Jo
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Jo
@joannatess.bsky.social
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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.
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
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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...
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“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.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
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“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
A Chicago High Schooler Had Just Returned From Chemotherapy. Then ICE Arrested Her Father
Ofelia Torres is being treated for Stage 4 cancer while her father faces sudden federal detention. An emergency motion has been filed arguing that her father's detention is unlawful and violates his c...
blockclubchicago.org
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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.
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CTA is providing free rides for the No Kings Rally
Free rides on the CTA from 11 PM tonight until 11 AM tomorrow
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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✊🏼
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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.
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Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.
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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.
Right and when so many people are familiar with this incident but don't know that detail, it seems like an intentional omission.
Also, they say "To date, there has not been any confirmed presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus. " but those two non-UIC affiliated persons were taken outside of the Student Services Building..
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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.
masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.
Now is the time 💯!

Also I love the chain accessories! Where did you get those?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. 💔
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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”
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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??
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Chicagoans have arrived at Trump Tower, chanting "all power to the people, no human is illegal!"
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well that's pathetic
BREAKING: A scaled-back proposal to test the ability of city crews to clear not just Chicago’s roads but also its sidewalks of snow and ice during winter storms was rejected Friday by two key city panels. @wttw.bsky.social