BREAKING: The Chicago City Council failed Wednesday to override Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto of a measure designed to reverse a 2023 City Council vote to phase out the tipped minimum wage, keeping one of Johnson’s major legislative accomplishments intact. @wttw.bsky.social

Gen X Democrats are some of the stiffest, least convincing, least sympathetic politicians in American history. and entire generation that speaks in focus group pablum and convinces no one not already convinced.

Democratic president suppressing the Gaza protests + weekly protests for years against Trump that haven’t amounted to anything have left millions of young people very cynical! And who can blame them?

hello people who live in the greater Chicago area! I'll be in conversation with Nashwa Bawab on the media's complicity in the Gaza genocide next Friday April 24 at 6:30pm. It's at Haymarket House. Register, come by, join us if you can. Thank you!

Women are overrepresented in low-paid work, care work, and unpaid labor. Their time, their bodies, and their emotional energy are resources for capital. Feminism cannot succeed without confronting the economic system that structures these inequalities.

A very important personal message for you all today: No, @vimiller.bsky.social and I are NOT the same person. And the fact that y'all keep confusing us says something about Society™️ in case you need more clarification: chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/2026...

Four projects to build the final 4% of the CrossTowner vision to create a six-line, 140+ station regional rail network that would just so happen to allow Metra to run all-day express service on eight of their 11 lines. #BuildTheTunnel is for all of northeastern Illinois. BuildTheTunnelChicago.org

“Significant increases in residential density without corresponding infrastructure investment could place substantial strain on these systems.” Hear me out, what if there were a way to make Metra faster and more frequent basically everywhere within a decade? www.dailyherald.com/20260414/ill...

this is about loloverruled, someone basically *everyone* dropped *instantly* when the allegations came out. did hasan keep hanging out with him? is there any evidence he continued to associate with him afterwards? come on

Can I just say how tired I am of sexual abuse being weaponized against people like this. I get it, people's trauma is just a tool for your propagandistic needs. It's ugly. I don't wanna watch this fucking thing

Great news.

Fine I’ll post it again

In Minnesota if you make under a certain amount, you get free health care. They even alert citizens to this on the yearly tax forms & assist connecting ppl to the service. That includes trans care, which we just restarted despite Trump threats. I haven't paid for any health service since moving here

yesterday in NYC, jewish voice for peace organized a protest against arms sale to israel. 90 people got detained after a traffic sit in held right in front of chuck schumer's office. as usual, chelsea manning has the coolest perp walk photos. cop's name is "anger" lmfao.

I won't comment on American hardcore scene but every union will have a person you don't like. If you vote against forming a union because of an old white man then you're siding with the oppressors.

We've worked with Igor on two bike giveaways, and we're so excited to see him grow to a second location!

The funny (not actually funny) thing is that had Orban won, you know NYT would have pointed to that and gone, "See? Right-wing populism is as strong as ever! If Democrats want to win, they need to move to the right!" It's always "heads, I win; tails, you lose" with these clowns.

Hard to find a policy proposal that more succinctly illustrates how "pro-farmer" policy interests are first and foremost anti-farmworker

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Gender affirming care and trans healthcare are not the same so we shouldn’t use them interchangeably. Cis people access gender affirming care, and trans people have health needs besides gender affirming options.

The end point of small-holder populism is unlimited handouts to farmers, small business owners, and homeowners while you continue to prosecute big companies for putting fewer chips in the bag.

An agreement that specifies that you can fly a pride flag at stonewall as long as it's not the one that includes trans people being seen as a huge victory feels very on the nose for this year

Israel doesn't control the US. Israel is a military base that the US & its allies can use to project its power into west Asia and secure greater profits for their corporations. Israel is influential in our politics because Israel is profitable for the American bourgeoisie.

if you wanna see wild deep state shit, just watch and try to wrap your head around the list of democrats who vote this month to let tulsi gabbard and kash patel use wiretaps without a warrant

BIG news for Illinois renters! House Bill 3564, led by myself and Rep. Syed, has passed through the House and Senate! If signed into law by Governor Pritzker, HB3564 establishes a $50 cap for rental application fees, bans 11 types of junk fees, caps move-in fees at 20% of rent, and more.

We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.

yeah, there’s this little two-step dance some more moderate folks on here seem to do for left electeds where they identify some voices online who are critical of the politician and then say “ah well, looks like the left kicked them out” and I would like to say that that kinda soap opera stuff stinks

Hat tip to @assignedmedia.org for putting this particular story on my radar. There's nothing new about Do No Harm (which vociferously opposes gender care) going after diversity in the medical field, but it underscores how deeply intertwined these efforts are. apnews.com/article/nati...

When are we allowed to start calling people “Nintendo Adults”?

THESE BANS ARE GOING INTO EFFECT IN PLACES LIKE FUCKING OREGON WHERE THE CHURCH RUNS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE ENTIRE HOSPITAL SYSTEM!!!! NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT!!!! IT'S ALL JUST BASED POPE MEMES!!!! I'M LOSING MY FUCKING MIND MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

this is not a real problem

And before anyone argues that the Dems didn't adopt Trump 2020 rhetoric and policy on immigration during the campaign (to use the same example Hasan pointed to), I'd like to remind you that this is what the Harris campaign was actually running on. This is one of her actual ads:

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

Avoiding this kind of thinking, which is what guys like Walsh are trying to push right now, basically.

What Hasan argues in the clip is that it's important that in the process of defeating the Republicans, Democrats do not become the Republicans. I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this concept.

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analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

@govpritzker.illinois.gov @kwameraoul.bsky.social WYA.

NEWS: Trans kids in Minnesota can access their gender-affirming care again. www.advocate.com/health/trans...

good lord that was quick very good though

The fact that naval warfare exists will not diminish my love of the ocean. Nor will the words "space force" diminish my love for the stars. I have fought capitalism here on earth, and I will fight it on the moon if I have to, but by god I will not stop reaching for the stars.

Oh God damnit can we get jobs for actual people? Actual housing? Can we not invent the worst form of Urban renewal?

"Western civilization" is a white supremacist fiction, and saying that white people's culture is inherently superior to others is just a plausibly deniable way to say that white *people* are superior to others.

Western therapy culture doesn’t want you to know about the healing power of revolutionary optimism.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

reskeet this if you’re a trans woman who has never been on 4chan or kiwifarms. Just trying to see something

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.