@sirensips.bsky.social
Just here to yell into the void
Chicago over everything
Chicago over everything
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The “clever” sounding Liberty Justice Center (LJC) based in Austin Texas, is on the attack against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union by suing the CTU. The Liberty Justice Center often represents the Illinois Policy Institute and hate group Awake Illinois
April 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The “clever” sounding Liberty Justice Center (LJC) based in Austin Texas, is on the attack against the members of the Chicago Teachers Union by suing the CTU. The Liberty Justice Center often represents the Illinois Policy Institute and hate group Awake Illinois
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What does the Illinois Policy Institute, Liberty Justice Center, Awake Illinois, Paul Vallas and many other neoliberal education privatizers have in common besides being emboldened by Trump and Project 2025? Spoiler-they are deeply connected 🧵
April 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
What does the Illinois Policy Institute, Liberty Justice Center, Awake Illinois, Paul Vallas and many other neoliberal education privatizers have in common besides being emboldened by Trump and Project 2025? Spoiler-they are deeply connected 🧵
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A woman's place is in her union!
For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.
For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.
March 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A woman's place is in her union!
For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.
For #WomensHistoryMonth we're celebrating the incredible union women who have always fought for workers’ rights, dignity and respect in the workplace, and are doing the work to stand up for workers today.
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It *appears* the Chicago Police have a new surveillance tool. We say that b/c the Mayor's office won't confirm the details. This follows a long history of agencies secretly entering into "trials" for surveillance that become permanent. Brandon Johnson is complicit.
chicagoreader.com/news/crimetr...
chicagoreader.com/news/crimetr...
Are Chicago police using CrimeTracer? - Chicago Reader
The city says it paid $700,000 for a “law enforcement search engine” from the maker of ShotSpotter. But are police using it? No one will say.
chicagoreader.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It *appears* the Chicago Police have a new surveillance tool. We say that b/c the Mayor's office won't confirm the details. This follows a long history of agencies secretly entering into "trials" for surveillance that become permanent. Brandon Johnson is complicit.
chicagoreader.com/news/crimetr...
chicagoreader.com/news/crimetr...
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Thinking about this a lot
March 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thinking about this a lot
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Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
March 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
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Check out our CORE leaders talking to members and speaking with @jessehagopian.bsky.social
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.
March 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Check out our CORE leaders talking to members and speaking with @jessehagopian.bsky.social
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.
during the Teaching in the Age of Trump event at the CTU tonight.
Black students need to learn accurate and truthful history to change inequalities. That's why the @ctulocal1.bsky.social #ContractForBlackLives includes demands for academic freedom for teachers to teach Black history. #BlackLivesMatterInSchools.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Black students need to learn accurate and truthful history to change inequalities. That's why the @ctulocal1.bsky.social #ContractForBlackLives includes demands for academic freedom for teachers to teach Black history. #BlackLivesMatterInSchools.
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All the love and solidarity to these workers
“I expect others to follow, and that will increase the leverage that we have at the bargaining table,” said Ben Lovett, an employee at the Philadelphia store who has led the organizing. “We’ve shown them that it’s possible to organize at Amazon.”
Whole Foods Workers in Philadelphia Vote to Form Chain’s First Union (Gift Article)
The union win comes as Amazon, which owns the grocery chain, is also fighting labor organizing in its warehouse and delivery businesses.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
All the love and solidarity to these workers
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I love how the increasingly fascistic government thinks it somehow sounds *better* that an 11 year old cannot post anti-Trump sentiments without the literal Secret Service showing up than to admit when ICE agents are attempting to raid public schools. That's their save?
Soooo…regardless a Federal Agency decided to go to a CPS Elementary School to get a child—-because of a video an 11 year old made—that criticized the President?!
Through all this chaos— it was the school staff who kept this child safe.
Through all this chaos— it was the school staff who kept this child safe.
UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said.
Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz
Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I love how the increasingly fascistic government thinks it somehow sounds *better* that an 11 year old cannot post anti-Trump sentiments without the literal Secret Service showing up than to admit when ICE agents are attempting to raid public schools. That's their save?
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"Every day, the occupation [army] arrests 30 to 40 or even 50 new prisoners."
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig
‘Less than slaves’: The Palestinians detained by Israel despite ceasefire
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas.
aje.io
January 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Every day, the occupation [army] arrests 30 to 40 or even 50 new prisoners."
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig
Israel has arrested more Palestinians than it has released as a result of its ceasefire deal with Hamas ⤵️ aje.io/kqftig
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Literally doesn’t matter if it was ICE or the Secret Service. Federal Agents went to a Chicago Public Elementary School today to get a child and cause fear and chaos.
January 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Literally doesn’t matter if it was ICE or the Secret Service. Federal Agents went to a Chicago Public Elementary School today to get a child and cause fear and chaos.
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Time found that nearly 2/3’s of Trump’s orders mirror proposals from #Project2025
time.com/7209901/dona...
time.com/7209901/dona...
Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025
A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.
time.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Time found that nearly 2/3’s of Trump’s orders mirror proposals from #Project2025
time.com/7209901/dona...
time.com/7209901/dona...
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"Unless this war [WWII] sounds the death knell to the old Anglo-American empire. . . of exploitation for the profit and power of a monopoly capitalist economy, it will have been fought in vain."
#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/a-...
#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/a-...
Jan. 25, 1941: A. Philip Randolph and March on Washington
A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, made the official call for a march on Washington, with the demand to end segregation in defense industries.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Unless this war [WWII] sounds the death knell to the old Anglo-American empire. . . of exploitation for the profit and power of a monopoly capitalist economy, it will have been fought in vain."
#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/a-...
#tdih 1941 A. Philip Randolph calls for March on Washington
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/a-...
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Call Target customer service at 800-440-0680 to complain about DEI rollbacks. Be nice to call agents bc they didn’t do this 🩷 let’s flood the call center!
January 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Call Target customer service at 800-440-0680 to complain about DEI rollbacks. Be nice to call agents bc they didn’t do this 🩷 let’s flood the call center!
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ADL: Look guys, we can’t be just calling everyone who does a Seig Heil Hitler
Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas
Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas
January 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
ADL: Look guys, we can’t be just calling everyone who does a Seig Heil Hitler
Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas
Also ADL: The Pope is Hamas
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
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In Arizona, private school parents can speak at public school board meetings and vote in board elections. But public school parents can’t freely attend a private school governing body’s meetings, even if the school is funded with taxpayer dollars.
Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
January 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In Arizona, private school parents can speak at public school board meetings and vote in board elections. But public school parents can’t freely attend a private school governing body’s meetings, even if the school is funded with taxpayer dollars.
Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
Read more: https://propub.li/4fFXYz4
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Oddly enough, this is a real movement: In response to X/Twitter announcing they are using user content to train AI, Korean users began describing "destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick" as a healthy and wholesome traditional activity in order to contaminate the AI training data.
Finally a Political Movement I can actually get behind:
December 24, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Oddly enough, this is a real movement: In response to X/Twitter announcing they are using user content to train AI, Korean users began describing "destroying Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick" as a healthy and wholesome traditional activity in order to contaminate the AI training data.
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i have been told that if you don’t support this, it’s because you hate jewish people, but if you love jewish people, how could you ever wish to see them alienate themselves from their humanity to this degree
This is just a glimpse of what these heartless monsters have admitted. Imagine the horrors that remain untold.
December 23, 2024 at 4:21 PM
i have been told that if you don’t support this, it’s because you hate jewish people, but if you love jewish people, how could you ever wish to see them alienate themselves from their humanity to this degree
It's crazy to see people who have never before cared about CPS, suddenly discover that it exists
December 21, 2024 at 12:42 AM
It's crazy to see people who have never before cared about CPS, suddenly discover that it exists
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not voting should count as a vote for no president. that way we wouldn’t have to have a president
A visualization of the razor thin margin of this election.
Of the 244+ million voting-eligible population:
31.5% voted for Trump
30.6% voted for Harris
37.7% did not vote
Popular is not a word that would accurately describe Trump or the MAGA movement.
Of the 244+ million voting-eligible population:
31.5% voted for Trump
30.6% voted for Harris
37.7% did not vote
Popular is not a word that would accurately describe Trump or the MAGA movement.
December 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
not voting should count as a vote for no president. that way we wouldn’t have to have a president
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BCC's Mina Bloom and Francia Garcia Hernandez spoke to recently arrived migrants, advocates, and nonprofit service providers about increasingly desperate circumstances many families face as short-term aid runs out and work permits fail to materialize fast enough. So many disconnects between systems.
Trump Wants To Deport Them. Chicago Is Scaling Back Help. Meet The Migrants Stuck In Limbo
The over 51,000 migrants who have arrived in Chicago since 2022 face a dwindling safety net and backlogs in work permit and immigration cases. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's border czar said deportations w...
blockclubchicago.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:07 AM
BCC's Mina Bloom and Francia Garcia Hernandez spoke to recently arrived migrants, advocates, and nonprofit service providers about increasingly desperate circumstances many families face as short-term aid runs out and work permits fail to materialize fast enough. So many disconnects between systems.