I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

The evil comes from among us too

I am grieving for the families across the city who have been separated today and for the many communities facing this campaign designed to terrorize and abuse our neighbors based on the color of their skin and the places they may have been born. Grateful for local journalists & orgs sharing info.

This broadside was printed by Benjamin Franklin Roberts, a Black printer who sued Boston after his 5yo daughter, Sarah, was excluded from her local elementary school.

Roberts lost the case, but was part of the movement that succeeded in integrating Boston's public schools in 1855.

The same Supreme Court that said it is unreasonable to consider race when giving kids access to education, has said it's reasonable to consider race when looking to remove someone from the country.

Funny how that works.

This week has been an adventure in juggling spreadsheets and figuring out how to have 2-3 people be in 5-10 places at the same time for the start of 30-50 classes each day over 10-12 hours...

We're getting our steps in and my knees are feeling it. 🏃‍♀️📊🏃‍♀️🗓️🏃‍♀️🕕🏃‍♀️ 😮‍💨

I forgot until the end of the day (a very long day running around trying to fix all the things) I'd chosen these socks today.

I only verged on expressing this emotion once in a meeting today, though it may have been simmering at other times.

I'll take that as a win, I guess?

Between all the data being removed from core gov't sites, firings, and policies controlling what agency scientists and/or grant funded studies can cover and/or where they can publish, "do your own research" is only going to get more and more dangerous. Plus default AI in so many search results... 🫣

I remember a comment during Emanuel's mayorship that the further you get from Chicago the better his reputation was...

LA is real America.
Chicago is real America.
Philly is real America.

Like, 75% of Illinois' population lives in the Chicago metro area, we are the heart and soul of the state! Same goes for the US at large!

As well as all of our structures of societal support and safety regulation that have been gutted from the federal government

How have we not learned this yet??

At least we can add a comment - it only takes a minute to do so!

"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

Welp, that's my neighborhood library...

A president who doesn't care about the Constitution.
An attorney general with no regard for the Law,
An FBI unconcerned with civil rights...
What could go wrong?

There's no *real* goodness in it for sure, but a lot of fear and anger that bury any chance for curiosity and empathy that could bring real growth and connection.

There's so much power over those who live in fear and so much of the white church's alignment makes it harder to unveil the truths too.

Here are my goofy lovelies, their joys are helpful to behold.

There's no motivation to disrupt a narrative of innate virtue and superiority. All the evidence to the contrary must be buried and/or denounced furiously to live with comfort.

Always baffles me when someone said “I didn’t hear about that when I was a kid.” Of course you didn’t. You were a child. You hadn’t heard of most things. I didn’t know who Paul Newman was when I was a kid, that doesn’t mean he didn’t exist.

DO NOT ALLOW your country to do anything you wouldn't want your children to read about in their history textbook.

I definitely laughed at this last weekend:

Thanks to regular reports on the progress of the cherry blossoms in Chicago's Jackson Park by @ericallixrogers.com, we had a lovely hanami picnic today - it will get busier as more of the trees reach full bloom, but it was sunny and quiet today and we had a great time.

Yeah, my sister was 7 when my dad died and I was 14. I'm very grateful for Social Security and hate that it's going to be so much harder for families going through loss like that to sort out the survivor benefits they need.

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.

We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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