Lena G R
@lenagr.bsky.social
Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
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Let this radicalize you
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Let this radicalize you
Great environmental town hall on the far northwest side tonight, doing a deep dive on #cleanenergy and #datacenters with @elpcenter.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social & @cubillinois.baky.social.
Thank you Rep LaPointe and Sen Martwick for being environmental champions! 🚉☀️⚡️💪🏽
Thank you Rep LaPointe and Sen Martwick for being environmental champions! 🚉☀️⚡️💪🏽
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Great environmental town hall on the far northwest side tonight, doing a deep dive on #cleanenergy and #datacenters with @elpcenter.bsky.social @ilenviro.bsky.social & @cubillinois.baky.social.
Thank you Rep LaPointe and Sen Martwick for being environmental champions! 🚉☀️⚡️💪🏽
Thank you Rep LaPointe and Sen Martwick for being environmental champions! 🚉☀️⚡️💪🏽
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
Ah-mazing
Love stormwater management
Love stormwater management
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ah-mazing
Love stormwater management
Love stormwater management
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![Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vpdxcialxa6j5s7yh5g5jhf/bafkreihcp247ahol26isqxpjmh54kczqp6ieyycvhakzjug6ysgeqndpb4@jpeg)
My job contracts with this brilliant PhD student in Wisconsin who is doing phenomenal research for us. But his whole lab lost federal funding & schools nationwide are cutting back so he’s gotta pause his studies or move to Canada if he wants to finish.
We are losing so many smart minds :(
We are losing so many smart minds :(
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My job contracts with this brilliant PhD student in Wisconsin who is doing phenomenal research for us. But his whole lab lost federal funding & schools nationwide are cutting back so he’s gotta pause his studies or move to Canada if he wants to finish.
We are losing so many smart minds :(
We are losing so many smart minds :(
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I was wondering why a major meat supplier was now advertising the involvement of USDA food inspectors in their safety standards.
That shouldn’t be a marketable fact.
That shouldn’t be a marketable fact.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I was wondering why a major meat supplier was now advertising the involvement of USDA food inspectors in their safety standards.
That shouldn’t be a marketable fact.
That shouldn’t be a marketable fact.
Alps is our favorite breakfast place, down the block from my folks. I heard a girl I went to elementary school with got kidnapped too.
ICE is tearing apart our communities and every one of them should rot in hell
ICE is tearing apart our communities and every one of them should rot in hell
another neighbor got abducted today, new gofundme about to drop. if you're in the NW side he was a server at Alps and they are donating 25% of sales this weekend to him. as for my prior neighbor who got abducted, his gofundme was a huge help to his family and will be used to bond him out imminently
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Alps is our favorite breakfast place, down the block from my folks. I heard a girl I went to elementary school with got kidnapped too.
ICE is tearing apart our communities and every one of them should rot in hell
ICE is tearing apart our communities and every one of them should rot in hell
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader
Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery
chicagoreader.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets.
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...
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Chicago Transit AuthAuroraty
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Chicago Transit AuthAuroraty
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
On a frigid Veterans Day, a big group of antiwar Veterans in Chicago is marching for - No ICE, No cuts, & No military occupation
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
On a frigid Veterans Day, a big group of antiwar Veterans in Chicago is marching for - No ICE, No cuts, & No military occupation
If your name was Richard and you preferred to go by Ricky, but a group of bullies at school decided to make your life a living hell by calling you a dick and incessantly chanting “dick dick dick” you’d want the school to step in and stop the bullying.
The Supreme Court is unleashing torment
The Supreme Court is unleashing torment
2. The court drew no distinction between accidental misuse and targeted, ongoing harassment, concluding that even that conduct does not “materially and substantially” disrupt school activities—the threshold that would allow schools to intervene.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If your name was Richard and you preferred to go by Ricky, but a group of bullies at school decided to make your life a living hell by calling you a dick and incessantly chanting “dick dick dick” you’d want the school to step in and stop the bullying.
The Supreme Court is unleashing torment
The Supreme Court is unleashing torment
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In case you needed even MORE evidence how bad at business and the economy Trump and right-wing ideologues are.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In case you needed even MORE evidence how bad at business and the economy Trump and right-wing ideologues are.
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I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
November 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
Now that is the kind of victory announcement I appreciate, hell yeah New York, nice work
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Now that is the kind of victory announcement I appreciate, hell yeah New York, nice work
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Moline-Chicago Amtrak passenger rail funding approved by Illinois General Assembly!
“Today is a day for celebrating because we have secured funding for our train,” Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati said.
www.wqad.com/article/news...
“Today is a day for celebrating because we have secured funding for our train,” Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati said.
www.wqad.com/article/news...
Moline-Chicago passenger rail funding approved; QC leaders react
Local leaders say funding for the Moline-to-Chicago passenger rail line is now secured, marking a major milestone in bringing Amtrak service to the Quad Cities.
www.wqad.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Moline-Chicago Amtrak passenger rail funding approved by Illinois General Assembly!
“Today is a day for celebrating because we have secured funding for our train,” Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati said.
www.wqad.com/article/news...
“Today is a day for celebrating because we have secured funding for our train,” Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati said.
www.wqad.com/article/news...
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"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"
apnews.com/article/chic...
apnews.com/article/chic...
Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns
In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.
apnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
😭
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NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Over 100 people rallied in Brighton Park Saturday to support tamalero Fausto Valladares Alvarez, who was taken by federal agents.
“My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...
“My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Over 100 people rallied in Brighton Park Saturday to support tamalero Fausto Valladares Alvarez, who was taken by federal agents.
“My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...
“My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...