CassieWasRight

Evil

neoliberalism

Is Chi Ossé running yet?

Illinois and Indiana should join together for a single permanent timezone and the rest of the states can follow if they want

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

Hey, are you mad about rising authoritarianism? Have you considered voting for the guy who famously covered up police murder?

There is a spectre haunting the US. That spectre is avocado toast

trains busses paratransit

You cannot mutual aid state capacity

We need strong public systems and we need caring, responsive communities and also having strong public systems gives the people in our communities the capacity to show up for one another.

map of chicago population by race, showing extreme segregation with Black and Latino people largely in clusters on the South and West Sides and White people clustered along the central-northern lakefront, with only a few diverse/mixed-race areas in between

Closeup of neighborhoods on the West and Southwest side showing extremely stark racial clusters, some continuing for miles, of Black vs Latino vs Asian vs White vs small mixed-race housing areas

Most ppl know that Chicago (home of modern urban segregation) is a very segregated place but I don't think most outside Chicago (+many Chicagoans!) understand how the *distances* involved and *depth* of segregation mean most white ppl have ZERO visibility into many Black and Latine neighborhoods

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It's literally just racism

Pritzker was like "I can't get the state police to listen to me and not collaborate with fascists, so I guess I'd better join the fascists!"

Capitol Fax is well respected for Illinois State politics news

I'm a vegetarian but I go feral for a yogurt marinade

Transition goals, honestly

Abolish the police

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

There's a bunch of languages where eggplants are called "purples"

I don't think it's possible to be the mayor of Chicago and not have been thinking about this from day one. Especially a Black mayor.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

It wasn't a lasting shift (and COVID was also a big part of it) but Trump DID lose to Biden pretty dramatically following the 2020 protests

The combination of Biden's inaction and anti-Black backlash media narratives is how we got from there to Trump 2

That study being the one guy biking around and seeing how close cars got to him when he was out wasn't wearing a helmet?

(Note: this is a joke and I agree with you)

I think it's spelled "parish"

Every time a video of federal agents doing something in Chicagoland comes into my feed, imagine me pointing and yelling "Mythic violence!"

The Greta Thurnberg joke hits differently this week when she is currently locked in an Israeli prison for trying to bring an aid shipment to Gaza

I'm people

A close-up picture of Barack Obama's eyes. He has an uncaring expression. The photo is washed with a red filter.

Pokéfan: Can you guess what strategy Wolfe Glick used to win the tournament?
Youngster Joey: Was it using a balance team with common Pokémon but strange sets?
Pokéfan: No
Younger Joey:

same bat

But history didn’t stop in 1992 and then start again in 2016

like its fucking nuts that we don’t understand the “War on Terror” — the political event — as one that transformed American society and the presidency and how the GOP grabbed power, attacked civil liberties and … literally created the DHS