Over the past few months, Chicago has been dealing with waves of migrants from Central and South American countries, many of them bused in by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The African-American backlash to the  proposal to set up shelters in majority-Black Woodlawn and, more recently, majority-Black South Shore has been covered extensively on the news, ( Read more... )

This is another one of those posts I've been meaning to write for a while, and I figure I better write it now, before the news cycle ramps up again.

My mom moved to Chicago back in early May 2021. May 9, which Russia and some other ex-Soviet countries mark as Victory (in Europe) Day, which was... interestingly auspicious. This was something she ( Read more... )

As the news of President Trump’s executive order temporary banning all citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries and indefinitely suspending the admission of Syrian refugees, alliancesjr (who is Jewish) went on long tangents on Twitter drawing parallels between the executive order and United States turning away Jewish refugees in the 1930s. As someone ( Read more... )