This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.

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"Masked agents approached Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez and her chief of staff in an alley, where they were told they were impeding ICE activities. A state representative said he was also approached by agents while alerting residents to ICE’s presence Tuesday."

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The crazy part is everyone actually wants public goods. They just don’t want to share them with others.

Chicago is poised to close the first half of the year with its steepest statistical drop in violent crime in recent memory, with fewer than 200 homicides in the first six months of the year for the first time in over a decade, according to city and county figures.

25+ million dollars. A former president. Some of the richest people in the US. The entire liberal and conservative political establishment. And Zohran Mamdani — and all the people behind him — beat it all.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Teen girls are dying in emergency rooms from pregnancy sepsis because docs won't help them but sure let's invent an imaginary crisis about feminist boy guilt or whatever

We’ve had a years-long panic over “free speech” that was mostly left-punching from reactionary centrists mad that students had the gall to question them.

Now, when we are facing with an actual crisis of free-speech loudest voices are quiet.

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AOC was right.

It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.

Everyone can organize.

Everyone can contribute to social movements.

Everyone can do something, from somewhere.

None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.

Everyone can organize and has something to offer.

FYI the National Council of Nonprofits is collecting stories via this form about how the executive orders are harming nonprofit organizations nationwide. If you just got screwed today, tell them about it here. They're also asking who is comfortable sharing their stories with reporters.

Another great way to resist is

Don’t

Don’t center resistance , center competence and effectiveness

I’m feeding kids/ clothing folks/ securing communications translating

Build structures Not focused on being oppositional

Border czar Tom Homan is on CNN complaining that Chicago is “very well educated” and people “know their rights” too well for ICE to be able to enforce mass deportations. Good work, neighbors.

To fight back, we MUST start over & start local.

We MUST come for the school boards. We MUST take them over & re-shape the educational system. We can have significant influence & stop discriminatory agendas.

Change starts on a local level. We overlooked & minimized these elections.

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

I think we can all live without any more hot takes this morning. But we cannot live without radical love and systems of care. That's where my focus will be. Take care of yourself and your network.

The first 14 pages are children under 1 year old. 14 pages. And that is just what is known. My god.

Really special day exploring my city with the Lifting as they Climb tour. I learned so much history that I should already know! Thank you @prisonculture.bsky.social