Join your local mutual aid group and engage when and where you can. Don't let their job be easy.

Yesterday and today, neighbors rallied to protect churches celebrating Christmas services.

Separately, neighbors engaged in mutual aid delivered food, Christmas presents, and support to neighbors afraid to leave their homes

Tomorrow, we’ll do it all again.

White neighbors, reports from Latino and Somali businesses on Lake Street are that their numbers are down as much as 90%. Their clientele are scared to go out. We can help with this. Show up, show your support, spend money. And bring your whistles.

the police banned no knock warrants. oops amir locke died.

banned high speed chases in the city. oops that didn't happen.

Changed use of force policies to include brandishing a weapon. Oop that has not changed one bit.

banned "warrior" training. the police union found a way around it.

The "alt-right" pipeline needs to be crimped shut, and until that happens we'll keep seeing these random acts of violence.

Being transgender had absolutely nothing to do with their actions - being a young hateful individual craving attention and easily influenced by fascist rhetoric did. Our country is unwell, it's always been that way, but it's getting worse.

Talk to your friends, befriend your neighbors. Buy a gun, learn how to use it, join or make a club. Take a Stop The Bleed course, learn how to purify water - and for God's sake, fight for your homeless neighbors. Above all else remember: voting is not our last resort.

Enslavement never ended in the United States, the 13th Amendment only sugar coated it as a punishment for a crime. Those applicable crimes slowly grew over the last century, accelerated over the last half-century, and today we see Carte Blanche given to every pig in the United States.