@mslauradurnell
Exhausted Gen Xer and disabled spoonie coming to you every day from the "killing field" of Chicago. Publications include The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, Women's Media Center, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Room, others.
Check out my new post! Today I address Daryl Hannah owning her narrative and setting the truth straight in last Friday’s New York Times and how her doing this is another example of a woman using parrhesia to tell her truth and refute and challenge public opinion.
Today I wrote about the faculty, student, and alumni’s open letter to DePaul University’s administration about the closure of the DePaul Art Museum and call for the resistance to go further. A link to the open letter has been provided for my readers to sign as well.
Today’s post focuses on the closure of the DePaul Art Museum and Chicago Public Schools taking over The Chicago High School for the Arts. These are specific examples of Dump destroying the arts and education. Plus supporting war and sports while sacrificing art is harmful in the long term.
I'm getting off social media. I belong to one of the marginalized demographics these MAGA-Nazis target and hardly anyone fights for and protects. It's only making me sicker and worsening my disability. I need to protect and care for myself. Good luck to you. Don't bother responding because I won't.
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
What we are seeing is evil. Pure evil.
Shut it down. #NationalGeneralStrike
“The general strike is the name for when the riot, the strike, and the commune all happen at once,” late theorist Joshua Clover said..."that’s the day, the week, or the year where there will be a role for everyone.” There is a role for everyone; that time must be now theintercept.com/2026/01/24/s...
I’m just going to leave this here.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
Just finished watching Nuremberg. Glad I did. The message is heavy-handed, but maybe it needs to be in this moment.
Sheila E. was amazing last night, repping Minnesota with 'Purple Rain'. Sending ALL our love to Minnesota.
nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21
The nurses are pissed
Walz: Minnesotans are witnessing, and we're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ice agents and officials responsible for this.
The National Guard is in Minneapolis. The hell Minnesota and Minneapolis have gone through since last year . . . . The MAGA-Nazi Reich is evil.
Migraine so bad.
Kristi Noem and DHS don’t want us to see this video.
📌 Alex was disarmed BEFORE he was shot. This was murder.
I have multiple sclerosis, intractable chronic migraines, and clinical depression. I am also a highly sensitive person.
The events of today have triggered a migraine and spasticity.
Disability theorist and activist Eli Claire wrote we can't be single-issue in our identity and activism; we must work as a braided coalition. This has never been more important and vital.
It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.
I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.
AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand
I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
Today is January 24th, 2026 and Pam Bondi covered up the Epstein files.
Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.
