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Friends, as many of you know, Mistress Velvet, a Black feminist icon and beloved member of our Chicago organizing community, tragically passed away over the weekend. Let's help cover their

All of this "wait until you get robbed or attacked" stuff that gets thrown at abolitionists... like have y'all ever actually been robbed or attacked? What did the police do?

I can't get over the fact that the CDC just got around to admitting that COVID is airborne, while some folks are out here mocking and complaining about people who

Forever getting caught up in the "innocence" or "guilt" of people who are killed by police, on whether or not they "deserved" to be gunned down, or otherwise murdered, by

Someone emailed me today asking if I think that the verdict might at least save some lives, by creating hesitation among some police who don't want to go to prison

Deadly, supposed "mistakes" committed by police officers are excused or forgiven bc they are supposedly afraid for their lives. But no misstep or rule-breaking committed by people trying to escape

I'm less concerned w whether the officer was panicked & intended to inflict a different kind of potentially deadly force (tasers are not hugs y'all) than I am with the

Every year I invite non-Native folks who are celebrating the colonial holiday to do something in support of Native people. This holiday isn’t a happy one for a lot of

I see some people are still very attached to the idea that Trump will go into hiding, rather than lashing out at the people he feels has wronged him. It

People need to remember that Trump's children and their spouses aren't simply relatives. That family is a crime syndicate. Look at how much money his kids & their spouses have

Treating someone's current status as a nonvoter as an identity to be judged ("nonvoters are to blame!") rather than a group of people to potentially mobilize, you are just feeding

People occasionally remind me that "Trump is not Hitler." I agree. There are numerous differences. Hitler, for example, did not have the power to end the world nearly as immediately