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@rachelhawley.bsky.social
socialist propagandist in Chicago, editing at @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. la libertá é terapeutica ✨
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‘Helped’ Against Your Will
Use of involuntary psychiatric treatment is expanding nationwide. In New York City, an alternative is on the ballot.
progressive.org
Hey blueskyers—I wrote this a little while back about Zohran Mamdani's politics of mental health care, and his intent to swim against the growing tide toward expanded use of involuntary psychiatric detainment and forced treatment in this country. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a read!
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels
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Some screenshots from itp_chicago IG. You can see how federal agents stake their presence around some of these communities in intersections in the middle of traffic and sidewalks in front of businesses. This feels very particular to the SW Side with Little Village being a prime target for this.
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Some screenshots from itp_chicago IG. You can see how federal agents stake their presence around some of these communities in intersections in the middle of traffic and sidewalks in front of businesses. This feels very particular to the SW Side with Little Village being a prime target for this.
Something I realized while I was in New York this past week is that despite all of the great reporting being done, the scale of ICE’s war on Chicago hasn’t fully permeated the national consciousness. People know about it in the most general terms, but when you actually describe it, their jaws drop
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Something I realized while I was in New York this past week is that despite all of the great reporting being done, the scale of ICE’s war on Chicago hasn’t fully permeated the national consciousness. People know about it in the most general terms, but when you actually describe it, their jaws drop
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I have whistles on the Southside (Bridgeport) I can hand off. Hit me up!
(not 10's of thousands like Em though 😁)
(not 10's of thousands like Em though 😁)
Come get your whistles! They’re protected speech!
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I have whistles on the Southside (Bridgeport) I can hand off. Hit me up!
(not 10's of thousands like Em though 😁)
(not 10's of thousands like Em though 😁)
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NEWS: Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home to his wife, sick daughter and four-year old son.
An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment. Story coming
An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment. Story coming
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEWS: Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home to his wife, sick daughter and four-year old son.
An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment. Story coming
An immigration judge granted the 40-year-old Portage Park man detained by federal immigration agents while his 16-year-old daughter, Ofelia, is undergoing cancer treatment. Story coming
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Hey blueskyers—I wrote this a little while back about Zohran Mamdani's politics of mental health care, and his intent to swim against the growing tide toward expanded use of involuntary psychiatric detainment and forced treatment in this country. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a read!
‘Helped’ Against Your Will
Use of involuntary psychiatric treatment is expanding nationwide. In New York City, an alternative is on the ballot.
progressive.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hey blueskyers—I wrote this a little while back about Zohran Mamdani's politics of mental health care, and his intent to swim against the growing tide toward expanded use of involuntary psychiatric detainment and forced treatment in this country. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a read!
"Auntie is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family" goes so fucking hard
My momma bestie is my auntie
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie
"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family
"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community
My auntie friend that go to her church is also my auntie
My 75 year old cousin... is also my auntie
"Auntie" is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family
"That's not your aunt" is what happens when you live outside of restorative community
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"Auntie is what happens when you understand the expansive proposition of family" goes so fucking hard
Hey blueskyers—I wrote this a little while back about Zohran Mamdani's politics of mental health care, and his intent to swim against the growing tide toward expanded use of involuntary psychiatric detainment and forced treatment in this country. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a read!
‘Helped’ Against Your Will
Use of involuntary psychiatric treatment is expanding nationwide. In New York City, an alternative is on the ballot.
progressive.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hey blueskyers—I wrote this a little while back about Zohran Mamdani's politics of mental health care, and his intent to swim against the growing tide toward expanded use of involuntary psychiatric detainment and forced treatment in this country. It would mean the world to me if you gave it a read!
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NYC-DSA’s Socialists in Office took the stage to talk about democratic socialism, condemn the genocide in Palestine, and ask the gigantic crowd to join DSA 🌹
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Their activity over the last week has included: car crashes, arrests of citizens, rapid responders and bystanders, four days straight of tear gas attacks on dense residential neighborhoods, real guns and pepper ball dispensers pointed at faces, breaking windows and dragging people from cars
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Their activity over the last week has included: car crashes, arrests of citizens, rapid responders and bystanders, four days straight of tear gas attacks on dense residential neighborhoods, real guns and pepper ball dispensers pointed at faces, breaking windows and dragging people from cars
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.
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Border Patrol has reportedly detained several people in Little Village this morning.
Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.
Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Border Patrol has reportedly detained several people in Little Village this morning.
Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.
Video from Facebook shows Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and his agents walking the streets as warning whistles blow in the background.
It’s really bad out today—wherever you go, have your whistle on hand (a bunch of far north side businesses along Broadway and Clark are giving them out, as well as the aldermen’s offices)
If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s really bad out today—wherever you go, have your whistle on hand (a bunch of far north side businesses along Broadway and Clark are giving them out, as well as the aldermen’s offices)
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If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.
October 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.
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Let me know if you’re interested in stepping up and being a cohost of a whistle event. Looking at working with a location in Lakeview to set another one up
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Let me know if you’re interested in stepping up and being a cohost of a whistle event. Looking at working with a location in Lakeview to set another one up
One thing that would help me in this regard is if my current landlord or any of my previous landlords were forced to actually do recycling instead of just having a “recycling” bin in the alley out back that gets funneled into the regular garbage
“Feed the Cart” is being billed as the “largest recycling education and improvement campaign in the state of Illinois’ history.” It even has its own cartoonish mascot, a bug-eyed blue-bin nicknamed “Loop.”
https://to.wttw.com/3KSBz81
https://to.wttw.com/3KSBz81
The Chicago Region Needs to Get Better at Recycling. A New ‘Feed the Cart’ Campaign Makes That Message Clear
The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus — representing 275 local governments in the Chicago metro area — has kicked off a joint recycling education campaign across six counties.
to.wttw.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
One thing that would help me in this regard is if my current landlord or any of my previous landlords were forced to actually do recycling instead of just having a “recycling” bin in the alley out back that gets funneled into the regular garbage
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exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
exhibit a of “has never been a reporter” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
If you travelled a year back in time and asked 2024 me to guess why, on October 16 2025, present me said “I really wish there was a whistle emoji,” I could not have arrived at the right answer in a hundred tries
October 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you travelled a year back in time and asked 2024 me to guess why, on October 16 2025, present me said “I really wish there was a whistle emoji,” I could not have arrived at the right answer in a hundred tries
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Spooky season in our neighborhood already going hard
October 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Spooky season in our neighborhood already going hard
Seems we have at least one vote of approval for the new red line bench design
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Seems we have at least one vote of approval for the new red line bench design
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"All I dream of is for this war to end so I can swim again"
From our correspondent in Gaza, a short profile of Zain, a fourteen-year-old boy who spends his days selling vitamins on the street to help his mother feed his family and dreams of resuming his education and his training at the local pool
From our correspondent in Gaza, a short profile of Zain, a fourteen-year-old boy who spends his days selling vitamins on the street to help his mother feed his family and dreams of resuming his education and his training at the local pool
Once a Swimmer, Now a Survivor: A Teenager’s Life in War-Torn Gaza
Israel’s genocide has forced fourteen-year-old Zain Abbas out of his home and school—but he still holds onto hope for a better future.
progressive.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"All I dream of is for this war to end so I can swim again"
From our correspondent in Gaza, a short profile of Zain, a fourteen-year-old boy who spends his days selling vitamins on the street to help his mother feed his family and dreams of resuming his education and his training at the local pool
From our correspondent in Gaza, a short profile of Zain, a fourteen-year-old boy who spends his days selling vitamins on the street to help his mother feed his family and dreams of resuming his education and his training at the local pool