Asha AE🐢Abolish police + Israel. 🇵🇸🇭🇹🇨🇩
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• Artist • For Abolition🌱 • UIC Public Health '23 • AD taught me • #WeAreDissenters 🌊 #NoCopAcademy #CopsOutCPS
Back on here because the heatwave in Chicago is a stark reminder that we need climate action ASAP. The gov considers u disposable & we don't have time to wait for permission. I want to bring solar punk+ urban ecology ideas to Chicago through community projects with abolitionist+ indigenous lenses.
Illinois handled 25% of ALL out-of-state abortions last year. That’s 35,000+ people crossing state lines just to get care. The Chicago Abortion Fund fielded 16,000+ calls and no one was turned away. That's holding the line.
Nearly 25% of All Out-of-State Abortions Took Place in Illinois Last Year: Study
About 35,000 out-of-state patients traveled to Illinois for an abortion last year, accounting for 39% of all abortions provided in the state, according to a recent study.
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Picking the right door as a young Black person can be a matter of life or death. A lower-stakes example: I tell people who are nervous about canvassing their neighborhood to start with the people who have signs indicating similar values. Gestures matter if they help us find each other.
Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · last mo.Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.
My latest published in @truthout.org and the @theappeal.org. Delaney Hall detainees: “We deserve to be free and to complete the process at home with our families. We demand freedom, a fair trial, and for our rights to be respected.”
Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
truthout.org
Every time we criminalize anything to do with girlhood or womanhood, Black women become targeted. Look at who is most likely to die since reproductive justice has been criminalized. "Black mothers living in banned states were more than three times as likely to die as White mothers in those states"
great piece from incarcerated writer ian valencia about how prison rape jokes help obscure and normalize violence behind bars. the latest from the @chicagoreader.com's inside voices series:
What ‘don’t drop the soap’ gets wrong - Chicago Reader
Jokes about prison sexual assault have long been prevalent in popular culture; not only are they flippant, but they also hide the bigger picture.
chicagoreader.com
Black girls are already adultified in schools-being seen as older, less innocent & more sexualized. Bans on trans girls are going to catch cis Black girls in hypersurveillance & hyperpunishment. Protect trans girls and kids. Protect Black girls. Fight against trans bans. Fight for trans kids
AI poses a dire threat to journalism organizations' ability to share actual facts with broad audiences, as @neginowl.bsky.social & @ziggywest.bsky.social & I write. This is just one example of why we CANNOT acquiesce to an "it's inevitable" mindset when it comes to AI. truthout.org/articles/goo...
Google’s New AI-Fueled Search Bar Threatens to Further Upend Journalism Industry
Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.
truthout.org
The troops are coming to Chicago, fam. Remember, we have resources for this moment. Connect to ongoing efforts. Chicagoans love Chicago, and we will support each other.
Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
organizingmythoughts.org
Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10mo agoThis morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
"What to know about the 'Broadview Six' scandal rocking Chicago's federal courthouse" chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
What to know about the 'Broadview Six' scandal rocking Chicago's federal courthouse
High-profile cases are collapsing, judges want answers, and defense attorneys are calling for an investigation — and the possible prosecution — of Chicago’s top federal law enforcement official. Here'...
chicago.suntimes.com
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It. A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine. Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
the entire pjm power grid, which spans 13 states and serves 65 million residents from chicago to new jersey, is facing a huge spike in demand thanks to this heat dome. this is almost surely compounded by a rash of energy-guzzling data centers that have come online in recent years.
Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · last mo.Why are western burbs and certain Chicago nhoods being asked to conserve energy?
If you look at Des’s face and think they look like a lovely human being, you are 100% correct. Absolute sweetheart who deserves none of this. None of them do.
Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · last mo.A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
As institutions scrub queer history from public view, citizen archivists are racing to save it. @invisiblehistories.bsky.social, @qzap.bsky.social and queer zine makers are preserving the records of survival, resistance and joy.
Fighting Anti-Queer Backlash with Citizen Archivists
Queer archivist groups like Invisible Histories and the Queer Zine Archive Project are preserving queer history and making it accessible in the face of the federal government's erasure. You can do…
inthesetimes.com
The “air conditioning debate” is a climate culture war started by center-right and liberal commentators, which drives attention away from the existential need to phase out fossil fuels. Try not to get swept along (as I am right now lol) but stick to the message: govt action to end coal, oil, & gas
Abortion is a tradition older than the United States, and even Thomas Jefferson supported his daughter when she provided one to a friend. Read the essential @byreginamahone.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
thenation.com
Back on here because the heatwave in Chicago is a stark reminder that we need climate action ASAP. The gov considers u disposable & we don't have time to wait for permission. I want to bring solar punk+ urban ecology ideas to Chicago through community projects with abolitionist+ indigenous lenses.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
nytimes.com
Capitalism requires economic crisis. Socialism with a planned economy does not.
I forgot I had a blue sky account, but anyway Chicago is under a military occupation at the moment. This is fascism. We gotta resist and keep us safe. Here are some ways: Also,ABOLISH ICE & the national guard, they don't keep us safe, they terrorize us into submission w the Settler colonial state.
Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters. We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster) #EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...
Announcing the Winners of the 5th Annual Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The prize honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.
truthout.org
City Council just backed a plan to set aside city-owned land for affordable housing and fund homeownership programs near the future Obama Center. The ordinance passed within a day, after an initial draft — focused solely on South Shore — stalled for 2 years. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/o...
Obama Center Housing Ordinance Passes City Council After 2-Year Delay And Overhaul
Alderpeople on Thursday approved an ordinance to fund homeownership programs and reserve city-owned land for income-based housing in three South Side neighborhoods near the future Obama Presidential C...
blockclubchicago.org
I forgot I had a blue sky account, but anyway Chicago is under a military occupation at the moment. This is fascism. We gotta resist and keep us safe. Here are some ways: Also,ABOLISH ICE & the national guard, they don't keep us safe, they terrorize us into submission w the Settler colonial state.
The unemployment rate among recent graduates has been increasing this year to an average of 5.3%, compared to around 4% for the labor force as a whole, making it one of the toughest job markets for recent graduates since 2015, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022. Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...
Cook County Experiences Increase in Pretrial Jailing after New State’s Attorney Takes Office - Coalition to End Money Bond
Upon taking office as the Cook County State’s Attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke has implemented several policy changes that are contributing to a rise in pretrial jailing. It is notable that there has be...
endmoneybond.org
