Raven Geary

The rally is small - only a few dozen people. One speaker, going by Bennett, offers their solidarity to Kansans impacted by the new law. They also offer an invitation:

"To my trans siblings in Kansas and beyond, if you decide to leave, Chicago is a great city," they say.

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza:

A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

Sunlit Rook standing on the ground with a seed in its beak.

Bird Of The Day - (Side View) - Rook on the ground finding a seed in the sunlight. Galway, Ireland #SideView #PerfectLighting #Rook #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Wildlife #Ireland #Nature #EastCoastKin #Photography #PhotoArt

Common or Eurasian coot (Fulica atra) swimming on the surface of the water.

I don't usually bother much with coots, as they are just so common and plentiful. So much so that I didn't realise they have scary red eyes.

#birds #photography

Today in weird ways trauma sneaks into your daily life: every once in a while, when out downtown or elsewhere, I get a whiff of *something* in the air that smells like tear gas. Immediate tachycardia

No idea what the odor actually is but will prob be triggered by anything metallic forever now 🏆

Seriously considering buying some kind of lockbox for my phone

‘it would have gone down different if i saw him pulling that shit’ oh yeah?? i’ll pay you fifty dollars if you call your creepiest friend a creep to his face, without pretending to be joking. hell if your honest reaction to that was ‘but i don’t have a single creepy friend’ i’ll make it a cool hundo

men love to be like ‘if i saw some guy doing that shit to my girl i’d kill him.’ no you wouldn’t lol. you can’t even politely ask your buddy to stop calling women fat bitches or whatever

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Profile of a large bird with slate-grey plumage and light yellow beak standing on a large rock in a body of water surrounded by tan-coloured cattails.

One chill heron. From a recent wintry walk around our local wetland. #GreatBlueHeron #BirdsOfBC #HopeBC 🪶

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

For @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s Welcome to Hellworld once again, I wrote another short essay on Minneapolis.

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Happening now: anti-war protestors are gathereing in Chicago's Congress Plaza for a demonstration against ongoing U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Tonight's rally follows a similar protest in Chicago on Saturday; other anti-war actions are being planned across the city over the week.

Pete Hegseth eats a bowl of nails for breakfast every day

It is extremely important that you lash out in despair and rage at a total stranger online today. It will fix everything

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Alex Pretti would've been 38 years old today.

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What comes after this long winter? We have to continue to envision it, agitate for it, and plant the seeds for it so that one day we see its harvest.

What if you had a shamrock shake

"How can I be a good ancestor?" is a spectacular question to ask yourself, especially when times are tough. I will likely never see the end of this hellscape, but someone else might.

Relevance: As with a CCPSA meeting held last month, the focus tonight is on CPD interactions w/ ICE and Border Patrol agents that may violate the Chicago Welcoming City ordinance.

CCPSA said it invited Snelling to participate in tonight's meeting to discuss those concerns.

More here:

Happening now in Chicago: community members are filing in to Gurdon Hubbard High School on the city's southwest side for a meeting of the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a police oversight board.

Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling is not in attendance.

Civil rights stories removed from Border Patrol’s website during Black History Month Historical accounts of women, Black men, and the agency’s deployment against segregationists in the sixties have disappeared from the official Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page.

Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

May today bring us all the joy embodied by this man on the Metra eating Chinese takeout at 8:30am

@lcrw.bsky.social ahead of everyone by years as usual

Today in blasts from the past—a cop with political ambitions I wrote about as a newbie journalist five years ago (because she was spearheading local "groomer" panic over teachers and librarians) is now in a position to harass even more people:

This is it exactly, a fallen Shrek

The tragedy of John Fetterman is that he used to dress like a slob but have an encouraging spirt, making him an Oaf of Rugged Individuality, one of America’s great oaf groups. But now he dresses like a slob and whines all the time, making him an Oaf of Misery

Screengrabbing gram post jchavezmpls charred damaged wood fence

Wood slat fence with photos of victims of police killings

The two Black men's faces now burned off the fence belong to Amir Locke and Isak Aden