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bikes and existential anxiety
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Logan Square, you're alright
shout out chicago.
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?

Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
October 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.

Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
inthesetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...
“Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory
In a recent essay, The Cass Review, WPATH Files, and the Perpetual Debate over Gender-Affirming Care, I made the case that “gender…
juliaserano.medium.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A lot of people don't read this type of story because *crime* is usually used as a racist cudgel. www.wbez.org/public-safet...
Residents of Chicago’s most violent block don’t want Trump to send the National Guard
O Block, made infamous by rappers like Chief Keef, has seen more shootings than any other block since 2010. But, with crime falling, residents say they feel safer and scoff at the idea a military inte...
www.wbez.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution.
But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
August 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The thing to understand about Chicago is that the people who live here love this fucking city, and we will defend it. Always.
August 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth
July 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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On this day more than 50 years ago, Sylvia Rivera climbed onto a stage to advocate for incarcerated trans people at a Pride rally and demanded trans inclusion in the fight for rights.

Hearing her speech is important 50 years later.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Why You Need to Hear the Speech That Sylvia Rivera Wasn’t Allowed To Give
Sylvia Rivera was met with jeers and boos at one of the very first Pride Parades on this day in 1973. Here’s why that matters now.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
Dailymotion video by L3arnTV
www.dailymotion.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.
June 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children
June 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Some books to read this summer if you haven't yet:

No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey
Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis
Saving Our Own Lives by Shira Hassan
Deep Care by Angela Hume
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
Let This Radicalize You by me and Mariame Kaba (Yes, I'm including our book)
May 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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To consider: It's a choice to use the word "accuser" over "victim," a choice in the message you're sending. It's one you may not even realize you're making, but you make it nonetheless.
April 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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If we taxed billionaires out of existence and used that money to make sure everyone has what they need, those former billionaires would still be very rich.

But they don't want to be “very rich.” They want to be “insanely, unimaginably rich." And now we can’t afford anything.
April 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM