H Kapp-Klote
@hkappklote.bsky.social
I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
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H Kapp-Klote
@hkappklote.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Nearly 25% of All Out-of-State Abortions Took Place in Illinois Last Year: Study
About 35,000 out-of-state patients traveled to Illinois for an abortion last year, accounting for 39% of all abortions provided in the state, according to a recent study.
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Illinois handled 25% of ALL out-of-state abortions last year.
That’s 35,000+ people crossing state lines just to get care.
The Chicago Abortion Fund fielded 16,000+ calls and no one was turned away.
That's holding the line.
That’s 35,000+ people crossing state lines just to get care.
The Chicago Abortion Fund fielded 16,000+ calls and no one was turned away.
That's holding the line.
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I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
We are in the end stages of a multi-decade campaign to consolidate power through courts, media, religion, and fear, and it is working. If the people running the Democratic Party cannot grasp that this is an emergency—not a branding exercise—they will lose.
February 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
We are in the end stages of a multi-decade campaign to consolidate power through courts, media, religion, and fear, and it is working. If the people running the Democratic Party cannot grasp that this is an emergency—not a branding exercise—they will lose.
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Ham radios were essential back when I lived in rural California when PG&E was doing their emergency power shutoffs! Extremely useful tool for reporting.
February 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Ham radios were essential back when I lived in rural California when PG&E was doing their emergency power shutoffs! Extremely useful tool for reporting.
Big fan of GIG and this endorsement — I know everyone‘s sick of hearing about 09 from me but imo they both reach a LOT of groups counted out in Chicago politics right now and I love to see the collaboration.
Unbelievably honored to be endorsed by the Girl, I Guess voter guide!
As establishment forces rush to anoint the same tired power brokers, GIG does the opposite. It looks past the status quo and asks a more important question: Who will actually fight for real change?
As establishment forces rush to anoint the same tired power brokers, GIG does the opposite. It looks past the status quo and asks a more important question: Who will actually fight for real change?
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Big fan of GIG and this endorsement — I know everyone‘s sick of hearing about 09 from me but imo they both reach a LOT of groups counted out in Chicago politics right now and I love to see the collaboration.
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Gregory Bovino got kicked out of Bottled Blonde in Las Vegas by people who surely hate Ma and Pa America
www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...
www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...
Border Goon Kicked Out of Las Vegas Bar to ‘Maintain' Safety
Bottled Blonde ejected Gregory Bovino to keep things “safe and orderly” days after Trump dumped him from Minneapolis for the same reason.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Gregory Bovino got kicked out of Bottled Blonde in Las Vegas by people who surely hate Ma and Pa America
www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...
www.thedailybeast.com/border-goon-...
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happy to be included in @hkappklote.bsky.social’s 312 newsletter, giving a little insight into why @thetriibe.com doesn’t post on that one site anymore.
February 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
happy to be included in @hkappklote.bsky.social’s 312 newsletter, giving a little insight into why @thetriibe.com doesn’t post on that one site anymore.
What’s up everyone — new Chicago 312 out today with background on the ICE on Notice Executive Order, whatever a TIF sweep is, and why we all left (or haven’t left!) X.
Read it here: hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/correction...
Read it here: hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/correction...
(CORRECTION) The 312: Johnson Writes Orders, O'Burke Ignores Them, and Chicago Celebrates Moving Its Own Money Around (1)
Chicago 312: ICE is on notice in Chicago, I still don't know what a TIF Sweep is, and a *community poll* about how much X personally and politically scrambles your brain.
hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
What’s up everyone — new Chicago 312 out today with background on the ICE on Notice Executive Order, whatever a TIF sweep is, and why we all left (or haven’t left!) X.
Read it here: hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/correction...
Read it here: hs-newsletter-e91163.beehiiv.com/p/correction...
Good morning, lmao, WHO is Phil Andrew, etc
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Good morning, lmao, WHO is Phil Andrew, etc
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cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox
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unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest
One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...
unraveledpress.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't
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I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
I’m gearing up to take my ham radio Technician license exam (third attempt—tried in 2019 and 2022, this time it’s sticking) and I’m remembering why this hobby keeps pulling me back:
February 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I’m gearing up to take my ham radio Technician license exam (third attempt—tried in 2019 and 2022, this time it’s sticking) and I’m remembering why this hobby keeps pulling me back:
Very important article in terms of understanding who in an electable position finds this very simple phrase "complicated" and who does not.
What lawmakers say they mean by calls to "abolish ICE"
From ending funding to disbanding the agency, officials offer different definitions.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Very important article in terms of understanding who in an electable position finds this very simple phrase "complicated" and who does not.
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so I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work
February 5, 2026 at 12:42 AM
so I spend up to 80% of the time I work on a story on research and reporting, which you don’t see but get evidence of in the published story—which is not unlike the ratio of political education, relationship building, and planning to the action you see that I’ve seen in organizing and movement work
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If I could snap my fingers and make a single county specific reform it would be making the board of review and the assessor appointed. It is insane that we have elections for these offices.
February 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
If I could snap my fingers and make a single county specific reform it would be making the board of review and the assessor appointed. It is insane that we have elections for these offices.
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the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
February 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.
Every mass layoff in journalism means that there are fewer people reporting with an incentive to follow the rules of journalism over the rules of the algorithm.
Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
February 4, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Every mass layoff in journalism means that there are fewer people reporting with an incentive to follow the rules of journalism over the rules of the algorithm.
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Every time a disastrous mass layoff shudders its way through what’s left of our industry, the atrocious conditions we, working class journalists, are struggling to free ourselves from are laid bare in spectacular form. I’m so angry I could spit (again).
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Every time a disastrous mass layoff shudders its way through what’s left of our industry, the atrocious conditions we, working class journalists, are struggling to free ourselves from are laid bare in spectacular form. I’m so angry I could spit (again).
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
www.wordsaboutwork.news/it-was-never...
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In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
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doomers will tell you that the republicans never plan on having to win an election again, but all of the worst people running the worst companies in the country are behaving like they know they don’t have long
someone is getting anxious about their future after november
February 4, 2026 at 6:29 PM
doomers will tell you that the republicans never plan on having to win an election again, but all of the worst people running the worst companies in the country are behaving like they know they don’t have long
After a decade of screaming about how movements need to be online, in 2026, it feels like we have to forget the Internet.
We outnumber them on the ground: where brave, incredible people are taking real risk where it matters.
We outnumber them on the ground: where brave, incredible people are taking real risk where it matters.
Always remember THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS. In the realm of Online, they can just say things and have them treated as true. In the realm of Real Life, there are 115,000 polling places in America and DHS has like 15,000 dudes total.
Steve Bannon: “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.”
February 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
After a decade of screaming about how movements need to be online, in 2026, it feels like we have to forget the Internet.
We outnumber them on the ground: where brave, incredible people are taking real risk where it matters.
We outnumber them on the ground: where brave, incredible people are taking real risk where it matters.
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“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Beyond the appalling levels of evil, they‘re bringing a knife to a gun fight by trying this PR stunt in front of Bad Bunny
February 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Beyond the appalling levels of evil, they‘re bringing a knife to a gun fight by trying this PR stunt in front of Bad Bunny