Also an important lesson for cis White folks (straight men especially): Your threat of withholding support or allyship means less than nothing to anyone historically marginalized. It's literally the baseline assumption we work from. You're not "showing us," you're just confirming our expectations.

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter:
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannet...

Tell your state troopers to refuse to participate in the ICE operations in Broadview! Release protestors that have been arrested there!

They are knocking down doors and dragging screaming kids out into the night. I don't know what to say aside from this is it. This is the goal. They have always wanted to make an example of Chicago and it's not as if they haven't other places & other ways. All of it. This is fascism, plain & simple.

Re-sharing & asking you to amplify: Every single fact about the South Shore federal raid just days ago is worse than the last. They kicked in doors & dragged Chicago families out in the middle of the night. I know we're all stressed but THIS IS VERY BAD blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

Incompetent gop lawmakers, like Nancy Mace, care so little for the lives & health of Americans that they'll eagerly peddle dangerous medical misinformation in the hopes of getting a pat on the head from the orange.

One of the hardest things for me to deal with mentally right now is folks shock and lack of context

of how this is what the racial protests were about . The militarization and erasure of context...

this is what folks took to the streets for

i, too, will never vote for Rahm Emanuel.

I really enjoy that people are filling this in

"Who would have predicted this?"

- Black women did.
- Trans people did.
- The *entire* disability community did.
- The anarchists did.
- Post-Evangelicals did.

"Well why didn't I hear them."

You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Republicans don't want debate or compromise, they want trans people eradicated. That's the simple truth, they've openly stated that is their intent. Stop acting like this is a debate about tax policy.

i made a helpful reference

Trump's administration claims they're arresting criminals, yet they’ve detained US citizens.

Illinoisans deserve to know why the federal government is spending their money to promulgate a fear campaign instead of supporting public safety efforts.

our trans sister was assaulted by APD and the world just ignores the violence we face

Thinking today about the white woman I represented who was charged with something she didn't do. The cop testilied, and she freaked out saying that it was impossible for a cop to not tell the truth because that was illegal. When I told her that it happened all the time,

whyyyyy do i write music that is hard to play

i love listening to people talk and for many words i have remembered voices saying them in ways that i love. i also collect videos just because i like the way that people say things in them

Holy fuck. One gets inured to insanely brutal ice videos. But this one stands out. He just throws this woman into the wall basically

I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others.

Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here.

Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

yes exactly! i think slidiness is the unifying thread to my list :-)

"nadir" is a banger

solid choices. :-)

I like

* true
* way
* pour
* dry
* brown
* bright
* filter
* like
* you've
* through
* loud
* froth
* smear
* voice
* glue
* joint
* chorizo

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.