Salem Addison King

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

Senator Mitch McConnell just suffered a fall in Washington.

collins is one of the most formidable fucking incumbents in the entire united states senate. if we are to take that seat, it will be taken by a candidate who can win battles, stop fucking crying about meaningless horseshit.

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“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

listen i am not saying he should be running anything but eric adams should certainly be encouraged to continue to post forever

Trying to take courage from Bolsonaro's sentencing today. Nothing is inevitable, and fighting for the right thing always matters.

Sit on your posting hands if you have to, ok?

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

💛🍉💛 Sign up to volunteer & help our friends at Food Not Bombs Springfield, IL tomorrow: www.signupgenius.com/go/9040D4AAA...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

one of the more irritating things about the AI-for-everything crowd is how much learned helplessness they adopt along the way

UAW, Do the Right Thing - Divest from Israel Bonds Now! Dear UAW IEB, I am a UAW member, and I'm reaching out alongside hundreds of other letter signatories to demand that the UAW IEB take an immediate emergency vote to divest from Israel Bonds, which qui...

Caterpillar’s own workers are demanding that UAW international, the same union which called for a permanent ceasefire in December 2023, divest from bonds connected to the IOF. You can support that call here: mailxto.com/uawiebdivest.

Some good news for everybody, cause we could all really use it.

i think every woman should buy a gun and im not kidding

Certain DSA treasurers may have been asked to sing “Solidarity Forever” at the Rage Against the Regime rally at the capitol yesterday that we co-sponsored with @springfieldil50501.bsky.social, @pslweb.bsky.social, and others.

Join us this Saturday at the capitol with @springfieldil50501.bsky.social and @pslweb.bsky.social!

If you’re ever having a bad day may I humbly suggest just remembering that Rush Limbaugh is dead.

Join the Land of Lincoln DSA tomorrow at The Wakery for a board game night at 7pm. Feel free to bring your own games and invite a friend. This Friday, let’s come together to support a local business, have some fun, and learn about a local org trying to make Central Illinois a better place.

If we don’t take steps to protect our communities from climate change right the fuck now, soon you and I will be the one’s filming the newest disaster; only for that disaster to be forgotten within a week.

Hurricane Helene wasn’t even a year ago.

Salem A. King: Co-Chair of LLDSA 3/3

The massive Texas flood that killed over 130 people was only 17 days ago.

We just had a 6 day major heat wave. We’re about to enter another with heat indexes exceeding 115 degrees.

Summer began 1 month ago. 2/3

Last night, Illinois’ Fayette County experienced severe flash flooding, particularly around Vandalia Lake. A least two cars needed to be removed from the floodwaters.

The night before, there was severe flooding in Flora IL.

9 days ago there was flash flooding in Newman IL. 1/3

There’s a potluck and a fundraiser this weekend over at Dreamland Park to benefit Intricate Minds. Our members will be there, and we hope to see you there!

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to the Republican Trump administration’s push for more space to hold immigrants for deportation.

Here's another story that shouldn't be overlooked; ICE is trying to reopen the Leavenworth 'hell hole' to house illegal immigrants they've detained. This is part of a larger effort to expand extant prison structures.

Concerning.

-- Ron, (unfortunate) Tech Coordinator

apnews.com/article/immi...

Stephen Miller Erupts in Fury Over Low Arrests—and Hands Dems a Weapon Hitting Miller’s new deportation quotas could mean fewer resources to fight child trafficking, terrorism, and other crimes. Do Americans really want that?

I found this (not exactly new) article from The New Republic talking about how just seeking deportations is not only bad policy, but leads to actual crimes being neglected.

Given what's been happening, it's worth reading.

-- Ron, (unfortunate) Tech Coordinator

newrepublic.com/article/1961...

I need an extra caffeinated beverage that tastes just like dr pepper

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Thank you to everyone who came out to our celebration of Henry Kissinger’s ongoing stay in hell at The Wakery last Friday. We greatly appreciated the our wide variety of speakers who provided our community with both education and vaguely comedic nonsense.

May Henry Kissinger rest in piss.