Susan Cotton
@sscotton.bsky.social
Refusing to leave our problems to the next gen. Much to do! #thelilyproject #Chicago #thirdactil
I flew into super snowy Ohare tonight and got into the cab line to head home. For grins I checked Uber and it was a 15 minute wait and $90 before tip. I had about a 10 minute wait and it was $49 to get downtown. Pro Chicago tip...always cab it!! #chicago
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I flew into super snowy Ohare tonight and got into the cab line to head home. For grins I checked Uber and it was a 15 minute wait and $90 before tip. I had about a 10 minute wait and it was $49 to get downtown. Pro Chicago tip...always cab it!! #chicago
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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My friend @dansinker.com wrote a wonder piece on the eve of the occupation of Chicago.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My friend @dansinker.com wrote a wonder piece on the eve of the occupation of Chicago.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I suggest you read the full post. I am so over the 'can you believe this...' and much more interested in the yes, happening... and this is how we need to think about it, which hopefully leads to what we need to do.
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
August 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I suggest you read the full post. I am so over the 'can you believe this...' and much more interested in the yes, happening... and this is how we need to think about it, which hopefully leads to what we need to do.
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Federal authorities are planning a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Chicago after Labor Day, government officials announced Thursday.
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Armored Vehicles, Fleet Of ICE Agents Chicago-Bound For Post-Labor Day Crackdown: Reports
Government officials told reporters Thursday that a large-scale immigration crackdown is being planned for after Labor Day. City officials and immigrant rights advocates say they are preparing for the...
blockclubchicago.org
August 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Federal authorities are planning a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Chicago after Labor Day, government officials announced Thursday.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/28/a...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/28/a...
The Authoritarian playbook being followed in the US has worked in so many other countries. Take control of all branches of the government, intimidate the private sector, threaten universities, shutdown NGOs, suppress the media, scare the people. STOP thinking it can't happen here. bit.ly/3Jg4yl0
Opinion | I Was Banished by My Country’s Dictator. What Happened to Me Is a Warning.
Thousands of dissidents have fled Daniel Ortega’s Nicaragua — and now, even those of us in exile no longer feel safe.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Authoritarian playbook being followed in the US has worked in so many other countries. Take control of all branches of the government, intimidate the private sector, threaten universities, shutdown NGOs, suppress the media, scare the people. STOP thinking it can't happen here. bit.ly/3Jg4yl0
Received last night from SSA. They are weaponizing a trusted agency for political propaganda for the 1st time. They are lying but many will believe. And they are effectively executing Project 2025. We The People are pawns unless we build a stronger coalition w/strategy, leadership, comms & action.
July 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Received last night from SSA. They are weaponizing a trusted agency for political propaganda for the 1st time. They are lying but many will believe. And they are effectively executing Project 2025. We The People are pawns unless we build a stronger coalition w/strategy, leadership, comms & action.
Great Mother's Day in Chicago. Beautiful weather, happy people, and amazing bird watching at Montrose. I saw two of our Piping Plovers (thanks to the guy with super dooper binoculars) plus all sorts of nesting migratory birds. Yay Merlin app! Posting for the #chicagobirders out there! #chicago
May 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Great Mother's Day in Chicago. Beautiful weather, happy people, and amazing bird watching at Montrose. I saw two of our Piping Plovers (thanks to the guy with super dooper binoculars) plus all sorts of nesting migratory birds. Yay Merlin app! Posting for the #chicagobirders out there! #chicago
I usually get books thru the library (libby is the best!) but like to buy as gifts and always use @bookshop.org.
April 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I usually get books thru the library (libby is the best!) but like to buy as gifts and always use @bookshop.org.
Beautiful.
Historian Timothy Snyder tells us of the time he got to meet a very humble Pope Francis and the lessons of that day.
Beautiful story.
via snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...
Beautiful story.
via snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...
April 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Beautiful.
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Lifting up a few resources for people looking to get more involved in pro-democracy activism.
All Of Us Directory
Newly created, searchable list of progressive organizations that are actively seeking new volunteers or members.
allofusdirectory.org/organizations
All Of Us Directory
Newly created, searchable list of progressive organizations that are actively seeking new volunteers or members.
allofusdirectory.org/organizations
Search Organizations | All of Us Directory
allofusdirectory.org
April 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lifting up a few resources for people looking to get more involved in pro-democracy activism.
All Of Us Directory
Newly created, searchable list of progressive organizations that are actively seeking new volunteers or members.
allofusdirectory.org/organizations
All Of Us Directory
Newly created, searchable list of progressive organizations that are actively seeking new volunteers or members.
allofusdirectory.org/organizations
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New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Try that in a small town
ICE disappeared a mother and 3 children. Neighbors of Trump's Border Czar said hell no.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home.
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home:
She has so much knowledge for this time. Just as Trump and his Project 2025'ers are hitting us with everything at once, we need to fight everything, everywhere. To win, they need to be able to control from the top, but will lose when the movement is everywhere - too many moles to whack!
3) A massive decentralized movement like this -- everywhere all at once, with everybody pitching in -- is extremely difficult for any regime, even the most autocratic, to derail. There are too many leaders, coordinating in too many different ways, for a movement like this to be easily neutralized.
April 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
She has so much knowledge for this time. Just as Trump and his Project 2025'ers are hitting us with everything at once, we need to fight everything, everywhere. To win, they need to be able to control from the top, but will lose when the movement is everywhere - too many moles to whack!
Thank you Wisconsin voters and everyone who worked so hard on this campaign!
👩⚖️ JUSTICE. SUSAN. CRAWFORD!!! In a race that Elon Musk tried to buy, THE PEOPLE elected Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, defeating Musk-backed Brad Schimel
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
April 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Thank you Wisconsin voters and everyone who worked so hard on this campaign!
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🔴Hot Type: Being Braver Than We Want to Be
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-b...
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-b...
Hot Type: Being Braver Than We Want to Be
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🔴Hot Type: Being Braver Than We Want to Be
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-b...
American columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda turns to Václav Havel’s dissident essays from 1978, 'The Power of the Powerless', to learn how people can find a collective way back from democratic ruin
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-b...
NYT headline today ' How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More' Asking one more time...what exactly will it take to get #42, #43, #44 and #46 to get into the fight? Did they not believe their own warnings? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What will it take for a former president to speak out against Trump?
The silence from former occupants of the Oval Office has been deafening as the incumbent cuts a destructive path
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NYT headline today ' How Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More' Asking one more time...what exactly will it take to get #42, #43, #44 and #46 to get into the fight? Did they not believe their own warnings? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Glad to see this happeninf www.wbez.org/music/2025/0... #chicago
In Chicago, a clamor brings a dead music festival back to life
Organizers have revived a citywide ode to Bach, starting with a daylong festival and a Union Station pop-up.
www.wbez.org
March 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Glad to see this happeninf www.wbez.org/music/2025/0... #chicago
@democrats.org @kenmartin.bsky.social Barack Obama, @schumer.senate.gov. Don't tell me to stand up, fight harder, and GIVE more until you remember you are leaders. You are rich and powerful. We the people are angry.
March 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
@democrats.org @kenmartin.bsky.social Barack Obama, @schumer.senate.gov. Don't tell me to stand up, fight harder, and GIVE more until you remember you are leaders. You are rich and powerful. We the people are angry.
This is what Democrats need to be discussing, finding solutions for. Housing affordability is affe ting everyone. America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is what Democrats need to be discussing, finding solutions for. Housing affordability is affe ting everyone. America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
#chicago supports Ukraine! Marching downtown supporting #democracy. Solidarity!
March 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
#chicago supports Ukraine! Marching downtown supporting #democracy. Solidarity!
Cruel and ignorant at a time when we are seeing increases in maternal mortality in response to abortion ban in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
February 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Cruel and ignorant at a time when we are seeing increases in maternal mortality in response to abortion ban in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Ignorant and cruel. Cervical cancer is on its way to being eradicated in Australia which was the 1st country to implement a national HPV vaccine program while it remains the #1 cancer killer in many lower resource countries which lack consistent access to testing and vaccines. #thelilyproject
RFK Jr: “Gardasil is probably the single worst, mass vaccine that we've ever seen.”
@drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”
@drneilstone.bsky.social: “The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is safe, effective, and on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti-vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cancer than a vaccine.”
February 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Ignorant and cruel. Cervical cancer is on its way to being eradicated in Australia which was the 1st country to implement a national HPV vaccine program while it remains the #1 cancer killer in many lower resource countries which lack consistent access to testing and vaccines. #thelilyproject
Isn't this what Hakeem Jeffries should be doing instead of being out on a Book Tour in friendly blue cities??? #indivisiblechicago iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/sen-b...
Sen. Bernie Sanders returns to Iowa as part of 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Sen. Bernie Sanders plans to speak in Iowa City Feb. 22 as part of a tour criticizing the Trump administration and Elon Musk.
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February 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Isn't this what Hakeem Jeffries should be doing instead of being out on a Book Tour in friendly blue cities??? #indivisiblechicago iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/sen-b...