Veronica
@veronicaeye.bsky.social
Chicago gal who wears many hats:
📋 Campaign manager
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
🤳🏽 #365feministselfie
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
📋 Campaign manager
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
🤳🏽 #365feministselfie
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
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Peace, Love, & Winning
A dispatch from occupied Chicago
feminista.beehiiv.com
Fresh newsletter: Where I wrote about us winning, then was punched, & had to reread what I wrote to remind myself that we're winning.
feminista.beehiiv.com/p/peace-love...
feminista.beehiiv.com/p/peace-love...
Look, a lot of us have been warning about letting too much tech in our kids lives. Back in the early aughts we were discussing how even the Disney website was a few clicks away from inappropriate materials. But no one cares except to get rich.
Almost as soon as a consumer advocacy group began testing an A.I.-enabled toy bear, trouble began. Instead of chatting about homework or bedtime, testers said it sometimes spoke of knives and sexual topics. They warned that toys like it could allow children to stray into inappropriate exchanges.
A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, Consumer Group Warns
The chatter left startled adults unsure whether they heard correctly. Testers warned that interactive toys like this one could allow children to stray into inappropriate exchanges.
nyti.ms
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Look, a lot of us have been warning about letting too much tech in our kids lives. Back in the early aughts we were discussing how even the Disney website was a few clicks away from inappropriate materials. But no one cares except to get rich.
Reminder that my book, J is for Justice, is perfect for the little human in your life. Especially good for this moment when they are asking lots of questions about WTF is going on! Purchase from Bookshop through my affiliate link to support my writing & indie bookstores: bookshop.org/a/22221/9781...
J Is for Justice! an Activism Alphabet
Check out J Is for Justice! an Activism Alphabet - From A to Z, discover your power to speak up for what you believe in and change the world! With empowering language and vibrant illustrations, this a...
bookshop.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reminder that my book, J is for Justice, is perfect for the little human in your life. Especially good for this moment when they are asking lots of questions about WTF is going on! Purchase from Bookshop through my affiliate link to support my writing & indie bookstores: bookshop.org/a/22221/9781...
Legit surprised my sister didn't send this to me first.
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Legit surprised my sister didn't send this to me first.
Went to karaoke last night. A guy flirted with me & said I looked like Alanis - I sang "You Oughta Know". Then he got too stoned & drunk to even dance. This era is wild.
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Went to karaoke last night. A guy flirted with me & said I looked like Alanis - I sang "You Oughta Know". Then he got too stoned & drunk to even dance. This era is wild.
Please don't platform her the way some of you did to Adam Kinzinger. No amount of apology can make up for the harm she did to this country, to our discourse. She needs to be held accountable not lauded.
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Please don't platform her the way some of you did to Adam Kinzinger. No amount of apology can make up for the harm she did to this country, to our discourse. She needs to be held accountable not lauded.
Alice Wong, disability justice advocate and author, dies at 51 19thnews.org/2025/11/alic... via @19thnews.org
Alice Wong, disability justice advocate and author, dies at 51
Wong envisioned a world where disabled people, particularly those from multiple marginalized backgrounds, could live freely and with full autonomy.
19thnews.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Alice Wong, disability justice advocate and author, dies at 51 19thnews.org/2025/11/alic... via @19thnews.org
Which Kenny Rogers duet do you emote the most to? And why is it "We Got Tonight"?
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Which Kenny Rogers duet do you emote the most to? And why is it "We Got Tonight"?
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Soon I’ll be taking the helm at Color of Change, the nation’s largest racial justice organization with major online impact. I am deeply proud of the work at Equality Florida and confident in the team carrying it forward.
Please share the news and my excitement.
colorofchange.org/blog/interna...
Please share the news and my excitement.
colorofchange.org/blog/interna...
Color Of Change - Nationally Renowned Civil Rights Leader Joins Color Of Change as New President and CEO
Longtime Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith to Join on Jan. 12, 2026 Washington, D.C. — Today, Color Of Change announced that nationally renowned civil rights leader Nadine Smith will be...
colorofchange.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Soon I’ll be taking the helm at Color of Change, the nation’s largest racial justice organization with major online impact. I am deeply proud of the work at Equality Florida and confident in the team carrying it forward.
Please share the news and my excitement.
colorofchange.org/blog/interna...
Please share the news and my excitement.
colorofchange.org/blog/interna...
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Don't miss CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time: First Shift at Martyrs'!
Six stellar storytellers and one amazing band pair stories on a theme with song performances.
Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org
📅 Weds. 12/17 | Show @ 7:30PM
📍3855 N. Lincoln Ave
Six stellar storytellers and one amazing band pair stories on a theme with song performances.
Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org
📅 Weds. 12/17 | Show @ 7:30PM
📍3855 N. Lincoln Ave
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Don't miss CHIRP's live lit and music series The First Time: First Shift at Martyrs'!
Six stellar storytellers and one amazing band pair stories on a theme with song performances.
Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org
📅 Weds. 12/17 | Show @ 7:30PM
📍3855 N. Lincoln Ave
Six stellar storytellers and one amazing band pair stories on a theme with song performances.
Get your tickets: firsttime.chirpradio.org
📅 Weds. 12/17 | Show @ 7:30PM
📍3855 N. Lincoln Ave
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Refresher: this is the “your body, my choice” guy. This is the “organized Jewry” guy. This is the Hitler was “very, very cool” guy. His audience is not organically growing, but his views are being mainstreamed anyway.
With Nick Fuentes in the news (again…) I am going to reshare our latest research piece, which checked claims that his audience is growing against data we have.
It’s not clear that’s actually true, yet right-wing figures keep trying to make excuses for his audience.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
It’s not clear that’s actually true, yet right-wing figures keep trying to make excuses for his audience.
openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Refresher: this is the “your body, my choice” guy. This is the “organized Jewry” guy. This is the Hitler was “very, very cool” guy. His audience is not organically growing, but his views are being mainstreamed anyway.
Screaming. This is the best.
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Screaming. This is the best.
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Diana Santillana Galeano, who has work authorization in the U.S., was released Wednesday night, a judge finding she was illegally detained.
news.wttw.com/2025/11/13/n....
news.wttw.com/2025/11/13/n....
North Center Daycare Teacher Detained by ICE Released From Custody
Diana Santillana Galeano, who had been held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Clay County, Indiana, was released Wednesday night, hours after a federal judge granted a habeas peti...
news.wttw.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Diana Santillana Galeano, who has work authorization in the U.S., was released Wednesday night, a judge finding she was illegally detained.
news.wttw.com/2025/11/13/n....
news.wttw.com/2025/11/13/n....
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She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
She was extraordinary, and extraordinarily generous. Alice Wong: I am so grateful to have been alive in her lifetime. She was one of our species' best. She deserved better. My her legacy be for a blessing.
Hey. @govpritzker.illinois.gov . Stop arresting faith leaders. Let them pray. You're supposed to be the good guy.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hey. @govpritzker.illinois.gov . Stop arresting faith leaders. Let them pray. You're supposed to be the good guy.
And I, as a district councilor, can't accept free Cubs tickets.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
And I, as a district councilor, can't accept free Cubs tickets.
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Hear from our very own worker-owner and co-founder @sesmith.lol and a powerhouse panel of trans media at the trans media convening organized by @objectivejournos.bsky.social !
Flyer by rommy torrico
💻 Register at https://f.mtr.cool/ngpcaddqsz by November 14th!
Flyer by rommy torrico
💻 Register at https://f.mtr.cool/ngpcaddqsz by November 14th!
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Hear from our very own worker-owner and co-founder @sesmith.lol and a powerhouse panel of trans media at the trans media convening organized by @objectivejournos.bsky.social !
Flyer by rommy torrico
💻 Register at https://f.mtr.cool/ngpcaddqsz by November 14th!
Flyer by rommy torrico
💻 Register at https://f.mtr.cool/ngpcaddqsz by November 14th!
I've eaten a lot of Starburst mini packs since Halloween and have gotten zero yellows. Have they started to not include them because most ppl don't like them? As someone who prays there isn't yellow in the pack, I am ecstatic.
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I've eaten a lot of Starburst mini packs since Halloween and have gotten zero yellows. Have they started to not include them because most ppl don't like them? As someone who prays there isn't yellow in the pack, I am ecstatic.
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"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
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We're one week away from "Pitch Your Peeps"!!! A new 35+ queer dating show crafted w love for later in life queers. It is hosted by two QBIPOC women (ahem). Wed Nov 19th at 7 pm at @whiskeygirltavern.bsky.social . Not ready to be pitched? Join us to see the cuties who are. bit.ly/pitchyourpee...
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're one week away from "Pitch Your Peeps"!!! A new 35+ queer dating show crafted w love for later in life queers. It is hosted by two QBIPOC women (ahem). Wed Nov 19th at 7 pm at @whiskeygirltavern.bsky.social . Not ready to be pitched? Join us to see the cuties who are. bit.ly/pitchyourpee...
maybe the alder is too emotional for office.
Napolitano says he had to leave the chambers to calm down, he was so angered by Conyears-Ervin's statement.
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
maybe the alder is too emotional for office.
We're one week away from "Pitch Your Peeps"!!! A new 35+ queer dating show crafted w love for later in life queers. It is hosted by two QBIPOC women (ahem). Wed Nov 19th at 7 pm at @whiskeygirltavern.bsky.social . Not ready to be pitched? Join us to see the cuties who are. bit.ly/pitchyourpee...
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're one week away from "Pitch Your Peeps"!!! A new 35+ queer dating show crafted w love for later in life queers. It is hosted by two QBIPOC women (ahem). Wed Nov 19th at 7 pm at @whiskeygirltavern.bsky.social . Not ready to be pitched? Join us to see the cuties who are. bit.ly/pitchyourpee...
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What an unconstitutional clusterf*ck
Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest.
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
Federal judge appears poised to order release of at least some ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees
A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litiga…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What an unconstitutional clusterf*ck
Since ICE & Border Patrol cant' handle a Chicago winter, I think they need a new name. "HANS" since he was the villain in Frozen and they clearly can't handle the cold? Now we just need to figure out what HANS stands for.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/b...
a close up of a cartoon character from the movie frozen saying `` the cold never bothered me anyway '' .
Alt: a close up Elsa from the movie frozen saying `` the cold never bothered me anyway '' .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Since ICE & Border Patrol cant' handle a Chicago winter, I think they need a new name. "HANS" since he was the villain in Frozen and they clearly can't handle the cold? Now we just need to figure out what HANS stands for.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/b...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/11/b...
LARRY!!!!!! Do you have an innate reason for this insight?
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
LARRY!!!!!! Do you have an innate reason for this insight?
LOL at these weak ass bullies, taking the winter off.
"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social
U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
LOL at these weak ass bullies, taking the winter off.