Ciprianna

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

Republican Mike Flood’s comments being drowned out by chants of “tax the rich” at his town hall

By a vote of 27-17, Senate Democrats voted to stop sending arms shipments to a Netanyahu government which has waged a horrific, immoral and illegal war against the Palestinian people.

The tide is turning.

Americans don't want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

"Another officer says, 'They’re starting to resist more now,' to which an officer replies: 'We’re going to end up shooting some of them.'"

Immigration cops tased a kid and threatened another and then joked about getting a $30,000 bonus. We're screwed.

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The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.

Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

I fantasize about being a parent somewhere without guns, fewer cars, and safer urban design

How many dead kids does it take?

Sandy Hook. Uvalde. Camp Mystic.

The GOP won't change. Gun laws, weather funding, doesn’t matter.

Not until the blood of children becomes more costly than their addiction to power.

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Breaking from the #NoKings protest in Omaha Nebraska

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Updated: ICE launches raids across Omaha at multiple food packaging plants Agents from ICE launched raids Tuesday in at least three Omaha meat packing plants.

Can't be a coincidence ICE raids a bunch of meatpacking plants in Omaha on the day a Democrat moved into the mayor's office, right?
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Late yesterday, LB 89 passed the final round of floor debate. We’ve all seen this tired playbook before: using one community as a political pawn to distract from lawmakers’ failure to solve actual issues facing our State.

Raybould's lectures are insulting. Basic dignity for workers is just something she cannot grasp because all she sees is profit. Disgusting. #neleg

Lawmakers will try again Thursday to pass bill slowing Nebraska minimum wage increases • Nebraska Examiner After the procedural failure of a proposal to slow voter-approved minimum wage increases, Nebraska lawmakers will reconsider on Thursday.

🚨TOMORROW the #NELeg will consider bending its own rules to reconsider the failure of ❌LB258, a bill that will severely weaken Nebraska’s minimum wage law.

Call your Senator NOW and tell them to OPPOSE this attempt and ❌LB258.

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Today, 33 #neleg senators once again disrespected NE voters by advancing ❌LB415

LB415 would remove paid sick leave protections from 140,000 Nebraskans. This bill also disregards the will of Nebraskans, who overwhelmingly passed paid sick leave for ALL workers last November via Initiative 436.

Gunned down in broad daylight: Killings spotlight limitations as domestic violence spikes in Nebraska - Flatwater Free Press This story contains descriptions of domestic abuse. If you or a loved one is experiencing abuse, click here for a list of Nebraska service providers, or

Reminder that women in Nebraska face real issues with safety and violence against them, and it has gotten worse lately. But it's not because of trans people, it's from domestic violence and their partners violating restraining orders. Call your rep and tell them to focus on the REAL PROBLEMS here.

Good morning from your Nebraska Legislature!

We are scheduled to begin the first round of debate on LB89, a bathroom and sports ban, at 3pm today. Tune in, and urge your senator to oppose it. This bill makes no one safer. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Yep, I’m going to “politicize” the FSU shooting because gun violence is political. The reason America has a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation is because politicians care more about pandering to gun lobbyists than protecting their constituents.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail.

Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

If you are in Sen Kathleen Kauth’s district, call and add yourself to her “internal tally” with your view on LB3. She claims she will vote how that internal tally which is currently at a 53:47 split. #neleg

Way to show up Omaha!
We're sending a clear message to Trump, Musk, and our enabling members of Congress. "Hands Off!" This country belongs to the people, and we demand better.
#HandsOff #Indivisible

me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’

#camelgate!

when I know front-end people are here... I can search in bluesky to find out what's up.

Last week, Nebraska lawmakers gutted a citizen-led paid sick leave initiative that passed with 75% of the vote last November.

This week, Nebraska lawmakers are trying to water down a 2022 minimum wage increase supported by 58% of voters.

100% this. I’m so tired of hand-outs for the wealthy and demonization of basic living conditions for everyone else.