causing problems on purpose across micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice. probably eating a banh mi somewhere in chicago. @chicagodsa.bsky.social
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It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!
Also, why is JKR airing out sensitive employment negotiation stuff on X Dot Com The Everything Website? Forget "fight between old and new cast", this show is going to deal with "ULP charges from SAG-AFTRA".
She’s also going to be attacking the current cast and crew
Why tho
Africa and Latin America are not progressive places and their birth rates are cratering.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
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School Board is an unpaid position. This happened because Ellen harassed another Jewish board member over a watermelon pin.
Of interest to Chicagoans concerned with how local pols stances on Palestine, the Elected School Board, and specifically, constituents of Ellen Rosenfeld:
Edgewater is for people, not cars.
Anyway Ellen's email is erosenfeld2@cps.edu if anyone wants to send her an email about her conduct towards her colleagues.
This is it actually.
School closures inconvenience me (40yr old main character of the universe that now has to deal with the kids I hate), dead people in a freezer truck so not
If it's inevitable then I'm gonna wait until I have to.
Do you need someone to catch a charge on kid 1's behalf?
truly what is this point of this government
QTing myself bsky.app/profile/publ...
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
dawg what are we doing here
I finished reading a small history for the trials of the soviets after 1905 and something that gets drilled into you in how the Bolsheviks (and their Menshevik, SR allies) understood the power and importance of delegitimizing every single facet of the tsarist government. It creates *future* power
I'd rather have a troop build a house than shoot children.
I do think the state should force the military to build houses tbh
Good game plan for the next Dem admin I think
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Can literally anyone confirm this, or better yet, send me Ellen Rosenfeld's CPS email?
Still sharing this @katz.theracket.news classic
Good morning! Happy Labor Day!
Literally the first thing that any capitalist or business tycoon tells anyone interested in opening a small business is NOT TO OPEN A RESTAURANT. If you have business startup money and you open a restaurant, you forfeit the right to complain about the fact that running a restaurant is difficult.
Maybe restaurants are only viable when operated as a public utility or sth. www.slowboring.com/p/denver-piece
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS???
The people he’s appealing to would be happy to see him in a coffin draped with one.
Listen n>0 chance that Bob has hung about at the line to get into 7/11 during Pride so this tracks.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Quoth the Raven: "Can your dog come out and play?"
Folks is FirstInitialLastName@cps.edu the universal format for all school board member emails?
make the right defend the indefensible, described as uncharitably as possible
PACKED Grant Park for Eliades Ochoa. Chicago is the greatest city in the world.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Illinois is accurate. Hospitals are going beyond the Trump EO because @govpritzker.illinois.gov and AG Raoul have signaled that they will not enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
You can't have a slur against AI, but you can against the people who believe in AI personhood, and that one is "botlickers"
*destabilizing obviously.
Seems most educators are in favor of banning smartphones in school: "A 2024 National Education Association (NEA) poll found that 90 percent of teachers support prohibiting student cellphone use during instructional hours. Seventy-five percent favor extending restrictions to the entire school day."
I mean *I* should absolutely be given a JDAM and a couple of Javelins, but overall, no. There are many social workers in violence prevention/intervention who manage to do their jobs bs without being strapped.
Slightly less flippant answer: Most people learn how to act right and learn that not acting right has consequences from people who aren't armed agents of the state, and policing fuels violence and disorder by stabilizing the people who ensure that the kids grow up to act right.
Marxist Unity Group people's army obvi
[stares in social worker]
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one thing Rudy Giuliani is always going to do is defensively announce a weirdly incriminating detail with his whole chest as though he sincerely believes it exonerates him
So Sierra-Rios did not say Free Palestine to Rosenfeld out of the blue, R. had made a hateful anti-Palestinian remark earlier and this was in response to that. Worse than tacky. (See reply w Facebook link to quoted post)
Anyway what's Ellen Rosenfeld's board email address bc I have Thoughts.
Turns out Ellen started this whole mes because she bitched out another Jewish school board member over a Watermelon. Pin. Ellen bust have missed the day in Sunday School dedicated to not doing lashon hara.
Amendment: it appears that Ellen Rosenfeld is the person responsible for the tacky behavior, which makes this whole broyges even tackier: www.facebook.com/share/p/14GA...
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov also doesn't seem to care that a supermajority of the states trans people will lose transit access without addressing the CTA fiscal cliff.
This is especially gruesome when you consider that @govpritzker.illinois.gov keeps talking up Illinois as a trans healthcare refuge to news cameras.
JB also has a Newsom-esque approach to labor. He is constantly taking potshots at teachers and vetoed a bill to improve working conditions at Amazon facilities.
Newsom is transphobic out loud. Every major hospital in the Chicago metro has halted trans care, including non surgical care because Pritzker and Raoul have made it clear that they are not going to enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act.
The family policing system only contributed to two of these things (ignoring abuse by Epstein and juvenile LWOP).
Communism is when automobile
Is your state auditor making seed-based advertising?
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
Scoop via @kris10p.bsky.social: Wells Fargo used to tout its long history of diversity and inclusion such as supporting Japanese Americans during internment and Spanish language support. Then over the summer, Wells Fargo quietly removed languaged related to DEI. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
The fact that someone can openly brag about committing educational neglect is a clear indictment on our child welfare system.
Once more with feeling: JB is Gavin Newsom with better comms strategy instincts.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov where's this energy for a special session to fix and fund transit
Roy Cohn was dead: to begin with.
Post a random picture or everything might go bad in September, or it might not, who knows let's share some photos
It's k---- and she's already praised Nazis so the mask is extremely off.
As I was just saying about Chris Van Hollen (see next post in my thread), he gets a lot more credit despite not being a progressive firebrand because he actually believes in liberal principles and wants to do things. Here he is with Merkley attempting to see Gaza for himself, and Israel said no.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov is refusing to enforce the Illinois Human Rights Act against hospitals denying care to trans patients, he's Gavin Newsom with better comms instincts.
Our operatives are everywhere. Vision Zero is no longer asking. Comply.
Unsportsmanlike conduct.
There are 3 (maybe 4) Jewish people on the School Board. Cydney Wallace is significantly more active in the Jewish community than Ellen Rosenfeld. If you treat Ellen as a proxy for the Board 's "Jewish perspective" you are extraordinarily racist.
Watermelon pins are not a threat to Jewish people. Snarkily saying "free Palestine" to a Board member with a pattern of being a pill towards pro Palestine teachers is not a threat to Jewish people. It is at most, tacky and ineffective.
I'd love to know if Ms. Rosenfeld has ever talked to any of the hostage families, or anyone in Australia's Jewish community because I think Ms. Rosenfeld needs a sense of perspective. Badly.
Instead of just saying "this is tacky, act better", Ms. Rosenfeld is now demanding censure and removal of her colleague. I would like Ms. Rosenfeld to come up and share how unsafe she feels to me after I had to remove Nazi propaganda from my block this morning.
Chicago School Board Member Jennifer Custer 🤝 Itmar Ben-Gvir Pictures of watermelons are political and offensive and people who display them must be punished by the state.
we have so much more in common than what divides us with our friends in asia
Evanston NIMBYs moment
who is advising this woman yikes starmagazine.com/scooter-brau...
senate dems made a deal to advance RFK Jr.'s confirmation vote within the first three weeks of the new administration & hold the vote on a thursday because a score of senators wanted to leave town on friday to attend a swanky european junket
going back to the founders it would have been recognized as an act of gratitude and patriotism to dedicate one's life to service of their adopted country, but Vance rejects the fundamental ideal of America in favor of crude blood-and-soil Nazism that he learned on the internet five years ago
Seeing the lead strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign saying Democrats need to abolish ICE and nationalize SpaceX should be a wakeup call to Chuck Schumer. But it won't be.
a multilingual baddie youtu.be/6dM9orHsfJc?...
The concept of “gratitude” in American politics is an insidious one that implies a caste system where betters confer largess upon lessers and where those lessers must consistently pay homage to their betters. And there is always an implied threat that without proper homage the largess will stop.
Using pronatalism to address the parenting crisis is kind of like outlawing camping to address the housing crisis. Targeting specific visible signs of a problem doesn't address the problem.
I believe in accountability but also I think we could probably afford to pardon one (1) side character bad actor in exchange for these logs
I am not a fan of her music but no, Taylor swift did not become rich by standing on the necks of the proletariat, she did it by fomenting a rabid and often deranged fanbase that led to a music tour so successful it defies logic, coupled with managing sole ownership of her entire catalog
My god, he will select the head of John the Baptist
Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡
drat
Not to be Mr. Reductive Vulgar Marxist here but I think you can't entirely ignore how much of this is about disciplining labor
I think everyone is forgetting that "tacky" is a word we can use to describe behavior. This behavior is tacky and unbecoming of a school board member.
She literally claimed Ellen Rosenfeld is the only Jewish school board member, which is vile and racist.
Or rather an Etsy seller makes them www.etsy.com/fi-en/listin...
Tbh it was a cute shirt (worn by someone on the train who was wearing athleisure so this was clearly part of the outfit/aesthetic).
We need to radically accept a nuclear level of libbing out so this is fine.
He was a massive POS in the 20th so he's living up to his name and reputation.
surreal watching it be proven in real time that Zohran was in no way a fluke