(She/They) ED of Midwest Access Coalition Co-founder of Apiary for Practical Support Founding Treasurer of Elevated Access Founding Treasurer of Foxglove Fund Former board member of Chicago Community Bond Fund Opinions belong to me, DEI, and pettiness
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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
They’re still platforming Gorka??
It kept them from moving forward with their fascist plan until most (not all) of them decided to go back and watch their colleague get locked inside the capitol.
I’m in IL, run an org out of IL, and have pushed solutions to serious issues Pritzker has been very responsive to before Newsom started his transphobic podcast and destroyed the property of houseless people. JB is who Gavin wishes he had the courage to be but he doesn’t so he’ll just tweet.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Good. Everyone should focus on their eyes and tats.
How we treated the confederate leaders after they lost signaled forever who this country will allow to wreak havoc and why
Many of the federal troops who massacred Native American women, children, and unarmed men at Wounded Knee received Medals of Honor. As I have said before, these are not unprecedented actions. Their precedents are erased history.
Fire just a few cops and they’ll easily find the money by not having to pay out as many brutality settlements.
Evanston has confirmed that it is deactivating its Flock ALPRs after many reports IL police were illegally sharing data with ICE and other federal agencies. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
NEW: CNN's now publicly released video analysis shows Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Nasser Hospital was, in fact, actually a triple-tap. They bombed the hospital, and then fired upon the rescue team and journalists with not one but two more shells.
My mom is a pharmacist at a big box store. Pharmacists cannot access their customers’ medical history because of HIPAA. If you get a prick who pretends they have more info than they do, try a different pharmacy.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is possible only thru media who present stories from the perspective of the tyrant or an absurd attempt at both sides. The military is in town to combat crime, the President’s image is hanging over the town to remind criminals how tough he is, the unlawful arrests of DC residents didn’t happen.
The Idaho murders were clearly a plan of femicide, the media likes burying that aspect as well.
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
The well-being of children is a darn good indicator of priorities of a society.
Abolish and eyes on what they’re doing to Lil Nas X.
This country does not take long to remind us of who it doesn’t value, today the reminder is for children.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
The children of a Nazi are currently going to great lengths to avoid giving back paintings stolen from a Jewish art dealer who died trying to escape the Holocaust. The whole world knows now, it’ll be interesting to see how Argentina handles it.
In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...
"But Mikki how can you say that?" The Black maternal mortality rate said it. The violence against Black women by the state and in our communities said it. The ways "Listen to Black women" only applies after election losses say it. And this is not just an American issue so...why can't you hear it?
The part no one is saying is that a lot of people are very comfortable with the idea of sacrificing Black women to protect themselves. People got so mad when we did #NotYourMammy after #solidarityisforwhitewomen, but society does not see Black women as people, so much as shields and tools.
My mom sent us this video from the rez of the dust storm last night.
Monstrous loser
"A state Supreme Court justice has rejected Andrew M. Cuomo’s efforts to continue litigating a case in which a former aide who accused him of groping her during an encounter at the governor's mansion in 2020 had recently agreed to a $450,000 settlement." www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
It might seem counterintuitive for anti-abortion folks to be anti-IVF. But it makes sense if you consider that both positions aim to limit women's social power. Attacks on IVF do that by incentivizing women to have kids younger, giving up school and career plans. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
🤬 losers
More of the same bland white man type running things into the ground. Target must really not want us back.
"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
And that rent money goes to a hedge fund whose members live nowhere near there.
Israeli settlement that would split the occupied West Bank in half was approved this morning. “The Palestinian state is being erased from the table not by slogans but by deeds. Every settlement, every neighborhood, every unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea,” Smotroch declared.
Sending love and strength to all parents of neurodivergent and disabled children getting ready for the fight of another school year in a country that still refuses to invest in education for ALL children. 🍏✏️
What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible
New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortion—and depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin people’s lives by manipulating the legal process
Black women are being used as test subjects for the limits of abuse of power. I want people to not ignore this since this always happens and then when the abuse arrives at people's doorstep, they're surprised. CALL IT OUT NOW.
Abortion funds are the Opills resource for many of these new bc users.
But use a VPN
Jfc
Ppl this is not going to happen. State police are not going to arrest federal police. The most that can even be optimistically expected of them is that they will not assist federal police, and even that is a heavy lift, even if they are totally within their constitutional rights to do just that.
Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Also, this shit being said on Twitter and not BlueSky confirms many people’s belief that staying on Twitter for engagement rots your brain whether you’re progressive or not.
These arrests in May were harbingers of using law enforcement as a tool to disempower communities and gut local sovereignty. It's about arresting Democratic politicians (especially Black ones) but also about nullifying the votes of people who elected them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
Cuomo is a Democrat. This is why people mistrust Democrats. The party supports a Trump brown-noser over a candidate who is *actually progressive*, because the oligarchy is balls-deep in the party. The only way forward for the Democratic party is to embrace and stand on progressive principles.
The federal officer who arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside an immigration detention center in May suggested that he was following the direction of the DOJ's No. 2 official, Todd Blanche, according to bodycam footage.
Anger. At allies, progressives, centrists, whoever for joining the abandonment of Black women in political and organizational leadership as soon as they gained the ability to make progressive change. *You* will never be free if Black women aren’t free to correct this country’s treatment of us.
Republicans are holding her And Dems let her sit in there alone
Annnd it needs to be said out loud that the fact that she’s the only one means that besides the Latina legislator who has refused to come back to TX, all their colleagues signed little fascist forms agreeing to be escorted by police who are basically their Texas house arrest prison guards
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, one of the most aggressive anti-abortion AGs in the country, has been named FBI co-deputy director. Quite possibly the worst abortion-related news we’ve seen from the Trump administration yet.
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
lol pretty typical quote from the Worst Chris
Strong letter from DE's AG to Nemours Children’s Hospital, which has stopped gender affirming care. Her spox was clear on msg: “When business leaders — especially those with clout — show that they’re willing to pick on kids for the sake of bending the knee, it’s important that they hear pushback."
Your loyalties are so terribly harmful and way outdated, you need to gooooooooo.
Congrats! My partner grew up on a pig farm, they remember their favorite pig still, her name was Ruby.
😭
As long as this man still acts as if he owes elder Kushner and AIPAC, his progressiveness is completely useless and harmful.
Tf?
Those prison CEOs are going to want their cells filled with other people somehow.
Everyday some chatbot churns out new material that would get an individual child sex offender status but nothing happens when big tech does it, they’re no longer accountable to anyone or any value.
federal agents are in DC. you're probably wondering what this means for abortion access in the District. www.instagram.com/p/DNV9EVNxje...
They may not even wait for an excuse, better to fabricate and control a narrative completely because they can now openly lie and the media will protect that lie enough for it to do the damage.
Very bad news from Costco. One of the groups orchestrating this pressure campaign is Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist law firm that is hellbent on reshaping US society. The ADF coalition "now turns its focus to CVS and Walgreens."
As much as white people meme about punching Nazis I don’t see nearly enough of you punching Nazis, including your own family members.
Texas already enforces a total abortion ban that forced 28,000 residents to travel out-of-state for care in 2024. Now lawmakers want to go further, pushing an extreme and cruel agenda that would make abortion care even less accessible. 🚨
L.A. volunteers who document ICE raids are being arrested. How to do it safely
On vacation again?
MO’s trash Trumpy leg took over the STL police for him already.
MA sheriff arrested in FL, it’s time to seriously reconsider traveling to the confederacy.
Doing nothing to improve Black maternal and infant mortality, but needing more Black people for profit is an original contradictory US sin that white political power will not let die because it is THE foundation of their wealth. They were never made to pay for it, so why would they stop?
Don’t need to platform this guy and make us look at his head unnecessarily.
Incredible. Maxwell isn’t just at Club Fed. She gets to leave prison during the day just like Epstein did when he served his little sentence in Florida.
News editor guy: we need some normal news about getting shit done, Jimmy, it’s time to check in with the lesbians.
The president brought up no cash bail and Chicago today. Here’s a reminder: Data emerging from the Circuit Court of Cook County shows that the law is working thetriibe.com/2024/07/essa...
I got a warning when I told a Trumper his dude was a pedophile.
if you're writing about DC losing control of its police department today, just months ago the same basic thing happened in St. Louis (and more durably): boltsmag.org/missouri-sta...
And its homeless population that's in the first line of fire? Over 90% Black.
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
Blue state, blue city.
People are going to be forced to accept their local police observing and protecting the fbi and national guard as they pick racist fights with individuals of color all over the country. This is the race war white supremacists wanted.
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while. Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
We’re seeing the version that’s lord of the rings flavored, elves doing it in a forest
I feel this should be a bigger story, right?
From the U.S. to El Salvador and around the world, I stand with civil society as our countries confront the growing threat of authoritarianism and actions that weaken our democracies. (1/2)
If birthright citizenship is under attack so is every other amendment and the constitution itself.
Is it funny that the comms director hired by Melissa DeRosa to use AI to craft inane tweets for the Cuomo campaign doesn't know anything about the history of the Erie Canal or Chicago? I can't actually tell.
This should be standard for every story you report on. Now do this but for trans rights, or anything that actually matters to people living in this country right now who aren’t filthy rich.
You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.
Laziness passed down to them from their ancestors who couldn’t build anything in this country themselves so they stole labor and land, never repaid. The only thing they were good at was depravity. Of course their kids want the same thing, because they’re still unskilled at anything but depravity.
Send it to the full bench, assuming it’s not entirely plagued by Trump and McConnell’s nasty work
More Dems rejecting AIPAC 💚
“Prisoners suspected of being in this country illegally have been picked up at the Orange County Jail, driven around for hours — then returned to the jail with a new inmate number and a re-set on the time they can be held in local custody.”
The audacity to put out a statement claiming to have values while destroying them in front of our faces should bring eternal shame to them all. I’ll remember their names.
They can try, but without international students…
protect women they say
Get rid of social services except the parts that pay the bribers