Craighton Berman
@craighton.bsky.social
📍 Chicago
👉 www.craightonberman.com
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Remote protest, 2035 AD
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Remote protest, 2035 AD
Why bomb Venezuelan boats? Why are there so many Venezuelan migrants? Why the obsession with Tren de Aragua? Why are we sending the CIA into Venezuela? Why did the US collapse the Venezuelan economy with sanctions? Why is Chevron propping up the Venezuelan economy and supporting a dictatorship?
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Why bomb Venezuelan boats? Why are there so many Venezuelan migrants? Why the obsession with Tren de Aragua? Why are we sending the CIA into Venezuela? Why did the US collapse the Venezuelan economy with sanctions? Why is Chevron propping up the Venezuelan economy and supporting a dictatorship?
When it rains, it pours.
A poster for a window, for a wall, for your city.
A poster for a window, for a wall, for your city.
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
When it rains, it pours.
A poster for a window, for a wall, for your city.
A poster for a window, for a wall, for your city.
“Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
Don’t tread on me?
October 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Don’t tread on me?
Support your local rapid response network.
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Support your local rapid response network.
gtfo chicago, gestapo
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
gtfo chicago, gestapo
No one is illegal on stolen land.
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
No one is illegal on stolen land.
In Chicago we have alders that represent 50 different community areas. I went to my Alderwoman’s office this morning to ask about her silence on the ICE activity in our ward. After a poor exchange I wanted to share the follow-up letter I sent:
October 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
In Chicago we have alders that represent 50 different community areas. I went to my Alderwoman’s office this morning to ask about her silence on the ICE activity in our ward. After a poor exchange I wanted to share the follow-up letter I sent:
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
In Chicago, public roads are used to store private vehicles en masse—sometimes even for free. And yet my local bike lane has oil stains from the cars that regularly use it as overflow parking.
September 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In Chicago, public roads are used to store private vehicles en masse—sometimes even for free. And yet my local bike lane has oil stains from the cars that regularly use it as overflow parking.
Public parks are for all—housed and unhoused. But also when a park turns into an housing encampment, the park is no longer for all. It’s ok to balance that complexity.
While all eyes are on ICE this week, the city has confirmed plans to clear an encampment of unhoused people in Legion Park early Tuesday morning.
Community advocates posted this flyer asking for support and they’ll be holding a press conf, alongside park residents, on Monday at 9am in the park.
Community advocates posted this flyer asking for support and they’ll be holding a press conf, alongside park residents, on Monday at 9am in the park.
September 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Public parks are for all—housed and unhoused. But also when a park turns into an housing encampment, the park is no longer for all. It’s ok to balance that complexity.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
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@craighton.bsky.social's latest designs for Manual are launching on Kickstarter. They look great!
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The Mezzanine Collection
A line of occasional tables that create mezzanine floors for furniture.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
@craighton.bsky.social's latest designs for Manual are launching on Kickstarter. They look great!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cra...
The president threatening “Apocalypse Now” on a Chicago
September 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The president threatening “Apocalypse Now” on a Chicago
The outrage-industrial complex is the only thing thriving these days.
June 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The outrage-industrial complex is the only thing thriving these days.
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I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
I wrote a bit about the misguided effort by Democrats to replicate Joe Rogan the right-wing podcast ecosystem.
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.
On “American Disruption” (1/5)
May 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
On “American Disruption” (1/5)
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Time once again to post Comrade Lincoln
September 2, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Time once again to post Comrade Lincoln
Happy May Day from Chicago
May 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happy May Day from Chicago
They should really just pitch protected bike lanes as “bike free” lanes for cars so we can get the neighborhood NIMBYs on board
April 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
They should really just pitch protected bike lanes as “bike free” lanes for cars so we can get the neighborhood NIMBYs on board
How the fuck do I keep a normal work day when students are being disappeared by the government. I just can’t.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How the fuck do I keep a normal work day when students are being disappeared by the government. I just can’t.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...