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I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

submitted 9 days ago • 267 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 9 days ago • 396 comments

A space for joy in tough times: our annual Ecumenical Palm Sunday Procession with live donkeys Tinkerbelle and Iris. Meet at the corner of Lake St. and Chicago Ave. in Evanston at 9AM on April 13 to join in the fun.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My neighbor’s flag, looking appropriately battle-worn these days. #OurFlagWasStillThere

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I… feel like they want something.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 30 days ago • 83 comments

Relieved and not surprised to see my rep, @delia.bsky.social on the first page of signatures. But also, 40%?!?!!!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I love that one of the founding mothers of LSC was Rebecca Westerfield, even if we aren’t related.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Any time you find yourself saying “that’s TOO compassionate,” ask yourself what the hell you’re talking about.

submitted 44 days ago • 6 comments

You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

submitted 47 days ago • 162 comments

Just had a major article published this morning which acknowledges Israel's violations of the Genocide Convention, but gives examples of other genocidal wars the United States has supported. This is an important one. Please consider circulating. newlinesmag.com/essays/by-re...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

submitted 74 days ago • 57 comments

If you can’t make it in person, you can watch live on our YouTube channel at noon CST or see the recording later

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

submitted 85 days ago • 326 comments

Churches, know your rights. Fulfill our call to love our neighbors!

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Rev Woolf’s latest article in @sojo.net sojo.net/articles/opi...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Once again asking what problem this technology has solved or is expected to solve to force us to endure this. www.fastcompany.com/91253026/air...

submitted 96 days ago • 44 comments

While it is important to make sure folks understand that attacks on trans folks and their rights are the opening salvo to obliterating the rights of many other groups, it's also important to remember that if these attacks truly began and ended with trans folks alone, that would also NOT BE OKAY.

submitted 100 days ago • 14 comments

Mutual aid request for a disabled trans person and their partner (also disabled) who are displaced with their pets after an apartment fire. gofund.me/d073ece4

submitted 205 days ago • 5 comments

For someone I have known a long time: Mutual Aid Request: Black, Queer disabled Organizer living in the Chicagoland area in need of $1300 for groceries, food, and health insurance Funds can be sent to venmo (773-742-0149) Zelle: Rachel.williams2013@gmail.com ✨

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

This is from the NYT morning newsletter today, demonstrating their attachment to this made-up non-viable “position” they want to mainstream: that people who want to ban gender-affirming care for teens are somehow not engaging in anti-trans discrimination (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/b...)

submitted 268 days ago • 31 comments

I love how much The Bear loves Chicago. 😭

submitted 291 days ago • 0 comments

My pollinator parkway is on year three and pretty much self-sustaining at this point. 🌱

submitted 335 days ago • 2 comments

I mean, I can explain it. We are in a resurgence of white supremacy. Under white supremacy, white women are only offered protection if they support the white men in power. Otherwise you’re a whiny ugly pathological liar, and if you don’t want to be that, shut up and smile.

submitted 452 days ago • 25 comments

NPR keeps publishing stories on federal prison deaths without publishing the underlying data: www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1... I actually helped them convert the PDFs to a workable spreadsheet a few years ago. Not that they ever repaid the favor. If you want it, just hit me up.

submitted 465 days ago • 2 comments

They estimate 100 children die each day in Palestine. Like I don't know how to process that. I've done everything short of going to Palestine so I can die with them. For how long are we supposed to watch at a safe distance? No one is making it stop

submitted 467 days ago • 3 comments