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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Hubs and I played a demo of this at Spiel last week and it was excellent - we've backed the Kickstarter and I am excited about the bonus plushies <3

My husband and I are on our honeymoon at Spiel, if you see a lady with a purple t-shirt that says Village Witch on ease gone and say hi - we absolutely love your work, especially your Pride series!

New illustration commission! I hope you like it

@zarahsultana.bsky.social you have previously made a commitment to trans rights but you are welcoming Mark Serwotka to Your Party - he and his wife are known Anti-Trans activists. Please can you explain how this indicates a commitment to trans rights?

Venom is an example of a villain who evolved into a hero because he was popular with readers and writers decided to rehabilitate him. By contrast, Magneto evolved into a hero because every decade since Reagan it's harder and harder to pretend he's wrong

I can’t find the lie in this.

In the UK, the left rightly complain about two-tier justice
In apartheid Israel, for Palestinians, there has only ever been state sponsored injustice

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You cannot have democracy when all the people you vote for have the same owners.

THIS IS YOUR PARTY. https://www.yourparty.uk/ It’s time to build a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up to build this party, together. Soon, we'll host an inaugural founding conference so you can help shape how your party works, what it stands for, and how we organise to win. Love and solidarity.

THIS IS YOUR PARTY.

www.yourparty.uk

It’s time to build a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.
Sign up to build this party, together.

Soon, we'll host an inaugural founding conference so you can help shape how your party works, what it stands for, and how we organise to win.

A graphic with a floral background features the following bold white text on a black square: “You know what would be really ‘tough on crime’? Living wages, fully funded schools, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and maybe a little empathy for those in need.”

Being “tough on crime” isn’t about harsher punishments. It’s about addressing the conditions that lead to desperation. Want real safety? Fund people. Fund housing. Fund healthcare. Fund hope.

#socialistSunday

While you were so worried Socialism would take your freedoms, Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, sent your jobs overseas, robbed you of health care, dismantled the educational system, and put you in debt, leaving you only your racism, xenophobia, hate, and guns.

A photo of the Sigvald model by Games Workshop. He is a pretty man with two sets of Daemon horns wearing armour, with a big flowy cape billowing behind him, a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left.

A detail photo of the Sigvald model by Games Workshop. This image shows the shield, a lilac colour with a purple-pink sheen, with 8 blue gemstones around the edge and the sigil of Slaanesh in a rose gold tone. He is a pretty man with two sets of Daemon horns wearing armour, with a big flowy cape billowing behind him, a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left.

A side view photo of the Sigvald model by Games Workshop. This photo shows the sword in more detail, which has a purple metallic sheen at the tip blended into a blue metallic sheen towards the hilt.

A full photo of the Sigvald model by Games Workshop. The model is in front of a desert-like backdrop.

Finally finished him, several months after I started. Wedding planning, family illness, and minor surgery really takes chunks out of your painting time!

A woman wearing makeup, lit in blue, in an arena seating area, holding a fold out fan. The fan is pink and says "FILTHY" in all block capitals in white text.

A woman wearing makeup, lit in blue, in an arena seating area, holding a fold up fan. The fan is pink, and this side reads "Gorgeous" in a cursive font in white lettering.

Tonight I'm in Cardiff to see Scissor Sisters live, and I'm so excited! (You could say I'm a big fan)

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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A crocheted,l triangular shawl laying across the back of a grey sofa. The shawl is made in a variegated yarn, with shades of purple, peach, coral, and pale grey. There are shelves in the background with a collection of board and card games on.

A close up of the centre of a triangle shawl, showing the colour changes in the yarn. It begins in a deep pinkish purple, the transitions to coral, peach, back to coral, back to the purple shade, then into a deeper purple shade. As the size of the rows on the shawl grow, the transitions between colours appear quicker.

A close up of the working edge of the shawl. The shawl is constructed of a variety of different stitches, including popcorn stitch, double crochet, and a combination of front post double crochet followed by a row of back post double crochet to create the effect of raised edges in the pattern.

Progress on the wedding shawl tonight. Hoping to have it finished in time for my hen do in 2 weeks!

Where is it?

A tablet displaying a Google image search result for Blink Fox Art Hearthstone. The image is of a 3 tailed fox looking up and smiling enigmatically underneath a gnarled tree, in shades of blue and teal, with pink petals falling. There are three dark pink flowers in the background.

A sketchbook showing a rough sketch of the Blink Fox artwork - a three tailed fox looking up and smiling enigmatically underneath a gnarled tree. The body of the fox and one of the three tails is coloured with pencils in shades of blue. The colouring is a little rough as this is a practise piece.

Playing with some colouring pencils in advance of a project I've been dreaming of for years. Small scale, not amazing I know, but I'm learning how to best blend and how to use the pencils together. I'm happy so far! Progress not perfection as they say! #art #colouredpencils #blinkfox #hearthstone

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Making nice with fascists: Never once.

But remember folks, Kneecap are the problem.

In 2010 Israël low tech raided and killed the crew on the Mavi Marmara, now they can keep their hands clean and drone attack the ship. While the ICJ is in session, brashly showing their impunity. When will it break?

UK NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR 2024 Che elegrapb Log in o Your Say News Sport Business M See all News NHS to test all trans' children for autism Every child referred to a gender clinic will be screened under new guidance following Cass Review C166 f Gift this article free Michael Searles Health Correspondent 27 April 2025 4:02pm BST The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph. Every child referred to a gender clinic will be "screened for

The UK is a fascist state with the pretence of democracy.

Autism is not a disease. Being trans is not a disease. Neither need cured. Leave us the fuck alone!!

Eldar Voidscarred Corsairs with prismatic daggers in bisexual pride color !

Eldar Voidscarred Corsairs with prismatic daggers in bisexual pride color !

I've used a new recipe for the pink using AK Magenta paint as basecoat and it's far less painful to pull off due to better coverage.

Anyway, as always, hope you like the result.

#warhammercommunity #warhammer40k

Shout out to all my trans friends protesting today, stay safe out there - Always remember: No comment, No details, No duty solicitor, No caution, What power?

True facts are true

A photo of a young woman and “"Tay Beales a 22 year old lesbian was thrown out of Marks snd Spencer toilets when staff said she was a man. She was told to use the men's toilets. This is the future 'gender critical feminists' want."

The harassment of gender nonconforming women is a feature, not a bug, of anti-gender ideology. The plan was always to force us to conform to heteronormative patriarchy