Jim Pickett

SHAME on @centeronhalsted.bsky.social and shame on Town Hall for letting Don down in such an unjust manner.

'Founder' Of LGBTQ+ Apartments For Seniors Being Evicted From Building He Fought For Don Bell, a key figure in creating the city's first LGBTQ+ senior housing complex, is fighting eviction from the Town Hall Apartments following a residency dispute involving his husband.

Here is another article on this from Block Club Chicago
blockclubchicago.org/2025/03/27/f...

Lifelong LGBTQ+ activist faces eviction and possible homelessness at 75 - Windy City Times Don Bell, a lifelong LGBTQ+ activist and civil rights leader, is facing eviction from Town Hall Apartments, Chicago’s only culturally affirming LGBTQ+ senior housing facility. At 75 years old, Bell sa...

What is happening to Don indicates that NO ONE residing at Town Hall is safe. Our community has collectively failed to protect Don - a cherished, highly respected advocate who is hugely respsonsible for bringing to life the very place he is getting booted from.
windycitytimes.com/2025/04/04/l...

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

See you in the streets SAT APRIL 5
handsoff2025.com
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back: Hands off!"

I am looking for the guillotines too!

People holding Thank You USAID sign

🚨🚨 The #USAID clap out continues today Friday 2/28! More colleagues are already clearing out till 3:30 pm. Please join groups at the 13th/Pennsylvania and 14th Street entrance of the Ronald Reagan Building. This action has been a beautiful show of support appreciated by so many of us yesterday ❤️

'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects Over the last 48 hours, thousands of programs have been terminated — many of which had already been granted waivers to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.

"In each termination notice, organizations got the same explanation: Peter Marocco, USAID’s acting deputy administrator, and Marco Rubio, USAID’s acting administrator and secretary of state, determined the awards were “not in the national interest.”
www.devex.com/news/god-ble...

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

This is what CHRISTOFASCISM looks like
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Research Learning Exchange: Mar 20 bit.ly/Mar20arcc Panel with ARCC 2025 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens (bit.ly/ARCCaward) & breakouts focused on community organizing strategies for these times & ARCC seed grants (due 4/22. bit.ly/ARCCgrants)

Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Research Learning Exchange: Mar 20 bit.ly/Mar20arcc

Panel with ARCC 2025 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens (bit.ly/ARCCaward) & breakouts focused on community organizing strategies for these times & ARCC seed grants (due 4/22. bit.ly/ARCCgrants)

Trump posts music video promoting his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and build a luxury resort On Wednesday morning, President Trump posted a music video to multiple social media platforms that promoted his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and redevelop the area into a luxury res...

Hey! Where are all the ppl on the left who voted Stein or just couldn't bear to vote for Kamala because of Gaza? Bet you're feeling pretty good about your vote - or lack thereof - eh? You really taught someone a lesson! Nice work. Nice work.

popular.info/p/trump-post...

Ppl who voted for Stein or didn't vote for Pres got us this mess.

I have volunteered to help in Chicago - and I've gotten crickets!

The Capitol Police arrested a group of protesters [HEROES] who demonstrated Wednesday in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of U.S.A.I.D. workers.

Helping to midwife the youth-guided, arts-activated PrEP4Teens social marketing and community mobilization effort into being, and support its onward journey, continues to be one of the greatest joys of my life. What a sweet treat - especially in the midst of fascist madness - to get this award.

And nice to see you too my friend :)

How about MANDATORY vasectomies for ALL het cis men at puberty? They can apply for a reversal after proving their worthiness.

Another major medical journal stands up

#standupforscience2025 - DC and nationwide
MARCH 7 2025
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#sciencenotsilence #scienceforall
www.standupforscience2025.org/STAND-UP-FOR...

Happy Valentine's Day to @asia-ilse.bsky.social of Health GAP and all the other HIV activists standing up against fascism.

Judge orders Trump administration to restore funds for foreign aid programs A U.S. district judge said the administration failed to account for the extraordinary harm caused by the broad-based halt.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Trump makes RFK Jr. leader of presidential ‘MAHA’ commission to study chronic disease RFK Jr.'s swearing in as health secretary officially puts the nation's health in the hands of the MAHA movement.

Every few minutes a new fresh slice of Hell. This slice is especially nasty. Literally one of the very worst people in the world is now leading HHS with MAHA (gag) plans....
www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/r...

Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

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I am in Cairo, where I have been visiting with health organizations, including WHO and other partners of USAID.

Trump and Musk say lifesaving assistance is not affected by the shutdown of USAID and support to WHO.

I can tell you that is 100% false. #SaveAID www.instagram.com/share/_ogGRd...

STATEMENT: Ending HIV Requires a Functional US Democracy & Government The rapid dismantling of US democratic norms over the past 3 weeks – including fundamental government protections and structures – threatens the nation’s democracy, diversity, society, and economy.

The rapid dismantling of US democratic norms over the past 3 weeks – including fundamental government protections and structures – threatens the nation’s democracy, diversity, society, and economy.
prep4all.org/statement-en...

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."
- George Orwell, 1984

What century is this?

Great piece from TheBodyPro - reminding us that gender is not binary and that gender affirming care is for ALL of us. Plus, beyond implications, the article also importantly includes strategies for moving forward.
www.thebodypro.com/transgender-...

And more

🏈Saved the lives of 25 million children suffering from severe malaria. We think this one has value on its own but maybe Musk would disagree.

This Superbowl Sunday, tell Congress to #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

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🏈Protected 30,000,000 football fields of tropical forest in Africa, preventing China & Russia from exploiting timber & critical minerals

🏈Shipped the 29,000 metric tons of American food products worth $40 million on American ships instead of letting it waste away inTexas warehouse