wakingrufus  

Covid 

cookedthefilm.com/ What I love about this movie is how it frames the 1995 heat wave as not a natural disaster, how officials and media always portray it, but as a man-made disaster, because just like covid, the natural event exposed and exploited all the man-made problems in the city, and that is what caused most of the deaths. It was a mini-covid in so many ways, including using reefer trucks to store bodies.

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With all the terrible reporting on the events this week, I wanted to share this article, which I think is the best I've seen so far in an actual publication: blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/1

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In my headcannon, Thom Bradley asked this just to get skilling to say F(uck) 12
wgntv.com/weather/weather-blog

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birdsite, harassment, ilpol 

A local county board member (twitter.com/hadiyafordupage) is getting harassed after A-dy Ngo and T*d Cruz targeted her. Please send her any support you can hadiyafordupage.com/

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extremely Illinois thoughts 

Why why why are political reporters furloughed at the Tribune but John fuckin' Kass still has his shitty opinion column?!

(I know, I know: forget it, Sarah. It's the Chicago Tribune.)

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Frasier bon mot bot  

CPD stole bikes from demonstrators at a Black Indigenous solidarity rally yesterday. If you can help these folks replace their stolen property, venmo ChicagoBikeFund.

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Mx. Scraps  

I'm really enjoying the reactions of confusion and disgust when I tell people I'm just gonna be a White Sox fan this year, but like honestly fuck the Cubs and their shitty network, and also fuck the Ricketts and also look at Tim Anderson

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pzmyers 🦑  

I'm not really impressed with our opening plans.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul

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TanagraTooter  

It is OK, but while some of the stories end with the heroes capturing the villains, some of them go a step further and show the villain going to jail. I don't like how that is portrayed as a good thing. Does anyone have recommendations for more appropriate super hero books for toddlers? Do I have to go "off brand" from DC/Marvel for this? (2/2)

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wakingrufus  

ice, us pol 

ICE is trying to build a brownshirt army in newsweek.com/ice-launching-cit I'm not sure what we can do to stop them, but at the very least, we can't allow the "trainees" to operate in our city.

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The Murder of Eugene Williams 

This poem is about the murder of a Black boy, killed by white swimmers after drifting into the "white beach". This sparked the Red Summer of 1919. Eve Ewing has an excellent poem collection on this eveewing.com/1919/ . It is so fitting that as I chose to pick up this book again at this time, this is the first poem I read. Not much has changed since 1919.

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Shy bunny  

abolitionism collective in Chicago 

"The #LetUsBreathe Collective is an alliance of artists and activists organizing through a creative lens to imagine a world without prisons and police. The Collective operates the Breathing Room space, a Black-led liberation headquarters for arts, organizing, and healing on Chicago's South Side."

letusbreathecollective.com

(This is the kind of PSA I want to be hearing on radio stations - in this case, CHIRP Radio)

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ILpol 

www2.illinois.gov/Pages/news-i

Election day is now a state holiday in Illinois

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wakingrufus  

From Chicago GDC:
All active jail support sites are seeking water coolers, ice and sunscreen.

Harrison/Kedzie
Belmont/Campbell
27th/California
51/Wentworth

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us chi pol 

blockclubchicago.org/2020/06/0

How about a state of emergency for the fact that we have a fascist secret police force running amok in the city?

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j1mc  

So this is a thing ... All of the CTA is shut down for the night.

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Never thought I'd see the day when there is a protest in Naperville. Despite people fearmongering about "looters" or whatever, I think a lot of people are finally getting that we need to put a stop to police violence.

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Sarah  

If you’ve already given to a Chicago bail fund and still have money left over, consider giving some to Assata’s Daughters. They are “an abolitionist organization led by Black women using a Black queer feminist lens and relationship-based tactics to organize bases of young Black people in divested-from areas of Chicago” and they’ve been doing great work for some time now. assatasdaughters.org/

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Keep an eye on this one

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Profanity, covid 

Oh. Good thing they are re-opening the fucking golf courses.

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