Since Trump entered politics, hate crimes upon LGBTQIA have more than doubled.
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Since Trump entered politics, hate crimes upon LGBTQIA have more than doubled.
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
This definitely should be. If there are any actions in Pulaski it would be pretty easy for me to get over there. Besides sharing on social media which has almost no real world impact how can we help? This video makes me angry and I want to help.
Everyone needs to be letting them know how stupid they look. Every single bypasser.
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The United States is slipping from its place as a world leader. You can thank Trump for that.
Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov - There’s a big empty spot in the Midwest on this map.
We need to normalize the idea of getting arrested for fighting injustice. Most cases are just going to be dropped. We need to be making the regime waste their money and people on efforts like chalk drawing control. There are much worse they could be doing.
They should also melt down all of that gold, scrap the gift jet for parts, etc and use the proceeds to build and maintain homeless shelters. Maybe more depending on how much we get for it all.
White straight cisgendered men falling out of the middle class. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
"New Dems on the Road"? Oh boy, oh boy! What are you going to do next, invite the fascists over for a pillow fight? "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" has a much better ring to it. And they are actually doing something. "New Dems on the Road" is cringeworthy.
Not surprised the @newdems.bsky.social have hitched their wagon to the completely worthless third way.
So everything EXCEPT fighting fascism. The @newdems.bsky.social are so fricking worthless and partially responsible for where we are at. If you would have been fighting fascists for the last 8 years instead of wanting to get with them like a hot date maybe we wouldn't be here.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
When some of the cops go rogue and people provide video evidence they are collaborating will action be taken? Because so far all I’ve seen are cities turning blind eyes to the independently collaborating cops.
So they've gone from making laws via EO to just taping the new laws onto a construction horse. I guess that makes them easier and less embarrassing to update constantly.
Need to get Waukegan and the surrounding towns to do the same. With these assholes headed out to Great Lakes they are likely heading to those towns before Chicago.
This gent offers a proven cure for the male loneliness epidemic.👇 (🗣️ @chez.chuck)
There has been an increase in compensation expectations and a decrease in quality of "guys" in recent years to the point I either learn it myself or pay full price to a company that guarantees their work. "Guys" went from great work for goodwill to duct tape and zip ties for contractor pricing.
I think them talking about Chicago is a ruse. At least initially. I spent most of my life in Lake County. Outside base are our largest immigrant and non-white communities. They will be able to kidnap people there and disappear back to federal land in minutes. Then maybe move on to Chicago and MKE.
Question on this - wouldn't they also need to take the Senate? And he would never sign those proposals into law. So we wouldn't just need to take both - we'd need to have 2/3 majority of both. I agree with all the proposals, but wouldn't those get sent off for him to sign?
They also need to follow the methodology that has been in place since January. Don't worry about or discuss the legality of something before doing it. Just do so much they cannot respond to it all.
So if they win the lawsuit and they tariffs are illegal - there would be no way to reimburse the funds collected to those who ultimately paid them either.
Also - those areas normally stand up. They were protesting on Feb 1 in the freezing cold. Long before many other areas started at this scale, and less than two weeks after the inauguration. www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/02/02/h...
This is not about Chicago. That is 30 miles from this base. This is about the areas of Lake County right outside of the base. A ton of potential victims right next to federal land they can escape back to. They are not going to be rolling to Chicago en masse with this right outside their door.
“To still hold this hope and joy in her heart despite all the sadness and trauma that she had gone through, I think that’s how we fight back.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-happe...
Message to Kamala Harris: My name is Kenneth Akers. I am a veteran and former Military Police officer with a background in antiterrorism. I am highly trained in small and large firearms and have advanced evacuation driving skills. 👇🏾
I don’t get it. It’s not just non-white people impacted. LGBTQ+ is about 9.3 of the population. Whether they know it or not, they likely know and love someone from this community. Women? Color aside, never trust a man who is willing to keep their wives and daughters down for their own benefit.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
That’s actually lower than it feels at the grocers.
It worked for him with Musk. Musk drew all the heat like a lightning rod. Once he sent him packing those things died down, but DOGE exists. He can dump RFK and not change the recent health decisions. He gets rid of the instigator and Americans don't notice he doesn't fix the problem they caused.
Didn't he choose not to run for house again because he's making a Senate run next year? This guy could lose them both a house and senate seat.
How did the two companies come to such different conclusions on which states to require prescriptions in? I would have expected the lists to be 80-90% the same.
Thanks. I’ll read this and look for your upcoming story. The privacy aspect bothers me. Many people have very legitimate reasons to be very anonymous online.
I’m not in a state which requires it. I’ve been asked for it here and there. I just choose to no longer use those services. None of them are interesting enough to put up with this. If they are looking to kill the internet as much as possible this is a good spot to start.
1/2 This gets into what it looks like, but doesn’t get into the privacy aspects at all. It removes your anonymity on the internet in the name of protecting kids. You aren’t just proving age, you are telling them who you are. This is for tracking not protection.
It must be ok. It doesn’t say she is concerned yet.
I've lived in that area. This isn't about Chicago. This is 30ish crappy highway miles from Chicago. They don't want to haul their victims that far. This is about only a fence separating an enormous pool of potential victims and federal lands they can scurry back to and hide. Base in in the circle.
There should be efforts to make sure the folks back home see this crap and that guardsmen hear it. Nothing like getting an email from the boss saying, "So you had to travel across the country for emergency mulching?" These guys know it's embarrassing. We need to let them know we all know.
He would only do it to get the heat on the new policies to go away. The chaos will not get reverted. If it all goes to hell he will just say Biden and RFK broke everything and it will take a long time for the new person to fix it. Trump has no loyalty to anyone.
Seems like just a month ago that people were furious because CDC Director Susan Monarez “only” had a PhD in microbiology and immunology. Wait…it was. Now we’ve got this guy, with degrees in humanities who wants to build villages on the ocean so they are outside of any country’s laws.
He correct. They need to start fixing toxic straight white male masculinity. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Tariffs are very regressive. It shoves the tax burden on to those who spend larger percentages of their income on goods. The poorer you are the higher your taxes. So this is saying we won’t be able to tax the rich so killing the poor is the only way forward. I hate this place more each day.
I increased my spending in the last month. We had a family road trip to Canada. Even planned it to spend minimal money on gas and food in the red states on the way.
One of my more upsetting realizations on this is if they started shooting up board rooms instead of schools we’d have gun laws by morning.
No. I do what I can. Self care is a priority. Always check your own oxygen mask first Then I do what I’m able to. Maybe it’s a zine shoved in books at the train station lending library. Maybe it’s helping at the food bank. Or going to an LGBTQ fundraiser. We should all do what we can.
There’s a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Q: “Are you worried all this pushback could provoke Trump to follow-through with sending the National Guard?” MAYOR @brandon4chicago.bsky.social Johnson: “As a descendant of slaves, can you imagine if my ancestors had that same rationale?“
Great Lakes Naval Station is the circle in the corner. All that would be separating ICE and Lake Counties largest non-white communities is a fence. They can kidnap people and disappear them into federal lands quickly from there. Don't buy into their Chicago story.
Every immigrant or every non-citizen resident?
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For those not from Chicagoland - ICE and the National Guard are not going to Great Lakes Naval Base primarily to be within reach of Chicago. This is why. Large populations of people to kidnap just over the fence from federal land they can escape to. The base is the circled area in the corner.
Every one who confirmed him should have town halls to explain the rationale of their vote to their constituents. In person.
@mayorbowser.bsky.social in the news! How’s capitulation feel? You know this bought you nothing, right? He will forever see you as weak. He will come back, and will ask for more next time.
Someone get Gov Pritzker on the phone and ask him to immediately convene all Blue State governors to Chicago. He can do that.
“Third Way” is a fascist organization and listening to them is a great way for Democrats to keep losing.
It’s sad that 8 months in we have people asking why this stuff is happening and trying to rationalize it. Stop. Its happening because ICE is full of racists and our executive branch is filled with bigots. We need to stop asking why, it doesn’t matter. We need to demand it stop.
Every Senate Republican except McConnell chose him to be in leadership. If RFK is ousted, we must then focus on how he got into leadership in the first place. Don’t let them hide from their votes.
“Lost”? Not really. They were able to transfer taxpayer money to quite a number of their friends in that short period of time. Their only regret is it got shutdown before the money really started moving.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov said they are not welcome here. We can’t stop them from coming to federal land, but Waukegan and North Chicago are not federal. They need to stay on base.
If they want to get technical - the rounds actually kill people. You'd have about the same chance of killing someone with a gun by itself as you would an axe handle. Maybe we just ban ammo.
Well, they've been a bit busy lately tackling innocent people in court houses and kidnapping delivery drivers and people on their way to work. They even kidnapped a few firefighters mid wildfire. How do you expect them to have time for gun violence when they are out there "fighting crime"?
National or a local branch of the NAACP? I don't donate to the email/text beggars. When I see actions like this from non-profits I've been sending small donations of support.
So those assholes they are sending to Great Lakes Naval Center next month are going to stay their asses on post then? @govpritzker.illinois.gov has said they are not welcome here. So if he’s not forcing it on us, why play the stupid game of hiding them on federal land?
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Push button in red circle. Grab and pull the magazine in the direction of the green arrow and throw it on a roof or under a car. He then has one round in his weapon at best. If there were any to begin with.
For those asking, this is an ammosexual.
Will it work? They were making lists of loyaliststo replace the competent people. It's definitely the right move, but they seem to have an endless pool of undereducated jackboots at their disposal who will take any job position. It would be nice to see a larger federal walkout.
It’s probably code for non-white.
As much as tens of millions of "Americans of faith" have been insensitive and disrespectful to me my whole life - Good. Let's do it again but meaner.
The proud boy cosplaying a federal agent picking up his bonus check this afternoon will be better off.
Thanks for doing this? But did anyone answer your call? If so did enough of them answer? Love @sanders.senate.gov - but our news cycle is too busy right now to make a big deal of calls and demands for change. Let us know when something happens. Or better yet, just victories.
A lot of these conditions people would already be on medications. And for those that don't have meds: Obesity, former smokers, physical inactivity, type 2 diabetes. Well, that's most of America.
Gun violence is the number one cause of death of children and teens in America. Not food dyes. Not seed oils. Not vaccines. What is the Trump administration and RFK Jr. going to do about it? #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain
Not really sure the interest in hurting animals in the first place. I don’t even fish with a line and hook though. Tearing an animal out of their home with a hook through their mouth then suffocating them for minutes before throwing them back is traumatizing to the fish and is not entertainment.
Let’s aim them at the rural meth labs instead.
Remember: it’s never just a job or a paycheck if it’s helping erase the existence of human beings. No paycheck is worth that much.
Fighting? Anonymous social media posts under the name of Schneiders “new Dems” is not fighting. Abolish @newdems.bsky.social to make room for anything useful. Anything.
So not a second spent fighting the fascist coup this week. Why do you exist?
Stick your thoughts and prayers where the sun doesn’t shine, Brad Schneider et al. We need fighters. Either step up and fight or step down and let us replace you with someone who will. Unless you have actually solved a problem or had a major victory kindly shut your traps.
DC Airsoft fans who have some extra bravery - now is your moment to shine.
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
More specifically straight white males experiencing middle class downward mobility and instability. It’s the mental health crisis they do not want to acknowledge. It’s “masculinity” (whatever that means today). www.researchgate.net/publication/...
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
Launching studies with predetermined outcomes because they don't like they results of the studies that have been done. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Let me guess - his primary criteria is skin color?
Pritzker and Polis launched this last November and I haven't heard much about it since. I don't know if that means it's a dead effort or functioning out of sight. govsfordemocracy.org
I bet these same guys made fun of Pokémon and still would.
He’s doing ok taking cheap shots at Trump and enraging him. But that’s saying less about him and more about the current democratic field. All of them should have been making fun of the despot months ago. It’s sad that it’s only him and so late. Definitely just sitting in the right chair.
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
How about fighting fascists instead of dreaming about hand holding sessions with them? If there were someone primarying Schneider over this crap I’d be volunteering for them this afternoon. We need a congressman who represents us and isn’t just obsessed with making this pipe dream happen.
So done with the @newdems.bsky.social We wish our congressman Schneider would stop with this nonsense and start representing us. He and your caucus are light years from being what we need at this moment. Stop the bipartisan crap and fight like they have declared war on you. Because they have.
We are keeping notes and hope to punish major capitulators along with collaborators when this is over. Welcome to the list. Hope rolling over and playing dead is worth whatever they promised or threatened you with. It won’t be long term. You probably didn’t even buy yourself a week if even a day.