This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Hey @pfrazee.com why did Sarah Kenzidor get suspended? What did she do to deserve that?

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Did you know that the GOP Congress has worked less than 20 days since July?

Yet we’re still paying their full salary.

youtu.be/Mz6wvKUsP6M?...

6:30 AM, about to go wake my daughter for 4th grade.
But first, I have to stop and cry awhile for what my tax dollars are doing to children.

At least 27 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, with 18 of those killings reported in Gaza City.

I booked a photo session tonight bc I have very few pictures of my family together, but while I’m smiling & holding my children, I know I will hear this mother’s screams.

I don’t want my tax dollars supporting ICE agents dragging parents away from car line. And most moms in the US agree with me.

Dang I never knew there was a 2nd album!

But it’s still a terrorism to say “I support Palestine Action,” right?

Maybe just the idea of “action” is their big bad boogeyman…

Amid displacement, children flee with a cart carrying a sleeping child, a cat, and a dove — a tender image of innocence and peace in tragedy.

I have a lot to say about political violence and it’s strange to me that the people denouncing the murder of one individual can’t muster the sentiment to say it’s wrong to commit genocide.

The greatest violence in this world happens in policy rooms. Why is one life valuable and another not?

Ripping an unhoused person’s tent outta the ground and tossing all their belongings in the trash is political violence you absolute ghoul.

NYT: Right Wing Activist’s Passionate Rhetoric Makes Some Uneasy

"ai isn't going away" ok but neither is death and you don't see me here drinking poison and hitting myself with a hammer

Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha Massacres are currently unfolding in northern Gaza and in eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City, such as Zaytoun, Sabra, and Shuja'iyya, yet there are no journalists on the ground and no media coverage from these areas. 7:31 PM • 8/19/25 • 129K Views

Israel bombed northern Gaza and parts of Gaza City last night, but there are no journalists alive who are on the ground in those areas to cover the bombings or their aftermath.

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

Independent journalist Mario Guevara is currently detained by ICE in this facility.

A Salvadoran national legally authorized to work in the U.S., he is also the only journalist who’s currently incarcerated as a result of doing their job, according to @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

False alarm, everybody! Turns out the kids they’re starving to death weren’t perfectly healthy to begin with so no biggie

it's going to be the slightest pivot from immigrants/green card holders/naturalized citizens to "people whose politics/gender identity/sexuality/skin color we dislike" because we as a society are not going fully to the wall to stop this

On the radio this week I focused on John Whitson's visionary Holy Mountain label as he prepared to merge with the infinite. I wanted to stir up some positive energy for his travels the best way I know—by sharing music. It's a small sample of an amazing catalog. Enjoy www.mixcloud.com/jeff-conklin...

Hell yeah, great record. Thanks, JW!!

🚨NEW: Zohran Mamdani has won the democratic primary for Mayor of New York, beating Andrew Cuomo and stunning the nation with this victory.

REPOST to congratulate Mamdani on making history!

🚨 BREAKING: Premature infant Hasan Barbakh has died of starvation as Gaza runs out of baby formula under Israel’s ongoing blockade.

Despite repeated appeals from Nasser Hospital, no milk has entered the Strip.

look at what democrats have mustered against zohran mamdani vs. what they've mustered against trump. they've decided who their enemy is and it's the democratic majority.

“…officers didn’t have time to plan anything less than lethal…”
is such a concise, illuminating statement.

The poetry of institutional Thanatos.

Had a life-changing great experience at Alpine Valley in eighty... seven, I think???