Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

When the Stasi asks for your papers, all you have to do is show them your papers and then they famously let you go on living your life. Easy breezy.

AI Use And Data Centers Are Causing ComEd Bills To Spike — And It Will Likely Get Worse The price of electricity has gone up due to a projected increase in demand from data centers, with Chicago acting as a data center hub, officials said.

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social

AI Use And Data Centers Are Causing ComEd Bills To Spike — And It Will Likely Get Worse blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/27/a...

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

2,977 Americans were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

Now imagine 30 9/11 attacks each year.

That's how many Americans the fossil fuel industry kills.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

Head Start was founded 60 years ago as a critical tool in the War on Poverty. It now serves about 750,000 children nationally from infancy until kindergarten, with 28,000 in Illinois. www.wbez.org/education/20...

On top of the lack of due process, entering private spaces with no warrant and guns drawn, outside of an ACTUAL emergency, is incredibly dangerous for bystanders. This is how kids and grandparents get accidentally injured or killed.

Yes. And people will get mad bc they think this is redemptive, but it's not exactly redemptive to say that folks helped make bad things happen out of ignorance or by ignoring/disbelieving what they heard—it's just a more accurate way to describe how ppl think and act, which is worth understanding.

I think we’re about to run into the problem that people (both parties) have been insisting so hard that Covid is nothing to worry about and not worth preventing that they can’t really muster the energy to care. It’s a heavily guarded delusion.

My 8 year old while listening to a story about Department of Homeland Security on NPR today: “Kristy Noem? Isn’t she the one who had her purse stolen?”

There’s no way this man has ever driven a car in an urban area.

Can’t wait to read the other side of the story on the association between thrombus histopathology and hemodynamic outcomes among patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy. What are they hiding from the public?

So again, the logic here goes, the virus is not a naturally evolved phenomena but an incredibly dangerous man-created strain…against which you should take no precautions and do nothing to avoid getting because it’s just a cold

Yet another Veep storyline brought to life before our very eyes

More people should pause before lashing out at folks who share their hatred of this administration and ask themselves, "Am I using this person as a punching bag because I don't know how to strike back at the people responsible for all of the kidnappings, killings, deportations, and destruction?"

📣 🚨 Our Clean Air for Healthy Equitable Schools bill passed the IL House’s Education Policy Committee! Moving forward, our bill number will be HB429. It may be called for a vote on the House floor TODAY or tomorrow! Pls tag your *state* rep and ask them to co-sponsor/vote YES!

This man is completely and dangerously ignorant about autism and his crusade will harm a lot of people.

This is incredibly tragic but the headline written atop the article is extremely misleading. It makes it sound like someone came to the station and shot the officer. Please do better.

What do they like to say...cry more? Cry more, Nick.

I realize the Left is used to challenging the GOP because they are so shitty to poor people on economic policy but folks need to understand that the "economically conservative" GOP does not run the GOP anymore and we are dealing with a Christian Nationalist GOP

Another day, another altercation with off leash dog people in the park.

Shutdown of regional Head Start offices creates confusion, but feds say funding will continue The Trump administration’s to close regional Head Start offices led to confusion for many program administrators in Illinois.

The Trump administration’s decision to close a regional Head Start office in Chicago has raised questions about how the program, which serves more than 28,000 children and low-income families in Illinois, will continue to operate in coming weeks and months.

Trump targets daycares, children’s programs for massive cuts Chicago families, preschool providers fear prospect of vital services shutting down, potentially leaving thousands of kids without support.

President Trump's spending cuts have eliminated hundreds of workers who oversee children's programs. Office closures in Chicago and four other cities have left organizations that support vulnerable families without assistance.

Is this what the Speaker of the House meant when he said the adults are back in the room and they are going to turn the economy around?

FDA's Peter Marks resigns, saying he won't accept Kennedy's 'misinformation and lies' FDA's Peter Marks resigns amid clash with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy over vaccine safety, after being given choice to resign or be fired.

So this week:

- Peter Marks, head of CBER (the division of the FDA that deals with vaccines) and architect of Operation Warp Speed resigned
- The CDC suppressed a report on measles which included a strong recommendation for measles vaccination
www.propublica.org/article/meas...

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

My child recognized a building from Adventures in Babysitting today and thus I have succeeded as a parent