Zareen Syed
@zareensyed.bsky.social
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chronically indecisive Chicago Tribune reporter usually writing a mix of education, food and stories centering underrepresented groups ✉️ [email protected]
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HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE
Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.
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Liz Abunaw, owner of Forty Acres, said her store is a business-driven approach, not an idealistic project to “solve hunger” in Austin. But it's addressing a gap in the market, intensified by the differences between Chicago neighborhoods and how those differences break down along racial lines.
Forty Acres Fresh Market, Chicago’s only Black-owned grocery store, is a new option for fresh food in Austin
Forty Acres Fresh Market in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood is an expansion of Liz Abunaw’s community-focused effort to offer fresh produce via home deliveries and pop-up markets.
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cristianfarias.com
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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NEWS: Trump is federalizing 300 National Guard troops in Illinois, Gov. Pritzker announced.
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He's one of a handful of local doctors, w/ Jewish Voice for Peace, calling on lawmakers to block bomb sales to Israel and speak out against famine in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank.

Read the story, but most importantly, press play👂
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Chicago-area doctors are returning from Gaza with horror stories, and demands for elected officials
A group of doctors who worked in Gaza are urging members of Congress to sign onto a bill that would limit weapons sales to Israel. They say they can feel the tide turning.
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Chicago doctor Thaer Ahmad will never forget one of the 1st times he declared a patient dead in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, after a father carried in his three lifeless daughters.

Those girls weigh heavy on Ahmad's mind as he demands action from Illinois politicians.
www.wbez.org/politics/202...
Chicago-area doctors are returning from Gaza with horror stories, and demands for elected officials
A group of doctors who worked in Gaza are urging members of Congress to sign onto a bill that would limit weapons sales to Israel. They say they can feel the tide turning.
www.wbez.org
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Thank you for the kind words, Steve!
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
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For generations, families have trusted TYLENOL® when it matters most.
Why? Because Tylenol is one of the most studied medications in history.
The facts remain unchanged: over a decade of rigorous research, endorsed by leading medical professionals, confirm there is no credible evidence linking acetaminophen to autism.
Acetaminophen is used worldwide as a first line of defense for pain relief and fever reduction, at the recommendation of independent public health and leading medical professionals and in accordance with the product label.
High fevers and pain are widely recognized as potential risks to a pregnancy if left untreated, especially in the first trimester.
Remember to talk to your doctor.
We prioritize science as the core of how we provide care, and that will never change.
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ICE agents held a man’s five year old autistic daughter and taunted him with “Is that your daughter” in an attempt to get him to come out of the house.

They were rebuffed but two days later took him from his car.
ICE agents held 5-year-old girl outside Leominster home to get father to surrender, family says
Video appears to show federal immigration agents trying to coax the man out of his Massachusetts home while asking, “Is that your daughter?”
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Chicago's street vendors carry a cultural legacy that's slowly shrinking away from familiar city corners in the middle of the current ICE surge. "What they do is a dying art, born of love.” ✍️ An important story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social
A culture at risk: Chicago’s street vendors quietly disappear from familiar corners during ICE surge
Their quiet disappearance marks not just a loss of income for them, it’s also the erosion of a cherished culture by many in the city.
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unraveledpress.com
Today in things that should never be happening but especially now of all times:
peoplesfabric.com
Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.
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Recent higher ed reporting ✍️

➡️ Some faculty members expressed sympathy for Schill, who heeded several unprecedented demands from the right toward the end of his troubled 3 year tenure as Northwestern's leader. Others on campus say they were glad to see him go.
Northwestern President Michael Schill’s exit reopens wounds over campus protests, antisemitism allegations
Faculty members and students are reeling from Northwestern University President Michael Schill’s resignation after a turbulent three-year tenure.
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Eeek! I'm so nervous to watch this because I know I'm going to compare every frame and every scene to the perfection that is The Office but I also want to like it in support of the office
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In the Peacock mockumentary “The Paper,” an unseen documentary film crew arrives in a mid-size city in order to capture — fly-on-the-wall style — the daily life of office drones. If the premise sounds familiar, that’s intentional.
‘The Paper’ review: Trying (and failing) to recapture the magic of ‘The Office’
From the creators of “The Office,” the mockumentary follows the workers of a struggling Toledo newspaper.
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The life of displaced Gazans is the focal point of this free exhibit at the Walls Turned Sideways space in East Garfield Park. There's an ambient sound that plays overhead to supplement the viewing experience...drones, sounds of the sea, children. It's very moving.

Thurs-Saturdays through Aug. 23.
‘Between Sky and Sea’ photo exhibit showcases the life of displaced Gazans: ‘Not just war and rubble’
Gaza in the photos of Palestinian photojournalist and filmmaker Ismail Abu Hatab is more than destruction and despair.
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