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tgwdlm and charlie the unicorn are similar to me. corpses are puppeted around by supernatural entities and they sing musical numbers to a disinterested and eventually distressed main character with the songs containing some message like “you won’t be so miserable if you just act like us!” and the protagonist makes a final stand by joining the song with their own twist on it and things blow up

#starkid #hatchetfield #tgwdlm #charlie the unicorn #ctu #filmcow #I've had this post in my drafts for a while #and watching pluribus made me want to post it #since that's in the same vein

i dont think i ever posted them.

#their names are lolz and rofl i had to make them scene kids.#charlie the unicorn #gijinka #kinda idk #first i lolz’d. then i charlie’d…#charlie looking after his younger cousins hc #everything about this is on purpose #filmcow #ctu #jason steele #swear i’ll draw papa louie stuff eventually #in 2006 i ran a truck off the road. instead of helping the man still half alive now through the windshield and badly injured #i looked at him for a good 30 minutes #contemplating the will of the human body to stay alive and prioritize the brain like some twisted organ monarchy. i then drove off.

Character from the ctu finale (might be spoilers)

Morning or nighty ctu fans‼️‼️ Tried to draw Nyx (I need to draw them more they're so friend shap JIEREJRIEIJERJIGHGHHHRR) HOPEFULLY!!!!! hopefuly..... I can make some cool full drawings of them. (I'll also draw that dolphin too bc they're so cool to draw ghrhugrhbeb).

#filmcow #my art #nyx charlie the unicorn #ctu #charlie the unicorn

What the fuck

#filmcow #charlie the unicorn #jason steele #starfish #startaur #ctu #Youtube

4:54 vs. 5:14. The mere threat of action mobilized a response in 20 minutes.

Strikes work. Withholding your labor works. Threatening working class mobilization works.

Let's get going.

#labor actions #class warfare #strikes #ctu #chicago #education #covid #school reopening

Mayor Lightfoot and her health commissioner move to the right on COVID to win their fight with the Chicago Teachers Union.

How inadequate were the safety precautions? Well, let’s contrast Chicago’s COVID safeguards with those in Evanston, a thing I know thanks to assistance from a few friends who live there. (Much appreciation, V-Train and Jeanne.)

In elementary and middle schools, Evanston’s students are greeted at the door by a staffer who takes their temperature.

If the students don’t have their masks, the staffer at the door gives them one. And if during the day, students lose their masks—as kids often do—there’s a ready supply of masks throughout the building, including in the classrooms.

There’s weekly testing. If parents don’t opt out of testing, their children will routinely be tested.

And Evanston’s elementary school district puts the policy in writing, sending a letter to parents that says: “By sending a child to school without opting out of the testing program in writing, parents/guardians are consenting to their child to be tested for COVID-19.”

Chicago, in contrast, well . . .

There are no temperature-takers at the entrances. And most schools don’t have a supply of masks anywhere in the building—unless a teacher buys them.

During last week’s negotiations, Pedro Martinez, the CEO of CPS, said he would make sure masks were delivered to schools if teachers returned to the classroom.

Think about that. Providing masks to students in the middle of a pandemic should not be a concession the mayor is forced to make in collective-bargaining negotiations with the teachers union. It should be an automatic that she demands from the start of the year.

It was a similar thing in 2019—Mayor Lightfoot only pledged to provide more school nurses after the teachers went on strike. Why does it take teachers shutting down the system—and, in this case, giving up pay—before the mayor and her appointees do the right thing?

As for COVID testing, Lightfoot’s adopted a stance that’s straight out of the anti-vaxxer playbook. She opposes routine testing—like Evanston has—on the grounds that it’s “morally repugnant” and it will “rob” parents of control over their children’s health care.

Instead, she has ordered CPS to only test students whose parents have “opted in” to testing. What’s next, madam mayor—are you going to prevent school nurses from taking a kid’s temperature without a parental permission slip?

I have a hard time believing the mayor actually believes this bullshit, no matter how many times she repeats it.

For one thing, it goes against everything doctors, mayors, and health officials outside of, say, Florida and Texas, have been preaching for the last two years. That is—there’s nothing frightening or intrusive or sinister about such essential COVID safety measures as testing, vaccines, and masks.

And now here comes Mayor Lightfoot, calling testing “morally repugnant”? As though parents have reason to think it’s part of some devious plot, hatched by sinister forces.

Moreover, Lightfoot’s position on testing contradicts the position she’s taken in another COVID-related matter—her ultimatum that city workers must tell the city if they’re vaccinated. The Fraternal Order of Police thinks that mandate is, well, morally repugnant, and they’ve gone to court to block it. So, is Lightfoot ready to concede that John Catanzara—head of the local police union—is correct that the mandate violates their sacred liberties? If it means beating the teachers union, anything’s possible.

Finally, a few words about Dr. Allison Arwady, the health commissioner. For the last few days, she’s been saying it’s safe to go to schools, even without proper safety standards, because, really, the Omicron strain is not that big a deal. No worse than the flu.

It reminds me of arguments I heard on Joe Rogan’s podcast in the early days of the pandemic. They go like this . . .

Yeah, COVID kills people. But the people it kills are old people with crappy immune systems who are probably gonna die soon anyway. For the rest of us, it’s no worse than the flu. So, fuck it, man—rock on!

I always felt this was a heartless position to take. Especially with medical workers breaking down from the strain of treating so many COVID patients during the surges.

Coincidentally, on Monday, just before the impasse ended, the Sun-Times ran a gut-wrenching column by Neil Steinberg about exhausted nurses and doctors in the overcrowded emergency room at Roseland Community Hospital in a low-income Black neighborhood on the city’s south side.

The hospital covers some of the same neighborhoods as schools without adequate safeguards to prevent the further spread of COVID. Which, of course, results in even more patients filling those beds.

Yet the health commissioner says—no need to worry, it’s like the flu.

You’d think the health commissioner would have a little more empathy for her exhausted colleagues on the front lines at hospitals like Roseland.

But you know how it goes in Chicago—when it comes to a fight with CTU, a mayoral appointee’s first allegiance remains with the Boss.

#chicago #ctu #lori lightfoot #chicago public schools