Mary M

I do not want to get hurt, but by God, if I get hurt, I want it to have an effect.

Letterboard reading "CHINGA LA MIGRA" hands from the neck of a mannequin wearing a vintage wedding gown with a full shirt and lace sleeves. Mannequin stands on a platform in a window framed by drapes, with a light overhead.

Chicago says get the fuck out

#abolishice #chingalamigra #mayorbrandonjohnson #govpritzker #weprotectus #yearningtobreathefree

I'm floored. Ellis essentially just told the govt. to suck it up. Cites incidents of judges getting doxxed.

"It's unfortunately part of the cost of doing business as a public servant," she says.

For Klein these questions are academic & theoretical. For Coates they're his life. Coates said earlier generations died in darkness, they never saw the world they were fighting for. He's used to disagreeing with people in power.
Klein can't seem to imagine disagreeing with people in power.

Maybe this is what I've always loved about cities? The Stuff is always there, right outside the door, I can see it out every window -- which makes me happy, so I stay where I am

I'm glad I disabled autoplay a while ago. This will now live in my head for a long time. I'm glad I'm not immune to it, but harrowed that so many seem to be unfazed by this kind of violence.
If I experienced 5 sec of what this man went thru, fighting off 2 thugs on pavement, I'd be in bed for days.

He's actually been responsive to us several times in recent years -- but I still vote for his strongest contender every time. I want him gone

"The only kind of hope that's worth anything is a hope that denies arithmetic."
GK Chesterton

Yes 100%
I never want to be prescriptive about this, but for me, having kids, and having counted on a different world for them, despair is not an option.

Like a dream 💛

Listen to me. Might does not make right. The wrong side does not have a good point because they will put a gun to anybody's head. That's just more of what makes them wrong.

Any person who has escaped domestic violence can tell you that you can't compromise with someone who likes hurting you.

Stop.

So you might not realize this, but functioning labels really aren't the best way to look at autism, as it defines us in terms of how much we inconvenience neurotypical people. Most people in the autism community these days refer to high/moderate/low support needs instead.

Congratulations 💕💕💕💕

From Stave One of A Christmas Carol: The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl. The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no greatcoat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honor of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town,17 as hard as he could pelt, to play at blind-man’s buff.18

Like a nerd, I remembered this instantly: from A Christmas Carol.
Embrace your inner Bob Cratchit

I only would have found out about it via the woke Catholics in my life at the time (precious few of us) so no worries that it never wound up" your radar!

I feel like the moms at school dropoff and I have all been saying to each other, "tell us what to do and we'll do it" because we're subsumed in day to day maintenance, and so far from levers of power.
This one we could do, easily.

It's very much precedented! So much so that I remember "this is not normal" being encouraged Trump's first time around! Why this again???

This PASSIVE ASS VOICE

Text from talk given by then-Bishop of San Diego McElroy, February 2017: Well now, we must all become disruptors. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families. We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies rather than our brothers and sisters in terrible need. We must disrupt those who train us to see Muslim men, women and children as forces of fear rather than as children of God. We must disrupt those who seek to rob our medical care, especially from the poor. We must disrupt those who would take even food stamps and nutrition assistance from the mouths of children. But we, as people of faith, as disciples of Jesus Christ, as children of Abraham, as followers of the Prophet Muhammad, as people of all faiths and no faith, we cannot merely be disruptors, we also have to be rebuilders. We have to rebuild this nation so that we place at its heart the service to the dignity of the human person and assert what the American flag behinds us asserts is our heritage: Every man, woman and child is equal in this nation and called to be equal.

I'll never forget the talk that he gave after Trump was inaugurated the first time: "we must become disruptors." Bishop of San Diego at the time.

ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2017/02...

💕 thank you for the gift link

Almost 10 years later it's maddeding that so many Dem leaders still don't get it. Speak your heart and you will be respected. Speak like you just read a poll and you're trying to locate the median voter while avoiding a gaffe that gets replayed on Fox and nobody will take you seriously.

Yes my husband has not clocked this and I'm like, this is literally what all those infographics from 2020 carefully laid out for normies

nonbinary cat named Socks call that a beanie theybie

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Thank you for asking this question, I knew I couldn't be the only one

"When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining."

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

This lil chain of posts helped my day end a bit better, thank you

Can't wait 🍹