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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 8h

I started doing ICE watch shifts last week and it's honestly been an incredible thing to see members of the community come together to make it just a bit less perilous for folks to go to school or church or whatnot. You don't have to have any special skills to help keep people safe

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 23h

Magnificent Monday Morning. Today's sunrise in Chicago.

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Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 1d

@balupuppy.bsky.social the 48th ward office has whistles and signs but you can also get them in small businesses in the 48th like Chicago Dance Supply, Understudy, Gethsemane and Loaves and Witches. Here’s us today on Ridge and Clark passing them out

Little library at Gethsemane with whistles

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the last day to add your support for rezoning Broadway to allow abundant housing! Can you help us reach 900 signatures? 🥺

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Tell the Zoning Committee to Support Thousands of New Homes in Uptown and Edgewater

The proposed Broadway upzoning from Montrose to Devon in the 46th, 47th, and 48th Wards is a crucial step forward for Chicago. This proactive plan addresses the urgent need for more housing by moderni...

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Abundant Housing Illinois @abundanthousingil.bsky.social · 2d

Manifesting new housing here 😌

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 4d

I am actually blown away at how insanely irresponsible and also totally unnecessary this was to publish??? Like what on earth happened here

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 4d

Wouldn't say I did this in my capacity as an editor so much as out of a general sense of self-preservation, but ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 7d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 11d

Has there been reporting about a Charlie Kirk connection here? It's not mentioned in the Post story or the ABC coverage

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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 11d

Quick look at the Uptown-Edgewater July Red Line station ridership. Lawrence and Berwyn returned to service on 07/20 while Argyle and Bryn Mawr moved into their new stations.

Stacked Bar Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

Line Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 12d

Today in Google death rattle: tried to find a female editor’s review of a male journalist’s book by searching their names together, and the AI summary informed me that my query was likely the “result of a misunderstanding,” as the male journalist is in fact married to a different woman

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Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 12d

I talked to staff members who work near where federal agents were seen on video choking a Black man on the West Side.

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Video shows feds ‘choking’ a Black man in East Garfield Park • The TRiiBE

“Why is you choking him, man? Why is he choking him, man?” a man says at the scene.

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 15d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · 15d

THE MEME IS REAL

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 16d

Crazy how you can orient your entire life around capitalism being the problem and still discover in new ways each day that capitalism is the problem

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 29d

Glad to publish this by Ben McCarthy about how mental illness came to be mischaracterized as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States—and how that misunderstanding obscures the most devastating impacts of the hypercommodified housing market

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The Real Cause of Homelessness

For decades, a misleading narrative about mental illness among the unhoused obscured the true source of the crisis: hyper-commodified housing.

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 19d

"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."

The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.

#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

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Nowhere to Run: I Am Choosing Death at Home Over Forced Evacuation

When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 19d

not just in the sense that he was right to say it but that there's harm done in walking it back. If we can't acknowledge that the NYPD has a well-documented past and present of rampant racial bias what are we even doing

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 19d

Full support to Zohran as always but he should not have apologized for calling the NYPD racist

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 21d

A meme showing a still from The Office (US) with Michael Scott sitting in front of a whiteboard that says: ""Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. -Nemik" - JB Pritzker"

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 22d

this goes so hard

Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 22d

You might not agree with his logic, but you have to admire the moxie of this guy from Thursday's CTA town hall who went nuclear on the "gang of car manufacturers, real estate developers, single-families-only warlords and homeowners association authoritarians."
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/09/19/c...

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rachel ✶✶✶✶ @rachelhawley.bsky.social · 23d

We’re all in the ‘cule now (sorry I’ll stop, it’s just a very fun “first ever” distinction)

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