There are many notable items at Renée Good's memorial among all the "I Voted" stickers from Tuesday in Minneapolis. It's an ever-evolving expression of grief sanded down by time. Between the poems and candles, a small Chicago flag waved today; two cities bound forever by loss and resistance.
He sent the Texas national guard to occupy Chicago. I hope he spends the rest of his life being sad and miserable.
Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d agoAbbott sent 46,282 men, women & children to Chicago from the southern border between Aug. 2022 and Dec. 2024, touching off a humanitarian crisis that roiled Chicago politics. Two years later, Texas voters rejected his bid for a new term.
Reminder: Dem victories win us time, but we have to build and make moves during that time, if we dont make big transformations the fash wave comes back harder and higher
This time one year ago ICE goons were running wild across my community and I don't know if that wound will ever fully heal but tonight helps.
People overcame gerrymandering, intimidation, and billionaire-funded efforts to buy these elections to deliver those outcomes. People beat Elon Musk to do that.
Austin, Texas sounds like an Eastern European city that just overthrew a dictator. #midterms2026 #election2026
Pete Hegseth wanted people to watch a public execution, well they're seeing it tonight.
JUST IN: Democrats have won control of the state government of Wisconsin. For the first time since 2010. They have flipped the state Senate & flipped the state House, and kept the governorship. Among the thingS they're likely to do: repeal Scott Walker's restrictions on collective bargainins.
When you go to bed tonight, know that the worst people in the country are lying awake completely miserable and very anxious
listen up democrats: we did not vote for you for y'all to find common ground and reach across the aisle. we voted for you to crush our enemies, to see them driven before us, to hear the lamentations of their women
Between Texas, Kansas, and the Carolinas, the Dems have obtained a BBQ majority
The South is worth fighting for and southerners are worth fighting with. Don’t ever forget it.
did the milwaukee brewers close the hell portal the chicago cubs opened in 2016
Here at Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Daren Bailey’s election night watch party here at the Holiday Inn in Effingham.
I adore @saltshedchicago.bsky.social but cannot figure how why they decide to have a different line configuration so often for indoor shows. It makes me crazy. Sometimes we're on the stairs, sometimes before the stairs, sometimes outside of the gates...pick a system and stick with it!
Never started. On any streaming service. 💅
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · last wk.Another good reason to get off Spotify
I wonder if they'll accept Kohl's Cash this weekend.
jes@jwolfe73.bsky.social · last wk.Cole's bar in Logan Square just posted this picture.
He may be the leader of the Catholic church, but Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV is still a registered voter in Illinois and requested a mail ballot for the midterm elections. chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo will vote from the Vatican, by mail, in Illinois' midterm election
That mail ballot had to travel a long way — from Joliet to the Vatican City, where Pope Leo XIV has led the Catholic church since white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel in May 2025.
chicago.suntimes.com
Congrats, Milwaukee! Great Lakes forever!
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Milwaukee Brewers win their first World Series
I don't care about sports in general but god dammit if I'm not so happy for my Milwaukee neighbors during this time. Go get em.
2022 poster for Shellac playing at DesertFest in London. The band had written a new song about a daughter who suggests to her father that he should quit his job and become a metal scrapper so that they could become pirates cruising Chicago's alleys.
