Raging Chicago Progressive

KABAS: So many comparisons have made between the current state of US immigration terror and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and I've seen some say that kind of seeks to absolve this country of its own history of racial terror and genocide. In the hearings this week with ICE and CBP and USCIS, you said you have “no respect for inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol.” How did it feel to publicly and explicitly draw that connection? REP. RAMIREZ: I knew that I was going to make them very uncomfortable. I'm not talking about just the DHS directors there—I meant my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And I say this often, ‘Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the willingness to act despite the fear.’ I'm a little scared [in that moment], because if I'm being blunt with you, every time I speak there's a death threat. And yet I thought it was so important, as a daughter of immigrants, as a proud representative of Illinois-3, as someone who has been calling out what they do, to be able to look evil in the eye and call them what they are.

Delia Ramirez is a real one

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Rahm Emanuel claims his effort to fill the party with anti-choice/anti-immigration/pro-war/pro-wealthy/pro-White-centered/anti-labor candidates was a useful and practical power grab.

In fact, it alienated and sabotaged and demoralized every column of the base. But some still cling to his "wisdom"+

Exactly. They have so much surplus stuff, they’ve been militarizing police departments and border patrol, and that turned out great for us so far!

We are entering the home stretch…Come out and volunteer with us this week!

www.mobilize.us/drakefor10/

Reilly is very comfortable acting like a bigot and a bully in the city council meetings, as if he forgets that we can see him.

I bet Fox is nowhere on the FCC’s radar.

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

They have always protected their own, mainly for self-preservation.

No quarter given.

@dicknixon.bsky.social

GLOUCESTER Where it seems best unto your royal self.
If I may counsel you, some day or two
Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:
Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit
For your best health and recreation.

PRINCE EDWARD I do not like the Tower, of any place.

meme of a killer whale swimming towards a small sea lion. above the wale it reads “saturn and time conjunction at 0°” below the sea lion it reads: “society.”

saturn and neptune is entering aries at 0°. prepare for bat shit bananas breaking news

The US could help one side become exhausted and the other not exhausted very easily. Unfortunately, we are choosing to help the wrong side.

Former Prince Andrew arrested following Epstein files revelations Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office on Thursday, after weeks of scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein.

Andrew arrested: Epstein brings down a former prince. If the UK can do the right thing with a royal…https://www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/former-prince-andrew-arrested-epstein-files-revelations-rcna259691

Shipwreck on Zombie Road Vindication means nothing without justice.

"I’ve been told this is not really a shipwreck, but the remains of a gravel barge that crashed some fifty years ago. I still call it a shipwreck, because you still call this a government, and that crashed some fifty years ago too."
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

Everyone please join me in presenting tonight’s Bluesky Appreciation Award (BAA) to @sslee.bsky.social for this excellent live-posting! Thanks!

Lubeznik Center for the Arts to display 'Cosmic Connections' exhibit The "Cosmic Connections" exhibit is landing at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City.

Lubeznik Center for the Arts to display 'Cosmic Connections' exhibit
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Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson (1895–1965) was an American anthropologist, author, and global human-rights activist. A pioneering Black scholar and feminist thinker, she combined scientific training and field research with outspoken advocacy for racial equality, women’s rights, and anti-colonial liberation across Africa and the diaspora. From the 1930s through the Cold War, Robeson was a leading “race-woman internationalist.” She linked African decolonization with African American civil rights, supported antifascist and socialist causes, and spoke at global forums including early United Nations gatherings. Her coauthored dialogue American Argument (1949) contrasted U.S. racial inequality with Soviet claims of social equity, provoking government scrutiny and an FBI file. Her passport was revoked during the McCarthy era, yet she continued writing for progressive journals until it was restored in 1958. Since her death in 1965, institutions such as the Paul Robeson House & Museum and biographer Barbara Ransby have helped restore her place as a visionary scholar-activist.

Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson (1895–1965) a Black scholar and feminist thinker, she combined scientific training and field research with outspoken advocacy for racial equality, women’s rights, and anti-colonial liberation across Africa and the diaspora.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#BlackHistoryMonth

The man who taught nonviolence to Martin Luther King Jr. Al Letson revisits a story about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin that he produced 16 years ago for Black History Month.

The man who taught Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolent resistance is likely an activist you've never heard of.

For Black History Month, @alletson.bsky.social revisits the story of Bayard Rustin, one of the most influential civil rights leaders left out of our history books.

Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline Damage from a burning pile of wood was minimal but police are investigating.

Just awful. People (like Ryan mentioned in the article, who is living out of his van) have been staying awake all night for weeks keeping watch over the memorial for this exact reason.

Key City Panel Advances Plan to Give COPA Power to Probe Chicago Police Conduct During Immigration Raids, Protests A joint City Council committee voted 19-3 to explicitly give the Civilian Office of Police Accountability authority to investigate whether CPD officers have improperly helped federal agents enforce im...

BLOCKED: Alds. Tabares & Lopez & Beale & Napolitano blocked a vote on a measure that would give COPA the authority to investigate whether CPD officers and leaders have violated city law by helping federal immigration agents.
CONTEXT: Tabares voted for it during the committee vote.
Background:

Running a real insurgent campaign requires extreme levels of aggressive attacks and thermonuclear political warfare that most people don't have in them.

There simply is no other way to compete for attention with the well financed assholes.

Eye-popping amounts from crypto now pouring into Illinois

This is Princess. She and her human work hard every day collecting trash at an apartment building. It is an often thankless job, but one kind resident thought the pair should know how much they are appreciated, and that Princess should get a uniform too. 13/10 for all (TT: oliviaolp)

‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.

Spent today talking to just a few of the Black women who credit Jesse Jackson with their start in national politics. By inviting them in, he ensured they would help shape democracy for years to come. My latest on the coalition he built as part of his towering legacy: 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess...

Posting some shit about Plato's cave on here: overplayed, everyone remembers that from college

Mentioning it in a meeting at work: everyone pegs you as the weird guy who did the reading in college and now they're afraid you read the meeting minutes

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

The Powell Memorandum Chamber of Commerce, right?

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down.

A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills.

Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.

I've been losing weight by just not eating processed food and eating fresh-milled wheat instead of processed flour. The result is incredible. My gut-health and metabolism are healthy now.

Today, I hit 159, down from a peak of 220. I'm at my Air Force weight. I separated October, 1990. I was 23.