DJ Alderman
@mareralph.bsky.social
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Urban planner. Organizer. Writer. Musician.
I probably argued with you at a party.
Chicago over everything.
Opinions are my own.
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Urban planner. Organizer. Writer. Musician.
I probably argued with you at a party.
Chicago over everything.
Opinions are my own.
linktr.ee/mareliam
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DJ Alderman
@mareralph.bsky.social
· Oct 2
I was surprised to learn that my article for @citybureau.bsky.social and @southsideweekly.bsky.social was nominated for a CHIRBy!
It is an honor to be acknowledged alongside the work of such luminaries.
www.storystudiochicago.org/chirby-awards/
It is an honor to be acknowledged alongside the work of such luminaries.
www.storystudiochicago.org/chirby-awards/
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BBC confirms it edited out historian's criticism of president: 'Trump’s threats worked'
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
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BBC confirms it edited out historian's criticism of president: 'Trump’s threats worked'
The BBC confirmed it edited a section of a historian's speech to remove criticism of President Donald Trump after he threatened to sue the company over a separate issue.Dutch author and historian Rutg...
www.rawstory.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
BBC confirms it edited out historian's criticism of president: 'Trump’s threats worked'
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
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South Chicago family taken by ICE and their daughter liquidating their store. See details posted by @pilsenfreestore on IG.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
South Chicago family taken by ICE and their daughter liquidating their store. See details posted by @pilsenfreestore on IG.
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For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
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Every 20 years we find out somebody gave Clinton head like a comet coming back into our orbit.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Every 20 years we find out somebody gave Clinton head like a comet coming back into our orbit.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Analysis | The Epstein revelations have roiled Trump’s base. Here’s how many kids worldwide his administration will have to starve to win the base back.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Analysis | The Epstein revelations have roiled Trump’s base. Here’s how many kids worldwide his administration will have to starve to win the base back.
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But his emails… open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
But His Emails...
Before he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pu**y and barging into rooms of partially dressed young pageant contestants.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
But his emails… open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
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And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana.
With @mlk50.com
With @mlk50.com
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana.
With @mlk50.com
With @mlk50.com
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Too bad they're echoing his inhumane bans on gender-affirming care in the next breath.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Too bad they're echoing his inhumane bans on gender-affirming care in the next breath.
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
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Last Wednesday, ICE agents detained a daycare worker at Rayito de Sol. In response, hundreds of people turned out to Northcenter Town Square to demand her release. Thank you to Alderman Matt Martin, One Northside, and Protect Rogers Park for organizing!
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Last Wednesday, ICE agents detained a daycare worker at Rayito de Sol. In response, hundreds of people turned out to Northcenter Town Square to demand her release. Thank you to Alderman Matt Martin, One Northside, and Protect Rogers Park for organizing!
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ahoy!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY - Video On Demand - Gathr
With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice. HEIGHT...
gathr.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ahoy!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
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"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too
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I don't care if superman is on that list, arrest him too. Arrest all of them.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don't care if superman is on that list, arrest him too. Arrest all of them.
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I'll put $5 on Tom Hanks not being in there
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I'll put $5 on Tom Hanks not being in there
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just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
just checking are there any rich powerful white dudes not in these emails
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Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Releasing the Epstein files could have a chilling effect on future presidents' ability to hide their history of raping children on a private island owned by a convicted sex offender.
Whyyyyyy is the NBA All Star Game still a tournament??
It's like Adam Silver heard everyone saying to change it but didn't realize we wanted it improved.
"Here's a new shitty format that lasts way too long!"
It's like Adam Silver heard everyone saying to change it but didn't realize we wanted it improved.
"Here's a new shitty format that lasts way too long!"
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Whyyyyyy is the NBA All Star Game still a tournament??
It's like Adam Silver heard everyone saying to change it but didn't realize we wanted it improved.
"Here's a new shitty format that lasts way too long!"
It's like Adam Silver heard everyone saying to change it but didn't realize we wanted it improved.
"Here's a new shitty format that lasts way too long!"
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