Jo Dobrowski

I know y’all are as pissed off as I am.

I need to ask a favor.

Do something kind for a stranger today.

Hear me out please.

Can be simple as complimenting the person at the check out counter. A smile at a stranger on the street. Anything.

We need more smiles.

Chicago Mayor Johnson: "Are you prepared to defend this land that was built by slaves? A land that was built by indigenous people?"

#ProudBlue
Chicago!! Heads up!

There was no info about who the kid was that ICE Gestapo snatched. But, Mainstream Media continues to not cover the illegal ICE activity. There r so many videos of the illegal ICE $H!T! #iceout

Hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents could lose Medicaid coverage under House Republican proposals House Republicans have been talking for months about potentially slashing Medicaid, but this week they unveiled, for the first time, language of a bill outlining exactly how they plan to do that.

Congressional Republicans killed Donald Trump's bill because it wasn't cruel enough — and now it's apparently just right.

Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans could lose access to their health care.

What's big and beautiful about that?

The GOP’s Obsession With Women Having Babies Looks A Lot Like The Past The Trump administration's policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.

This is super important: @alannavagianos.bsky.social
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.

Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...

Top of Apple News. Bad day in Trumpland, good day for the rest of us.

The Church’s social teaching is very clear in this regard: “Persons with disabilities are fully human subjects, with rights and duties” and every human being has the right to live with dignity and to develop integrally. “Even if they are unproductive, or were born with or develop limitations, this does not detract from their great dignity as human persons, a dignity based not on circumstances but on the intrinsic worth of their being. Unless this basic principle is upheld, there will be no future either for fraternity or for the survival of humanity”.

Apropos of nothing: A year ago, Pope Francis said this about people with disabilities last year, arguing that “Even if they are unproductive, or were born with or develop limitations, this does not detract from their great dignity as human persons.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Arguments about whether or not someone has value can be linked to eugenics.

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”

That is dangerously false.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.

They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.

It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.

This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!

Are the press going to quietly pretend that putting tariffs on penguins is wise and sane behaviour in the White House press briefings.

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry. - Nikita Gill

Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds Reviews from Americans on President Donald Trump’s second term are mixed to negative, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office.

Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds: “57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When JB was first elected, I had very low expectations. Nevertheless, he has turned out to be one of the strongest voices in the fight for our democracy. So grateful for our governor.

Poem by @faratucker Brought a poem to the knife fight. Brought a poem to the gun fight. Brought a poem to the crumbling empire. Brought a poem to the coup. Brought a poem to the now what. Brought a poem to the revolution. Brought a poem to the rebuilding. Brought a poem Brought a poem Brought a poem

Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.

Take joy in the journey …

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

In the Meantime by Tom Hirons Meanwhile, flowers still bloom. The moon rises, and the sun. Babies smile and somewhere, Against all the odds, Two people are falling in love. Strangers share cigarettes and jokes. Light plays on the surface of water. Grace occurs on unlikely streets And we hold each other fast Against entropy, the fires and the flood. Life leans towards living And, while death claims all things at the end, There were such precious times between, In which everything was radiant And we loved, again, this world.

Engaging your officials is critical, but if you want to take the next step: have a conversation with someone that isn’t civically engaged. Educate them on what’s going on. Resistbot victories from 2017-2021 came through opposition that expanded outward from the resistance.

A page from A MEMORY OF LIGHT with the following sentence underlined: “The good options are gone, Rand. Better to do something desperate than to do nothing at all."

Feeling both good and bad while reading A MEMORY OF LIGHT for #TarValonOrBust these days. Feeling seen but I wish I didn’t. #WheelOfTime

Thank you! More democrats need to get creative and pull every move available to stop this madness.

45 is using the "act confidently and no one will question you" method that I used to crash Vans Warped Tours at 14. We all need to get a lot better at questioning confident people. The US government shouldn't fall to teenage antics.

It's not just natalism. It's racism, classism, and anti-environmentalism.

Post that says “We're all talk. Remember Lugi and how everyone was so hype it'll bring change and how they screamed revolution? It was just another hype trend just like this is gonna be. People always say they are gonna do shit but they don't and they never will. I just see that alot and it's pretty annoying. All bark no bite.”

I need folks who post like this to understand: revolutions take YEARS. The Indian freedom struggle took 30 years. The French Revolution was at least 15 years. The Haitian revolution was 12 years. I know we live in an age of instant gratification, but there is no such thing as an instarevolution.

Even I design better websites.