You got a problem with that?
I’ve been calling the head of the Chicago Teachers Union the “Notorious SDG” — Stacey Davis Gates — a foul-mouthed disgrace who somehow clawed her way to the top of the union representing the people teaching our kids.
It turns out I’ve been much too kind. The time has come for a new moniker. From here on out, she’s Comrade ACAB Gates, because as it turns out we’ve literally got a communist cop killer sympathizing radical running the union of the teachers of our children.
How do we know this? Look at what the CTU’s official X account posted: “Rest in Power, Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur.” That was no neutral condolence; it was a political salute to a woman who, by any honest reading of history, was a cop killer and then fled U.S. justice for sanctuary in Castro’s Cuba.
Wait until the cops hear about this!
If you need a refresher on who Assata Shakur (that’s her “nom de guerre as the terrorists say-her real name is the more prosaic Joanne Chesimard) really was, here are the cold, hard, ugly facts: In 1973, a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike left State Trooper Werner Foerster dead. Shakur was convicted in 1977 for her role in that killing and on a string of other violent offenses; she escaped prison in 1979 and lived the rest of her miserable life in exile in Cuba, where she became a cause célèbre among far-left militants. This is not “history rewritten” — it’s documented record.
Shakur was a cop killer, people. Her death ought to be celebrated, not mourned.
So the union that represents the people who teach our kids — the union that trains and politicizes thousands of people who stand in front of our children every weekday — decided to publicly memorialize a convicted murderer who fled to the world’s most notorious communist dictatorship. If that doesn’t set off every parent’s alarm bells, nothing will.
Here’s their nefarious X post, captured by Contrarian lest they delete it:
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So CTU is nothing more than ACAB scum.
CPD: Remember this and the fact that they kicked school officers out of Chicago Public Schools the next time you get a 911 call from a Chicago public school.
Voters: Remember Mayor 6.6 and Comrade Gates are teaching your kids to venerate cop killers as if they’re saints.
Any of Chicago’s finest who have kids in public schools: Seriously rethink your child’s education.
CTU isn’t merely a salary and benefit negotiator. It’s the 21st Century heir to the old political machine, living proof that there are worse things than corruption.
The CTU bankrolled, organized, and effectively elected the moronic, race-baiting Mayor 6.6, who nobody ever heard of before taking office. The CTU endorsed him, mobilized voters, and cleared a path for him to run — and he won over a great man, Paul Vallas, a 1000 percent supporter of CPD, thanks to the Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted Chicago electorate. But even they have thankfully realized what an incompetent they elected.
The cop hating CTU owns mayor 6.6 and runs this city. That’s got to change-and fast
The CTU doesn’t merely bargain for pensions; it builds political power, shapes personnel, and steers policy.
And what kind of politics does that machine promote? Look at the messaging. Look at the leadership. Look at who they choose to honor. When the CTU posts “Rest in Power” for Assata Shakur, it broadcasts a worldview: Law enforcement is the enemy, revolutionary violence can be romanticized, and Marxist frames of oppressor/oppressed should form the lens through which children learn about the world.
You want a clearer picture of the city’s governing philosophy? Look no further than Mayor Brandon Johnson’s public statements. He has repeatedly described the city’s approach to crime and policing in terms that cast policing not as a necessary institution but as a failed experiment — even calling jails, incarceration, and law enforcement a kind of “sickness” that hasn’t led to safe communities.
They think our police and our criminal justice system are a disease, like germs. And what do you do with germs?
Kill them.
So here’s the chain: Comrade Gates and the CTU build political power, they install and back a mayor who sympathizes with their diagnosis of policing and punishment, and the institutions that shape our children’s civic imagination are staffed and influenced by people who celebrate a violent revolutionary who killed a cop and fled justice. Do you see the logic? I do — and it isn’t comforting.
Let’s be clear on consequences. Schools influence values as much as they teach reading and arithmetic. Over the last several years Chicago classrooms have been saturated with “equity” agendas, “restorative justice” programs that excuse behavior and strip real authority, and curricula that too often teach grievance before competence. These are not abstract lefty fashions; they are ideological programs, and the CTU is at the center of the web that spreads them. The city’s public education system, under the thumb of a union that publicly venerates an exiled cop killer, is not ideologically neutral. It’s an active transmitter.
And don’t look for moral nuance from City Hall. Brandon Johnson’s rhetoric — “policing is a failed experiment,” “we must treat public safety as a public-health issue” — translates politically into fewer resources for law-and-order responses and more political capital for social-service experiments that too often fail to stop violent crime —like violence interrupters who get caught red-handed committing the very crimes you the taxpayer are paying them to prevent. When the mayor frames policing as the disease rather than the remedy, the message to emboldened criminals and frightened citizens alike is unmistakable.
You might say, “Okay, but is this really indoctrination? Isn’t the CTU just a union with a provocative social-media manager?” That’s naive. These organizations do more than post. They fund campaigns, draft platforms, push for school policies, shape teacher trainings, and mentor future educators. The CTU’s influence in Chicago politics — from endorsements to direct campaign support — is real and measurable. When that influence is combined with the union’s culture of radical grievance politics, the result is a pipeline: from activist classrooms to activist citizenry.
And who suffers? Your kids. Parents who want math, literacy, discipline, and the skills to compete in an unforgiving economy are getting, in too many cases, theory, grievance, and politicized virtue signaling. The teachers who are the lifeblood of our kids’ education deserve fair pay and respect — but not when the leadership of their union uses the pulpit to cheer for a fugitive who murdered a state trooper and ran to a communist state.
They are turning your kids into little Marxist cop killers on fat salaries you’re paying.
At this point, sending a kid to public schools is tantamount to child abuse. That’s why CPS is bleeding enrollment. That’s why Johnny can’t read or count even though you’re paying through the nose at the clip of $30K per student.
When is enough going to be enough?
If this X post isn’t the beginning of the end for CTU, what is?
Chicago became great not because of some Leninist blueprint, but because of hard-working entrepreneurs, inventors, and workers trying to build a better life. Skyscrapers, stockyards, steel mills, business and industry — these accomplishments came from enterprise, not from a command economy that leaves people standing in line for meager rations. If you want the city that made America prosper, you don’t teach your kids to romanticize regimes that crush dissent and starve their citizens. You teach them to read, to reason, to build, and to compete. That used to be the project of public education. Now too often it’s become a project of grievance.
So where do we go from here? We make clear choices at the ballot box. We demand transparency and accountability from our schools and our unions. We insist that our children’s classrooms be places of learning — not recruitment centers for political resentment.
Come the next election for mayor, Chicagoans have a decision to make. If they don’t support communism, if they don’t support cop killers, then the choice is clear.
Mayor 6.6 has got to go.
Boss Preckwinkle has got to go.
Comrade Gates has got to go.
They’ve all got to go and we need to take our city back and turn it back on the path toward becoming the great city it once was, not the next "Cuba on the Lake."
Chicago deserves better than revolutionary elegies on union X-feeds. Our kids deserve teachers who teach, not cadres who brainwash our kids into Marxist cop killers. It’s time to reclaim the classroom, the ballot box, and the future.
