@justsomeguy11.bsky.social
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The Rosehill herd in this morning's snowfall
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Rosehill herd in this morning's snowfall
If you wanna help get this budget passed, show up to City Hall (121 N LaSalle) at 9am tomorrow and tell them in person!
If you're not available you can also email comments to [email protected] . Make sure to schedule them for between 8 and 9 am tomorrow.
If you're not available you can also email comments to [email protected] . Make sure to schedule them for between 8 and 9 am tomorrow.
NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? • The TRiiBE
Proposing increased garbage fees and liquor taxes poses less of a risk for some alders
thetriibe.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
If you wanna help get this budget passed, show up to City Hall (121 N LaSalle) at 9am tomorrow and tell them in person!
If you're not available you can also email comments to [email protected] . Make sure to schedule them for between 8 and 9 am tomorrow.
If you're not available you can also email comments to [email protected] . Make sure to schedule them for between 8 and 9 am tomorrow.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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And none of this addresses why, in the Mayor’s proposal, Chicago Police will get 56% of the budget. The cops and corporations are literally robbing us blind & our government won’t do anything about it.
NEW — With Mayor Johnson and a fraction of the Chicago City Council seemingly at an impasse, one question surrounding the budget debate is why some alders would choose implementing regressive fees on working people over taxing corporations.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
thetriibe.com/2025/12/alte...
Alternate Chicago budget from 26 alders leans on regressive fees. Why? • The TRiiBE
Proposing increased garbage fees and liquor taxes poses less of a risk for some alders
thetriibe.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
And none of this addresses why, in the Mayor’s proposal, Chicago Police will get 56% of the budget. The cops and corporations are literally robbing us blind & our government won’t do anything about it.
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Going on WBEZ in a couple minutes to talk about musicians leaving Spotify
It's BEEN time to dump Spotify. Since this article, the music platform has also started running ICE recruitment ads. Is your Wrapped really worth it? https://bit.ly/44cgegy
Time to dump Spotify - Chicago Reader
Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Going on WBEZ in a couple minutes to talk about musicians leaving Spotify
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Kick them out of the Big Ten.
I’m totally serious.
I’m totally serious.
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Kick them out of the Big Ten.
I’m totally serious.
I’m totally serious.
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….A thousand liberal moms and grandpas being trained by a couple communists and anarchists they don’t know are communists and anarchists lolllll
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
….A thousand liberal moms and grandpas being trained by a couple communists and anarchists they don’t know are communists and anarchists lolllll
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Happy Holidays from the Chicago Police Department
December 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Happy Holidays from the Chicago Police Department
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New from me: The DOJ plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
New from me: The DOJ plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
@chicommunityjs.bsky.social gathered all the data for this article. They stay out all night, every night in order to give people getting released essentials like warm clothes, rides home, and overdose prevention supplies. Theyre running low on money rn, so please donate: tinyurl.com/donateccjs
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
@chicommunityjs.bsky.social gathered all the data for this article. They stay out all night, every night in order to give people getting released essentials like warm clothes, rides home, and overdose prevention supplies. Theyre running low on money rn, so please donate: tinyurl.com/donateccjs
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Concur, but IMO, Dahl's story is also effective without illustration.
people.com/celebrity/ro...
people.com/celebrity/ro...
December 2, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Concur, but IMO, Dahl's story is also effective without illustration.
people.com/celebrity/ro...
people.com/celebrity/ro...
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7. The ban on social transition—even with parental permission—underscores a shift in how anti-trans legislation is being sold to the public. For years, supporters of bathroom bans, sports bans, and “don’t say gay” policies framed their efforts as battles for “parental rights.”
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
7. The ban on social transition—even with parental permission—underscores a shift in how anti-trans legislation is being sold to the public. For years, supporters of bathroom bans, sports bans, and “don’t say gay” policies framed their efforts as battles for “parental rights.”
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
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Clearer image of the event speaker list:
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Clearer image of the event speaker list:
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You neglected to mention that the TA who has been suspended is trans so this is more than likely a directed attack on her to get her out of the position. The student is supported by TPUSA and the right wing response is specifically anti-trans.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
You neglected to mention that the TA who has been suspended is trans so this is more than likely a directed attack on her to get her out of the position. The student is supported by TPUSA and the right wing response is specifically anti-trans.
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Sung to the tune of “Tiny Dancer”
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Sung to the tune of “Tiny Dancer”
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ethically opposed to all that shit
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
ethically opposed to all that shit
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The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The @medillschool.bsky.social was silent as 200+ journalists were murdered in Gaza, was silent as their own students were threatened w beating by police, then suspended me and denied me tenure for standing w the students. It is not a journalism school, it is a school for teaching cowardice & fascism
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BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies.
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot during the holiday weekend over their support for Trump's authoritarian policies.
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
I encourage you to join — and shop small. https://weaintbuyingit.com/
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gender affirming care is life saving care. isn't it time to call the purposeful denial of care for political reasons what it is - murder
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
gender affirming care is life saving care. isn't it time to call the purposeful denial of care for political reasons what it is - murder