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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in which greg bovino threatens a federal judge on fox news
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
in which greg bovino threatens a federal judge on fox news
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I have an alt account with ~200 Ukrainian mutuals so I asked how they're staying warm. Some have central heat via gas boiler but the ones that don't are using sweaters and blankets, hot water bottles wrapped in towels. One answered that they use gas stoves (😬). Temps in the 40s lately (3-9 C).
Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I have an alt account with ~200 Ukrainian mutuals so I asked how they're staying warm. Some have central heat via gas boiler but the ones that don't are using sweaters and blankets, hot water bottles wrapped in towels. One answered that they use gas stoves (😬). Temps in the 40s lately (3-9 C).
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Just moments ago, detainees transported from ICE’s Broadview facility this morning were loaded onto an Avelo Airlines plane in Gary, Indiana.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just moments ago, detainees transported from ICE’s Broadview facility this morning were loaded onto an Avelo Airlines plane in Gary, Indiana.
No one (even MAGA types) posts like this if they're not worried they're about to lose their job.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
No one (even MAGA types) posts like this if they're not worried they're about to lose their job.
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Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.
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In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In Little Village, a small group has closed down 26th Street in front of the arch. About 12 hours after news that Bovino et al may be on their way out.
While thinking about the future of Chicago 312, many people have surprised me saying that they’d like to see more communications and narrative “how to” guides for Chicago organizers. Here’s the first experiment:
What Campaigns Get Wrong About Creators
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What Campaigns Get Wrong About Creators
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What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators
Part of a new Chicago 312 segment on movement communications and narrative: what's working, what's not, and what's possible.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
While thinking about the future of Chicago 312, many people have surprised me saying that they’d like to see more communications and narrative “how to” guides for Chicago organizers. Here’s the first experiment:
What Campaigns Get Wrong About Creators
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What Campaigns Get Wrong About Creators
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feds disappeared 2 people from the rosemont outlets parking garage, according to hanover park rapid response. feds have targeted the mall before.
hprr also reports 1 abduction near thompson middle in st. charles. residents have seen feds staging at the st. charles pd multiple times in recent weeks.
hprr also reports 1 abduction near thompson middle in st. charles. residents have seen feds staging at the st. charles pd multiple times in recent weeks.
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
feds disappeared 2 people from the rosemont outlets parking garage, according to hanover park rapid response. feds have targeted the mall before.
hprr also reports 1 abduction near thompson middle in st. charles. residents have seen feds staging at the st. charles pd multiple times in recent weeks.
hprr also reports 1 abduction near thompson middle in st. charles. residents have seen feds staging at the st. charles pd multiple times in recent weeks.
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They can't be on city property but there is no enforcement mechanism
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
They can't be on city property but there is no enforcement mechanism
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They definitely can’t be there but the city has said they won’t enforce unless one of those overpriced signs is already hung up (in response to community advocacy about ICE / CBP staging at other locations). And of course, they’re also refusing to enforce even if a sign is present.
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
They definitely can’t be there but the city has said they won’t enforce unless one of those overpriced signs is already hung up (in response to community advocacy about ICE / CBP staging at other locations). And of course, they’re also refusing to enforce even if a sign is present.
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trans journalists you should follow who cover trans lives well and deserve your support:
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Like who? I can tell personally that she's a poor, often alarmist, reporter but it is very difficult to convince trans people in my life of that without an alternative to point to.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
trans journalists you should follow who cover trans lives well and deserve your support:
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
@katelynburns.com
@sydney-bauer.com
@kissphoria.bsky.social
@oriion.bsky.social
@parkermolloy.com
cis person who covers it this in congress MUCH better than erin:
@ericmgarcia.bsky.social
So is the Bean not on city property? What's the deal? Seems like there should be a full investigation. Looking forward to action on this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So is the Bean not on city property? What's the deal? Seems like there should be a full investigation. Looking forward to action on this.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Any Chicago or Illinois politician that doesn’t resist this with everything they’ve got doesn’t understand this moment or anything about their constituents.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Any Chicago or Illinois politician that doesn’t resist this with everything they’ve got doesn’t understand this moment or anything about their constituents.
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American: and that's how it works
Anyone else: oh my God that is horrifying, what the fuck
American: no no I'm not talking about what it was like before when it was evil, I'm talking about what it's like nowadays
Anyone else: oh my God
Anyone else: oh my God that is horrifying, what the fuck
American: no no I'm not talking about what it was like before when it was evil, I'm talking about what it's like nowadays
Anyone else: oh my God
March 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
American: and that's how it works
Anyone else: oh my God that is horrifying, what the fuck
American: no no I'm not talking about what it was like before when it was evil, I'm talking about what it's like nowadays
Anyone else: oh my God
Anyone else: oh my God that is horrifying, what the fuck
American: no no I'm not talking about what it was like before when it was evil, I'm talking about what it's like nowadays
Anyone else: oh my God
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The thing about ACA is that if an American describes how it works to someone from literally anywhere else, the other person will be utterly horrified at its deliberate cruelty.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The thing about ACA is that if an American describes how it works to someone from literally anywhere else, the other person will be utterly horrified at its deliberate cruelty.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
The way the horror of pre-ACA healthcare sounds to an American, is basically how ACA sounds to everyone else on earth.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.
The language of this pardon is extremely broad.
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.
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I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵
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watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.
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The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.
There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The base can handle some kayfabe but not when Republicans are torching the constitution and abducting people off the street.
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They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.