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em 🌊<p>students reporting <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fbi</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uic</span></a>’s east campus. kidnappings have been reported. stay safe and look out for each other :(</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chicago</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/universityofillinoischicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universityofillinoischicago</span></a></p>
Floaty Birb<p>If you are in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> and especially if you are at University of Illinois Chicago, students are hosting a rally to defend gender affirming care at Noon on Thursday, February 6th.</p><p>The organizers have multiple reports that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UIC</span></a> is complying in advance with Trump's agenda by halting gender-affirming care for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> students.</p><p>This rally is an early opportunity to voice resistance to the Musk/Trump/Vance administration and stand up to protect transgender rights.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a></p>
PhoenixSerenity<p>“Let us be the generation that holds morality close to our actions and hold each other accountable.”</p><p>Aysha Affaneh, a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/graduating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graduating</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>student</span></a> from the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UniversityOfIllinoisChicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfIllinoisChicago</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UIC</span></a>, dedicated her <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/graduation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graduation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> to expressing <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> with the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> people in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>.</p><p>During her speech, she also called on all universities, including UIC, to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divest</span></a> from “companies complicit and constructing <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>” in Gaza.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/y2-K1wLg-CU?si=SNSPBetQlq2E-Tl6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/y2-K1wLg-CU?si=SNSPBe</span><span class="invisible">tQlq2E-Tl6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/StudentSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentSpring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FutureLeaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FutureLeaders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a></p>
nia<p>Faculty at the University of Illinois - Chicago are on strike. Please sign the petition to their chancellor: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-uic-fair-faculty-contract-now-public?source=direct_link&amp;" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">actionnetwork.org/letters/tell</span><span class="invisible">-uic-fair-faculty-contract-now-public?source=direct_link&amp;</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strike</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/AcademicWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWorkers</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/FairContracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairContracts</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://union.place/@AFTUnion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AFTUnion</span></a></span> <a href="https://union.place/tags/UIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UIC</span></a></p>
Richard K Green<p>Belated <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>. I grew up in <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/LaCrosse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaCrosse</span></a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisconsin</span></a>. Ph.D. in <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> at the University of Wisconsin, with an emphasis on <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/InternationalTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalTrade</span></a>. Serendipitously moved to <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/RealEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealEstate</span></a> and <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Urban</span></a>. Faculty at Wisconsin, George Washington, and <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/USC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USC</span></a>. Stints at <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/FreddieMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreddieMac</span></a> and <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/HUD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUD</span></a>. Married to a geriatrics physician at UCLA. Two daughters: one produces podcasts for <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Marketplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marketplace</span></a>, and the other is a coder/artist who teaches at <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/UIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UIC</span></a>. I love music, esp. <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/classical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classical</span></a> and <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jazz</span></a>. Decent <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/bartender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bartender</span></a>.</p>