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it's the neurodivergence (same boat lol)

these are not serious people!!!

The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.

a copper vent plate inside carl schurz high school

a two toned brick building with high tables, long rectangular windows and columns on its front there is metal exterior gratework on the high exterior windows

a chicago public schools with incredible metalwork and stained glass artwork, inside and out

this school building is an amazing mixture of the chicago school style and prairie style architecture, designed by Dwight Perkins and opened in 1910

I see @govpritzker.illinois.gov is still pissing it all away letting his state-sponsored boot boys violate Illinois law and abuse people's Constitutional rights. One of the best governors in the country — formerly — and now he's trying to make sure we all know he sucks like the rest of em.

imagine thinking they're worried about public opinion lol

breaking news: *random* (and mostly white at that) adults do not make kids feel safer

not to be the cause of hurt liberal feelings or anything but if @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social wants to start showing up at schools to "support dismissal" then maybe step one is actually to touch base with ANYONE who works there and *gasp* first ASK what is needed before deciding you already know

calling people Nazis who are carrying out fascism in America is a maladaptive language shortcut

it's really unfortunate that for the first time in history appeasement isn't working, it would be so nice to have some historical examples to learn from

i am not a huge fan of rising and falling with the fate of press when we could be rising and falling with the fate of the most precarious

freedom of speech is already not something many of us enjoy so it's telling when that's what people hang their hats on

CULTURE i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies. i guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

LOVE Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

ASSATA 240 CURRENT EVENTS i understand that i am slightly out of fashion. The in-crowd wants no part of me. Someone said that i am too sixties Black. Someone else told me i had failed to mellow. It is true i have not straightened back my hair. Nor rediscovered maybelline. And it is also true that i still like African things, like statues and dresses and PEOPLE. And it is also true that struggle is foremost in my mind. And i still rap about discipline— my anger has not run away. And i still can't stand ole el dorado. And i still can't dig no one and one. And i still don't dig no roka fellas. And i call a pig a pig. And a party, to my thinking, happens only once in a while. Anyway, i'm really kind of happy being slightly out of style.

AFFIRMATION I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs. And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts. And sprouts grow into trees. I believe in the magic of the hands. And in the wisdom of the eyes. I believe in rain and tears. And in the blood of infinity. I believe in life. And i have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path. I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted. I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. I have walked on cut glass. I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference. I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know any thing at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down. I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.

Assata Shakur’s autobiography is brilliant, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with her poems. My best friend Tim teaches Affirmation every year to high school freshmen and it sticks with them heavy for years.

this happens quite a lot also on the ground, the centrist will offer management skills

they know how to build the database, how to do the socials, how to apply for a permit for a protest

what they don't know how to do is take critique from women of color, they don't know how to hear no

never ask:
a woman her age
a man his salary
or how much money 'shawna king' has raised for people in chicago actually afraid to leave their houses for food/work

i guess, it seems many in our city did not realize they could be questioned from the left and made this their safe space from questions from the right.

hey @schuba.bsky.social what happens to an ICE officer who walks down the middle of a street?

(tip: the answer isn't "i protect their identity")

ICE officer said his injuries were ‘nothing major’ after deadly shooting near Chicago, video shows The immigration agent’s partner said he suffered a “knee injury" and "some lacerations to his hands,” according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported h...

@schuba.bsky.social were you not going to share your SS sympathy article on bluesky? doesn't really fit the vibe here and since leaving twitter to avoid widespread scrutiny, i get it. hey, any chance you want to develop a moral compass and unblur those faces???

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

no offense to my friend who are journalists but the state of journalism in this city is so embarrassing

the amount of time + space chicagoans give a taxpayer article makes me think current day Chicago would not have any useful principles for 1861 to end slavery

STOP USING TAXPAYER ARGUMENTS, they are reactionary and built upon property rights being legitimate

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WAS A PROPERTY RIGHT

the most recent experiences with a look at union finances in chicago relates to teamsters

basically, if leadership cannot provide the accounting for dues and/or the dues are used to provide no service to members (think ghost payroll not failed efforts), then we're looking at embezzlement

relying on the landed gentry and its colonial apparatus of taxation in order to fund public education infuses the entire system with coloniality

who is public education for and what is it for

5. under the best conditions, retroactive pay was never going to be paid in july

6. the 2nd installment of property tax cash influx is late arriving to cps, by at least 30 days

7. retroactive pay will not occur in july

8. cps and ctu both knew this

9. teachers did not know this

1. teachers are owed retroactive pay from cps

2. cps pays retroactively from its 2nd property installment cash influx that comes in August

3. ctu told teachers to expect retroactive pay on July 11 or July 25 paychecks

4. timing of retroactive pay is not in writing in bargaining agreement

a white male chicago cyclist poster who wrote hey @cta probably the most dangerous bus driver I've ever encountered as a cyclist. Almost running over and honking at groups of us on Damen just now. Talk about needing sent back to your training department.

but what if it goose honked

i would like to say that Lucy Parsons Labs is hardly a moral authority in Chicago given their misogyny and their actions in increasing risk for people with precarity

there are far better people to listen to then a group washing themselves in the name of a Black women they would have never accepted

why the fuck is my pension invested in this nazi fuck shit REGARDLESS OF STOCK PRICE?

randi has become surplus to requirements. time to move on!

Carlos Ramirez Rosa wanted & defended Gardaworld militarised tent camps when he was an alder. The idea that he will maintain any principles as CEO of parks is out of alignment but if you made the platform he stands on, you should also be part of disciplining him to the principles he/you claimed.

chief eviction officer! what a guy!

yeah maybe you should Do some research into the new job of CDSA member carlos ramirez-rosa

that's evident lmao

watching people conclude that the things they read about on the internet definitely just happened today or even recently (or even after like 2002) is uh, wild