Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.

The Pitt but it’s about working at any Cheesecake Factory

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Cliff Raven outside Sunset Strip Tattoo in California shortly after buying it from Lyle Tuttle

A screenshot from https://www.luckyfish.com/cliff-raven-in-chicago-2020 reads: When HIV emerged, studios began refusing homosexual customers, and many gay tattooers left the field. In a letter to Raven, one artist explains feeling relief that police raids closed him down. "I do not fancy working continually with people's BLOOD on my hands in these plague days of anguish and horrible viruses which they... don't know shit about," he says. His community's palpable anxiety bolstered Raven's commitment to providing a medical-grade sterile environment, and it secured him as a beacon to gay men who wanted ink. Pat Fish, the last tattooer trained by Raven, recalls him saying three things are necessary to be a good tattoo artist: art, craft, and morals. Part of having morals meant prioritizing clients' health. "He made me buy an autoclave before he let me buy a tattoo machine," she laughs. This was in 1985. According to her, gloves weren't even industry standard until a doctor led a workshop on it at a tattoo convention in 1986—though Greg James, another tattooer who worked with Raven, says they were slowly becoming common in the early 80s. Raven began wearing them in the late 70s, and he was using an autoclave, the machine hospitals use to sterilize reusable equipment, as early as 1970.

It’s #WorldAIDSDay - Did you know sanitation and barriers are industry standard in tattooing because Cliff Raven, a gay tattooer from Chicago, made sure he could still provide service to his own community as most shops refused to tattoo homosexuals when the AIDS crisis emerged?

Threads post from julieceye At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm

Everyone is correct to be outraged by this, but also it's such an absurd pose he has nothing to back up. These cowards will be arresting roofers and cooks and bullying normal people minding their business. They won't even be near the 'crime' they claim to be stopping. They think the L is too scary

congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow

deeply proud of all of you

timeline cleanser: Irenicus versus some chainmail

ATF officer ordering person out of the road

ATF agent adjusts his balaclava

FBI agent in mask, glasses, ball cap

Protester with hands clasped behind her head

Brief standoff between masked federal officers and one person outside immigration court in Chicago.

This was after the same protester sat in front of their arrival vehicle that may have been returning for more arrests (8 so far) and it backed up and left.

every day i lose more and more ground to my demons*

*getting a stomach tattoo
*getting a sternum tattoo
*buying a concrete goose secondhand off fb marketplace so that i can dress it up in little outfits

get me to god’s country

everyone: wow, the new pope is from america

chicagoans:

Volume up

a screenshot from the animated film princess mononoke. a man covered in bandages lays on a straw mat, under a straw blanket. the caption says “The world is cursed, but still, you find reasons to keep living.”

thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days

trans folks deserve the world and the moon and laughter and wonder and liberation

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

I’ve been sort of idly keeping track of all the points in the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars that arguably apply to the Trump Admin. This is the first four-in-a-row I’ve hit. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

The USA’s two leading scholars of authoritarianism and fascism moved to Canada (one permanently, one on leave).

“Stanley writes he has been “very happy at Yale, with the department and the university,” but he wants “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship.”

The Gang Illegally Shares U.S. War Planning Details With A Journalist

looking over green cliffs to bright blue sky and sea, small waves can be seen

hot depressed women take the sea air

The world: collapsing, on fire, backsliding in new and horrifying ways
Midwesterners: let's celebrate this holiday dedicated to donuts

eleven days from now the senate has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in history

It's crazy how there might actually be a conclave so soon after the movie "Conclave" came out. Anyway, back to work on my screenplay "Emergency Tesla Board Meeting".

Yeah let's fuck with the people who notoriously love their city above country and hate snitches, see how this goes

Tom Homan unexpectedly makes the case for why Chicago is the best.

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

🫡

i fear my careful reporting re: chicago mothman sightings won’t do numbers here (18 likes) like it did on the Bad site