ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
For Israel & the U.S. to go to war during Ramadan is also a message.
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This PAC has made 11K in direct donations to Rep. Krishnamoorthi's Senate and House campaigns. Thats one way to support candidates.
The PAC has spent $250,000 on ads in support of Rep. Krishnamoorthi, which is still just 1/3 of the money they have spent on independent expenditures for this seat.
Love this @thetriibe.com - leading in the right way 💕 Does that mean y’all have formally recognized the union?
Reminder that 1mo of CPD OT ($16.6M - Jan ‘26) is enough to quadruple non-police crisis response across the city for an ENTIRE YEAR or reopen the remaining 10+ closed public mental health centers (that offer free mental healthcare) for an ENTIRE YEAR.
The RFK, jr effect.
ok let me get this straight.
JB Pritzker:
- is having state cops run interference for ICE in Broadview
- cut thousands of immigrants' health insurance
- is running interference for his friends who had their taxes cut on both a corporate and individual level
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
inshallah the beginning of the regime change we all actually wanted 🙏🏽
No kings except this one
A vacant Chicago Lawn building is set to become a 44-unit affordable housing complex.
🙏🏽 less about left/center and more about protecting/strengthening the public good
It is deeply concerning how some are using “Dearborn” as a dog whistle for Islamophobia.
These are people who have seen their government use their own tax dollars used to kill their family members, and neither administration stepped up to stop it. 1/6
NYT headline stating “Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government”
call it what it is @nytimes.com - a coup of the billionaire class to remove protections, infrastructure, and funding for the majority of individuals that will lead to the mass abandonment and death of us and our neighbors.
State Rep. Sonya Harper, sponsor of the Enslavement Era Disclosure and Redress Act, said it’s a way for corporations that profited on the backs of enslaved people to help repair the legacy of harm caused for generations of Black Americans.
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I’d like to propose that Claudia Sheinbaum also be the US president
A reminder - don't use Amazon, but go to bookshops, which play a far more vital role in promoting literacy just by simply making books more visible, and allow you to find things by chance rather than by what the algorithm decides.
yall know that you can hire kids to work for your multi-billion dollar company if you just pay the $8m fee?
no repercussions for you as the CEO - just promise you won’t do it again, and pay out <0.1% of your profit for the year!
our system of corporate accountability works! smh.
I'm all for collaboration and transparency. I'm also for common sense policy – let's do the logical thing here and listen to the data.
@suntimes.bsky.social : article with data on why it's unrealistic to hire the vacancies outlined in the budget: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
reduce the burden on police, fund direct interventions through Peacebook, CDPH with proven records of being able to hire.
CPD has held +$200m in vacancies for the last 6 years and hasn't been able to hire since 2018. We don't need a prop tax or cut youth jobs. the money's there.
why aren't we using the +$170m of unused funds being held up in CPDs vacancies? That could be used to:
1. Close the budget, avoid a property tax incr. AND
2. increase funding to public safety through peacebook + cdph AND
3. fund the chicago empowerment fund AND
4. keep some for vacancies
