Rachael P
@plussone.bsky.social
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Rachael P
@plussone.bsky.social
· Jan 14
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Chicago’s top cop pledges to address rise in officers pointing their guns at people
The independent monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree pointed to CPD data showing a nearly 44% increase from 2022 to 2024.
The independent monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree pointed to CPD data showing a nearly 44% increase from 2022 to 2024.
Chicago’s top cop pledges to address rise in officers pointing their guns at people
The independent monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree pointed to CPD data showing a nearly 44% increase from 2022 to 2024.
www.wbez.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Chicago’s top cop pledges to address rise in officers pointing their guns at people
The independent monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree pointed to CPD data showing a nearly 44% increase from 2022 to 2024.
The independent monitor overseeing the city’s consent decree pointed to CPD data showing a nearly 44% increase from 2022 to 2024.
Someone went wild with corn flakes on this train car. Trash or art?
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Someone went wild with corn flakes on this train car. Trash or art?
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CHICAGO! Nov 21st have a laugh while raising money for Rapid Response teams at Melted ICE: A Comedy Fundraiser for the ICIRR. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights @icirr.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
CHICAGO! Nov 21st have a laugh while raising money for Rapid Response teams at Melted ICE: A Comedy Fundraiser for the ICIRR. 100% of proceeds will be donated to the The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights @icirr.bsky.social
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Thank you to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for giving us this invaluable guide. Get your copy today! So glad to have mine.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thank you to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for giving us this invaluable guide. Get your copy today! So glad to have mine.
Fully half of the budget for acquiring new books and materials could be cut. CPL currently has $10 million to spend on books and materials. The 2026 budget leaves them with $5 million.
The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago.
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The People Want To Read: On Massive Budget Cuts Proposed in Chicago
If passed, Chicago Public Library will lose half their budget for acquiring new books and materials.
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Fully half of the budget for acquiring new books and materials could be cut. CPL currently has $10 million to spend on books and materials. The 2026 budget leaves them with $5 million.
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Have now seen two stories from major local broadcast outlets in Chicago repeating a claim by DHS that shots were fired and paint cans/bricks were thrown today in Little Village, with the only "evidence" being a post from the agency on a nazi website. This is more than irresponsible.
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Have now seen two stories from major local broadcast outlets in Chicago repeating a claim by DHS that shots were fired and paint cans/bricks were thrown today in Little Village, with the only "evidence" being a post from the agency on a nazi website. This is more than irresponsible.
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Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.
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NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
NEWS: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center. Car crash into a hedgerow. Trump’s Midway Blitz is claimed to be inspired by an undocumented drunk driving death.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i...
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Rally to protest the teacher violently taken by federal agents at a private daycare this morning on Addison near Western.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Rally to protest the teacher violently taken by federal agents at a private daycare this morning on Addison near Western.
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It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
bookshop.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
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I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
‘Solidarity is always the way forward’
In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists
prismreports.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.
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BREAKING: The Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges’ rulings required the food aid program to continue.
Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges’ rulings
President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BREAKING: The Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges’ rulings required the food aid program to continue.
Gorgeous sunset over Chicago
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Gorgeous sunset over Chicago
Illinois lawmakers approve $1.5B legislative package to buoy mass transit -- Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major cuts to bus and rail service at the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace.
Illinois lawmakers approve $1.5B legislative package to buoy mass transit
Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major cuts to bus and rail service at the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pac...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Illinois lawmakers approve $1.5B legislative package to buoy mass transit -- Lawmakers agreed on a tax package to stave off a $200 million-plus fiscal cliff next year that would likely result in major cuts to bus and rail service at the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace.
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There's still time to fill out a witness slip for Illinois' legislative session tonight to fund public transit, according to @betterstreetschicago.org.
Directions and the link below:
ilga.gov/House/hearin...
Directions and the link below:
ilga.gov/House/hearin...
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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It's going to be a few minutes before the house resumes on the floor so this is now an AMA about what's going on.
At 7:45: the Executive committee has recess and took no vote (there is no bill text to vote on; HCA3 has not been filed yet). They voted 8-4 yesterday to recommend the dead on arrival (HCA2). HCA3 is a floor amendment. So no committee hearing is needed. You'll see this next on the house floor.
At 6:45, SB2111 is now being discussed, thread on the subject mater hearing to follow here.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It's going to be a few minutes before the house resumes on the floor so this is now an AMA about what's going on.
Also wondering what’s up with the transit bill
Am I wrong to have hope that they might actually figure this transit bill thing out?
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Also wondering what’s up with the transit bill
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The October Chicago CriticalMass bicycle ride falls on Oct. 31 HALLOWEEN!! 🎃 6PM Daley plaza.
Tell me something magnificent
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The October Chicago CriticalMass bicycle ride falls on Oct. 31 HALLOWEEN!! 🎃 6PM Daley plaza.
Waiting on a sternly worded letter from the Democrats
BREAKING: Trump orders the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.
Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately'
The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada.
nbcnews.to
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Waiting on a sternly worded letter from the Democrats
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A Sunday morning read: I wrote a deeply personal essay on what it was like to see a fellow Chicagoan taken by ICE, how it connects to Latin-America's long history of desaparecidos, and how we can mobilize theory, particularly faith, into action.
in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/ice...
in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/ice...
ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling.
Watching disappearances in our community leaves psychological trauma, but we can counter it with our solidarity.
truthout.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A Sunday morning read: I wrote a deeply personal essay on what it was like to see a fellow Chicagoan taken by ICE, how it connects to Latin-America's long history of desaparecidos, and how we can mobilize theory, particularly faith, into action.
in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/ice...
in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/ice...
A Peoria jury convicted a white former cop of second-degree murder today for fatally shooting an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield-area home.
Downstate jury finds ex-cop guilty of second-degree murder for fatally shooting Sonya Massey in her home
The conviction against former deputy sheriff Sean Grayson, who is white, carries a potential sentence of between four and 20 years.
www.wbez.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A Peoria jury convicted a white former cop of second-degree murder today for fatally shooting an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield-area home.
The Justice Department has levied federal conspiracy charges over protests outside the Broadview ICE facility last month, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.
Broadview ICE Protesters, Including Congressional Candidate, Facing Federal Conspiracy Charges
Kat Abughazaleh, the Democratic congressional candidate, called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up.”
blockclubchicago.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Justice Department has levied federal conspiracy charges over protests outside the Broadview ICE facility last month, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.
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Check out this awesome Anti-Fascist Soup for my Family tote, made by one of my besties. Check it out on Etsy! One left! www.etsy.com/shop/haunted...
October 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Check out this awesome Anti-Fascist Soup for my Family tote, made by one of my besties. Check it out on Etsy! One left! www.etsy.com/shop/haunted...
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We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.
Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network
Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right
decoherence.media
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.