my partner baby & i are leaving the neighborhood we've been in for 6 years for an entirely different side of the city because we are priced out. sad to leave the community we're part of, tho i know it's not the other side of the moon, because we can't pay both $$$$$ in rent/mortage & also childcare.
Younger is excellent, hell yeah.
Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
My sister-in-law Claire is raising money to care for her brother Sam, a 38 year old autistic father who has recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. So far, they’re at $1,760 of a
$2,400 goal. Can you help get them to the finish line?
www.gofundme.com/f/samuel-jrs...
Literally beautiful
We could all have a really good life.
I'm at the murder fog. I'm at the pneumonia front. I'm at the murder fog pneumonia front.
And the lilacs have bloomed! A genuinely invigorating night for the senses!
Earlier this evening: dozens of people gathered in Chicago's far north side Rogers (Phillip) Park in support of an 18-year-old Mather High School student and his mother, who, according to the student's older brother, were abducted from the Chicago immigration court at Ida B. Wells Drive in March.
The school does a lot with a little, but needs more support: 78.5% of students are from low-income families, 38.8% require adapted curriculum, 35% are English Language learners, and 20.8% are unhoused. Any $$ you have to spare will go a long way ♥️
A friend of mine whose child goes to Courtenay Elementary School is fundraising for bus fees to get students to the Special Olympics and field trips, musical instruments, and after-school childcare. Their goal is $700; they’re at $200 right now.
www.gofundme.com/f/courtenay-...
Northern view from Lake Point Tower overlooking the Chicago shoreline where it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2026-04-15 08:36:11 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@LakefrontLive // Current Temp in Chicago: 64 F | 18 C // Precip: light rain // Wind: SSW at 11 mph | 17 kph // Humidity: 88%
Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
A painting of the easter bunny on a purple background rests in a garden unit window…BEHIND BARS.
Free him!!
My brother in Christ do u have pica
My baby has informed me that stopping him from eating cat food out of the cat bowl is a violation of his human rights
I wonder why my laptop screen is frozen and the cursor spinning. Perhaps one of the 726,895 emotional support tabs I’ve had open since 2024 holds the answer. If only I could navigate and see.
this cortado was $7.98 before tip vive la révolution
(Whispers) also the same people who let their dogs roam off-leash down sidewalks and in public parks, but then call the cops when an unhoused person who lives in that park with their own pup does the same
I'm genuinely suprised:
We'e got some tradespeople - repping their unions - in the crowd tonight
Happening now: an anti-war protest is gathering in Chicago's Federal Plaza over US/Israeli attacks on Iran & Lebanon.
Iranian & US officials announced a 2 week ceasefire yesterday. That's now in question after Israel extensively bombed Lebanon earlier today, reportedly killing over 250 people.
when shawn saw this he SCREAMED and i was SCARED
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For the last 6 months we have watched ordinary people put their lives at risk for their neighbors while the powerful retreat in cowardice. Just regular folks pummeled with chemical weapons and shot dead in the streets fighting for what's right and good.
There are heroes all around you. Find them
"[F]or people responding to overdose in regions where medetomidine has been identified...ideally using intramuscular naloxone to start with a low dose and titrate up if needed, with the emphasis on rescue breathing rather than potentially giving someone more naloxone than necessary."
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
"it's giving war crime" in a southern accent is just going to play on loop in my head the rest of the day
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