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Even thrift stores are wildly expensive now 😩

I’ve joined a group of folks in Chicago who are also helping support Palestinian families. If you donate to this link the money helps not only Uday, but several other families sheltering in the Gaza Strip: tinyurl.com/chi4gaza

Illustrated white dog with black mask and ears with a light blue/green bandana on a pink background

Illustrated white curly haired dog with a green bandana on a light blue/green background with some daisies

Grumpy looking gray cat with yellow eyes on a lavender background, blue and pink flowers in the foreground. The name London is hand lettered at the top.

Last day to enter! Contribute any amount to Uday’s family & share your receipt in the comments (or DM for my email if you’d like more privacy) for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Holidays are coming up & this would be a really sweet gift!
www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

An illustrated grumpy looking darn gray cat with yellow eyes on a purple background with flowers in the foreground.

A happy looking small dog with white curly fur on a mint background with daisies

Uday’s family urgently needs $700 for rent. Donate any amount this week for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Share a screen shot of your donation receipt in the comments or if you prefer more privacy DM for my email address. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

Uday’s family needs to collect $700 for rent due tomorrow. Any amount you can give helps! chuffed.org/project/uday...

Screen shot of a Chicago tribune headline that reads “Federal judge says he’ll order released of hundreds of ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees on bond”. Below the headline is a picture of three ice agents in full tactical gear.

A federal judge says he will order the release of over 600 people who have been detained by ice on bond. If it’s within your means consider donating to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. We will need to raise a lot of money to get everyone home. www.mibfc.org

Now also feels like a good time to mention that during WWII women spies would put codes in their knitting (which is essentially a binary system, knit, purl) and cross stitch morse code onto things.

We can’t stop fighting, but this morning I’m basking in the knowledge that two out of the three largest cities in the US have socialist mayors. As Kelly says here “we can win.”

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Pritzker’s statements are a performance for liberals who aren’t on the ground trying to disrupt ICE. His latest stunt asking DHS to pause immigration raids bc it’s Halloween is laughable. Anyone who has interacted with ICE knows that traumatizing people, kids included, is their whole fucking deal.

Donate to Help Eman's Family Afford Food in Gaza, organized by Alison Fletcher I am Alison Morgan, a US Citizen using this campaign is to raise money for Eman… Alison Fletcher needs your support for Help Eman's Family Afford Food in Gaza

Eman’s youngest child is injured and she needs money for rent so they aren’t thrown into the streets. Any amount you can give helps. If you can’t donate at this time but are able to help spread the word, that’s also very helpful! gofund.me/40d19bc3f

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

TODAY 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square Comfort Station. We’re having a fundraiser for 7 families in Gaza. There will be live music, and vendors selling all kinds of cool stuff including crochet, ceramics, jewelry, prints, pins, and stickers. It’s gonna be a gorgeous day, come say hi!

Cats Not Cops will be available as an 8x10 print or a 3” sticker at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza, this Sunday 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square comfort station. We are raising money for 7 families displaced in the Gaza Strip who need money for food, clothes, medicine, and tents before winter 🩷🖤💚

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

This Sunday, Chicago! Come out to help us raise money for 7 families inside the Gaza Strip. I will be there selling pins, stickers, prints, hand painted and sewn notebooks, bracelets and more.

My reach here is very small so please help me get the word out, especially if you’re in Chicago ❤️

Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition.

A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Like ideally we would have a revolution, or at least a general strike, but I will also take a social contagion where nobody can work because they are compelled to shake ass in the streets.

I’ve been sucked into medieval youtube and currently listening to a podcast about medieval dancing plagues. First, there was more than one! Second, they’re probs not from ergot poisoning. Third, I think we’ve reached time in history where we should absolutely bring those back.

I’ll be selling pins, notebooks, stickers, prints, and more Sunday, October 12th at the Logan Square Comfort Station to raise money for 7 families in Gaza 🍉 There will be a bunch of other super cool vendors. Check out the thread to see who all will be there 👇🏼

A stack of 4 handmade notebooks with a screen printed python on the front in various colors including black, purple and green.

A photo showing of the hand sewn spines of the notebooks. Thread color includes green, lime green, orange, and neon pink. On the front of each notebook is a screen printed snake

I will be selling these one of a kind, screen printed, hand bound notebooks 🐍✨ (along with lots of other hand made items) at the Cultural Fest for Gaza at the Logan Square Comfort Station on 10/12 2pm-5pm. The fest is raising $ for 7 families in Gaza. Hope to see you there! #logansquare #artfest

Come see me in Logan Square on 10/12!

Water color style art of four red poppies on a light yellow and white background with a fishnet border like that of a kuffiyeh. Black text reads “Cultural Art Fest for Gaza. Help us raise funds for seven families inside the Gaza Strip. Sunday October 12th 2:00-5:00pm. Logan Square Comfort Station 2579 N Milwaukee Ave.

✨10/12 at the Logan Square Comfort Station!✨I will be selling prints, stickers, pins, notebooks & more at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza on behalf of Uday’s & six other families. There will be food, live music, and art vendors. Hope to see you there! Follow @chifest4gaza on instagram for more info.

Uday & his family are living on the streets in Gaza City where the iof is continuing a ground invasion. They need to get out now but do not have the $ for transportation or a tent. If you have anything you can spare, please help them out. The situation is desperate. Https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.

A photo of a 19 year old young man, Uday, who has light brown skin and short black hair, wearing a bright blue shirt and standing in front of the remains of a building in Gaza. Black text on a pink background reads “Help a family of seven stay alive in Gaza. My friend Oday is the eldest of five siblings. His family have lost their home and income due to the violent occupation and genocide in Gaza. They are currently sheltered in a place where the occupation forces are advancing and there is constant bombing. They are in danger every day. Your money will help Oday's family pay for travel costs to evacuate South, a tent to live in, and food. All these things are extremely expensive due to scarce supplies coming into Gaza, and huge commision costs. Scan to donate: [QR code here that links to https://chuffed.org/project/udayfund] Thank you for choosing to make a difference.”

I know you are seeing an overwhelming number of asks and the need in Gaza is overwhelming. But it’s countless donations some big, some just a few dollars, that have helped Uday and his family survive the last 23 months of hell. chuffed.org/project/uday...