So so so proud of my neighbors!

We did that y’all 🥹. #BerwynProud

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Just finished #somethingverybadisgoingtohappen … enjoyed it waaay more than I anticipated.

8/10

A graphic with blue waves featuring photos of the 2026 Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy fellows: Gaea Cabico, Jordan Gass-Poore', and NaBeela Washington.

Congrats to the three fellows chosen for the 2026 Metcalf Ocean Nexus Academy (MONA)! We're excited to welcome
@gaeacabico.bsky.social, @jgasspoore.bsky.social, and @nabeelawashington.com to the URI campus in Kingston, May 4-6. 🌊 @uprootproject.bsky.social
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Anita is such a beautiful soul. I had a blast writing this and I hope I get to participate in her next quilting workshop!

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Be angry.
Be exhausted.
Be shocked that is happening in this country.
Yell.
Raise hell.
Be educated.
Post what you feel.
Share the victims names.

Remember to take care of yourself, too. We weren’t meant to intake this much trauma and news.

Fuck 🧊.

Mayor Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death…How many times must local and national leaders must plead with you, Donald Trump, to end this operation and recognize that this is not creating safety in our city."

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ohmmgg please leave Greenland alone

A WP reporter's home was searched. There'll be some outrage. But it'll become normalized. Then, some reporters will be rounded up, sent to a facility somewhere, and no explanation will be given. And that'll be normalized, too. We'll become desensitized.

a woman is making a funny face while laying on a bed with flowers in the background . Alt: a woman is making a funny face while laying on a bed with flowers in the background. She is unbothered.

I hope thee Lynn Jones-Turpin and the team at Jacksonville Free Press are all thriving and not losing any sleep for having the guts to be human in this sad, small-minded world.

THE PITT SEASON 2 DROPS THIS THURSDAY???! this is excellent news.

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Who’s ready for #ThePitt season 2

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

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It’s so icky out today. Guess I’ll rewatch Heated Rivalry 😏

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Candlelight Vigil Reunites All Fred Hampton and Mark Clark Survivors After 56 Years Survivors of the 1969 raid, former Black Panthers, residents, and community organizers gathered at the site of the assassination to honor how the Black Panthers' revolutionary work continues today, am...

And the one I’m most proud of visually reminded me of photography’s power and that legacy doesn’t fade.

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What It Looks Like to Fight Back: Inside Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum In the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, a small museum fights to preserve not just artifacts but dignity and justice.

I actually didn’t think I’d be able to pull this one off, but resistance always wins!

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The Future of Hip Hop is Alt—Summer Smash 2025 Made It Official The festival showcased a new generation of genre-fluid artists who refuse traditional hip-hop categories.

This one reminded me how much I love alternative music, how under‑appreciated Jasiah still is, and that I’ve definitely got a few mosh pits left in me 😮‍💨.

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The Fight for Voting Rights for Incarcerated Illinoisans<br/> — City Bureau Previously and currently incarcerated people in Illinois can’t vote or face numerous hurdles to cast a ballot. Several initiatives in Chicago aim to make that process easier and more accessible.

This one led me to a beat I really enjoy.

If you can participate in @citybureau.bsky.social’s Civic Reporting Fellowship, doooooo it!

www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

So What If You're A Rambling Queen? - Motley Bloom What neurotypical society often dismisses as “infodumping” or “oversharing” is, for many neurodivergent individuals, our most authentic form of connection.

My quirkiest, most vulnerable piece was born with the help of this new neurodivergent positive outlet. Writing it taught me to fully 💛 my inner rambling queen.

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How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting A heat vulnerability index could direct environmental resources to Chicago's most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy

This one stretched me in all the best ways: months of reporting, data, FOIAs, interviews, and sitting with the realities of environmental injustice in Chicago. One of the pieces I’m proudest of.

Thankful that @prismreports.org gave it a home. prismreports.org/2025/12/01/c...

2025 was…🫨.

But I managed to write some things, and get behind the camera more.

Dropping stories that shaped me this year in the thread.

Here’s to more curiosity in 2026.

How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting A heat vulnerability index could direct environmental resources to Chicago's most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy

"A heat vulnerability index created by Northwestern University could direct environmental resources to Chicago’s most impacted neighborhoods, but it’s locked behind bureaucracy." Uprooter @nabeelawashington.com for @prismreports.org

prismreports.org/2025/12/01/c...

Here’s the story I’m most proud of writing in 2025. It says what many know.

We don’t need more data or another white paper stating the obvious.

We need ACTION - leaders with integrity.

We need to give communities of color what they need to live FULL, thriving lives.

Why is this so hard? 😔

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

a mascletà for burning and flowering: Natasha Mijares on ritual, resistance, and rebirth Artist Natasha Mijares brings the Valencian tradition of mascletà to Humboldt Park through spoken word, textile, and performance.

Full Q&A and #accessibility details: www.15west.org/a-mascleta-f...

Her family is pursuing Spanish citizenship by birthright. “But this gesture returns us to our colonizer,” she says.

Experience the installation and video performance on Sundays, 2-5 PM, until Nov 16. FREE admission.

a mascletà for burning and flowering: Natasha Mijares on ritual, resistance, and rebirth Artist Natasha Mijares brings the Valencian tradition of mascletà to Humboldt Park through spoken word, textile, and performance.

Inspired by Valencia’s explosive #mascletà ritual, Mijares serves rose tea, reads a self-written meditation on colonization and care, and invites guests to place raw wool-wrapped twigs into a fire, a collective act of burning and flowering.

a mascletà for burning and flowering: Natasha Mijares on ritual, resistance, and rebirth Artist Natasha Mijares brings the Valencian tradition of mascletà to Humboldt Park through spoken word, textile, and performance.

“There is an art of gathering what to burn.”

In her latest exhibition, a mascletà for burning and flowering at Leisure Gallery, artist Natasha Mijares asks: What traditions do we inherit? What violence do they carry? And how do we choose what blooms in their place?

At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought Black Friday was a DEI holiday 😭