how the blue do it- hate has no home here.

national campaign started right here in my hood-

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170123/north-park/hate-has-no-home-here-campaign-national-spotlight-during-womens-march

https://twitter.com/AmandaJ_TX/status/822818798768156672/photo/1

a letter from the president provost of the university of chicago-

From The University of Chicago:

January 30, 2017
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
As the leaders of one of the country’s great institutions of higher education and research, we are writing to assert in the strongest possible terms the importance to the United States of continuing to welcome immigrants and the talent and energy that they bring to this country. The history of scientific and technological advance that undergirds all of the economic growth the country has witnessed for decades, as well as the position of the country as the greatest magnet for talented people from around the world, has depended upon this welcoming stance. A failure to maintain this position will ultimately weaken the nation’s world-leading higher education institutions, diminish the innovation energy in the country, slow the pace of technology development, and ultimately weaken the nation.
We understand that the motivation for recent actions concerning immigration has been a concern for national security and the threat of terrorism. We take these concerns very seriously and appreciate the need to address them. But we strongly urge that the methods of doing so be examined and thought through carefully, so that the many people who can add so much to the country through immigration have the opportunity to do so, and those who are doing so already are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve. It is only this way that our values and highest aspirations can be fulfilled.
We know that many are willing to help develop thoughtful policies that address the security issues you need to be concerned about, but at the same time continue the welcoming environment that has served the nation well since its inception and treats people of all religions and backgrounds with both respect and due process that reflects a country that we all want to be.
Yours sincerely,
Robert J. Zimmer Daniel Diermeier
President Provost

try this-

i'm sensing a shift in the force.

anybody else?

this airport shit got legs. everybody knows what it is like to get fucked over at the airport. talk about hitting on universal experiences.

the stories coming out there are a horror that most of us have either lived or feared.

time for us to break the silence of our friends.
attendance will be taken.

local connections tell me jan schakowsky has been on the phone non-stop.

sightings of other pols heading for or responding to this chaos.

i had no doubt jan would be in the first wave to at the barricades when insanity turned into reality.

lawyers streaming in.

all living presidents need to come out and say it. arm in fucking arm.

the man is a clear and present danger, not only to us, but to everyone on this little blue marble. animal, vegetable and mineral.

there's somethin happenin here.

what it is aint exactly clear.

if you like the chaos so far,

buckle up, buttercup.
i do believe the people are woke.
this insanity will not stand.

we shall not be moved.

hey shitgibbon- the feds are already here. obama sent them.

if the results of the doj investigation are upheld, not just on paper, but in practice, you will see major changes in this city.
me, i'm waiting for a perp walk of at least a dozen bad cops before i think anything is actually happening. but...

https://thesecretsix.com/2017/01/23/by-the-numbers-the-department-of-justice-investigation-on-the-chicago-police-department/

congratulations liberals, you were right again. this authoritarian nightmare was forseen

by many who decried 2 trends in american education-
stripping the arts from the curriculum and teaching to the test.
and the influence of the texas school board authority and teaching to the test.

ya see, here is the thing that i believe-

i believe in evolutionary psychology, a much maligned and misrepresented social science. what i think this is is a throw back. a throw back to the rules of war and aggression that took us chimps out of the forest, and all over the world. we took territory, we faced down saber toothed tigers, we learned to knit a clan. and fight someone else's clan.

a lot of people refer to the lizard brain, but i prefer to look at the "monkey brain". how does this fit w the arc of human history? not just from the trees to the village, but from the tribe to the city. the thought is that tribal cultures were a pretty uncontaminated example of who we are at the deep root of our psyches.

so here is what i think-
we know that a key to all this is fear, and the adrenalin stupid that humans are so susceptible to.
this is the well trod path of the strong man, the head man, the silver back, the alpha.

also the parroting of propaganda, the endpoint of regurgitative learning. of sitting and not doing. of learned helplessness. fill the bubbles, kid. let us take your measure.

the path that took us to the next level was "art". depicting reality. predicting reality. art is crucial to the next step up the evolutionary chain.
art, in the broad definition, makes cities tolerable. makes complex communication possible. makes cooperation to build pyramids possible makes remembering the dead possible.

add you own hallmark of human evolution here.

and so, when we stripped away the tools of the next step in evolution, we lost a step. we slid back down. "we" have been frightened into accepting a strong man. we have chosen the path of violence. of cruelty. of war.

evolve. help our children evolve.
i also think this might be the point where love got to be a pretty god damned powerful force. mother love. parental love. oh, like those obama people.

but that is a rant for another day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_and_Norma_Gabler