i[dea]
declatom.bsky.social
i[dea]
@declatom.bsky.social
full-time educator/CTU delegate, part-time researcher. forever blowing bubbles ⚒️🫧 equal parts ACAB and jogo bonito Ⓐ
these are not serious people!!!
So. . . the people organizing these "No Kings" protests have certain protest locations listed as "at capacity" on their website. . .

whoever heard of a protest being "at capacity"? The hell????
October 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The liberal determination that the use of force is forbidden to all only ensures that the people with the least respect for liberalism can or will employ force and no one else will allow it, engage in it, or even know how to do it. This misunderstanding of power is how we got to where we are today.
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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a chicago public schools with incredible metalwork and stained glass artwork, inside and out

this school building is an amazing mixture of the chicago school style and prairie style architecture, designed by Dwight Perkins and opened in 1910
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I see @govpritzker.illinois.gov is still pissing it all away letting his state-sponsored boot boys violate Illinois law and abuse people's Constitutional rights. One of the best governors in the country — formerly — and now he's trying to make sure we all know he sucks like the rest of em.
October 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
breaking news: *random* (and mostly white at that) adults do not make kids feel safer
not to be the cause of hurt liberal feelings or anything but if @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social wants to start showing up at schools to "support dismissal" then maybe step one is actually to touch base with ANYONE who works there and *gasp* first ASK what is needed before deciding you already know
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
not to be the cause of hurt liberal feelings or anything but if @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social wants to start showing up at schools to "support dismissal" then maybe step one is actually to touch base with ANYONE who works there and *gasp* first ASK what is needed before deciding you already know
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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calling people Nazis who are carrying out fascism in America is a maladaptive language shortcut
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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it's really unfortunate that for the first time in history appeasement isn't working, it would be so nice to have some historical examples to learn from
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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i am not a huge fan of rising and falling with the fate of press when we could be rising and falling with the fate of the most precarious

freedom of speech is already not something many of us enjoy so it's telling when that's what people hang their hats on
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Assata Shakur’s autobiography is brilliant, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with her poems. My best friend Tim teaches Affirmation every year to high school freshmen and it sticks with them heavy for years.
September 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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this happens quite a lot also on the ground, the centrist will offer management skills

they know how to build the database, how to do the socials, how to apply for a permit for a protest

what they don't know how to do is take critique from women of color, they don't know how to hear no
What centrists are offering across the Western world is the opportunity for the right to consolidate their gains as hegemonic. They’re offering managerial competence in service to reactionary aims.
Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
September 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
never ask:
a woman her age
a man his salary
or how much money 'shawna king' has raised for people in chicago actually afraid to leave their houses for food/work
This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.
This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.
September 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@schuba.bsky.social were you not going to share your SS sympathy article on bluesky? doesn't really fit the vibe here and since leaving twitter to avoid widespread scrutiny, i get it. hey, any chance you want to develop a moral compass and unblur those faces???

www.wbez.org/immigration/...
ICE officer said his injuries were ‘nothing major’ after deadly shooting near Chicago, video shows
The immigration agent’s partner said he suffered a “knee injury" and "some lacerations to his hands,” according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported h...
www.wbez.org
September 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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no offense to my friend who are journalists but the state of journalism in this city is so embarrassing
August 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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the amount of time + space chicagoans give a taxpayer article makes me think current day Chicago would not have any useful principles for 1861 to end slavery

STOP USING TAXPAYER ARGUMENTS, they are reactionary and built upon property rights being legitimate

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WAS A PROPERTY RIGHT
August 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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the most recent experiences with a look at union finances in chicago relates to teamsters

basically, if leadership cannot provide the accounting for dues and/or the dues are used to provide no service to members (think ghost payroll not failed efforts), then we're looking at embezzlement
August 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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relying on the landed gentry and its colonial apparatus of taxation in order to fund public education infuses the entire system with coloniality

who is public education for and what is it for
July 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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5. under the best conditions, retroactive pay was never going to be paid in july

6. the 2nd installment of property tax cash influx is late arriving to cps, by at least 30 days

7. retroactive pay will not occur in july

8. cps and ctu both knew this

9. teachers did not know this
July 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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1. teachers are owed retroactive pay from cps

2. cps pays retroactively from its 2nd property installment cash influx that comes in August

3. ctu told teachers to expect retroactive pay on July 11 or July 25 paychecks

4. timing of retroactive pay is not in writing in bargaining agreement
July 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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but what if it goose honked
July 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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i would like to say that Lucy Parsons Labs is hardly a moral authority in Chicago given their misogyny and their actions in increasing risk for people with precarity

there are far better people to listen to then a group washing themselves in the name of a Black women they would have never accepted
June 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
why the fuck is my pension invested in this nazi fuck shit REGARDLESS OF STOCK PRICE?

randi has become surplus to requirements. time to move on!
Tesla's falling stock & prices endanger billions of dollars in worker pensions & investments. We want to make sure our members, after years of hard work and saving, have a secure retirement. That's why we're holding Tesla - and Elon Musk - accountable. www.afr.com/world/north-...
Investors demand Musk work a 40-hour week at Tesla
Shareholders from a group of large pension funds say the EV maker is in “crisis” and call for succession planning.
www.afr.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Carlos Ramirez Rosa wanted & defended Gardaworld militarised tent camps when he was an alder. The idea that he will maintain any principles as CEO of parks is out of alignment but if you made the platform he stands on, you should also be part of disciplining him to the principles he/you claimed.
May 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
watching people conclude that the things they read about on the internet definitely just happened today or even recently (or even after like 2002) is uh, wild
Watching people opposed to CORE realize that incumbents have an advantage is uh, wild.
May 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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if CORE wins, then the Mayor has a guaranteed place to be after this mayoral term, he can go back to CTU headquarters and maintain his CPS pension

if CORE loses, he does not have a guaranteed job to return to and would need to return to the classroom to maintain the pension
May 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM