One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.

And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Thank you Wonder Woman 🇺🇲🎇❤️

The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

Vincent van Gogh ~ Mulberry Tree, 1889

Protesters hold lighted signs that say RESIST ICE on a elevated train platform in Chicago.

Atena Danner, a Black woman poet, speaks into a microphone in front of protesters holding lighted signs that spell the word "RESIST."

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.

New graffiti art in my Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood.

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.

I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

These are the exact questions I have. For weeks ISP has been in charge around the Broadview ICE site. There’s no question about it. And I really don’t like seeing Pritzker taking a victory lap in the press about resisting tyranny when his Illinois cops are doing this & helping ICE on the daily 👎🏻

An evening photo of the Loop-bound platform at Pulaski Orange, just south of the south heat shelter.

Transit is freedom. Transit makes Chicago great. It is for everyone and it is beautiful. 32 years ago today I boarded at this spot on the Pulaski Orange Line platform with my legally blind mom to help her learn her new, faster way to work on its first weekday. 'L'ove at first ride.

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs Despite pleas from Gov. JB Pritzker to pause federal immigration enforcement operations while children celebrate Halloween, Border Patrol agents tore through Chicago and the suburbs.

On Halloween, “state-sponsored terror” in Chicago and the north suburbs. A @chicagotribune.com team effort on the feds’ actions on what’s supposed to be a special day for families and children www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

don’t forget that folks will need food for their pets too! same with animal shelters, which will be even further overwhelmed as pets are abandoned

Wow, we're serious about public transportation, but apparently these folks organized a Illinois General Assembly transit bill debate watch party at a bar, and even wore special outfits for it! 😉

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.

Actually and literally.

Ald. Andre Vasquez: “The federal government is targeting my chief of staff, Cat Sharp and others for standing up and speaking out against their brutal campaign against immigrants. They want to scare us into submission. It won’t work.“

Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.

I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have