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Jim Pickett

@jimberlyp.bsky.social
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Gay man, living with HIV 30 years, advocate, activist, Aquarian, Chicagoan, anti-fascist

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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What is happening to Don indicates that NO ONE residing at Town Hall is safe. Our community has collectively failed to protect Don - a cherished, highly respected advocate who is hugely respsonsible for bringing to life the very place he is getting booted from. windycitytimes.com/2025/04/04/l...
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Lifelong LGBTQ+ activist faces eviction and possible homelessness at 75 - Windy City Times
Don Bell, a lifelong LGBTQ+ activist and civil rights leader, is facing eviction from Town Hall Apartments, Chicago’s only culturally affirming LGBTQ+ senior housing facility. At 75 years old, Bell sa...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
See you in the streets SAT APRIL 5 handsoff2025.com "Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back: Hands off!"
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 28/02/2025
🚨🚨 The #USAID clap out continues today Friday 2/28! More colleagues are already clearing out till 3:30 pm. Please join groups at the 13th/Pennsylvania and 14th Street entrance of the Ronald Reagan Building. This action has been a beautiful show of support appreciated by so many of us yesterday ❤️
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"In each termination notice, organizations got the same explanation: Peter Marocco, USAID’s acting deputy administrator, and Marco Rubio, USAID’s acting administrator and secretary of state, determined the awards were “not in the national interest.” www.devex.com/news/god-ble...
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'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects
Over the last 48 hours, thousands of programs have been terminated — many of which had already been granted waivers to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is what CHRISTOFASCISM looks like www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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J Brown (they/she) @jfbrown.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Research Learning Exchange: Mar 20 bit.ly/Mar20arcc Panel with ARCC 2025 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens (bit.ly/ARCCaward) & breakouts focused on community organizing strategies for these times & ARCC seed grants (due 4/22. bit.ly/ARCCgrants)
Alliance for Research with Chicagoland Communities Community Research Learning Exchange: Mar 20 bit.ly/Mar20arcc 

Panel with ARCC 2025 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens (bit.ly/ARCCaward) & breakouts focused on community organizing strategies for these times & ARCC seed grants (due 4/22. bit.ly/ARCCgrants)
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Hey! Where are all the ppl on the left who voted Stein or just couldn't bear to vote for Kamala because of Gaza? Bet you're feeling pretty good about your vote - or lack thereof - eh? You really taught someone a lesson! Nice work. Nice work. popular.info/p/trump-post...
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Trump posts music video promoting his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and build a luxury resort
On Wednesday morning, President Trump posted a music video to multiple social media platforms that promoted his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and redevelop the area into a luxury res...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Capitol Police arrested a group of protesters [HEROES] who demonstrated Wednesday in the Cannon House Office Building against the Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid and lay off thousands of U.S.A.I.D. workers.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Helping to midwife the youth-guided, arts-activated PrEP4Teens social marketing and community mobilization effort into being, and support its onward journey, continues to be one of the greatest joys of my life. What a sweet treat - especially in the midst of fascist madness - to get this award.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How about MANDATORY vasectomies for ALL het cis men at puberty? They can apply for a reversal after proving their worthiness.
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Myles Helfand @myhelfy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Another major medical journal stands up
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
#standupforscience2025 - DC and nationwide MARCH 7 2025 @standupforscience.bsky.social #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall www.standupforscience2025.org/STAND-UP-FOR...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine's Day to @asia-ilse.bsky.social of Health GAP and all the other HIV activists standing up against fascism.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Judge orders Trump administration to restore funds for foreign aid programs
A U.S. district judge said the administration failed to account for the extraordinary harm caused by the broad-based halt.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Every few minutes a new fresh slice of Hell. This slice is especially nasty. Literally one of the very worst people in the world is now leading HHS with MAHA (gag) plans.... www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/r...
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Trump makes RFK Jr. leader of presidential ‘MAHA’ commission to study chronic disease
RFK Jr.'s swearing in as health secretary officially puts the nation's health in the hands of the MAHA movement.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I am in Cairo, where I have been visiting with health organizations, including WHO and other partners of USAID. Trump and Musk say lifesaving assistance is not affected by the shutdown of USAID and support to WHO. I can tell you that is 100% false. #SaveAID www.instagram.com/share/_ogGRd...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The rapid dismantling of US democratic norms over the past 3 weeks – including fundamental government protections and structures – threatens the nation’s democracy, diversity, society, and economy. prep4all.org/statement-en...
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STATEMENT: Ending HIV Requires a Functional US Democracy & Government
The rapid dismantling of US democratic norms over the past 3 weeks – including fundamental government protections and structures – threatens the nation’s democracy, diversity, society, and economy.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others." - George Orwell, 1984
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Great piece from TheBodyPro - reminding us that gender is not binary and that gender affirming care is for ALL of us. Plus, beyond implications, the article also importantly includes strategies for moving forward. www.thebodypro.com/transgender-...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
SUPPORT USAID! Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how USAID would’ve spent that $$: 🏈Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8 #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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American chaos: standing up for health and medicine
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just another Friday in 1984 thehill.com/homenews/adm... PS - does anyone know of a program that can automatically cover up the faces of these maggots with clowns or piles of shit or something?
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Trump calls for review of all US funding to NGOs
President Trump on Friday called for a review of federal funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and for a halt on spending to groups that “undermine the national interest.”  “The United St…
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Snip “I’ve never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"They're flooding their own zone." Excellent analysis from Ezra Klein. And in the midst of so much chaos and confusion - calming. youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s?...
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Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
via Anne-christine d'Adesky/Resisting Project 2025 on Substack resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/dont-despa...
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Don’t Despair, Organize: A Resistance Roundup & Progress Report
As more Americans realize we’re actually witnessing a government coup – via Executive Orders – the resistance is blossoming, in many forms. Here’s a rough picture.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Now Sh💩tler is coming for aid for South Africa.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? - JAMA viewpoint jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Giving full nazi youtu.be/W37meHAVTYo?...
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Rep. Brian Mast says he supports potential plan moving USAID into the State Department
YouTube video by Face the Nation
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Jim Pickett @jimberlyp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Eloon is the most dangerous pathogen on the planet. An evil despotic MAGGOT. No coincidence he is also the richest. Aaaaaand he has an office in Sh💩tler's house - where he can keep close tabs on his puppet.
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Asia Russell @asia-ilse.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We published the leaked guidance for @PEPFAR on the waiver to the funding freeze for "life-saving humanitarian assistance programs" here: docs.google.com/document/d/e... >> a thread 🧵:
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2025_02_01 Waiver Notice to DPs and PCOs FOR DISTRIBUTION.pdf.pdf
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