Slackermom
@slackermom.bsky.social
Chicagoan who loves my city, crafty mom, former lawyer. Certified Health Coach! Community builder, socialist and lover of mutual aid. Anti-Zionist Jew. If you want progressives to win elections, go knock doors & help! She/they
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Slackermom
@slackermom.bsky.social
· Jul 3
Here is what I’m doing to fight back today: I am a health coach in Chicago. For my fellow Chicagoans, I will provide health coaching on a sliding scale, pay what you can basis. I’m taking my cue from @leftistlawyer.com who does the same with legal defense services in Illinois.
They locked US citizens in a restaurant, they were not free to leave - which means they were technically under arrest with ZERO probable cause that they committed a crime. Even if the restaurant was full of immigrants, this is a violation of due process. ICW/CBP is out of control.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They locked US citizens in a restaurant, they were not free to leave - which means they were technically under arrest with ZERO probable cause that they committed a crime. Even if the restaurant was full of immigrants, this is a violation of due process. ICW/CBP is out of control.
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A good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun
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After reading this story, I understand Gregory Bovino as a full, complex human being rather than simply as a monstrous caricature -- and I now loathe and despise Gregory Bovino as a full, complex human being rather than simply as a monstrous caricature.
We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree.
Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
After reading this story, I understand Gregory Bovino as a full, complex human being rather than simply as a monstrous caricature -- and I now loathe and despise Gregory Bovino as a full, complex human being rather than simply as a monstrous caricature.
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We need people capable of recognizing the different between "unity" - wherein bigoted behavior gets tolerated because calling it out can be embarrassing - and solidarity, where people are able to be called in and reminded that bigotry is not part of our shared goals.
December 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
We need people capable of recognizing the different between "unity" - wherein bigoted behavior gets tolerated because calling it out can be embarrassing - and solidarity, where people are able to be called in and reminded that bigotry is not part of our shared goals.
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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It fucking kills me that none of these kids is going to get the mandatory mourning, the required moments of silence, the Ezra Klein eulogies, the massive federal government policy response, of the guy who said mass shootings are just the price you pay for freedom.
December 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It fucking kills me that none of these kids is going to get the mandatory mourning, the required moments of silence, the Ezra Klein eulogies, the massive federal government policy response, of the guy who said mass shootings are just the price you pay for freedom.
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I'm not even joking. We hardly punish any rapists at all, and the ones we do punish are punished in such a way that it actually puts their victims in MORE danger. And police actually cause more violent crime than they solve or prevent. Study after study has shown that.
So what do we do?
So what do we do?
December 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm not even joking. We hardly punish any rapists at all, and the ones we do punish are punished in such a way that it actually puts their victims in MORE danger. And police actually cause more violent crime than they solve or prevent. Study after study has shown that.
So what do we do?
So what do we do?
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Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what Repro Uncensored call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.
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📣 Announcing the WINNERS of our first-ever T-SHIRT DESIGN contest
👕🧢 Find the winning designs for apparel, hats, mugs, magnets & more by designers NEIL, ANNIE, & MADELINE at our online Indivisible Chicago shop: tinyurl.com/ICAstore
💚 PS All shirts & merch on sale through Dec 5 - stock up now!
👕🧢 Find the winning designs for apparel, hats, mugs, magnets & more by designers NEIL, ANNIE, & MADELINE at our online Indivisible Chicago shop: tinyurl.com/ICAstore
💚 PS All shirts & merch on sale through Dec 5 - stock up now!
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
📣 Announcing the WINNERS of our first-ever T-SHIRT DESIGN contest
👕🧢 Find the winning designs for apparel, hats, mugs, magnets & more by designers NEIL, ANNIE, & MADELINE at our online Indivisible Chicago shop: tinyurl.com/ICAstore
💚 PS All shirts & merch on sale through Dec 5 - stock up now!
👕🧢 Find the winning designs for apparel, hats, mugs, magnets & more by designers NEIL, ANNIE, & MADELINE at our online Indivisible Chicago shop: tinyurl.com/ICAstore
💚 PS All shirts & merch on sale through Dec 5 - stock up now!
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
This is the most maddening thing I have seen from Dem “leadership” so far. There is SO MUCH EVIDENCE of Trump & his admin committing crimes. They are out in the open. But Jeffries is gaslighting us to believe that it would be hard to prove. Fuck these assholes.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is the most maddening thing I have seen from Dem “leadership” so far. There is SO MUCH EVIDENCE of Trump & his admin committing crimes. They are out in the open. But Jeffries is gaslighting us to believe that it would be hard to prove. Fuck these assholes.
They’ve actually proven that Sheriff Dart has continuously lied about electronic monitoring, using a horrible crime to try to justify locking up innocent people who don’t have enough money to bail themselves out.
Sheriff Dart accused of lying again about electronic monitoring
Sheriff Dart accused of lying again about electronic monitoring
* Following a CBS 2 report that basically just took everything Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told them as gospel (it’s really quite something, so click here), I reached out to the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice for a response…
Sheriff Dart Lies Again About Pretrial Fairness Act Electronic Monitoring Provisions
We are incredibly disappointed and angry [...]
dlvr.it
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
They’ve actually proven that Sheriff Dart has continuously lied about electronic monitoring, using a horrible crime to try to justify locking up innocent people who don’t have enough money to bail themselves out.
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Law school cost me $190,000.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Law school cost me $190,000.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
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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This is why the 8th Amendment is worth putting people to death over, by the way. Like maybe the people in charge of things wouldn't perpetuate such cruelty if they could be executed for it.
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 11:12 PM
This is why the 8th Amendment is worth putting people to death over, by the way. Like maybe the people in charge of things wouldn't perpetuate such cruelty if they could be executed for it.
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Hot take: I keep seeing people saying that the Trump administration putting Admiral Levine's deadname on her photo is "petty," and I honestly disagree. It's an act of violence. They're leveraging the power of the federal government to erase this woman's existence. That's not "petty," it's murderous.
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hot take: I keep seeing people saying that the Trump administration putting Admiral Levine's deadname on her photo is "petty," and I honestly disagree. It's an act of violence. They're leveraging the power of the federal government to erase this woman's existence. That's not "petty," it's murderous.
Here’s a thought - the companies running these things will realize that many Chicago sidewalks are impassible in the winter. So either they’ll leave or they’ll actually convince the city to plow the sidewalks! After all, the city does a lot for corporations that they won’t do for people.
Delivery robots are taking over Chicago sidewalks, sparking debate and a petition to hit "pause." blockclubchi.co/3KmCRIu
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Here’s a thought - the companies running these things will realize that many Chicago sidewalks are impassible in the winter. So either they’ll leave or they’ll actually convince the city to plow the sidewalks! After all, the city does a lot for corporations that they won’t do for people.
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Interviewing Eddie Johnson or Garry McCarthy about proper law enforcement tactics is inexcusable.
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
December 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Interviewing Eddie Johnson or Garry McCarthy about proper law enforcement tactics is inexcusable.
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
"What does this inveterate liar think of Greg Bovino" is actually not newsworthy
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Someone in the replies called Newsom "California Cuomo", and you know, I think that is spot on.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Someone in the replies called Newsom "California Cuomo", and you know, I think that is spot on.
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Before Tom Cotton defended an indefensible murder
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
Anyone else want to put Tom Cotton on top of a capsized boat in international waters miles away from Venezuela and see how helpless he is?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Before Tom Cotton defended an indefensible murder
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
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I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Don Jr receiving a massive loan for his startup from the Pentagon. I guess when there’s so much corruption some things fly under the radar?
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also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
also, let’s say wurman is right. well, we have had nearly 160 years of unlimited birthright citizenship that has been affirmed again and again by generations of Americans. whatever the original intent, that is what the birthright clause *means*.
Eric Sorenson and Nikki Budzinski have some explaining to do …
These Democrats joined Republicans in peddling a conspiracy that foreign governments are trying to corrupt America's youth through public schools and voting to make schools racially profile parents and contractors.
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Eric Sorenson and Nikki Budzinski have some explaining to do …
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The CFPB has returned billions to Americans scammed by corporations. But now the Trump administration is canceling lawsuits and taking money out of consumers’ pockets.
The government should work for the people, not billionaire CEOs — and I’m demanding answers.
The government should work for the people, not billionaire CEOs — and I’m demanding answers.
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The CFPB has returned billions to Americans scammed by corporations. But now the Trump administration is canceling lawsuits and taking money out of consumers’ pockets.
The government should work for the people, not billionaire CEOs — and I’m demanding answers.
The government should work for the people, not billionaire CEOs — and I’m demanding answers.