Last year, I emailed Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, Sendy Soto, as well as spokespeople for both Soto & Mayor Johnson, six times. I wanted to understand their approach to evicting unhoused Chicagoans from the shelters they build to survive. No response. chicagoreader.com/news/housing...

He just shows who he is over and over again.

Schumer: “I have many jobs as leader.. and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it. “We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that.” Video by Jacob Kornbluh

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

IL Gov. J.B. Pritzker, considered a potential 2028 Dem. pres. contender, recently repeated the racist lie that “Hamas… raped innocent people on October 7,” while appearing on the I’ve Had It podcast, where host Jennifer Welch asked him about Israel’s actions in Gaza. The claim continues to be...

They really do have no respect for nor fear of their base. And they think we’re all stupid.

Love when politicians think we can’t comprehend that opposing BDS is the opposite of opposing the criminalization of free speech.

A major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵

These NIMBY fucks absolutely hate Edgewater. They act like they're trying to preserve "character," but they really just want to be fief lords. They're ungrateful dumbfucks acting against the interests of the neighborhood. They are miserable and pathetic.

Another way of saying that they didn’t care about endangering Venezuela lives.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

NEW: beginning january 1, chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit. it’s the latest in a concerted effort by mayor johnson’s admin to criminalize homelessness on cta trains + buses and in public parks during the coldest months of the year.

It’s grimly hilarious (and a little sad) that the city council moderates and conservatives who preach fiscal responsibility then come up with a taxation scheme destined to fail.

Call me old fashioned but I find it unseemly to have elected officials use their social media platforms in this way.

I’ve seen it like this all over the city. Really blows a hole in the arguments opposing Plow the Sidewalks.

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

I’ve been seeing a lot of politicians and political candidates nibble around the edges on this (unmasking them, greater accountability, threatening prosecution for breaking the law, etc) All of this should rejected immediately. The only way forward is abolition.

Children are the most oppressed members of our society, which gets magnified when accounting for marginalizations related to race, class, gender, and sexuality

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

I swear to God, Rachel Maddow just said “Zohran forced Cuomo to run as an independent” Ma’am. All due respect. Fuck off, forever.

The Democratic establishment has tried to shiv his campaign from the beginning. Hard to blame him for voting against it.

This honestly might make my cry. Incredible work to get this done.

Whomever the white person suggesting this is, I would like to introduce them to a city called Chicago.

This is…..like 7 Willie Horton ads in one video

Not to beat a dead horse here but @govpritzker.illinois.gov urged Illinoisians to resist Trump’s occupation, then when they did, the Governor sent in the ISP to bust people’s skulls and no one in the mainstream media challenges him on it!

The cool thing here is that when Sharkey complains about a lack of meetings, what she means is that she didn’t get to make the decision herself. And I dunno, be better at winning elections? Build a stronger coalition that doesn’t split support between the 2nd and 4th place finishers?

It’s doubly stupid because, according to the DPD’s plan, what they want to save is the Panera and the To-Go Buffalo Wild Wings.

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

At some point, someone in the national media needs to ask him precisely what he means and what’s he’s actually doing to stop them “coming for his people”, which they’ve been doing pretty consistently for some time now with no consequences.

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have: Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things Violently handcuffed an Alderperson It's 3pm

She is 100% correct. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is on the side of protecting Trump’s agenda

You can tell how serious Pritzker is about opposing Trump's goon squads. These guys all work for him and instead of having them arrest the ICE guys who are doing all the stuff he says he hates, or even just telling them not to show up and support them, this is happening

Because he’s a law and order neoliberal cosplaying as a leader of the resistance

In addition to the fascist propaganda on full display, it’s incredibly jarring to see this posted a day after watching One Battle After Another.

HAPPENING NOW — Video obtained by The TRiiBE shows a federal agent with his hands around the neck of a Black man following an apparent car crash on the West Side near California Avenue and Congress Parkway. thetriibe.com/2025/10/vide...

Ho. Lee. (I cannot emphasize this enough) Shit.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

Class solidarity (derogatory)

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

R.I.P. Robert Redford (1936-2025)

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

These men are completely delusional.

Am I allowed to say that this take is actually fucking hilarious?

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

Also if the city did use salt trucks in this way, which is very very different from how they normally do and a tactical escalation in the fight against Trump, there would likely be some sort of press release, announcement, or reporting about it.

If I see the salt truck video one more time I'm going to lose my fucking mind. They're not being used to block the city off from ICE. They're walling off the Taste of Chicago. The city uses salt trucks as temporary infrastructure.

Agreed. I learned a lot from this and it helps provides a solid framework with which to analyze our elected leaders’ actions.