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Alex Nelson
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The real infrastructure is the friends we make along the way. Free Palestine. She/Her. ✶✶✶✶
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🚨 We have a transit bill — but the work is not done yet!

Call your State Rep and Senator NOW and join us in demanding they #FixItFundIt at call.savetransit.org
Not to be outdone, the canvassing leads group chat is also popping off.
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🚨 There’s still time to support the transit bill:

1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"
Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
ilga.gov
Not everyone in my yoga girlie group chat filling out transit funding witness slips. 😭💖

Be like the hot yoga girls and fill one out tonight!
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We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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Today, the final day of the ILGA veto session to address the transit fiscal cliff, is make or break for the future ambitions of Illinois's top 3 pols:

Governor Jay Robert "JB" Pritzker
Speaker Emanuel Christopher Welch
and Senate President Don Harmon

Don't fuck it up, boys.
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🚨 Welcome to the last day of veto session, where Illinois lawmakers do NOT have an agreed funding package ready to vote on!

If they don’t get it done today, they’ll send us hurtling towards the first steps of enacting service cuts.

This is not a drill! Call your reps TODAY.
📲 call.savetransit.org
Transit cuts are real – call your reps now! — Better Streets Chicago
Legislators failed to pass legislation to prevent 40% service cuts on CTA, Pace, and Metra – and they need to hear that YOU want them to save transit NOW.
call.savetransit.org
'cataclysmic' is the word that keeps churning around in my mind.
I played once and was decent so I'll accept this challenge.
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
All your economic gains will collapse if you don't pass the transit funding package this week.
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Like everyone else, we are LIVID about what happened at Swap-O-Rama, and what continues to happen at Home Depot.

When businesses have no safety plan communicated at all, to vendors or customers, it has the potential to create a very dangerous situation.

Let’s boycott and shop local.
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Esteemed company! Happy birthday!
Watched 'Barbarian' last night and that was a terrible decision. The movie scared the shit out of me. I got three hours of sleep.
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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🚨 Sign up for rapid text alerts about urgent actions needed to support transit legislation this week!

Whether it's witness slips for committees or last-minute calls – three days to pass monumental transit legislation means we need to be NIMBLE.

➡️ alerts.savetransit.org
Sign up for rapid alerts to save transit.
We're going to be sending rapid text alerts for urgent actions that are needed – like filing witness slips and last-minute calls. There will be key moments where we may need you to fill out these form...
alerts.savetransit.org
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny
Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now