the city of chicago rly decided to BLOW UP a 100yr old coal plant building in Little Village w LATE/NO notice to the majority blck+brwn community during a respiratory virus pandemic like?? the amount of dust,lead & asbestos released in the air is gnna make covid infections worse
today’s always a weird day bc i love being mexican, but at the same time you can’t ignore the machismo, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and anti-Indigenous + anti-central american sentiments deeply engrained into our society
plants in the marantaceae family (prayer plants) have specialized tissues that allow the leaves to move to intercept more sunlight during the day, and fold back up to a resting position at night as if they were “praying”
wealthy developers are complaining about potentially losing their properties to local governments that are thinking of turning around and using them for affordable & transitional housing and i’m... supposed to feel sorry for them?