megankmaneater
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Shelters do not admit couples, families with children, people with pets, require total sobriety, and often force people to attend church services and do not accommodate people with dietary needs. Build housing people can afford on extremely low or zero income.
December 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Shelters do not admit couples, families with children, people with pets, require total sobriety, and often force people to attend church services and do not accommodate people with dietary needs. Build housing people can afford on extremely low or zero income.
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
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Chicago police arrested a group participating in a rally yesterday that called attention to the huge wealth gaps in the city and demanded that city leaders use next year's budget to bring more equity across neighborhoods. 2/4
Here are some words from organizers:
Here are some words from organizers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chicago police arrested a group participating in a rally yesterday that called attention to the huge wealth gaps in the city and demanded that city leaders use next year's budget to bring more equity across neighborhoods. 2/4
Here are some words from organizers:
Here are some words from organizers:
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
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Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
really good comparison here. can someone calculate what Chicago residents are paying for CPD settlements?
Kansas City residents are paying out the equivalent of $50 each for Kansas City Police settlements just for comparisons.
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr.
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident
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Remember when Newsom had Charlie Kirk on his shitty podcast and said he agreed with his transphobic bullshit and praised him for his "outreach to young men"
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Remember when Newsom had Charlie Kirk on his shitty podcast and said he agreed with his transphobic bullshit and praised him for his "outreach to young men"
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Incarcerated women and trans people in the U.S. are punished for their periods. They describe:
🟣 making their own tampons out of unsanitary items
🟣 facing penalties for having more tampons or pads than allowed
🟣 being humiliated by prison staff — yes, even women
My latest for @19thnews.org:
🟣 making their own tampons out of unsanitary items
🟣 facing penalties for having more tampons or pads than allowed
🟣 being humiliated by prison staff — yes, even women
My latest for @19thnews.org:
Punished for bleeding: How periods in prison become a trap
Many incarcerated women and trans people are forced to choose between maintaining their dignity and health — or facing penalties.
19thnews.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Incarcerated women and trans people in the U.S. are punished for their periods. They describe:
🟣 making their own tampons out of unsanitary items
🟣 facing penalties for having more tampons or pads than allowed
🟣 being humiliated by prison staff — yes, even women
My latest for @19thnews.org:
🟣 making their own tampons out of unsanitary items
🟣 facing penalties for having more tampons or pads than allowed
🟣 being humiliated by prison staff — yes, even women
My latest for @19thnews.org:
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RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
CDC Panel Of Vaccine Skeptics Votes To Delay Hepatitis B Shot For Most Babies
Public health officials warned that the decision by advisers picked by RFK Jr. will result in more infants being infected and experiencing lifelong liver diseases.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
This is REAL. I feel like I've aged 15 years in the last 12 months. I don't feel like I'm living in my own body anymore. Injuries come out of nowhere. The temperature is forever hideously uncomfortable. Now I understand why our culture is so afraid of aging.
www.thecut.com/article/midd...
www.thecut.com/article/midd...
Falling Off the Aging Cliff at 44
Research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments. Elder millennials are headed toward the edge.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is REAL. I feel like I've aged 15 years in the last 12 months. I don't feel like I'm living in my own body anymore. Injuries come out of nowhere. The temperature is forever hideously uncomfortable. Now I understand why our culture is so afraid of aging.
www.thecut.com/article/midd...
www.thecut.com/article/midd...
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It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
December 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.
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is anyone starting to think that perhaps the Supreme Court of the United States does not impartially render justice?
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
is anyone starting to think that perhaps the Supreme Court of the United States does not impartially render justice?
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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Libraries are far more valuable than CPD will ever be! I spent so much time in Chicago libraries (esp the Austin branch)they offered me a summer job as a teen! Brandon Chicago expects better than this!
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Libraries are far more valuable than CPD will ever be! I spent so much time in Chicago libraries (esp the Austin branch)they offered me a summer job as a teen! Brandon Chicago expects better than this!
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An evergreen connection between poetry and activism:
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
An evergreen connection between poetry and activism:
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
Big changes can start with *small* actions: that tiny choice to show up to a training, wear a button, post online, wear a whistle as a necklace, stuff that is too easy to cynically write off as performative. Every small action opens a door.
I have listened to all the episodes of Allison After Nxivm on the free feed. I listened with an open mind, holding my values that we are all more than the worst thing we've ever done.
But this podcast is emblematic of everything wrong with journalism, and how we treat survivors of abuse.
But this podcast is emblematic of everything wrong with journalism, and how we treat survivors of abuse.
We caught up with Natalie Robehmed to talk about how the 'Allison After NXIVM' longform podcast came together, how she tracked down Lauren Salzman, and what she learned from the whole experience.
Interview ↓
Interview ↓
She Spent 20 Years in NXIVM and Helped Put Its Leader in Jail. Now She's Speaking Out
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I have listened to all the episodes of Allison After Nxivm on the free feed. I listened with an open mind, holding my values that we are all more than the worst thing we've ever done.
But this podcast is emblematic of everything wrong with journalism, and how we treat survivors of abuse.
But this podcast is emblematic of everything wrong with journalism, and how we treat survivors of abuse.
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Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
“Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, noted that “abductions” continue happening “every day in both the city and the suburbs.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
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Never in my lifetime have I witnessed a politician so indignant, righteous, and combative about throwing the activists and door-knockers who got him elected under the bus. He's spent his term wooing his opponent's voting bloc while telling his own voters to kick rocks. No endgame here.
Brandon Johnson repeated this on WBEZ this week saying incredulously “there are people who want me to cut the police budget.”
I’d really love for him to reveal exactly who is asking that of him.
Because I can tell you this: a lot of people who want him to do that held their nose to vote for him.
I’d really love for him to reveal exactly who is asking that of him.
Because I can tell you this: a lot of people who want him to do that held their nose to vote for him.
Johnson vows to veto any budget that includes a property tax increase or makes cuts to the proposed $2.1 billion for the Chicago Police Department.
CONTEXT: No one has seriously proposed either.
Days until the Dec. 30 deadline for the City Council to pass a budget: 43
CONTEXT: No one has seriously proposed either.
Days until the Dec. 30 deadline for the City Council to pass a budget: 43
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Never in my lifetime have I witnessed a politician so indignant, righteous, and combative about throwing the activists and door-knockers who got him elected under the bus. He's spent his term wooing his opponent's voting bloc while telling his own voters to kick rocks. No endgame here.
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The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.
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NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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Help make it possible for parents who are incarcerated to give presents to their kids this season!
Most people in jail & prison are parents. Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration has run this drive for 11 years, and it is a powerful act of support & resistance.
www.kohls.com/babyregistry...
Most people in jail & prison are parents. Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration has run this drive for 11 years, and it is a powerful act of support & resistance.
www.kohls.com/babyregistry...
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Help make it possible for parents who are incarcerated to give presents to their kids this season!
Most people in jail & prison are parents. Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration has run this drive for 11 years, and it is a powerful act of support & resistance.
www.kohls.com/babyregistry...
Most people in jail & prison are parents. Moms United Against Violence and Incarceration has run this drive for 11 years, and it is a powerful act of support & resistance.
www.kohls.com/babyregistry...
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Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
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"...the Little Village Community Council are renowned for blowing whistles to warn of federal immigration agents and for their tense encounters with them. But they also quietly have been taking more than 60 children to and from school every day. “We call ourselves magic school buses,” he says."
A WBEZ analysis finds student attendance briefly plummeted following intense moments of immigration enforcement, but overall rates are comparable to last year.
As immigration agents swept Chicago this fall, communities stepped in to get kids to school safely
www.wbez.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"...the Little Village Community Council are renowned for blowing whistles to warn of federal immigration agents and for their tense encounters with them. But they also quietly have been taking more than 60 children to and from school every day. “We call ourselves magic school buses,” he says."
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Montgomery County first made its “Ride On” buses free to all riders under 18 in 2019. Then on June 29, 2025, it made all of its buses fare-free for all passengers. The system has a fleet of nearly 400 buses, 80 routes, and provided 19.2 million rides in the 2025 fiscal year.
Free Buses Can Be a Reality — Just Look at Maryland
Zohran Mamdani’s plan for free buses is not a pipe dream. Montgomery County, Maryland, made its buses free this year.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Montgomery County first made its “Ride On” buses free to all riders under 18 in 2019. Then on June 29, 2025, it made all of its buses fare-free for all passengers. The system has a fleet of nearly 400 buses, 80 routes, and provided 19.2 million rides in the 2025 fiscal year.
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A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...