Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️

I'm a writer, singer, and activist. I tweet about anything from foreign policy to food to drag queens, sometimes all at once. RTs ≠ endorsement

[Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️ @DickStreetman]

My Mama, Pamela Marie Streetman, passed away April 18, 2003, 20 years ago tomorrow. This photo was taken at my sister's wedding one year prior to Mama's death at the age of 51. Mama was buried in this outfit and we hired the same man to do her hair and makeup on both occasions.

[Roseland, Chicago: 1972 @RoselandChi1972]

Do people know that they can now subscribe to The New York Times for free if they have a Chicago Public Library card? Go to the CPL website, go to the online resources page for newspapers, and they're touting near the top of the page. You just click a link, provide your library log-in information, and it creates a free NYT account for you. Sweet.

[Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️ @DickStreetman]

For PRIDE month in Chicago we have da Bears playing Pokémon Go in da park! 🐻🏳️‍🌈🐻🏳️‍🌈🐻

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

OK, there're a lot of great pics by WBEZ's Manuel Martinez for the story on this weekend's Pokémon Go Fest, but this one of three guys on a park bench playing Pokémon Go takes it up to an entirely different level. https://t.co/H21ccEQcZj

[Chicago Sports Podcast @ChiSportsTracks]

RIZZO’S REACTION TO THE PCA WALK-OFF SAYS IT ALL! 😂 Seeing the OG recognize the new guard. The Cubs are officially BACK, baby! 🐻🔥
#Cubs #FlyTheW #PCA #AnthonyRizzo #MLB

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Apparently Harvard is great for their kids but it’s too woke for your kids

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️ @DickStreetman]

Happy 20th Anniversary to Chicago's "Cloud Gate" AKA #TheBean

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Today is the 20th birthday of the Bean in Chicago.

[Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️ @DickStreetman]

@CWBChicago Thank God for Cook County Chief Judge Beach.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

On the day I was entrusted with the ministry of the Successor of Peter, exactly one year ago, the Church celebrated the Supplication to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of #Pompeii. I therefore had to come here, to place my service under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. #PastoralVisit https://t.co/uui9x3qPhh

[State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke @saeileenburke]

Let me be clear: I strongly support the SAFE-T Act. A person's wealth should not determine if they stay in jail.

But if someone is charged with a violent gun crime, domestic battery, sexual assault, or a dangerous felony, we will seek detention to protect the community.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Megyn Kelly: The American public feels like they gave Trump a year and a half, he's done nothing other than make things worse, and they're pissed. They don't like the tariffs, they don't like the war, they don't like what's happening in their bank accounts. They're starting to think the Democrats might be the better option on the economy

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

When David Lynch was asked if he’d ever work with Russell Brand, he immediately said “no”—right in front of him.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

[Chi Urbanist @chi_urbanist]

This city has little free everything

[Richard Streetman 🌈⚖️ @DickStreetman]

Not only was Sir Cecil Beaton chosen by Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mum) in the 1930s to become the Royal family's favorite photographer for the next 3 decades but he was a queen in his own right. #LGBT #LGBTQ #Herstory #History #LGBTQHistory #Queens

[sam. @suddenxfear]

photographer cecil beaton with the art collector peter watson and peter’s lover, the stage designer oliver messel

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Whatever happened to Labubus

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

One year ago today 💔

Pope Francis' last ride in the Popemobile.

[Socialists For Pritzker @PritzkerForPrez]

And young, single Chicagoans might want to consider swinging by a certain farmers market located in Logan Square this summer…

[Daniel Kay Hertz @DanielKayHertz]

This is also a moment to update your mental economic map of the city: Logan Square has basically an identical median household income now as Lakeview

[Gadzooks Gifts @GadzooksGifts]

new mug (redacted)