"$9 billion quantum-computing campus was coming a few blocks from his South Shore home." "[P]ushing out the Black families who held on through disinvestment." "[F]olks here just want a pharmacy, a grocery store, and a chance to stay in their home." #Illinois #USA #Technology #Housing #Military

Hey Southside Chicago! Sign up to reserve your own free baby fruit, nut, and/or wildlife-supporting trees from Washington HS's & Kenwood Academy HS's Tree Giveaways. Visit either or both partnered events on Saturday, March 14th.

Another Penske Media Corporation tentacle* to start ignoring into obscurity... *all of Vox (Curbed, The Dodo, Eater, Grub Street, Intelligencer, JASH, Now This, PopSugar, SB Nation, The Cut, The Strategist, Seeker, Thrillist, The Verge, Vulture)

The state of illinois is using $700 million to invest in a comfy home for israeli tech startups on 400 acres of lakefront land in South Chicago.

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.

This. Also, NCAR doesn't just work on climate! They research weather, atmospheric chemistry and pollutioj, the sun and space weather. They developed the technology for lidar, a technology widely used in surveying, archaeology, forestry, seismology, laser guidance systems, and even self-driving cars.

A student of mine lost their home and a beloved pet to a fire this week.

What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Fall time to share and plant trees. We have lots of cool baby chestnut trees and very limited fruit trees available. Lets make chicago's future south side super abundant.

Ice kidnapped a parent from my school's community. Their family is asking for donations: gofund.me/2468060b3

ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser

Un-fucking-believable. Israel just bombed the food distribution center of The Sameer Project. There are a number of martyrs and people still trapped under the rubble. Please, please donate to their North campaign if you are able. chuffed.org/project/help...

It's clear that printing and distribution of my publication TASKS FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD IN CHICAGO is going to disrupt my life at a time when I have no time, so here are files you can print from. It's a double-sided 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper. Please do not edit the text. Have fun!

Reposting with the correct clip: Our August Feature is out! This time on Strangers/Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam talks with Andy about his zine, "A Letter to Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up" and the state of the world that inspired it. The title says it all.

I saw about 5 of these little guys today as I added trees to CRTI's Canopy Counts map. They were hiding between mulch and plastic tree guards that needed to be cleared out for each tree. Say hello one of Chicago's native lizards, a five lined skink (juvenile)

Hell yeah Possibility Place youtu.be/KkwmjTc3OQk?...

They are not just destroying Palestine. They are destroying the future and the past.

I believe @rweingarten.bsky.social has a responsibility to comment on this given the program the @aft.org has launched in collaboration with "A.i." companies. If companies comply with this unfathomably bigoted executive order, that poisons their models and funnels filth into schools. #AbolishAI

In this episode I chat with @lindablackelk.bsky.social about a few of her favorite plants. Linda is a ethobotanist and plant educator who works at NATIFS. Listen at edgewood-nursery.com/podcast/2025...

One and a half months of a growth spurt from one of our baby chestnut trees.

Pom Poko at the Music Box was great. 5 bags of popcorn.

Before and after from the GW garden: today vs 2 years ago

I've watched and used youtube videos from Veritasium teaching hs chem and physics over the years- their growth and values are commendable. This documentary they produced on PFAS (forever chemicals), our heath, and environment is a banger: youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

Between this and the recent articles from Chronicle of Higher Ed and New York mag about AI-facilitated cheating, I have to wonder how many classes are now a closed loop of homework generated by ChatGPT, whose answers are written by ChatGPT, which are then graded by ChatGPT.

Chicago, go see Parched 2.0 by the Free St Theater www.eventbrite.com/e/free-stree...

This tech accelerationism is training people to just do the appearance of work: a headline, art that looks almost normal from a distance, to complete things as fast as possible and move onto the next... it's dissolving humanity and culture at large

50+ yrs of K-12 neoliberal policy stripping public schools for parts & shoveling money to corporate vendors, 20+ yrs of free rein given to the EdTech industry (Zuck, Gates, Google,...) to dictate curricula/standards, instruction, student tools/computers to emphasize "personalized" learning.

The chestnut babies are waking up. 🌰

On this day in 1886, Lucy Parsons, a Black anarchist born into slavery, marched with her children at the front of one of the largest labor marches in US history, as workers across the country demanded the eight hour day. Two days later, striking workers were shot.

🐝 Getting ready for the garden

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

fighting tears

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

There is no such thing as the lesser evil. There is good. There is evil. The idea of the lesser evil came up the same way “collateral damage” came up - make themselves feel better about death and destruction.

Very excited to start reading

Go see this. it's so good

We still have plenty of pecan, hazelnut, and chestnut trees to share to anyone in Chicago who has a spot for them to grow. Come join us on the southeast side next week. Reserve your trees: bit.ly/GWHSTrees25

Seeds collected from chicago spots w/wild forbs and grasses are sprouting after stratifying all winter in plastic containers that I drilled holes thru. Species so far: evening primrose, purple & yellow coneflowers, common milkweed, partridge pea, foxglove beardstongue, zigzag goldenrod

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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My cat was diagnosed with pemphigus over the winter and just had his first flare up. I wish I could make it go away.