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"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."

-Rebecca Solnit

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Newsstands stocked with naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, are now up and offering the medication to free to anyone in Uptown and Lakeview.
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Haymarket Presents pilsen community books Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby September 11th at 6:30 pm CT Haymarket House 800 W. Buena

Chicago!

Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby

Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual)
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

He already does a great imitation of Trump (attacking trans people and the homeless)

Good vibes are free, and if you have any on hand, it's your moral obligation to share. Besides, the factory-farmed vibes sold retail are known carcinogens.

40-Year-Old David Wojnarowicz Mural Resurfaces, Only to Be Hidden Again The stewards of the artist’s legacy hope that a work miraculously discovered in Louisville, Kentucky, now covered up by the building’s developer, can see the light of day once more.

I hope the folks involved here can rescue this David Wojnarowicz mural. hyperallergic.com/1034063/a-40...

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’

You don’t ‘run the gambit.’

gamut = entire range or series

gauntlet = severe trial

Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Don't set your cheese free. It will never come back, no matter how much you once loved each other.

A white handkerchief with lace trim features embroidered flowers and a quote: “We have to create. It’s the only thing louder than destruction. – Andrea Gibson.” The handkerchief sits on a surface with a green and orange floral design. @tinypricksproject

White text on black square: “For Andrea. I am watching nearly every queer and trans person I know share about how you shaped their lives, how you gave voice to their pain and pride and discovery and angst. I think as queers we have so many beautiful languages that we share with each other - and for many of us, there were periods when those languages were known only to us. Secret survival maps where we wondered whether we would find our way through and other people giving voice to that pain and fear increased the chances that we would. You, Andrea, are a deep connective tissue of queer love and you live within us. May we honor your singular beauty every day. I know I will try.”

Thank you, Andrea. ♥️🫂

Gratitude to Debt Collective members and allies (especially ADAPT) who worked so hard to stop this lethal bill.

I wish I could say we'll live to fight another day, but the truth is not everyone will survive this monstrosity. We need to keep organizing to ensure as many folks as possible make it.

A poster with DIVINE reads no kings only queens

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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the […]

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
theonion.com/protest...

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OPINION: "Opposition to their vision and to the presence of two, unapologetic lesbians in a Mississippi small town, made a good story for folks up north," Julie R. Enszer writes.

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a man in a leather jacket is standing next to another man in a hat and talking to him . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing next to another man in a hat and talking to him .

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Music Box Theatre Adding A Third Screen To Historic Lakeview Cinema A new 115-seat auditorium, funded in part by a $1.2 million city grant, will give the historic Lakeview theater more space to host independent films, local events and longer runs.

One of Chicago's favorite movie palaces is expanding. 🍿
blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/29/m...

What is the Best Independent Bookstore for 2025? Voting for the Best Independent Bookstore is open! Cast your vote daily to help pick the 2025 10Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Independent Bookstore.

it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)

10best.usatoday.com/awards/best-...

Illinois Lawmakers Ban Police From Ticketing and Fining Students for Minor Infractions in School The legislation comes after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that even though state law bans schools from fining students directly, districts skirt the law by calling on police to i...

NEW: Illinois lawmakers ban schools from using police to ticket and fine students for minor misbehavior. This does not happen without the amazing reporting from @jodiscohen.bsky.social and @jsmithrichards.bsky.social of @propublica.org and @chicagotribune.com.

www.propublica.org/article/illi...

Give me the AI plug in that does just one thing-- deletes and blocks all the other AI plug ins.

Sweet dreams, everyone! Let's keep the chitchat to a minimum and have enemies of the people dead or in prison overnight, if you please.

The kerning on the pope's tomb is a travesty The internet is up in arms about Pope Francis's tomb, and it's all because of lettering.

Just reading up on the calamitous Pope Francis kerning scandal.

Snap curfew proposal put on hold after strong objections raised at marathon Council hearing Downtown Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) blinked after his powerful co-sponsors — Budget Chair Jason Ervin (28th) and Finance Chair Pat Dowell (3rd) — asked for a little more time to iron out the legal kinks...

A sharply divided City Council committee decided Wednesday to hold off before handing the Chicago Police Department a new tool against teen takeovers: the power to declare three-hour long “snap curfews” to disperse groups of 20 or more. www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...

Meet us tomorrow at 10:45 in Union Park at the NW corner of W Washington Blvd and W Randolph St! Look for one of our two banners! Workers of the world unite!

“There is no moment in America when I do not feel like I am fighting. When I do not feel like I'm pushing back against a machine that asks me to prove that I belong here.”

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us

#unabooksboardthoughts
#hanifabdurraqib

Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

How to catch the shooting stars of spring's first meteor shower, the Lyrids Spring's first meteor shower is reaching its peak. The Lyrids have surprised skygazers in the past with as many as 100 meteors per hour, but it’s not predicted to be as active this time around.

When the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak, it will be spring’s first chance to see shooting stars.

The Lyrids have surprised skygazers in the past with as many as 100 meteors per hour, but it’s not predicted to be as active this time around.

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take