Reconstructed exPat

Reconstructed exPat

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"Ravenswood" is a Dungeons & Dragons sounding name for a neighborhood.

Chicago based individual, but still New Orleans related.

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Defeat fascism at the ballot box using this one weird trick...

Le Pen's party (RN) got 143 seats. While a record, that's far (very far) from the 289 they hoped for to govern. How?! Hundreds of Left & Macronist candidates dropped out to help each other block the RN. And millions of voters then voted strategically to get that job done.

The best way to stop a weekend of gun violence is to build more housing security, food security, public education, healthcare, & job programs 20 years ago. The second best way is to build more of those civic programs today.

17 Killed, Over 80 Wounded In Shootings During July 4th Weekend, Police Sayblockclubchicago.org At least four mass shootings took place in Chicago since July 4th, including one that killed an 8-year-old boy and two women in Greater Grand Crossing.

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Ignore the fucking pundits who push a doom and gloom narrative that far right rule is inevitable. People are sick of those dicks. The world is kicking them out.

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UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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if you’re talking about project 2025 on tv you need to spell out what it means beyond an authoritarian blueprint!!

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There's a world on the other side of this with a huge, vibrant, unionized and high-paying industrial base remaking the physical world for the post-fossil fuel age. It's already starting and I think even Trump can't *fully* destroy it, but he can slow it down and make us lag wayyy behind.

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

My first thought was they're filming Spaceballs 2 in Chicago.

If you have an air quality tracker, today is one of those days you can get rather dramatic before & after readings. (Not exactly sure what's going on over in Edgewater right now but I can guess.)

An 80 mph chase along a heavily used interstate, into residential neighborhoods of a city whose people have said "no more police chases," wrecking an $90,000 vehicle...

For a couple of box fans.

When "tough on crime 🙄" goes wrong. Police chases are almost always more of a threat to public safety than the crimes themselves.

Police unit crashes into bayou after chase with shoplifting suspectwww.fox8live.com Two shoplifting suspects escaped police after a high-speed chase that ended with a Kenner Police unit crashing into Bayou St. John.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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WE WANT TRAINS

More trains please.

4th of July vibes this year coming in like

ICYMI: "Insurance costs are becoming such a large part of the budgets of affordable housing developers and managers that it’s forcing them to reconsider building new projects." - Moira Birss

Today, Moira Birss continues our series on the LPE of Insurance, arguing that policy responses to the current home insurance crisis should focus on protecting households, not insurance companies. lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

The Insurance Industry Is Not the Victimlpeproject.org The rapidly worsening home insurance crisis is often understood as primarily a problem for insurers. Yet the overarching policy question should not be, “how do we save the home insurance industry from...

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.

And there's almost always a group already doing the work you're interested in, and they need locals to help out.

The nice thing about organizing is that it is about more than just elections. E.g. mutual aid in all its forms, and campaigns to contact your electeds to bully, uh, persuade them. I point this out not to downplay elections; it's just that some people are looking for things to do besides voting.

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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

It is an actual gun crime to fire warning shots in the air to demand bicyclists make way for your stupid car.

Cyclists Attacked By Driver And Passenger Who Opened Fire During Group Ride In Uptown, Video Showsblockclubchicago.org Cyclists on a Critical Mass bike ride were confronted by people seemingly upset over being blocked from leaving an alley, participants said.

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Anyhow the best time to address the shit was yesterday, the 2nd best time is today. Demand everyone asking for your vote to support packing the court, stop giving your resources to the police, demand public housing, healthcare, childcare, education, transit, food support and a right to privacy.

Amazingly, a lot of people already tried to do something like this back in the early 1900's. That's when cities like Chicago, Detroit, and LA doubled down on Jim Crow style authoritarianism and as a nation we're all still grappling with that legacy today.

“Get the heck out of Florida/Texas/Georgia” politics as if millions of people totally reordering their lives is more practical than asserting and fighting for the idea we should all have the same rights.

This story probably has more to do with big suburban-style parking lots in the middle of a city than it has anything to do with the Pride Parade, but guess what makes it into the headline?

Police order ‘mass arrest’ in Lake View hours after Pride Paradechicago.suntimes.com Fifty-three people, including nine juveniles, were arrested early Monday in the 3000 block of North Clark Street. A 15-year-old was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and was cited for having a fir...

All y'all talking shit about people in "red states🙄" better pay attention to what happens when folks dare try to hold those governments accountable.

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

"Freedom isn’t free. But it’s not armed conflict that pushes freedom forward. More often than not, it’s the person wounded by power at its most nihilistic who broadens the boundaries of liberty." - @brianlyman.bsky.social

My column this week. Some Independence Day-thoughts on who we need to thank for our freedom, after a visit to EJI’s monument to the victims of slavery.

Freedom isn't free • Alabama Reflectoralabamareflector.com Throughout American history, the people denied freedom have been the most active in expanding our ideas of what liberty is.

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American democracy is a good idea. We should absolutely try it one day.

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You can either be active politically and spend your time working to stave off the coming societal collapse OR you can... you know... (maybe) have a job. Neat how that's the choice people have to make.

A reminder that many Americans already know what it is like to live under an authoritarian regime.

Police do what they want, whenever they want. “Crime” is what they say it is, “criminals” are who they say they are. Nothing about this is just or democratic. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...