The Cook County Board Room is always a frustrating room from an observer's perspective - the pictured seats are for the board, and an observer can't see all the name plates. pic.twitter.com/FOCVGWEj9d
— nicolle neulist (@rogueclown) January 16, 2020
1/ While we wouldn’t do last year over again, #CHIdocumenters saw a lot happen in open meetings, local government and activism. So, before we put it behind us, here’s the story of 2020 through our eyes
Okay this was a Chicago Dept of Public Health meeting from 2/19 quoting Health Commissioner Allison Arwady@CHIdocumenters pic.twitter.com/ROqsWMgILt
— Brita (@britahunegs) November 23, 2020
"That was an exciting meeting."@MWRDGC approves resolution recognizing Shannon Rovers Irish Bagpipe Band. The St Patrick's Day parade is scheduled for March 14 at 11:30am. A bandmember thanks the Board for taking the care of the water ... that is dyed green every year. pic.twitter.com/OFCVFtCgtE
— Amelia Diehl (@amelia_diehl) March 5, 2020
Posting agenda materials and slideshows in a user-friendly format ahead of the #ChicagoPlanCommission meeting? 2020 looks good on you, @ChicagoDPD. https://t.co/QP9aMq7u8k pic.twitter.com/xFmNcYW110
— Chicago Documenters (@CHIdocumenters) February 5, 2020
Currently they are discussing the five tele-psychiatry clinics proposed by Cook County Department of Public Health. It's a way to expand psychiatric access for a larger group of people. They clarified that one to one psychiatric care would not be done remotely.
— Rachel Naffziger (@RachelNaffziger) February 11, 2020
RTA is tracking trends in commute modes. Very interesting stuff.
— Morley Musick (@morleydoc) February 20, 2020
Working from home has grown by 24% from 2013-2018, and taxi/uber usage has increased by 20%, resulting in decreases in ridership. pic.twitter.com/uQogwFtrGG
City Hall is still open in the time of COVID. I heard a City Council chambers security officer ask that people sit at least one seat away from one another. pic.twitter.com/QupLLYe8s6
— Tim Hogan (@hcehogan) March 16, 2020
\u274c Dozens of public meetings originally scheduled for this week have been canceled.
— Chicago Documenters (@CHIdocumenters) March 25, 2020
\u274c In-person quorum and public notice requirements in the Illinois Open Meetings Act are temporarily suspended.
Check out the first of three teleconference meetings we're covering this week \U0001f919 https://t.co/OSBGNtdlLW
Now we're being told to text someone's number to ask for info to be able to be let into the meeting. One participant is getting frustrated: "Lord have mercy." We're still waiting to get texts back. Meanwhile no one responded to my request to join via Google Meet :( pic.twitter.com/yMT4gIagNF
— Helena Duncan (@hd_documenter) May 18, 2020
The map, as Tovar indicates, shows the impact of air quality to the city's residents and business owners. pic.twitter.com/JEtCOe3gue
— Megann Horstead (@MegannHorstead) October 6, 2020
The meeting focused on ideation, a sense of urgency, a tiered approach for essential vs. non-essential businesses, surveying commissioners & entrepreneurs, developing a policy, a plan and method for monitoring. #SSA42 #COVID19Recovery
— Sheila Lewis (@digitalSheila) March 31, 2020
McDade describi\xf3 el modelo de aprendizaje en casa. pic.twitter.com/rmmAHeARBz
— Rocio Villase\xf1or (@Rose26rv) July 29, 2020
@sheilabedi calls for the removal of #CPD officers that brutalize protesters. She said this summer will either go down as a continuation of the status quo or "this summer could go down in history as a turning point, and a time of transformation."
— Bri Madden | #DefundCPD (@newagehippie_) August 19, 2020
Jamilla Hobbs is next. She's been organizing since she was in the 5th grade and is now in the 7th grade. "When we first spoke in front of the board in 2017, you said this was a great idea. The next year we were promised TIF funds from alderman Micheal Scott Jr. if we got enough--
— Jonathan Lesbian Seagull (@gremlina333) March 11, 2020
Gabriel and Charlie are debating whether it's important to have tax $ spent on policing and the carceral system. Charlie believes that we have to spend $ for better training. Gabriel believes that we need to put more resources in the budget for health. pic.twitter.com/W4su7ReTOy
— Ahmad Sayles (@ahmad_sayles) September 27, 2020
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1 of 19) A number of tweets were posted by @LLinWood beginning late last night and into the morning. There are a total of 19. This thread has compiled all.
{“Shots fired across the bow”}
{Warning to traitors}
{Light will reveal the evil plans}
{You were warned traitors}
{“Shots fired across the bow”}
{Warning to traitors}
{Light will reveal the evil plans}
{You were warned traitors}
As background to tweets I am about to post, you should read this article carefully. I ask that you read each of my tweets carefully & decide if the information conveyed demands that Patriots rise up so that every lie will be revealed.@realDonaldTrumphttps://t.co/9KIX4DEtha
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) January 4, 2021
I don't normally do threads like this but I did want to provide some deeper thoughts on the below and why having a video game based on a real world war crime from the same people that received CIA funding isn't the best idea.
This will go pretty in depth FYI.
The core reason why I'm doing this thread is because:
1. It's clear the developers are marketing the game a certain way.
2. This is based on something that actually happened, a war crime no less. I don't have issues with shooter games in general ofc.
Firstly, It's important to acknowledge that the Iraq war was an illegal war, based on lies, a desire for regime change and control of resources in the region.
These were lies that people believed and still believe to this day.
It's also important to mention that the action taken by these aggressors is the reason there was a battle in Fallujah in the first place. People became resistance fighters because they were left with nothing but death and destruction all around them after the illegal invasion.
This is where one of the first red flags comes up.
The game is very much from an American point of view, as shown in the description.
When it mentions Iraqi civilians, it doesn't talk about them as victims, but mentions them as being pro US, fighting alongside them.
This will go pretty in depth FYI.
I couldn't possibly guess why Six Days in Fallujah is being revived at a time when US army recruitment is at an all time low.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 11, 2021
This reboot is from the same people that worked with the FBI and CIA on training systems and is basing its game on excusing US war crimes. pic.twitter.com/5H8vVqKh9s
The core reason why I'm doing this thread is because:
1. It's clear the developers are marketing the game a certain way.
2. This is based on something that actually happened, a war crime no less. I don't have issues with shooter games in general ofc.
Firstly, It's important to acknowledge that the Iraq war was an illegal war, based on lies, a desire for regime change and control of resources in the region.
These were lies that people believed and still believe to this day.
It's also important to mention that the action taken by these aggressors is the reason there was a battle in Fallujah in the first place. People became resistance fighters because they were left with nothing but death and destruction all around them after the illegal invasion.
This is where one of the first red flags comes up.
The game is very much from an American point of view, as shown in the description.
When it mentions Iraqi civilians, it doesn't talk about them as victims, but mentions them as being pro US, fighting alongside them.
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Further Examination of the Motif near PRRA Reveals Close Structural Similarity to the SEB Superantigen as well as Sequence Similarities to Neurotoxins and a Viral SAg.
The insertion PRRA together with 7 sequentially preceding residues & succeeding R685 (conserved in β-CoVs) form a motif, Y674QTQTNSPRRAR685, homologous to those of neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) and Bungarus genera, as well as neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
(20) (Fig. 2D). We further noticed that the same segment bears close similarity to the HIV-1 glycoprotein gp120 SAg motif F164 to V174.
https://t.co/EwwJOSa8RK
In (B), the segment S680PPRAR685 including the PRRA insert and highly conserved cleavage site *R685* is shown in van der Waals representation (black labels) and nearby CDR residues of the TCRVβ domain are labeled in blue/white
https://t.co/BsY8BAIzDa
Sequence Identity %
https://t.co/BsY8BAIzDa
Y674 - QTQTNSPRRA - R685
Similar to neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) & Bungarus genera & neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
T678 - NSPRRA- R685
Superantigenic core, consistently aligned against bacterial or viral SAgs
Further Examination of the Motif near PRRA Reveals Close Structural Similarity to the SEB Superantigen as well as Sequence Similarities to Neurotoxins and a Viral SAg.
The insertion PRRA together with 7 sequentially preceding residues & succeeding R685 (conserved in β-CoVs) form a motif, Y674QTQTNSPRRAR685, homologous to those of neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) and Bungarus genera, as well as neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
(20) (Fig. 2D). We further noticed that the same segment bears close similarity to the HIV-1 glycoprotein gp120 SAg motif F164 to V174.
https://t.co/EwwJOSa8RK
In (B), the segment S680PPRAR685 including the PRRA insert and highly conserved cleavage site *R685* is shown in van der Waals representation (black labels) and nearby CDR residues of the TCRVβ domain are labeled in blue/white
https://t.co/BsY8BAIzDa
Sequence Identity %
https://t.co/BsY8BAIzDa
Y674 - QTQTNSPRRA - R685
Similar to neurotoxins from Ophiophagus (cobra) & Bungarus genera & neurotoxin-like regions from three RABV strains
T678 - NSPRRA- R685
Superantigenic core, consistently aligned against bacterial or viral SAgs
I’m torn on how to approach the idea of luck. I’m the first to admit that I am one of the luckiest people on the planet. To be born into a prosperous American family in 1960 with smart parents is to start life on third base. The odds against my very existence are astronomical.
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
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— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
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— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) January 23, 2021
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