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Join me next Saturday @wholesomezine.bsky.social for a conversation with 2 election judges and a concert featuring 3 Chicago based acts! Wear a costume, bring a pair of socks to donate, have some snack and fuzzy water on the house. Bring a friend or 3. Hope to see you there!

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

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Hi Chicago Friends! My neighbors and I put together these Make a Plan Voting guides for the 2026 general election. We have an 8pg minizine and a half page voting plan flyer in color and B/W friendly.

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

I'm so excited that WBEZ/The Sun-Times/Block Club/Chalkbeat Chalkbeat collaborated to publish district by district Chicago School Board election overviews including candidate profiles with full questionnaires. Check it out here:

I’m hosting a panel on 10.24 in Chicago (Hermosa neighborhood), where we discuss ways everyday citizens can support their neighbors to safely vote in person. Anyone have any recommendations for who I should contact to find people for the panel (besides alder and congress people)?

The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

It’s supposed to be cold November rain, not September rain!

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 

$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.

Historical Photo of the Day: Excavation for preliminary settling tanks at the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, on May 31, 1927. Request an in-person tour for your community or school group ⬇️ https://mwrd.org/education/tours 🏗💧💩🧪🧫🔬🌊🌞

"Why ‘We Need To Tax Billionaires’" Top economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social is Zeteo's newest contributor and has been busy making the intellectual, political, and financial case for a wealth tax. Read this exclusive excerpt from his latest book:

A cicada flew straight at my face while finishing my run this morning. In an attempt to swat it away, I fell on my ass and scraped my hand and knee. Major startle and disappointing ending. Sharing a warning to my fellow Chicago peeps: they aren’t just loud, they’re aggressive. This was a first.

A Chicago chef and his wife were on his way to the World Cup. Then ICE detained them at the airport. Read @shokdiesel.bsky.social's reporting on how this respected industry pro is reimagining his future from inside the walls of a Louisiana detention center. www.weareravenous.com/ice-raid-la-...

Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.

I saw someone refer to homeschooling as “trickle down stupidity.” Immediate addition to my lexicon.

HAPPENING NOW Thousands of protesters are occupying Madison’s State Street and vowing to shut down businesses as a way to demand justice for Corey Ruiz.

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

A happy moment worth sharing.

The Trombone Shorty Foundation is working to secure the future of jazz in New Orleans. https://bit.ly/4uJ7GrG

Starting Thursday, there is — for the first time — an official YouTube channel dedicated to the work of Fred Rogers, the beloved children’s TV host. Eventually it will be a repository for full episodes, behind-the-scenes footage and compilations.

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

Social media is not a replacement for life. My first FB posts were basically a bulletin board of where to find me. I don’t come here to discourse. I do that in person. Also, if a user of this site says “the users are definitely the problem here,” that means they’re admitting they’re the problem…

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

first episode of Zoning Sunset just dropped

Happy birthday Honoré de Balzac.

Almost 16 yrs ago, I was super hopeful for tech to empower. Started @wholesomezine.bsky.social w/friends. We planted a seed, nurtured it, now it’s becoming a scene that we’re watching bloom🌸. Stopped caring about social crap about 5 yrs ago but we keep growing. Creators + people > platforms + bots.

I’m more convinced than ever before that there is a group of people who truly wants us to enter a new dark ages - a time where technology, science, and comfort are reserved for kings, queens, and their loyalty and the rest of us are told to pray and wait for a savior. We are the savior we need.

I just heard one of the weirdest thunders of my life in Chicago just now. It was a literal rolling thunder that just seemed to keep going.

New album that I’ve been waiting for, so have to share! #newmusic #fridaytunes jesuschristtaxidriver1.bandcamp.com/album/taxi-t...

This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.

💥 1989 Helicopter Crash: Three Trump executives killed in helicopter crash while his casino was being investigated for money laundering. Trump blamed them web.archive.org/web/20210102...