're not from an alternative timeline. Acting like it's not really a big deal for someone to show ANY level of support about ANYTHING they did is unacceptable. They tried to MURDER MY GRANDPARENTS and they DID murder MILLIONS of my people.

If some group had tried to murder YOUR grandparents, would you be cool with someone having a tattoo of their logo? Would you accept that it was a "youthful mistake" or that they just didn't understand it? Would you let it slide bc you don't want to "alienate" people who don't think it's a big deal?

The Nazis murdered dozens of MY ancestors. Whole branches of the family wiped out forever. Cousins and aunts and uncles of MINE. They murdered over 90% of all the Jews in Poland in 6 years. They wanted it to be 100%. They tried to MURDER MY GRANDPARENTS.

Do you understand? They marched into the town where MY GRANDPARENTS lived and started rounding up all the Jews who lived there, to MURDER them. This wasn't ancient history, it wasn't even 100 years ago. They came after MY GRANDPARENTS.

There's a lot of abstract talk about nazis right now and I just want to bring it back to concrete reality for a second: Those motherfuckers tried to murder MY GRANDPARENTS.

rice talking about orzo:

orzo. girl, you wanna be rice soooooo bad.

and we've watched enough house hunters to know that no one does renovations like that if they are leaving

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The IG page @littlevillagelocal posted a few videos and a photo of what happened in the nhood today. Their caption was so moving! It spoke to ICE attempting to enter doors throughout the nhood but people and businesses resisting and locking their doors. La Villita Se Defiende.

we should have been investing in the bible belt and these truly progressive candidates years ago. worried about some damn bernie bros.

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there’s a hulk comic that explores bruce banner’s abusive childhood, and argues that there was so much repressed rage in him, “the gamma bomb didn’t create the hulk, as much as unleash him.” those weird fuckers weren’t created by donald or tate or the proud boys. they were unleashed. i’m with you.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?" Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

my Jesus look-alike with our "mini sheep"

literally my husband. brass colored feet & all

Sometimes I just really want to validate that finding ways to plug in with local organizing is both really important and also, sometimes, really hard. If you're struggling with this, you're not alone.

There's a verzuz this weekend?!?! #RecessionIndicator

I’m so frustrated with this never calling folks loud and wrong when they are loud and wrong. Like I don’t understand it.

I tried this yesterday and literally was told “well we need to move forward” NO we need to acknowledge the BS hold folks accountable and THEN figure out how to move forward.

1. she is not wrong 2. I know leaders of social justice orgs who were ready to change the name of their orgs to "hide" 3. I got my first funder email helping orgs pivot A YEAR AFTER THE FACT

After Thanksgiving, you take your smoked turkey bones and your roasted duck bones and make stock to use the rest of the year. Freeze it, and it'll last until you need it.

A Chicago alderperson is demanding $100,000 in damages after an ICE agent handcuffed her. blockclubchi.co/4oBUvGF