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This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

And, relatedly, if you’re in a position of power, you will be permitted to do things that are objectively violent while everyone falls all over themselves to blame the victims and insist it was justified.

The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power.

If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.

COINTELPRO NEVER ENDED

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Literally three blocks from the house where my brother—my only sibling—died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in July 2021.

Thank you to CM Chavez and all who are dedicated to expanding his program.

Harm reduction saves lives.

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

Greetings from reporting on my first labor protest in Africa! The SACCAWU domestic union, South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) & others are protesting labor conditions at Cosatwu house, Section 129 & the closure of my neighborhood Pick N Pay supermarke

Not just any environmental lawsuit, but a lawsuit in part by a local Indigenous nation, the Miccosukee Tribe, about their sovereignty over the land.

This was a (very small) step toward Land Back, which is in fact sexy as hell.

Working as designed. The grid has more or less been made into an engineering and financial system designed by salesmen to ensure they could use us to subsidize the costs of factories and businesses. Always one-way, never the other.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

Community will save us.

Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: 'We Have To Be Human' Gas station employee Narendra Byrapuneni helped protesters who sought refuge in his Brighton Park store Saturday after they were hit with tear gas by federal agents near the site of fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.

Brighton Park Gas Station Worker Cheered After Giving Out Supplies To Protesters Tear-Gassed By Feds: ‘We Have To Be Human’

#BlockClubChicago

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Eugéne Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée Paris, France c. 1924/25

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

John Constable
Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree
c. 1821. Oil on paper. 30,6 x 24,8 cm

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment Read more here.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying his actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.

Illustration of a new Irish Tree Alphabet. Twenty-six trees represent each letter of the English alphabet. At the bottom of the image are lines representing the Ogham alphabet, horizontal and vertical lines, looking like simple trees. The Irish Tree Alphabet draws trees from existing native as well as non-natives that are now calling Ireland home due to the changing climate. The trees are drawn in ink with colored water pencil filling in the leaves and fruit. The work is rooted in the medieval Ogham alphabet which was used to write the early Irish language. The characters or letters were called feda "trees", or nin "forking branches" due to their shape. Each letter of the Latin alphabet is given a corresponding tree: A = Ailm (Scots Pine), B = Beith (Birch), B = Coll (Hazel), etc. The tree drawings were turned into a font called Irish Trees. Irish Tree Alphabet by Katie Holten was made for Visual Carlow in 2020. The font is available to download, so everyone can write with Irish Trees.

Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.​ The Irish language is a joy.

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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

A little brown Skink in the pea gravel, barely visible he's so flat and small the gravel looks huge, terracotta pot in background

Here's the Skink peeking out from beneath some dead leaves in the gravel

The Skink Looking at the camera on some gravel, alongside a weathered cedar post

Climbing on the post now we see how long the Skink is, he's doing a little pull up to get over the edge with his tiny arms. Defocused sun dappled brick in background

Your timeline has been blessed by the Saturday Morning Baby Skink 🥹

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information:

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Under the most conservative estimates, according to NPR, Israel has killed a Palestinian every fifteen minutes this year.

EVERY. FIFTEEN. MINUTES.

Traffic stop in Benton leads to ICE detention, deportation risk What began as a routine traffic stop in Benton ended with a man jailed, detained by immigration authorities for a month, and now living under the threat of deportation —

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days.

He has now been stripped of his immigration status.