Mitchell Szczepanczyk

No War on Venezuela! / ¡No a la guerra contra Venezuela! - En espanol abajo - A Call For a United Emergency Protest While Trump continues his war on Chicago, we cannot i

The newly re-formed Chicago Committee Against War & Racism calls upon all who oppose a US war on Venezuela to gather in an emergency protest at Chicago's Kluczynski Office Building, 240 S. Dearborn St, Nov. 4th, 5:30PM -- www.chicagoactivismhub.org/detail/1505/

Chicagoans rally to support proposed Upzoning ordinance Dozens of Chicago citizens rallied at The Circle next to the Riviera Theatre on Thursday, October 9, in support of a proposed “upzoning” ordinance that would help build thousands of new homes in the E...

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Bloom Plant Based Kitchen - Wicker Park, Chicago, IL Our intention with Bloom is to prepare flavorful, plant-based cuisine for all to enjoy - regardless of your dietary preferences or needs. This way, we can all do our part to create a happier...

Last Sunday marked my 32nd veganniversary -- the anniversary of my permanent adhering to a vegan diet. As is my custom, I celebrated it by getting the biggest, thickest steak in town and having it simmered in lard.

LOL. I actually went to Bloom. bloompb.com

YouTube video by CIMC James Dobson Protest

On the topic of James Dobson's recent passing: James Dobson’s induction ceremony into the Radio Hall of Fame took place in Chicago. The event met a lively protest, and I made a short film about the protest for Chicago Independent Television:

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YouTube video by msszczep Mitchell Szczepanczyk's Stand-Up Comedy Debut - June 17, 2025

As promised, here is video of my stand-up comedy debut. Warning: NSFW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zIc...

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For over a year I have been trying to measure the effect of the conservative religious forces on the United States high death rates. This graph shows the relationship between age 20-64 death rates and the measure of possible causes that I have found to be have the strongest relationship with age 20-64 death rates. Here are the r's for all that I have found: Percent Southern Baptist r=0.81 Percent Evangelical in 2020 r=0.68 Percent Evangelical, Pew data 2017 r=0.73 Percent Pray daily, r=0.45, this is much stronger if elderly are included Given how strong all these measures of religion are, I currently am going to use percent Southerner Baptist as a control variable in any analysis looking at the effect of other variables on middle age death rates. Now how did I measure Southern Baptist. I went to the on line Yellow pages and did a search for the two letter state abbreviation and "Southern Baptist" fifty times. Down toward the bottom of the first page of the output is the total number found. I copied that number and pasted it to a data holding spreadsheet. I saved it and saved it and saved it in three separate places. That was over saving something that took less than half an hour to collect. If anyone wants the data, just email me at pecanjim(atsymblehere)bellsouth.net Here are the other two regression stats and estimated rate for 100% Southern Baptist. b = 4.01 a = 323.07 the estimate for 0% Southern Baptist y'x=100 = 724.17 the estimate for 100% Southern Baptist A final note: If we had 100% Medicare I think the appeal of religious prayer based health care would disappear. An earlier analysis I posted showed the the effect of percent Evangelical on death rates had gone down to right at zero before Obama Care gave Fundamentalist the right to offer health insurance and health care.

I now have pulled together from all the attempts I can find and figure out to measure how much conservative/religious forces increase death rates. See ALT to see why I focus on age 20-64. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Demography

Inspiring, funny, clever protest signs at Downtown Chicago #NoKings rally - June 14, 2025 I attended the Chicago #NoKings protest at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Here are an assortment of pictures I took of protest signs at the rally. Please enjoy!

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#Trump #elon #musk #familyfeud #News #bannon #ICE

Opinion | Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic

A. Ken Jennings has an op-ed in today's New York Times about trivia, knowledge, and democracy.

B. I submitted a comment to the New York Times website about the op-ed, which got approved and is online here:

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

In the United States politics have a strong effect on death rates. While this graph does not show the strongest effect, how health care is paid for, our politics is generally the second strongest factor increasing our death rates. Here are the data: State 3yr COVID Evan2014 AL 275.8 49 AK 147.7 22 AZ 248.4 26 AR 241.5 46 CA 171.3 20 CO 140.1 26 CT 146.5 13 DE 186.2 15 DC 111.5 FL 226.9 24 GA 209.0 38 HI 90.3 25 ID 177.3 21 IL 160.6 20 IN 209.0 31 IA 166.8 28 KS 209.8 31 KY 278.9 49 LA 201.6 27 ME 176.6 14 MD 150.0 18 MA 132.0 9 MI 211.5 25 MN 133.4 19 MS 269.7 41 MO 213.3 36 MT 202.4 28 NE 139.5 25 NV 244.6 20 NH 141.8 13 NJ 158.3 13 NM 264.8 23 NY 182.0 10 NC 202.4 35 ND 138.1 22 OH 253.0 29 OK 283.8 47 OR 146.8 29 PA 226.4 19 RI 150.9 14 SC 256.3 35 SD 152.3 25 TN 265.5 52 TX 207.6 31 UT 102.8 7 VT 95.9 11 VA 173.9 30 WA 120.0 25 WV 336.0 39 WI 151.9 22 WY 242.5 27

This graph shows the state total COVID death rate for years 2021-2023, the post vaccination years, by state, colored by party, and percent Evangelical. Click ALT to see graph full size and read more and access raw data. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Demography #Population

We lost a great champion of media and democracy earlier this year. I wrote a commemoration of Bob McChesney for the Chicago Media Action newsletter, here: www.chicagomediaaction.org/news.php?id=...

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

Better Late Than Never: Funny, clever protest signs from Chicago "People's Protest" (April 19, 2025) Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago to protest the Trump administration for a host of outrageous actions. The protest was billed as the People’s Protest, and or...

My handiwork in photographs: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #50501 #protest

In just about 50 days, me and my friends are gonna raise $10,000 for @childsplaycharity.bsky.social by recreating 24 game shows in 24 straight hours, live on Twitch. In this thread, I'm going to tell you every game we're playing and why I'm personally excited to play them. 🧵

Fascinating.

Vote by mail system helps all voters — not just Democrats Many voters travel for work, don’t drive, can’t drive or walk to polling places, live overseas or simply know who they want to vote for and want to "get voting out of the way." These circumstances kno...

My birthday is tomorrow and I just got one hell of a gift: a letter-to-the-editor of mine just got published today in the Chicago Sun-Times (scroll down). chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...

This is a great thread! Monbiot quite perfectly captures how capitalism has colonized collective imagination. Rejecting capitalism is difficult for many, but maybe those who do should seriously engage with what comes after? Let's talk about why ideas like participatory economy (parecon) matter... 🧵🧵

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More photos from #HandsOff 2025 - Chicago protest, at Daley Plaza downtown.

More photos from #HandsOff 2025 - Chicago protest, at Daley Plaza downtown.

More photos from #HandsOff 2025 - Chicago protest, at Daley Plaza downtown.

More photos from Hands Off 2025 - Chicago protest, at Daley Plaza downtown.

Photos from Hands Off 2025 - Chicago, at Daley Plaza downtown.

On this date in 1917, Jeanette Rankin — Republican from Montana — was sworn in as the very first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

Also, on this date in 1991, Rita Johnston — Social Credit Party from British Columbia — became the first woman to become premier of a Canadian province.

Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.

Sad news: One of America's leading voices for media and democracy (and a longtime friend of mine) has died.

Bob McChesney, presenté!

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A word to embrace...