This thread is so good. A lot of people engaged in a lot of different tactics is key. My body is broken. I can't protest or march like I used to. I can't take the same risks I did before LongCovid. But I have found other ways to plug in. Chicago keeps showing up, and I love that for us.

I agree but I'm not the fucking governor. What is your plan to stop this?

I feel like Im taking Cassandra pills ffs The way folks dismiss sex workers, disabled, bipoc, trans, & queer folks is going to be the literal end of us. We are not psychic, we are pointing out the obvious outcomes of what's happening bc we feel it hit first.

This is the best part of the interwebs.

My old fridge died a slow and very painful death. My new fridge arrived today, and it is counter depth instead of standard. This means I can reach the back of the fridge, even the top shelf. Short person achievement unlocked. This small thing makes me so fucking happy.

I have never trusted the FBI a day in my life. Much less anything called "Homeland Security."

Maybe sometimes don't write the book.

The overlap between disabled folks and cat folks seems to be a circle.

"These symptoms are impacting my ability to do my job in these ways" is something I learned to say when I got Long COVID. In fact, I just said "This pain and numbness is waking me up during the night, impacting my sleep and my ability to work the next day. It's also making typing difficult."

People really don't believe that I, as a queer person, have empathy for those people going through a horrible genocide regardless of their views on my sexuality. In fact, I am 💯 convinced that people living in tents who have been bombed for almost two years do not give two fucks about who I fuck.

I got referred to as differently abled today and Satan, get behind me, because I am not in the mood to be so belittled. I am disabled. Period. This is not hard.

Okay, so glad the Bears won, but can I tell you that I woke up today to find out both of my QBs were out and all that was left to pick up was Dak.

An Etsy witch might be the only thing that can savage my week in fantasy football. But since I lack one and am broke, I'm just lighting my Dessa votive candle.

Jimmy Kimmel is a terrible misogynist surrounded by other terrible misogynist. Annoying, but I don't watch him. Charlie Kirk wanted me and my kids dead. These are not the same.

I believe that a lot of this could be solved if white people would just listen to Black and brown people. Find some community with Black and brown people. And then shut up and listen to them. A lot of you do not have any actual Black and brown friends/comrades/etc and it's painfully obvious.

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

Every time Bill Simmons comes up I feel a need to remind people that his wife didn't want to have another baby and he did so he fucked with her birth control. And then bragged about it.

Right, because it's white men like Will who are being rounded up right now and not Palestinians and other Black and Brown people. It's the year of the Undying King 2025 for fucks sake are you serious with this.

As someone who had LEOs show up to events I organized and whose license plate was once "tagged" by a state police I can say that it is not as fun as Will seems to think. White men fetishize this stuff all of the time. But they won't be there to pay your rent or buy food when you lose your job.

I know they don't particularly care but there is no way on this green earth that I will ever vote for, or give money to, a single Democrat that votes to honor Charlie Kirk. Not a fucking one.

One of the reasons we are in this mess is this useless fuck twiddled his thumbs as head of the Judiciary Committee and did nothing for four years.

Charlie Kirk did not want to live in a nation with me, a queer disabled woman who believes Palestine should be free and immigrants should be welcome. Nor did he want to live with Black people. Or professors who taught at the schools he visited. Or anyone else different from him. Shame on Ezra.

The only people who get to talk about a disabled person's diagnosis is the disabled person. End stop. If you work in HR and someone has privately mentioned their diagnosis to you, you sure as fuck do not get to reveal that as you plan your Digital Inclusion Week events for absolute fuck sake.

It breaks my heart because so many disabled creators and artists are having this happen.

It breaks my heart what has happened to the college I graduated from. New College wasn't perfect when I was there, but it was a place where people could be different and weird and fit in.

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This is an amazing take to have not days after people lost their jobs for posting Charlie Kirk's actual fucking words. And you think it's a good idea to be on a list right now. Besides, this is literally Indivisible just trying to grow their email list. That's it!

This. It's about the exercise of state power and any excuse to use it would and will do.

Please do not RSVP to a protest.

Arrests in North Chicago + Waukegan yesterday we are only just now learning about, Christ. Still no sense of numbers from last few days. May never know the true total anyway. This is an early sign of activity ramping up in Lake County as predicted. Please make a plan with your neighbors *now.*

Just when you're like "It's been a long time since someone has given me COVID I'm sure I've seen the worst that Long COVID can do to me" you get diagnosed with yet another autoimmune disorder that will be with you for the rest of your life. Wear a mask. Long COVID is forever.

This crackdown was going to happen before the next federal election cycle. If it hadn't been because of Kirk's death, they would have found (or invented) another excuse.

The reaction to Nazis doing Nazi things and then dying isn't about the lefts ability to be empathic. We aren't the ones who abandoned immigrants and trans people. We are the ones passing our last 20 around. We are deeply committed to our community. We are, however, under constant attack. /Ramble

Bigots are not interesting. I wonder what part of his bigotry she agreed with. Kirk was not interested in bridging anything, he wanted me and my kiddos dead. His engagement was an attempt to entice young men into a sanitized version of white supremacy. White women, we need to do better than Sally.

I was in the West Loop last night and there were 6 cops just standing around with their dicks in their hands on every corner along Halsted. @mayorofchicago.bsky.social thinks the schools need loans to fund them but a militarized presence of cops is a budget priority. Just. Like. Lightfoot.

America has always been a fractured country. Political violence is literally built into our DNA. This country was founded on genocide and slavery. The people doing the genocide and slavery are a direct line to Charlie Kirk. People saying ding dong the bitch is dead is literally not the problem.

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This.

Who needs the national guard in @mayorofchicago.bsky.social city when the Chicago police will stop you and ask for papers. This is fascism.

Some of y'all have yelled at people for saying they won't vote for this guy—a man who wants to honor CHARLIE FUCKING KIRK BY CONTINUING "HIS WORK." Never talk to me about this man again.

Okay, aside from the fact that peaceful protests tend not to stop fascists, I hate the No Kings messaging. Trump, despite the gold oval office, is not setting up to be a King. If he dies tomorrow, the fascist project will continue. There is so much money behind it.

Obama was in fact the deporter in chief. Trump could not do what he is doing if it was not for the infrastructure that Obama and Biden built. You all need to sit with this and ask yourself where you were while Biden was supporting the same shitty immigration policies.

upon trying to ask DFSS what their intentions and actions were to be at the park this morning Selena Ruíz, assistant director of homeless services and outreach for DFSS, immediately directed us to the PIO public insolation officer, she directed us to FOIA DFSS workers were hostile and violent

When your "progressive" mayor uses the power of his office to attack people, steal their stuff, and make them even more unsafe. @mayorofchicago.bsky.social is doing the work of fascists and it's disgusting.

We need to have a conversation about "progressive" aldermen because at the end of the day, Carlos comes from a certain political tree and that fruit is all bad.

trump doesn't have to take over Chicago when the city is carrying out his agenda for him. the things that are wrong for him to do are wrong for us to do

Fascists hate disabled people.

Cabin in the Woods. I watch it like, twice a month.

You may be disabled if you absent- mindedly use the wires from your TENS device to entertain your cat.