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I'm sorry but like your mutual group while good and effective is not supplemental in this moment for large policies like rent control. We need to acknowledge that as long as the state exists, it does need to provide for the people until we abolish it.

Someone running and winning on a platform of rent control and taxing the rich is a good measurement of what we can push for!

seeing people go from Liberal logics or Conservative logics into more radical ways of being and thinking is what keeps me going. That's why its absolute insanity to see leftists berate those excited by Mamdani and what he's promised. People came together and won, we need that energy actually.

this win isn’t about a politician it is about the people who organized, people who voted who hadn’t before, it’s about the hope of people and the willingness to defend our communities fuck a politician focus on what this means for your organizing and what you can push locally

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Chicago library workers speak out against proposed cuts Chicago library workers expressed their concerns about proposed cuts at City Hall today. The City Council's 2026 budget calls for nearly 90 library positions to be eliminated.

Chicago Public Library (IL) workers speak out against the city's proposed cuts: www.fox32chicago.com/video/1735171

50% in a 4 way race PLUS passing 1 million votes were BOTH campaigns goals. Even people who weren't privy to the inside organizing knew both of these things because they were publicly articulated. They hit both goals.

Just some perspective from having worked on Zohran’s first campaign back in 2020: the man is detail-oriented, brimming with ideas, respectful of people’s time, believes in our capabilities, nourishes success.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

My latest bit is when someone is being a hater on something or someone that clearly is not the same after 4 years just saying “well I’m an abolitionist so…I welcome when people change.”

I don’t post as much because now I have a rigorous dental routine

It’s nice to date people that like you for you and treat you kindly

Really nice I went from having an ex sext me 36 times during a busy workday and then dismissing why I found that uncomfortable to having someone I’m dating text me 36 times to keep me updated on F1 racing.

Love this entire thread. Chicago.

my high school teacher mom is individually raising money to help cover the expense for the kids who are losing SNAP coverage at her school and members of Congress make roughly 2-4 times the income of the average high school teacher in America

I was right about her 10 years ago.

Thinking of how great trans women are.

Dilemma in Denver | Nick Tabor Denver attempted to navigate a surge of immigration—with little assistance from the Biden administration and open hostility from its successor.

Denver has refused to collaborate with ICE raids. In response, the Trump administration is suing the city.

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

Israeli Military Is Still Holding 9,000 Palestinians in Prison “The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial,” said human rights lawyer Sari Bashi.

“The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial,” said human rights lawyer Sari Bashi.

Positioning class as separate from identity politics makes no sense because class is also a subject position

The fact that there’s no good breakfast sandwich option in wicker park is going to kill me

I’m obsessed with F1!

Doing fine all things considered

They’re moving quickly because they get less popular every day.

They’ll never be more popular than they are now and they are extremely unpopular.

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

In addition to unloading on demonstrators in Broadview, ICE is now randomly gassing people going about their day on the streets of Chicago