I know that Pritzker is getting the hero treatment now because he is willing to say words, a thing that most Dems are unwilling to do. But we really have to demand more than words from electeds, now more than ever. If we hero-worship them for words, we’ll get nothing else.

A good way to predict whether Pritzker is serious about this would be to look at what he has done to hold the Chicago PD accountable for their crimes against humanity during his tenure as governor.

people of all different capacities want to join a movement against a violent, extremist state force. how to figure out what is effective, regardless of your capacity, is to measure how much effort it takes from you and how much effort it takes from your opposition.

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

If you click the link here, you will find the Buffalo version of this zine. For the multitaskers in the crowd, I want to mention that folding zines is something you can do to fight fascism while also getting high AND listening to music.

Grades are neither reliable nor valid as a measure of learning and should be abolished. But also my dog is the goodest girl

What would it look like for a bunch of jetski dealer jihadists to secure the monopoly over the legitimate use of force while they rewrite your kid's textbooks to show Jesus invented dinosaurs with the help of Prime energy? I dunno man ask Florida and stop thinking they're backwards. They're ahead!

As always--the south is the nation's weathervane. Very good chance we don't get a real budget for the rest of this presidential administration.

Trapped in the two party system binary of the antiblack settler state of America like the democrats, politics is your team winning against the other team, & you have to validate your opponent so the game goes on. I want politics not to be about winning games, but how we all agree we all can thrive.

I love Me and My Uncle, but every time I see it live, it lives in my head for an entire month after.

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

Everyone should experience the humbling effect of sending out a small request to an organizing listserve [of people who have self-selected to be on said list] and getting zero responses. It will help you to understand how hard it is to organize anything.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Misanthropy is always a red flag in politics, and I don’t see how this kind of thing can be interpreted any other way.

In 2008 I moved to a rural midwestern place and discovered its amazing music scene, which is still going strong 17 years later. What a profound joy to dance under the moon to the same bands with the same people for so long. Art scenes are a labor of love. Never take them for granted.

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

The keurig pods come in so many different brands and colors like there’s so much variety, but they all taste like burnt plastic.

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

When he plays, his face is always pure bliss. He does get a little cranky between songs if the beer and snacks stop flowing though (understandable)

Also I have known the marathon bassist since he was a teenage roadie. It’s fun to watch people grow up.

I am at a festival for a music scene that currently only has one bassist. The festival is in a hilly forest venue and he runs the trails between stages to get to every set, carrying his stand-up bass. People give him beers and snacks as he passes.

Anyway, I have an idea for a new Olympic sport.

Spending the weekend visiting the pieces of my heart that I keep buried in the Shawnee Hills.

The best road trip food in the US is obviously obtained at the array of indie taquerias that are scattered throughout this vast and beautiful land. BUT *in a pinch* the Taco Bell bean burrito is always there for you and it deserves more respect.

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.