Wendy Pollock
@slowscience.bsky.social
Climate action, democracy, urban forestry, local journalism. Worked for decades in and with science museums.
"The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen" - Justice Louis Brandeis
"The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen" - Justice Louis Brandeis
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Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About
In the wake of the election, we must resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just.
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"Now is the time to resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just...Now is the time to counter lies with facts...while also proclaiming the greater truths: of our equal humanity, of decency, of compassion."— Chimamanda Adichie, Dec 2016 www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...
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Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
December 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
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📊Resources:
Climate Matters: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Billion Dollar Disaster: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Extreme Weather Toolkit: www.climatecentral.org/toolkit-rain...
Climate Matters: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Billion Dollar Disaster: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Extreme Weather Toolkit: www.climatecentral.org/toolkit-rain...
Five Things to Know About Climate Change in 2025 | Climate Central
Here are five ways that carbon pollution from fossil fuels made record heat, hurricanes, fires, and floods worse in 2025, disrupting lives in the U.S. and beyond.
www.climatecentral.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
📊Resources:
Climate Matters: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Billion Dollar Disaster: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Extreme Weather Toolkit: www.climatecentral.org/toolkit-rain...
Climate Matters: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Billion Dollar Disaster: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Extreme Weather Toolkit: www.climatecentral.org/toolkit-rain...
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Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here's that PSA that the President wants to punish by death
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Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
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As one who has long dreamed of someday opening a bookshop called Sharlet’s Web, I’m thankful to Chris for reclaiming the original from the evil clutches of the dread & crudely cropped Bovino. (Apologies to all decent folk who share the surname.)
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
As one who has long dreamed of someday opening a bookshop called Sharlet’s Web, I’m thankful to Chris for reclaiming the original from the evil clutches of the dread & crudely cropped Bovino. (Apologies to all decent folk who share the surname.)
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there are good and brave people engaging in acts of heroism out of love for their fellow human beings. Be brave enough to allow their courage to inspire you, too.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
there are good and brave people engaging in acts of heroism out of love for their fellow human beings. Be brave enough to allow their courage to inspire you, too.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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Connections needs food to distribute in our community. Drop contributions off tomorrow (Monday) 2-4pm. Perishables, non perishables, and gift cards are all welcome. The shelves are already bare because the need is so great right now.
SNAP GAP: Connections Grocery Donation Drive
[sponsored by Indivisible Evanston]
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2025
DROP OFF between 2:00-4:00pm
2121 Dewey Avenue, Evanston
(main Connections office)
OR Monday morning anytime before noon
2744 N. Eastwood, Evanston
(leave in cooler on porch)
[sponsored by Indivisible Evanston]
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2025
DROP OFF between 2:00-4:00pm
2121 Dewey Avenue, Evanston
(main Connections office)
OR Monday morning anytime before noon
2744 N. Eastwood, Evanston
(leave in cooler on porch)
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Connections needs food to distribute in our community. Drop contributions off tomorrow (Monday) 2-4pm. Perishables, non perishables, and gift cards are all welcome. The shelves are already bare because the need is so great right now.
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Today in Chicago. My folder of videos of ICE agents losing their shit and pointing guns wildly at protesters grows. And that's just what's on camera.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Today in Chicago. My folder of videos of ICE agents losing their shit and pointing guns wildly at protesters grows. And that's just what's on camera.
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Chicago police officers securing an exit path for Border Patrol vehicles in Little Village.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Chicago police officers securing an exit path for Border Patrol vehicles in Little Village.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
Ald Byron Sigcho-Lopez (he's the one livestreaming) has some words for them as they drive away.
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More armored, masked men pointing guns at people. (And seriously, don't with the "that's not a real gun." Sure is if it hits you in the face.)
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
More armored, masked men pointing guns at people. (And seriously, don't with the "that's not a real gun." Sure is if it hits you in the face.)
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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MAGA Death Cult.
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
MAGA Death Cult.
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Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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The No Kings protest drew a massive crowd to Downtown Chicago. Check out our photo gallery from the event:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/p...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/p...
October 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The No Kings protest drew a massive crowd to Downtown Chicago. Check out our photo gallery from the event:
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/p...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/p...
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At the No Kings rally tomorrow Billy Siegenfeld will lead us in chanting the Preamble to the Constitution.
To help you participate in the chant, the words of the Preamble are in the comments. Please try to have them available on your phone or print them out.
To help you participate in the chant, the words of the Preamble are in the comments. Please try to have them available on your phone or print them out.
October 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
At the No Kings rally tomorrow Billy Siegenfeld will lead us in chanting the Preamble to the Constitution.
To help you participate in the chant, the words of the Preamble are in the comments. Please try to have them available on your phone or print them out.
To help you participate in the chant, the words of the Preamble are in the comments. Please try to have them available on your phone or print them out.
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ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
October 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
ICE GOONS arrested a father and mother in front of their child.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
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"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org
👉👉 nokings.org
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Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.
October 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Resistance. Refusal. Ridicule. Those are the ingredients to bring down regimes and among them ridicule is arguably the most delicious. The emperor isn't just naked; his goon squad is afraid of an inflatable frog.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.
Portland is TOO FABULOUS FOR FASCISM.
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We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
October 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
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Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
www.inquirer.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Things to consider:
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter
Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed
You are a witness.
Expose it.
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People in Chicago: Know your rights when faced with federal forces.
Know Your Rights: Federal Forces Being Sent to Chicago
President Trump’s decision to send federal forces, and National Guard troops, reflects his authoritarian desire to control any community guided by policies and principles that conflict with his
www.aclu-il.org
October 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
People in Chicago: Know your rights when faced with federal forces.