DLS
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Chicagoan. Valpo grad. Member of Half Acre Cycling. Awesome Foundation. Occasional Karaoke singer. Anti Fascist. Fuck Terfs.
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Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
As we work on our next judicial election guide, we want to hear from you: What should voters know about these attorneys and judges? If you recognize any of these names, send us your tips. buff.ly/DlOqYRA
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Most people running for Cook County judge seats in March are currently attorneys. Do you have experience working with them? Inform our next judicial election guide by sending your tips!
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there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
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It’s about to be Giving Tuesday and I’m still $500 off of my giving goal for 2025. Which NPOs do you love to support with your time and/or money?
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It’s about to be Giving Tuesday and I’m still $500 off of my giving goal for 2025. Which NPOs do you love to support with your time and/or money?
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Dart still wildly expanding his budget and staff even as he’s no longer responsible for electronic montitoring, the jail population is down 40% (!), and division 4 is getting demoed (one of the nasty 70s buildings with HVAC problems from day 1).
new: i read the 2026 cook county budget so you don't have to.
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
spoiler: more money for police and prosecutors (plus a lot of other stuff).
Cook County law enforcement agencies get more money in 2026
The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved large investments in policing and prosecutions, over objections from advocates.
chicagoreader.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Dart still wildly expanding his budget and staff even as he’s no longer responsible for electronic montitoring, the jail population is down 40% (!), and division 4 is getting demoed (one of the nasty 70s buildings with HVAC problems from day 1).
At Awesome Foundation, we had grantees who made a community Ofrenda in their flower shop and invited folks in to celebrate their loved ones, and with last months grantee teaching folks in Englewood to skateboard and working to make a skatepark there. Thanks to @beermiscuous.bsky.social for hosting!
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
At Awesome Foundation, we had grantees who made a community Ofrenda in their flower shop and invited folks in to celebrate their loved ones, and with last months grantee teaching folks in Englewood to skateboard and working to make a skatepark there. Thanks to @beermiscuous.bsky.social for hosting!
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Where did I buy dried fruit for fruitcake 12 months ago? I should write that down this year.
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Where did I buy dried fruit for fruitcake 12 months ago? I should write that down this year.
Thinking about the former coworkers you know have a new job but you snoop them on LinkedIn and it's still listing a job or more behind where there at and loving the freedom they've gained from LinkedIn
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thinking about the former coworkers you know have a new job but you snoop them on LinkedIn and it's still listing a job or more behind where there at and loving the freedom they've gained from LinkedIn
Brandon Johnson pledged not to reduce the Chicago police budget that after 6 years has complied with less than 25% of the consent decree, which has no control over their overtime budget, and who refuse to fire police officers who's misconduct costs us hundreds of millions.
Anyone who lives in a dem run city where the cops do to non whites what ICE has been doing to non whites understands this perfectly. And also gives if them more and more of the budget to do so.
It’s far removed from what the rank and file want but it is what it is
It’s far removed from what the rank and file want but it is what it is
always remember that the median elected Dem thinks ICE is peachy-keen and just wants them to do what they're doing politely and unobtrusively
they hate the part that looks like the SS storming somebody's house but they like the SS disappearing the untermenschen
they hate the part that looks like the SS storming somebody's house but they like the SS disappearing the untermenschen
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Brandon Johnson pledged not to reduce the Chicago police budget that after 6 years has complied with less than 25% of the consent decree, which has no control over their overtime budget, and who refuse to fire police officers who's misconduct costs us hundreds of millions.
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if you live here, you should be able to vote here
Noncitizen voting in local elections was common during the 18th and parts of the 19th centuries and some municipalities in the U.S. have revived the practice. New York City passed a law permitting it, but this year it was struck down.
Ahead of Mayor Race, Noncitizen New Yorkers Grapple with a Voting Policy Failure to Launch
For a brief moment, it seemed some noncitizen New Yorkers may gain the right to vote locally. But with the law struck down earlier this year, they remain at the margins.
boltsmag.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
if you live here, you should be able to vote here
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Gmail is not free out of the goodness of Google's heart though.
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Gmail is not free out of the goodness of Google's heart though.
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I'm planning for Giving Tuesday again, my favorite fake holiday, and I'd love to hear about not for profits you work for or volunteer with that I should consider this year.
October 24, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I'm planning for Giving Tuesday again, my favorite fake holiday, and I'd love to hear about not for profits you work for or volunteer with that I should consider this year.
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It's my favorite recently invented holiday! I love getting friends to share who they've been working with all year that folks might not realize and to advocate for folks to make a plan to give money away instead of doing it randomly or not at all.
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's my favorite recently invented holiday! I love getting friends to share who they've been working with all year that folks might not realize and to advocate for folks to make a plan to give money away instead of doing it randomly or not at all.
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Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
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Coming up Dec. 2!
www.tuesdayfunk.org/tuesday-funk...
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Tuesday Funk #165: December 2, 2025
The holidays are here again, but Chicago's favorite eclectic reading series takes no winter breaks! Join us in the upstairs lounge at Hopleaf on Tuesday, Dec. 4 for readings by Michal Eskayo, Sophie L...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Coming up Dec. 2!
www.tuesdayfunk.org/tuesday-funk...
www.tuesdayfunk.org/tuesday-funk...
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Shoutouts within to @marc-fischer.bsky.social who was the first person I saw distroing whistles and inspired me, to @bibliogrrl.bsky.social who has been 3D printing like a madwoman, and @lefttheprairie.bsky.social who has been responsible for literally tens of thousands of whistles getting out.
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Shoutouts within to @marc-fischer.bsky.social who was the first person I saw distroing whistles and inspired me, to @bibliogrrl.bsky.social who has been 3D printing like a madwoman, and @lefttheprairie.bsky.social who has been responsible for literally tens of thousands of whistles getting out.
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Everyone’s favorite modern sleuth fruit.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Everyone’s favorite modern sleuth fruit.
I was against gerrymandering our entire state, but if it gets rid of Nancy Mace, maybe it's worth it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I was against gerrymandering our entire state, but if it gets rid of Nancy Mace, maybe it's worth it.
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Judge Ellis also found that a top CBP leader's testimony was not credible, in part because he admitted that was relying on unreliable "use of force" reports generated by DHS officers — and in a footnote, says video showed an officer asking ChatGPT to help him fill out a use of force report!
![As for the evidence Defendants marshalled through Parra with respect to CBP’s actions, Parra testified in his deposition that he had only been in the field with CBP a “handful of times, four to five,” during Operation Midway Blitz. Doc. 191-9 at 30:7–10. And he made clear that he based much of his declaration on information he gleaned from use of force reports, with maybe some (unidentified) review of video footage. See, e.g., id. at 81:17–82:16, 85:17–23, 86:15–91:1 (describing that Parra viewed some video footage, but that he could not recall how much or of what events). Given the inconsistencies between the BWC footage and the use of force reports, with the BWC footage undermining what agents put in their reports, the Court cannot rely on Parra’s broad generalizations of protesters’ actions or Defendants’ responses to those actions. [FN 9]
[FN 9] 9 The Court also notes that, in at least one instance, an agent asked ChatGPT to compile a narrative for a report based off of a brief sentence about an encounter and several images. Axon_Body_4_Video_2025-10-03_0949_D01A2556T at 00:00–00:42. To the extent that agents use ChatGPT to create their use of force reports, this further undermines their credibility and may explain the inaccuracy of these reports when viewed in light of the BWC footage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidrgcuxzzkkyozeaimpri73bx75rjcbkhvo5gpkv2lbm4kgpcsk74@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Judge Ellis also found that a top CBP leader's testimony was not credible, in part because he admitted that was relying on unreliable "use of force" reports generated by DHS officers — and in a footnote, says video showed an officer asking ChatGPT to help him fill out a use of force report!