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YOU CAN REGISTER TO VOTE AND VOTE ON THE SAME VISIT! Online voter registration is closed, and the only way to register is via Same Day Voter Registration. * Only available in-person at YOUR polling place! * Registration requires 2 forms of ID, being 18 by general election day, 30 days of residence at an in-district residence, and U.S. citizenship. Illinois driver's license • Utility bill • Illinois state ID • Postmarked mail • Employee or student ID • Valid U.S. passport • Credit card • Public aid ID card • Social security card • Lease or rental contract • Birth certificate

EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS NORTHWESTERN Evanston Robert Crown Community Center 1801 Main St #2, Evanston, IL 60202 LOYOLA 40th Ward Budlong Woods Library 5630 N. Lincoln Ave. 48th Ward Broadway Armory 5917 N. Broadway St. 49th Ward Willye B White Park 1610 W. Howard St.

Students have more power than politicians want to admit.

Your rent is here. Your tuition is here. Your vote should be here too.

TOMORROW is election day, don’t sit this one out!

I got placed at a high school for my TESL field experience this semester! 🙌 I am SO excited! HS placements aren’t common, so I’m thrilled about this!

I started this journey subbing in a high school, and the ENL teachers I worked with are why I got interested in TESOL.

I needed this good news!

Things are tentatively on the upswing, but I am afraid to be hopeful; as that is usually when the other shoe drops like a nuclear bomb.

*just breathe*

I’ve been drowning in my grad program; but after dropping 2 of 4 classes, I’m finally able to see the light and keep my head above water.

ADHD + mental health + ND kiddo + toddler + break up/separation + financial hardship + *waves vaguely at the dumpster fire world rn = burned out mom.

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Rep. Jody Barrett (Left)
Sen. Mark Pody (Right)

@democrats.senate.gov

every single one of you will be looked at in history as an enabler. And I mean EVERY one of you. SPEAKING is not enough! You must ACT. Like ALL THE OTHER CITIZENS. You obviously think you are somehow “special”. Couldn’t be farther from the truth.

The Grammy Awards were fantastic. Trump tuned in but didn’t have a good time and got very upset.

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If you are exposed to tear gas, immediately move away & towards higher ground if possible.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar rushed on stage and sprayed with liquid at town hall event Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking at a town hall event when she was rushed by a man who sprayed a liquid at her via a syringe.

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was speaking at a town hall event when she was rushed by a man who sprayed a liquid at her via a syringe. n.pr/3LGNR46

Just popping in to remind everyone that ICE are not the Gestapo.

ICE ARE SLAVE CATCHERS.

The Nazi’s learned FROM the United States.

Notice how no one shot the man who lunged at Ilhan Omar, even though he did far more than Alex Pretti ever did. The stochastic terrorism fueled by Trump’s demonization of elected officials, American citizens, and immigrants is a permanent stain on American history.

Just popping in to remind everyone that ICE are not the Gestapo.

ICE ARE SLAVE CATCHERS.

The Nazi’s learned FROM the United States.

“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”

MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside

Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...

“3 flash bangs at my car. ICE knew we were trying to leave. My 6 month old can’t breathe.”

Trump’s goons terrorize a Black family in Minneapolis, to the point where EMT’s have to come help his child get away from the gas and chaotic dangerous scene

(H/T @thejfreakinc.bsky.social )

Spring classes start tomorrow.

It’s surreal to put in the work that is graduate school while under a fascist regime.

DHS and MAGA are spreading propaganda claiming the Minneapolis driver tried to run over ICE. That claim is completely false. Multiple videos from different angles (recorded by people on the scene) clearly show that this did not happen. ICE killed a US citizen. Justice is required for this killing.

Now that I am once again separated and divorcing—reemerging at the epicenter of my reconstruction—the universe is telling me to complete it.

There are some stories that words alone simply cannot convey.

I got this tattoo after my ex & I divorced in 2013; I never got the chance to finish it.

I was a single mom of 1, taking classes FT at my local community college when Eddie (www.instagram.com/rocksteadyed...) transformed my freedom into art.

post deleted but it’s abolish ICE now and always has needed to happen

Heads up: User name change.

Stellar_mayhem has been changed to KitschyNerd.

Oh, uh hey. I passed my classes with a 3.52 gpa. Yay me!

Have a Merry Christmas Or I Will Kick Out Your Organs

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I have one final project due tomorrow night, and then my first semester of graduate school will be over!

I’m almost there, but it’s going to be a highly caffeinated, cram sesh to the finish line.

TEXAS NEEDS TERM LIMITS FOR GOVERNOR‼️

Gov Abbott announced that Texas has launched a partnership with Turning Point USA to create chapters on every high school campus.

He warned schools that any attempt to block a TPUSA club should be reported and will face “meaningful disciplinary action.”

I’m going to be wearing this shirt a lot.

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Banned Books Week brings together everyone from librarians, educators, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers of all types, in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas. In short, it's something which has never been more valuable - read for your rights! 📚

Trump’s economy:

August job creation revised from +54,000 to -3,000

I got 100% on my Reading Case Study Analysis in my Childhood Literacy class. It was worth 20% of my grade.

That’s 100’s all across the board so far.

My ADHD is trying hard to defeat me, but I’m kicking ass anyway! 💅