“You get to keep your life”

In Chicago's Winnemac Park tonight, a growing crowd of around a hundred neighbors have gathered for an emergency vigil for Renee Nicole Good, a 37 yr old mom shot and killed by DHS in Minneapolis today.

New year! New themes! Join us or d*e! Can you do any less?

Yes, that was a Mr. Sparkle reference. In 2026.

EMERGENCY CHICAGO PROTEST NO WAR ON VENEZUELA STOP THE BOMBINGS! SAT. JANUARY 3 FEDERAL PLAZA, 5PM

Chicago!

this is perfect

But that one white guy couldn’t get a job in Hollywood because woke!!!!

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Wishing you a peaceful and joyful holiday season.

The Ryan Lizza installments will continue until morale improves

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I picked up some taquitos from my neighborhood heavy metal taquito dude. He stops everything to watch Jeopardy in the afternoon and he regaled me with the story of the dude who has been on a 10 day winning streak.

1) The NYC election was a three-way race, and
2) Mamdani was undermined by Democratic party leaders.

Those feel like pertinent context.

ICE/CBP is active in Lincoln Park right now, has been spotted near Damen/Clybourn at Costco + Jewel (this is in addition to a morning abduction reported at Costco earlier).

People believe grocery delivery drivers are being targeted and are asking folks to alert other vulnerable workers as well.

Monster As written for Miss Spoken: Monster, a lady live lit show presented at Cole's Bar on Monday, December 27.

I read this at @missspoken.bsky.social the other night:

jasmined.substack.com/p/monster

A patch that says police on the bottom and has a figure with a lance on a white horse above the word police. There are words above the horse image, but I do not know what they are.

A cop clad all in black with a helmet and mask on and a gun. On his uniform, there is A patch that says police on the bottom and has a figure with a lance on a white horse above the word police. There are words above the horse image, but I do not know what they are.

Cops clad all in black with helmets and masks on and guns. Their helmets have right Shields over the front. This is outside the Broadview, Illinois ice facility. One of the cops also has zip ties.

Cops clad all in black with helmets and masks on and guns. Their helmets have right Shields over the front. This is outside the Broadview, Illinois ice facility. One of the cops also has zip ties.

I went to Broadview ICE facility again today. They blocked off 25th, a lot of sheriffs police, local cops& Illinois state police. Around noon, riot police w/ weapons, helmets, zip ties came out. All in black & I cannot figure out what this patch says. The word on the bottom is police. Anybody know?

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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State of Illinois now doing the goons' job for them.

maybe we need one for @missspoken.bsky.social, though i always thought my yelling from the stage before intermission was somewhat effective at garnering donations 🤔 💵

Donald Trump’s plan is one that’s been repeated over and over again by dictators across history — inciting the local population before sending disrupters.

That’s how you convert a democracy into something else.

Illinois won’t fall for this ploy.

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police.

Crowd is jubilant.

Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

Almost wished I lived in NYC so I could vote for this guy.

If you’re a US LGBTQ person who has an Irish parent/grandparent & thinking about applying for a passport

▪️do it now

Our passport service is struggling with the volume of applications from the US, with so many Queer Irish Americans seeking to escape

Definitely go when you are in the area.

There’s a guy on TikTok who organizes flash mobs to twerk around cops yelling “arrest me, daddy” and I think we should definitely do that when the military shows up in chicago.

"Lil Nas X was charged Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them"

No one is as proudly fragile as a cop

I am so tremendously thankful that JB Pritzker is my Governor.

When he ran I was extremely skeptical but he has proven to be an amazing leader time and time again.

Friends outside of Illinois: I know you are skeptical of him because he is a billionaire but watch his actions. They speak volumes.

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the problem with living in a super diverse neighbourhood is that regularly there are food smells that waft in my windows that make me want to go door to door and say "are you cooking? can I have some? can I have the recipe?"

utterly amazing curry scent wafting in right now and I want to die