ICE was / is in my neighborhood today. I showed up to a local elementary school during pickup with lots of other concerned and caring neighbors. It felt good to do SOMETHING. I think I will continue doing that.

There's an impressive new museum in Chicago. The Marquette Building, already known for its stunning - and problematic - Tiffany mosaics, now is home to Nwi Yathmomen, a new exhibition documenting the native peoples of our region, especially the Potawatomi... www.macfound.org/press/perspe...

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

“The doctor overseeing Ofelia Torres’ care at Lurie Children’s Hospital wrote that her “ongoing complex medical care requires the support of both her parents during this very difficult time,” according to court documents.” Cruelty knows no bounds

“CDC experts actively responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed 43 people were RIFed in the middle of their deployment.” rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

CTA is providing free rides for the No Kings Rally

Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.

Mood. I'm about to deck out my bici for my ride to the No Kings rally tomorrow✊🏼

This is a bullshit headline in the New York Times. There’s no “uprising” in Chicago. Rather, Chicagoans are peacefully defending themselves against ICE violence. Use of the term “uprising“ is just what the Trump regime wants to excuse a further fascist crackdown in Chicago.

Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.

The East Side is a center of EJ leadership and resistance. It feels even heavier to see this community tear gassed as they continue to resist other environmental pollutants.

Chicago’s East Side neighborhood has a history of being one place where industry concentrates its most polluting elements. That environmental racism plus the release of multiple forms of chemical weapons today exacerbates terrible health consequences for a mostly Latino working class community.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

last night, someone on tiktok asked me how wearing a mask is antifascist, so i answered: unfortunately, even passive, austere eugenics works faster if YOU participate. so step up: stand out, mask up, and take care take care take care for yourself & others—before those who seek to harm stop you.

This is one of the photos circulating in some of the Pilsen and Little Village pages. An abandoned tamale cart near Chase on Damen in Pilsen. 💔

Just published in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social: a collective analysis of the power ecosystem that jeopardizes public health and produces inequity, titled “Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity”

Holly Rowe calling B’am A’ja’s “mentor” when they are working out together to help them each improve their games, & B’am himself has even said A’ja is better than him??? He’s her boyfriend & training partner, not her mentor??

Chicagoans have arrived at Trump Tower, chanting "all power to the people, no human is illegal!"

well that's pathetic

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

perfect. this is it. ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point

They're calling it the longest day in WNBA history

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

YESSssssss just in time for the rest of WNBA playoffs

Hey folks! Michelle Garcia is local disability and immigration orranizer who I’ve had the pleasure of working together with on plow the sidewalks and defending paratransit. She’s facing some health challenges that are creating financial hardship and could use some help! ❤️

This has been a common talking point from the WNBA, but they never actually show the data. From my database - Total- 23: 176 24: 203 25: 250+ Games- 23: 789 24: 711 25: 957 Injury rate (per 100 exposures) 23: 38.5 24: 45 25: ~50

Final WNBA injury data update- Total injuries: 254 Total games lost: 967 Most injured: Knee (48), Leg (43) Most games lost: Knee (551), Leg (112) Most injured team: DAL, GSV, PHX (28) Most games lost: SEA (140) Least injured team: LAS (10) Fewest games lost: LVA (26) @theixbasketball.bsky.social

I'll never forget how Oura tried to boost sales during the early portion of the pandemic by advertising their ring as an effective way of diagnosing a Covid infection. They're after profits not reputability. It's always been that way.

So fucking cruel

A brief reminder: the Anjanette Young ordinance is STILL making its way through Council. The original ordinance included language restricting CPD from pointing guns at children.

We've known that Covid increases the risk in survivors of cancer, but today @nature.com a mechanism of reactivation of cancer cells elucidated in the experimental model www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yess Tash Cloud!

Things I learned writing my Dennis Rodman - LGBTQ+ @chicagoreader.com story... Chicago is credited by many with the nation's first: 🌈 Gay rights organization (Society for Human Rights, 1924) 🌈 Pride Parade (1970) 🌈 Sanctioned gay district (Northalsted, 1997) chicagoreader.com/city-life/fe...

I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity

unreal lack of energy

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

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My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Quick vibe check at the NIH, per a staffer there: "We have lost so many people: we have no comms, no HR, no acquisitions, no one to do travel or purchasing. So many people have left that there are chains of email bounces..."

In today's WSJ by their editorial board www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

NEW: CBP agents have collected the DNA of migrant children as young as 4 years old, which is stored in a criminal database in case they commit crimes in the future, according to records reviewed by @wired.com. @dmehro.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

It's disturbing how many Chicagoans are out running, biking, and generally exercising in today's smog. I've been wearing a mask while outside and my throat still hurts

On the impact of masks in schools during Covid in 2022 "We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21,800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year." www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Chicagoans (including all in the suburbs): if you are aware of the looming catastrophe our transit is about to face (40% shutdown; some L lines closing), you are going to have to start telling all your friends about it. And get ready to yell at state legislators. And also, Gov. Pritzker.

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"