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Trans Day of Trans People Doing Bits While Cis People Post Earnestly
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all of Frederick Douglass’ journal entries abt John Brown were like “this REALLY INTENSE WHITE guy keeps trying to talk to me abt armed struggle, it’s weird,” then met him and was like “wow this guy has the right idea, good for him!… But damn he’s weird”
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Happy Pride to Virginia Woolf For having sex with a girl once and then getting so obsessed with her that she wrote a 900 page generation spanning experimental novel, the gayest move of all
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...you mean the ones that have to go back to their service industry jobs to pay rent
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I applied for a CTA job in 2021.
Made to the third round of interviews and testing before being disqualified because I was 3 minutes late.
…I took the Red line.
The “nationwide operator shortage” isn’t because “no one wants to work”, it’s because the hurdles to get a job as an operator at most transit agencies are stupidly high
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Angela Davis had two apartments in diff cities because she could afford it and was organizing in both places and it was not completely obscenely expensive to do so
Y’all are being psyop’ed into normalizing the rent being too damn high by saying it’s broken Western individualism for a young adult to have their own place and y’all don’t even see it
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The funniest standup I’ve ever seen was this goth girl who did 20 minutes of eating disorder jokes to an absolutely SILENT room of college dudes.
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cool, here’s another revenue generating idea: UChicago stops getting millions in property tax exemptions
UChicago students have come up with an idea to tackle the city’s $35M in pension debt: adding a toll to DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
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I feel strongly there are Chicago Winter Bars and Chicago Summer Bars — please give me an example of each
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I told her it was really good after and she said "thanks that was the worst 15 minutes of my life" and left. think of her often
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tax exemptions like these are why we don’t have the services our communities deserve.
Mississippi has approved bills to give Amazon a 10-year, 100% corporate tax exemption, plus 30 years of state tax exemptions.
Lawmakers also set aside $44 million to help fund Amazon's latest project in the state.
Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in America.
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'I care which pronoun is used, but people have been respectful to me with the wrong pronoun and disrespectful with the right one. It matters whether someone is using the pronoun as a bigot, or if they are trying to demonstrate respect.'" Leslie Feinberg
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It’s sunny and above 60. Thousands of mental illnesses across Chicago were just cured
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It took me a long time to tell this story because in my opinion, I wasn’t late!!! I called repeatedly to make sure I was waiting in the right location, but I wasn’t.
By the time I found the right part of the building the CTA staffer told me that I had been disqualified.
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Lori Lightfoot did SO MUCH as Mayor of Chicago, almost all of it incredibly bad.
Was she a political lightning rod? Sure.
But she also had an unusual knack for making petty antagonistic choices that made EVERYONE mad without moving policy forward.
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Vallas outspent Johnson 2 to 1 and most of his donations were from like 5 huge donors but nice one i guess
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The gap in employment on my resume? That’s when Jesus carried me
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What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever been paid to do?
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Robberies and assaults across Chicago make me afraid for the first time - Chicago Sun-Times In 40 years as a journalist, I visited every Chicago neighborhood. For the first time, I now fear for my safety. Andy Shaw
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I can be pretty skeptical about Chicago politics, but yesterday a friend reminded me:
Brandon Johnson participated in the hunger strike to save Dyett Schools.
That committment to public schools is so material -- it's a tangible demonstration of his politics, beyond buzzwords.
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@pacvarez
$35k a year freelance chicago reporter: it's racism. it's structural racism. once again the issue is structural racism
$100k salaried national publication pundit: "what makes this West side neighborhood different from Wrigleyville? Well, it's impossible to ever know for sure"
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Normalize fictional depictions of Virginia Woolf as a fucking geek
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BREAKING:
#chicago
resisters in solidarity with the
#nodapl
protest are shutting down
@Citi
-- follow
#nodaplchi
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This is very savvy media framing from Arwady, but it's not true.
Arwady wasn't retained because:
+ She testified against an ordinance allowing healthcare workers to unionize,
+ She opposed plans to re-open mental health clinics, a major part of Johnson's platform
Dr. Allison Arwady tells
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
she doesn’t know why she was fired but offers this: “I'm actually a little bit proud to now have joined the ranks of the hundreds of public health leaders who ultimately lost their jobs for making data-driven decisions during COVID.”
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imo, I only made it that far because I was in a pre-apprenticeship program with a decades long history in the city that flagged my name.
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TFW the Budget Meeting is officially past the 3 hour marker and Alder Ervin is talking about how we shouldn’t have a street named Division in Chicago bc it divides us
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And to be clear, this was for a track worker position, not driving — if I remember correctly, starting salary was $20 an hour.
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If I hadn’t been late, it’s likely I would’ve been disqualified in the next step anyway, a physical exam that required lifting and moving a load of hundreds of pounds.
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Here are some “normalized” internet trauma responses:
+ doomscrolling
+ feeling frozen
+ dissociation
If you’re exhibiting these right now, there’s nothing wrong with you.
If you can, try to think about them as permission to take care of yourself instead of scrolling.
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I am reading a book abt Marie Equi, a socialist lesbian abortion dr in Portland during 1900s and every chapter is making me lose my mind
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DoorDash spent $90,000 in Chicago's City Council elections.
Why?
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Hey! This feels silly but I'm subletting my apartment and can't use Facebook because of trans name rules.
Can you spread the word, esp if you have friends in Hyde Park/University of Chicago area?
This fiddle leaf fig could be yours!
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There is an intense culture of time discipline in the trades, so I was embarrassed to share this story for a while — even when taking public transit, there is no excuse for being late. 🫡🙄
But it does not escape me that this happened with a wildly understaffed CTA.
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Since I’m being childish about this, I also want to highlight the relish with which the Bridgeport type admin worker told my twinky looking ass that I was disqualified
It felt like it made her day in a way that really stuck with me
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Kind of obsessed with this piece by
@GrimKim
about the women feeding striking miners in Alabama for the last two years:
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(Correct me if this is not the actual physical test – – one of the wild things about the trades, particularly in the city of Chicago, is that these physical exams are often arbitrarily proctored and constantly changing — but that’s another story).
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Finally announcing it here —
I’m officially working in communications for
@CTULocal1
Proud to be part of this union and this movement.
Anyway, here’s a helpful pdf for impending trolls:
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Good morning. I’m Amy Goodman and this is democracy now. today, hell is empty and all the devils are on earth
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Hello American. I’m Lori Lightfoot. here’s My Guide To Doxxing Teenagers
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Tomorrow is Chicago's first City Council meeting since the election. Here's what to expect:
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I live in Chicago because Chicago is the best City in the world to be sad
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This happened to my aunt once or twice during the pandemic (who worked at Dollar General obvi).
I'm naive but consistently shocked by how little accountability there is for brands that target poor rural areas while spending the absolute smallest amount of money possible.
A Dollar General worker says she was the only one to show up to work, she’s not paid enough to run the store alone, and ends with, “today’s my last day.”
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I applied for a podcast producer job! It’s in Chicago local politics, and I think it would be… Really cool. Pray for me and my hideous sensitivity
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most people have so many insane hang ups about sex — talking about trans people really brings that out. It’s hard to have a chill trans inclusive workplace discussion about pronouns because people are freaking abt their own relationship with sex.
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What’s the most embarrassing piece of fiction that you’ve had an emotional reaction to?
Mine is paw patrol, it was a dark time
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(Prestige TV voice): The Bear is a distinctly Chicago show because nobody has any fucking money
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New friends in Chicago are like “I know a place” then they take you to their Moving Away Party
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First of all, Sansa stark is the only one asking KEY basic infrastructure questions!!! What are they feeding everyone? No granaries from the queen the dragons!!
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potential employers: *silence*
potential employers: *silence*
potential employers: *silence*
potential employers, at all once: hi hello we liked your application from February can you do an interview and a job test in the next 10 minutes
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this didn't work and I think that's great
DoorDash spent $90,000 in Chicago's City Council elections.
Why?
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Every single time an elected mentions Chicago’s sanctuary city status they should have to read this paragraph from
@HeatherCherone
out loud:
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“Fuck.... maybe next year I’ll at least.... post a selfie? could be fun,” — me lying to myself every TDOV
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Listen, I’m not a researcher, but this is so fucking insane — that this is our best source of data about this pandemic.
With COVID transmission data removed from the CDC website after the end of the public health emergency, wastewater is now our best indicator for surges.
And wastewater data shows that all of NYC has high COVID levels.
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What is the Illinois Policy Institute?
Why do they hate teachers so much?
Here's a 🧵
(This iconic image is from Eric Allie, a good example of Illinois Policy's work)
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since this is blowing up — it’s important to see how staff doesn’t immediately change with a new administration, no matter who gets appointed.
hiring processes don’t suddenly become dynamic, and I have no doubt that particular admin is still absolutely at CTA.
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@SamFoxenBoyd
nah she stopped trying and it's awesome.
you can hear it in but I'm a cheerleader
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I spent years skipping parties to “write” — in this self-isolating period, many friends died.
I deeply regret every party I skipped.
I will spend the rest of my life grappling w work + what we owe each other in our terrible beautiful world, which I can only do through writing.
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Just to be clear, a coalition is "a group of people who hate each other but have a common goal"
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If you wanna be my lover/ You gotta watch 1989 cult classic Moonstruck starring Cher and Nicolas Cage
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A reported story I’m kind of surprised I haven’t seen: a Lincoln Yards update.
The city’s paid out 140 million in TIFs — what happened?
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Recently I’ve been surprised to encounter many people who don’t know who Karen Lewis was.
I thought I’d talk a little bit about her impact the day after
@Brandon4Chicago
’s inauguration — especially because this moment in Chicago parallels the 2011 CTU election in many ways.
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It’s worth mentioning many of the other CTA appliers in the program (all Black women) didn’t even make it to this step.
Who knows why, but I do know they all had jobs and lives that made random workday interviews hard.
They were also all way better at math than me.
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@nataliawinke
@rachsyme
"An opinion? On something? I'm so sorry, I'll have to direct you to our PR team"
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A prosecutor running on career identity politics has been GREAT for chicago, excited to see how this plays out nationally.
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Would you guys be interested in a recurring piece that’s basically “here are 5 people I’ve met who do organizing that seems to be working that don’t hate their lives"
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I am 99.9% sure this was Evelyn Troutman so as this blows up uh buy her merch or go to her shows or something
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structural issues like this only surface when someone like me does it— and that’s I had basically everything aligned and still didn’t make it to the next step.
Worse — just because something is “surfaced” doesn’t mean anything is going to happen to change things.
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Anyone have a body? Good for you guys. As an ally, that’s so cool to hear.
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Bad: didn't get a Chicago job I was stoked about. thinking more about what I will need to do to reskill or start at the bottom of another job/career
Good: went to the Field Museum death exhibit which made me feel so many feelings (smell a dead corpse! tardigrades!)
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HEY: if you’re a socialist or leftist running for office, DM me.
I want to write you donor emails, for free.
Here’s how and why.
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Being trans at work is sometimes like wearing a sign that says “tell me all your uncomfortable compulsive thoughts related to gender”
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A cool thing about internal union organizing right now is that so much of it is just replacing an 95 year old guy named Dave with a 51 year old guy named Dave
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The New York Times and many other national outlets are calling Lightfoot's loss last night a referendum on crime and public safety.
No way.
It's a referendum on Lightfoot's choices -- her prioritization of national media, optics, and personal power over building coalitions.
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My favorite Chicago corruption story is from my extremely non-political ex.
She once had a summer internship at City Club Chicago.
Years later, she was like:
“You know politics: why were so many contractors there? I had to take so much cash to the bank after our events.”
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All this means is that organizers and movements have to beat Lightfoot at her own game for the next 4 years.
She won by co-opting the stories and frames that Chicago organizers created — but Chicago organizers tell those stories better.
#StopLightfoot
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There are 4 Types of Chicago Alder:
Gay
Gay Socialist
Straight
Old
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Once again all the bits I came up with last TDOV completely forgotten :(
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me, about to get kicked off Kristen Sinema’s merch team:
listen… I don’t know if you know this… But IKEA never copyrighted the design for The Bisexual Couch
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A Q from the briefing where the city of Denver decided NOT to use GardaWorld for migrant services:
“Does Denver want to be a corporate guinea pig for sheltering vulnerable people with no experience beyond policing operations?"
Denver said no.
Chicago can say no, too.
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Our local government ran one racism, corruption, and inertia for a literal century.
None of this went away overnight — then we added crisis.
Fixing it will take more than firing a single person or electing one official.
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The fact that John Catanzara (FOP president) is on this list is like… very funny in a not funny way
NEW: A
@TheTRiiBE
investigation found the
@cookcountysao
's do-not-call list includes hundreds of current and former Chicago cops who cannot be trusted to testify in court. The list we published is far longer than previously reported. | 🖋️ Max Blaisdell
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