Aran in Chicagoland

Quarantined.

[Preston Igwe, MD @PrestonIgweMD]

A quick story. I’m on ambulatory medicine at the VA. Yesterday I went to get a patient from the waiting room. A Black man who served in Vietnam. When I introduced myself as Dr. Igwe, he gave me a very strange look. I asked if I had the wrong person, but he said “no, that’s me”.

[PHILOSOPHY | φιλοσοφία @PhilosophyOnX]

“To learn is to be young, however old.” - Aeschylus

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

The Republican playbook today is the same as the segregationist playbook during Jim Crow. Make it harder for Black people to vote in the states where there are the most Black people.

Racist garbage then, racist garbage now.

[Aran in Chicagoland @araninchitown]

I once was fancy enough for a McDonald’s birthday party, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and it was.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

grew up thinking McDonald's birthday parties were the height of fancy

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today I introduced legislation, along with more than 50 of my colleagues, to produce N95 masks, one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of Covid-19, and distribute them to every American for free.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

"If you want something different, you gotta do something different."
Nathaniel Williams

[Aran in Chicagoland @araninchitown]

I not who he thinks I am.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Today seems like a good day to remind you that 29 oil and gas companies account for one third of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

Unfettered capitalism is killing the planet.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“How can we afford paid leave?”

“How can we afford child care?”

“How can we afford free community college?”

“How can we afford universal health care?”

U.S. billionaires added $1.8 trillion to their wealth during the pandemic alone.

We tax them. That’s how we can afford it.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolfe

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If you paid $20 to mail a Federal Express package overnight, you paid more to Federal Express than it paid in federal income taxes over the past 3 years after making over $8.2 billion in profits. Yes, we are going to demand that companies like FedEx pay their fair share of taxes.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I don’t want to live in an America where billionaires who pay nothing in income taxes rocket out into space, but middle-class families are thrown out of their homes.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

“Astonishment is the proper response to reality.”
Terence McKenna

[ACLU @ACLU]

Let's talk about prison gerrymandering: what it is, why it's wrong, and what we can do about it. 🧵

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

At a time of unprecedented heatwaves, drought, flooding, extreme weather, and the acidification of the oceans, now is the time for us to make certain that the planet we leave future generations is healthy and habitable. That means finally standing up to the fossil fuel industry.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Gov. Mike Parsons of Missouri went on Fox News to announce his state will never do a mask mandate next to map showing how dire the Covid situation is there

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

If the Gulf of Mexico spewing flames doesn’t convince you we need to transition to clean energy, I don’t know what will.

[Philosophy On Ice @PhilosophyOI]

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Arthur Schopenhauer

[Aran in Chicagoland @araninchitown]

#cta fucking sucks

[Aran in Chicagoland @araninchitown]

So angry that @NinaWest isn’t in the new season of #rupaulsdragraceallstars that I am not sure I am even going to watch it.