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If you're arrested in Illinois protesting Trump's illegal war against Iran, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Ben Joravsky and I talked about the black curtain at Mar-a-Lago and the deeply unsettling aesthetics of this administrations foreign policy "deliberations" back in January.

I talk about how useful my college art history class has been in understanding this kind of political performance.

The least human thing you can do I read a story just now about a man in Chicago who saved a baby after its carriage had been blown into the harbor by heavy gusts of wind. Lio Cundiff – who is a trans man not that it should matter her...

Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you.

Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.

Nora Flanagan and Jarrett Dapier--The NRA Rolls Over Worried about upsetting Boss Donnie, the NRA waters down its response to the public execution of Alex Pretti by agents of ICE. Ben riffs. And as Mayor Rahm tries to…

I recently learned of Persepolis - and that it was pulled from Chicago schools under the Rahm administration - after I heard this Ben Joravsky interview with the English teacher and librarian who had been involved.
Worth a listen:
www.thebenjoravskyshow.com/nora-flanaga...

LOL

Whole thread is worth a read:
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Hundreds of violence prevention workers this week celebrated their role in helping Chicago achieve a steady dip in homicides, noting how the expansion of their grassroots work has gone a long way toward decreasing gun violence. blockclubchi.co/40w3DlU

This story is related to that dog shit from earlier in the day about "feeling unsafe" on the subway and what happens when you sic cops on human beings.

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

Illinois State House District Candidate Ridge Knapp is calling out that Meta/Facebook is now weighing in to support Adam Braun in his race.

I take your point but I've got to take exception that you're singling out Robby here. Rob's a longtime artist/comic/musician and this character of his evolved from trolling the Boston rock scene a couple of decades ago into what he's up to now. And he's done tons of other stuff along the way.

Fuck that shit. Dismantle, abolish, prosecute - that’s the minimum, you embarrassing milksops.

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Chicago voter turnout in this midterm primary election is bananas. 10,163 ballots received as of last night.

By contrast at this stage in 2022: 438 ballots received
2018: 186 ballots received

I’m always heartened to see fair critiques of leftist politicians in office from the left, because the actual embrace of democratic values like holding people in office accountable is one of the key differences between the right and the left

Same.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

@harmscommitted.com is a great project to follow here. Thread below does a better job explaining it than I succinctly could, so 👇

A crisis that needed my attention In May of last year Bill Shaner reported for Hell World on the abduction of a Worcester, MA asylum-seeker named Rosane Ferreira-De Oliveira by the federal government. It was an early look at how horri...

In May we reported on the abduction by ICE of an asylum seeker in Worcester. @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social, a city councilor at the time, was absurdly and unjustly convicted last week of assaulting a police officer that day in what she says was a politically motivated trial. We talked about it.

Abolish, dismantle, prosecute - nothing less.

This was my source:
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This was my source:

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Closeup of photo purported to be of the ICE fan who got his clock cleaned by the Chicago hero in the brown sweatshirt, holding a handmade sign that states in block letters “I LOVE ICE”. His glasses look like they may be of the Meta creep glasses variety.

Damn if those are Meta creep goggles on the punch-needer this is a two-fer!

Yeah, I called Durbin and Duckworth today and left voice messages imploring them to vote NO.
Took me about 5 minutes total.

Gavin Newsom is, to borrow a term from @driftglass.bsky.social, a reprogrammable meat bag. Fucking Ben Shapiro proved that, right before our eyes.

Solid thread for mutual aid resources in greater Boston/MA.
Please share and, if able, contribute:
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Man is all New Republic art just complete trash?

Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

For anyone who doesn’t read past the headline, I’ll add that one of the “MAGA” donors is Palantir.
Yes, this one:

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