Tim K

Rat Lo.

WHAT? (Yes, what Franz said)

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to some neat fundamental research on the immune system: peripheral immune tolerance. It's what keeps the body's defense mechanism in check—and could be key to new therapies for autoimmune disorders. @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

!!! cc. @oldmanweldon.bsky.social

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

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ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social what's up with some of these Illinois police wearing masks? And the unmasked ones, like officer 4157 here, sporting a white power flower on the uniform he is unfit to wear?

Those exact words.

GOPer Quietly Admits Trump Cuts to Blue States Will Hurt MAGA Voters Trump and his lieutenants are taking sadistic glee in slashing projects in blue states. Guess they’ve forgotten that their supporters live in them, too.

Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in the northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator. Oops.

New piece:
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list.

Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

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Statement from CTU President Stacy Davis Gates Responds to Trump Threatening War on Chicago.

This reporter helped expose the falsity of ICE's narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez. His work is a perfect example of why we don't have secret police.

Journalists have a constitutional right to cover protests and their aftermath. Release @peoplesfabric.com immediately.

Can’t even muster a “if true…”

“Now more than ever,” to borrow some lingo from @npr.org , you might want to take a hard look at why the words “raising questions” keep blowing back at your cash-strapped org.

"He [Brian R. Marvel, some cop lobbyist type] said that limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state."

Okay, great! But surely there must be some downside, right?

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ICE cannot legally enter your home or gated/fenced property (unless they have a judicial warrant, which they won’t). Don’t ask anyone’s status, just assume they are at risk. Talk to them about it so they know what to do and where to go. In general, folks will appreciate that you are aware and care.

There are signs that while ICE is driving around, they may be scouting out homes where they see any signs laborers are present. If you have people working for you, whether it’s roofers, painters, landscapers, carpenters, whatever, you should have a plan to protect them if ICE shows up.

God damn - I hadn’t heard about that incident.
But you’re right. It’s terrorism. Any framing short of that amounts to journalistic malpractice at this point.

More like Tom Hoe-Man

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

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Republicans.

We're collecting reports of protester injuries at Broadview last night. If you were hurt and would like to share, please shoot us a quick description of how. Anonymity protected. Signal: unraveled.66

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Get the good PPE out, folks, seriously, especially if you have a uterus. Get gas masks with good filters, not paper masks or N95--those aren't nearly good enough to protect you. Get a full-face mask if you can. Make sure it fits well. They're relatively inexpensive--I'm serious, protect yourself.

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A good example of why using the US flag at protests is helpful. It makes ICE the ones assaulting the flag.

I spotted Scabby in front of Whole Foods on N Cicero and Caldwell earlier this week. Good on ya, Scabby!

Ongoing thread from early this morning ⬇️