Hundreds of South and West Side lots owned by the "city's worst landowner" who accumulated $15 million in city fines went up for sale. But only a fraction have sold. blockclubchi.co/494kEJq

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More CDC Cuts 💣💥 Gone is the Employee Assistance Program. They help staff deal with many things, among them coping with the trauma of being the victim of a terrorist attack 2 months ago. Also gone, every policy and communications role left, eliminating any communication function at CDC.

adding alt text. “Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel”

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

so grateful to all the federal workers who spoke to us for story: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

George E. Hardy was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot at 19 years old and completed 21 missions across Europe during World War II.

Reminder. Congress gets paid during a shutdown. Fed workers do not. On top of that, feds deemed essential must continue working while not getting paid. Refusal to work could easily lead to termination. Make sure to find a way to helps feds who will be impacted by losing pay. Not all make big $$

😡 Hearing that our 'leadership' at CDC is asking for an inventory of all non-English webpages, based on Trump’s executive order on English as the Official Language of the US. 😡

BREAKING NEWS over in Inside Medicine: Censorship at the CDC. Again. Two dozen websites were removed, including resources for health equity, disability, and LGBTQ+ care. Here’s what we know:

Since there have been too many documented instances of ICE murdering people in the street or illegally grabbing or beating US citizens the Trump regime has an innovative solution; you can no longer film ICE and fuck your first amendment, buddy.

The KKK is America’s oldest white terror network built on lynching murder and bombings. They fueled decades of racial terror and remain a symbol of hate. Their history is drenched in blood and intimidation. They are not designated a terrorist organization.

The Proud Boys are violent far right extremists tied to street fights, intimidation with the use of weapons, & the Jan 6 insurrection. Leaders were convicted of seditious conspiracy. They glorify violence & attack democracy itself. They are not designated a terrorist organization.

The Oath Keepers are an armed militia that infiltrated law enforcement & plotted to overthrow the U.S. government. They played a central role in Jan 6 & trained $ recruited for civil conflict. They are dangerous & radicalized far right extremists. They are not designated a terrorist organization.

The Three Percenters are a far right militia cult obsessed with armed rebellion. Their members plotted to kidnap Michigans Governor Gretchen Whitmer & they joined Jan 6 with weapons. They nurture insurrection and violent extremism. They are not designated a terrorist organization.

Patriot Front is a neo fascist white supremacist cult staging paramilitary style marches. They were arrested en masse in Idaho while plotting a violent riot at Pride. They are organized and openly violent. They are not designated a terrorist organization.

A suburban Cook County resident has died from the West Nile virus, the Cook County Department of Public Health confirmed Wednesday. It’s the first West Nile virus-related death in Illinois confirmed this year. to.wttw.com/4pu7USd

Happy Constitution Day! Here’s a great chat with Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social where she goes into what the Constitution does and DOES NOT protect and allow for. www.youtube.com/live/N_MHFex...

Research shows police regularly perform inadequate rape investigations and fail to test for DNA evidence. That has led lawmakers across the country to extend their statutes of limitations. This hasn’t happened in Massachusetts. 👉 Read more (w/ @wbur.org): www.propublica.org/article/mass...

Gene-edited pancreatic cells have been transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes for the first time. They produced insulin for months without the patient needing to take immunosuppressants. www.wired.com/story/no-mor...

Melissa Hortman. Her husband. Their dog. The children who go to school and never come home again. LGBTQIA+ people. Black women and men. Native Americans. Latino people. All of whom have been gunned down for no reason except hate. THOSE ARE LOSSES.

NWS is hiring but candidates are being asked to identify agreement with executive orders. No Administration has screened applicants this way. The job is about merit. Does the candidate have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to complete the mission and save lives? abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

"Open to anyone who is serving or has served in government—federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial—the platform debuts amid heightened concern over the June killing of a Minnesota state representative and her husband and the attempted assassination of a state senator and his wife."

If you’re wondering what we have lost at the FDA, here is a handy info graphic for you.

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Communicable disease doesn’t respect state borders. This will impact all of us.

#CDCSavesLives - specifically, the CDC staff who work tirelessly every day. 💚💚💚 Thanks to the anon CDC-er who created this graphic. 😉 (Wording from today's NYTimes oped: "We Ran the CDC: Kennedy is Endangering every American's Health)

💔 83 kids dead. A preventable measles outbreak.
Anti-vax ads and RFK Jr.’s visit made it worse.
Great reporting by @AtlantaNewsFirst shows Samoa is a warning for every American parent. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/08/24/t...

I have no children and therefore no grandchildren, but I need to be able to look at myself in the mirror and sleep at night.

Finally!!! Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been released from TN custody and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland.

Finally, note: DOGE and the Trump administration are so opposed to remote work that they rushed CDC employees back to the office without active shooter training. Other security measures failed because of staffing shortages. The shooter killed himself because no one else managed to.

Follow-up: The CDC boss has attempted to improve communication about this. There have been some comms hiccups but considering her boss is RFK Jr., I find her openness and honesty brave. archive.is/2025.08.12-2...

This meme expresses the hopelessness that government workers feel. We are enemies of the people, according to our own bosses. Violence against us is tacitly (or explicitly) sanctioned. Black-majority places, and public health workers, in particular.

You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers. The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.

CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE. So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.

Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees. Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.

But a white guy with a COVID conspiracy manifesto isn’t news at this point. After all, that’s who runs the government now! The CDC is a part of Health & Human Services, headed by RFK Jr., whose conspiracy-addled ideology is indistinguishable from the motivations of this terrorist.

Miraculously, he didn’t hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife. I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.

First the terrorist tried to enter campus in a car filled with guns. When he wasn’t allowed past the gates, he started firing from a CVS drugstore across the street. From a semi-automatic weapon, 500 shots is a lot. He was at it for a long time. Here are the weapons & shell casings he left behind.

Here is video taken by an employee, caught outdoors when the shooting started, crouching behind a stone retaining wall Content warning: gun shots, obviously

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

📣 After last week’s domestic terrorist attack on #CDC, it’s clear: public health workers & science are under siege. We want Congress to investigate misconduct, enforce protections, & hold officials accountable for the safety of public health workers. ✍️ Sign to defend public service. ✍️ 1/2 🧵

Defend Public Health’s report, Improving the Health of Americans Together (IHAT), includes 11 pillars. Let’s take them one by one.