Read this resolution passed by the aldermen of Chicago on December 26, 1851.

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Chicago undated

Chicago flag update:

what i ordered > what i got

The gentleman’s agreement that prevented people from reporting on Barron is now over

It is open season

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

I hate the Brewers more than the Cardinals. Sorry.

I will see what I can do

101 Years Ago Today: The First Negro League World Series - Kansas City Monarchs vs. Hilldale (October 11, 1924) #Baseball #History

Gunther's Store and Soda Fountain, Chicago c. 1890

"If we were even to suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs."

Oh Alexander, honey.

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

WHEN are journalists going to ask him to name the 8 wars??!?

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

Girls club at Bowen

Illustration of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition