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Gregory Cook 🇺🇦🌮🏳️‍🌈
@gregorycook.bsky.social
PNW-based architect, focused on behavioral health and rehabilitation. Love baseball, love music, love family. Not really sure how this thing works.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
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Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Heading to Baltimore for a few days. Would love recommendations for some authentic local establishments for food and drink!
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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For the love of our country Dems, please do this EVERY SINGLE DAY!!
How about a press conference made up of Democratic leadership near the White House with the demolished East Wing in the background, talking about the government shutdown and Trump's warped priorities and demolition of public goods, including not just the East Wing but health care and so much else?
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Took this while in Chicago over the weekend. The most American of cities, and the greatest one I’ve had the pleasure of living in.
October 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Thank you CBS Mornings for having me. Excited to have this book out in the world today.
Clint Smith on adapting "How the Word Is Passed" for young readers
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"How the Word is Passed" is my favourite non-fiction book of all time, both because of its information and because of its prose. An adaptation for young readers is amazing to hear about.
Thank you CBS Mornings for having me. Excited to have this book out in the world today.
Clint Smith on adapting "How the Word Is Passed" for young readers
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Cardinal Robert McElroy at the Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees: “We are witnessing an unprecedented assault on our nation…this assault is intended to make life miserable for undocumented migrants…our government is engaged in a comprehensive campaign of fear at its core.”
September 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Face bones are fine! Gonna look gross for a few days.

Thanks for all the messages/donations/complaints, notifications are overwhelming so apologies for being behind.

Please donate to the Chi Street Vendor Relief Fund: gofundme.com/f/chicago-street-vendor-relief-fund-protecting-vendors-suppo
September 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Enough.
September 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.
September 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Chicago forever
September 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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And not just any northern cities: They are targeting the top destinations during the Great Migrations.
Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities.

How much more is there to say?

That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.
September 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere.

You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
September 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Grandparents must lead on vaccines. We remember the dangers of vaccine preventable diseases. Our message- it is crucial that every child be vaccinated following the AAP childhood immunization schedule.
@donnagaffney.bsky.social and my op-ed is here:

www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/us-v...
August 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the earth is going to die. Is dying. Has no future. This is what it has to do to hold on.
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:44 AM