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bikesforcenturies
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PLEASE GOD DO SOME CIVIC PARTICIPATION

a lot of the worst of US city planning could be combat with five or ten of you and your friends going to city council and planning meetings
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SZLACHTA SZLACHTA SZLACHTA I HATE THE AMERICAN SZLACHTA
Meanwhile these “disenfranchised” “working class” people are pulling in $400k a year in the landscaping business they inherited but are “struggling” because they spent too much on pickup trucks and crypto.
Oh for God damn sure. The civil rights act ended up creating the "voting against your own best material interests" sort of conservative voter over just wanting to hurt Black people worse even if it hurts them.

You have economic populism+ Jim Crow holy shit it would be horrifically popular.
It is an oddly large voting block I'm going to be real
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Hey y’all need to be nicer to Graham Platner. Who else will represent the much neglected under represented voter bloc, the US Strasserites?
Some wild lore is how the KKK and neo Nazis didn't like each other much until after the civil rights act which got them working together.
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Johnny Cash style

It must be union.
I'm enjoying all your up to date posting on Chicago urbanism it's a treat even if I can imagine the amount of strain all your personal eye rolling at the nimby crowd must cause

thank you for the work!
Need a ballroom for schmoozing
Love you too detective. Oh dear we have some adventures to be doing.
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listen to trans POC when we tell you that doomerism isn't the way, and that radical optimism has been the only path towards survival and freedom throughout our history!
And every time I try to talk about solidarity or optimism or try to tell people there's hope amidst the suffering, I'm called some variant of lucky or assimilationist like I don't have fucking neopronouns as a brown enby tranny lesbian and like I didn't suffer in the closet for years too.
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Yesterday, Chicago DSA joined the tens of thousands that filled the streets of downtown to demonstrate opposition to the Trump administration. We gave out leaflets about our campaigns and why we’re fighting for socialism and democracy as members of DSA. No kings, no bosses, no war but class war!
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"Make Jobs, not war"
"Fund mass transit"
"Reagan: Robin Hood in reverse"
"Solidarity Day: Labor stands united"

Union slogans and pieces of flair on display with this @uaw.org member. Michigan, circa early 1980s. From the UAW's archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.
Someone's got to get him on Harry Nilsson's discography and studio history.
Yeah I forget sometimes it's not standard these days to listen to the Beatles growing up unless you're a pot head hipster

even then!
What in the god damn. Well that's good to know.
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two fish -- not species, two actual fish -- were found in the Cuyahoga back then. today, we have 70+ SPECIES in our river.
Studies conducted in the 1960s began to reveal the horrific state of water pollution. High levels of bacteria were found in the Hudson River, and pollution killed 26 million fish in one Florida lake. In 1969, the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland caught fire due to an oil slick. /2
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I know it's everyone's gut reaction to say the No King's protests are libbed up and performative but I'm seeing way more "fuck billionaires" and "capitalism only benefits the few" or "fascism is the final stage" posters than last time.

Seems like a lot of people are waking up
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DSA supports the mass mobilizations against Donald Trump. As socialists we must be clear: defeating Trump and his administration means defeating the whole capitalist, imperialist system. Join DSA to help build the movement for a better world.
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Moron communist: No Kings is a CIA op!
Moron rightist: No Kings is a Soros op!

Reality: The beating heart of No Kings is 1 million Nicoles, unstoppable in their rage