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🙇🏻‍♀️ Shoathree 🆘RESISTANCE🌊 "UN-DeBoosted Me"

shoathree

Feds coming to Chicago150 are coming. U.S. Attorney John Lausch, assured Mayor Lightfoot they would be working with the Chicago PD to fight against violent crimes here. He is somebody

Evan F. Moore

evanFmoore

Here's my part in the @Suntimes coverage of the Warner Bros. film #JudasAndTheBlackMessiah.A thread: Initially, LaKeith Stanfield thought he would play Fred Hampton, the charismatic chairman of the Black Panthers’

Anthony Breznican

Breznican

This isn't about law enforcement. This is about crushing dissent and criticism.https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1286028452676743170 It sounds like alarmism, but these are warnings from history, and they are screaming

Crochety Poet 🛸

CaseyRocheteau

Short Thread:During the 1968 DNC, white activists descended upon Chicago for the “Days of Rage” and the Chicago Black Panthers told them not to bc Black Chicagoans were the ones

Social Service Workers United-Chicago

SSWUChicago

SSWU Chicago stand in solidarity with @AnjanetteYoung, a Chicago social worker who was handcuffed naked and mistreated by CPD when they raided her home by mistake last February. Body cam

Erin Hegarty

erin_hegarty

Haven't had enough of City Council budget hearings yet? You're in luck. Aldermen will hear from four departments today — Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Buildings, Procurement Services and the

Conspiracy You Can Believe In

conspiracy_YCBI

This is referring to the Young Patriots, who cannot be described as “white supremacists” or “white nationalists” in any understanding of the term. There’s plenty of material out there you

Kristen Schorsch

kschorsch

THREAD: I learned a lot this week about how the #COVID19 vaccine is (and isn't) rolling out in #Chicago. For one, there are a lot of health care workers who

AntiFashVelma

AntiFashVelma

Chicago Proud Boys / Illinois Proud Boys Thread.Thank you to Chicago Antifascist Action, Shield Wall Chicago, and Anne Frank Army for compiling all of the following information. Thomas Fredrick Christensen

Ahmad Sayles

ahmad_sayles

Good Morning! I’ll be live-tweeting today's Chicago City Council regular meeting for @CHIdocumenters #CHIdocumenters. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. Due to COVID-19, this meeting will be

Rebekah Fenton, MD, FAAP

RFentonMD

In honor of MLK Day, I want to share a thread about his year in Chicago (did yall know he spent time here?) In 1965, after the Voting Rights Act

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

At least 9 police break down this woman's door and then stand around with their body cameras filming as she sobs, completely naked. It was the wrong house and their

Dennis Rodkin

Dennis_Rodkin

Samuel Dent escaped slavery in Alabama in 1862 and worked for a surgeon in an Illinois regiment. He moved up to Chicago, which he fled after the Great Chicago Fire.

LLNL

Livermore_Lab

We continue our celebration of Black STEM history with the story of one of the most important contemporary mathematicians - J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1/5) Wilkins Jr. was born in

Chicago Black Drag Council

DragCouncil

(1/11) The ICONIC, unapologetically gay, Chicago's very own, Grammy award winner Frankie Knuckles is undoubtedly the first name on everyone's lips regarding House Music. Known as “the Godfather of House

Bob Wachter

Bob_Wachter

Case #'s in SF worsening. A number I follow is @UCSFHospitals case-pos. rate in asymptomatic pts (ie, pts getting cardiac cath or surgery). Was 0.4% last mth; now 2.1%. So

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