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8 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is happening near my home. People keep putting up life rings because folks drown EVERY SUMMER & the park district refuses to install them. The park district keeps removing the community-installed rings. If someone drowns who could've been saved because of these removals...
The person who put up the first ring hit me up the night the were going to install it to ask if I thought they should go ahead with it. I told them absolutely. I am glad people have continued to replace the rings. The community can't back down on this.
The city of Chicago's position on this makes no sense. They say the rings will just get stolen, but they are the ones stealing the rings that are being installed.
We are determined to rescue each other and the government exists in opposition to that impulse, as usual. These are the times we live in y'all. Don't forget it.

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The millions of people who have died of COVID deserve to be memorialized with the reverence that will be shown for victims of the 9/11 attacks this weekend, but our grief over our COVID-19 losses cannot be weaponized to make us more patriotic or supportive of imperial warfare.
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I see people saying that some folks will gladly use the mandates as social cover, either as cooperating workers or business owners. I agree. But we're also dealing with a literal death cult. Thousands of devotees have already died. I expect violent reprisals to these mandates.
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I wrote about Line 3 and the culture of care & resistance Water Protectors have built on the frontlines. If you have been feeling despondent about the climate crisis, please take a moment to absorb this story, because we need what these folks are bringing. truthout.org/articles/line-…
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