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Yas Silva

@ysilva1.bsky.social
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Computer Scientist. Professor @ Loyola University Chicago. Studying cyberbullying detection, data systems, big data, ML. #BullyBlocker #DBSnap #Latino #firstgen

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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excited to share our paper, "Big Five traits and cyberbullying severity as predictors of cyberbystander behavior among adults in the U.S.," is now out in BMC Psychology, with co-authors Haojian Li, Brittany Wheeler, and Deborah Hall. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #NSFfunded #BullyBlockerLab
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Big Five traits and cyberbullying severity as predictors of cyberbystander behavior among adults in the U.S. - BMC Psychology
Background Whereas correlates of cyberbullying have been studied extensively, there has been comparatively less work examining predictors of the different ways in which bystanders to cyberbullying mig...
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Just wrapped up the #NSF SaTC PI Meeting. Two days of reconnecting with long-time collaborators and meeting new researchers in cybersecurity and cybersafety. #NSF #SaTC #BullyBlockerLab @loyolachicago.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Poster ready, breakout sessions picked — heading to the #NSFSaTC PI meeting. Come find me if you work on cybersafety and wellbeing-centered social media analysis & design. #BullyBlockerLab @loyolachicago.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our paper SPILLOVER: Measuring Cyberbullying Norm Propagation on Social Media was accepted at ASONAM26! This collaborative effort between CS & Psychology researchers at Loyola-Chicago and ASU examines how aggression spreads from comment to comment in social media. #NSFfunded #BullyBlockerLab
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our paper It's Not Just Bullying, It's Who Does What: Context-aware Cyberbullying Role Detection was just accepted at ASONAM'26 (acceptance rate: 22%). The paper presents a fine-grained approach to detecting cyberbullying roles while distinguishing aggressive from non-aggressive responses #NSFfunded
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Our team was very well-represented at #ICWSM2026 and #CySoc2026 in LA this past week! Congrats to Arslan Bisharat and Satyaki Sikdar for their excellent paper presentations! #NSFfunded #BullyBlockerLab #SikdarLab @loyolachicago.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Graduation time is the best time! #BullyblockerLab @loyolachicago.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Our team had a strong presence at #URES26! Congratulations to Alisa Samakhval, Rehonoma Jahin, Chloe Kilroy, and Maddie Juarez for their excellent posters and presentations! And congrats again to Maddie for the Outstanding Undergraduate Research award! #NSFfunded #BullyBlockerLab
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Celebrating recent research victories with the amazing Maddie Juarez, Manuel Sandoval, Arya Aftab, and Satyaki Sikdar!
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Exited to share that our paper on Cyberbullying Networks was recently accepted at the 2026 CySoc @ ICWSM! In this paper, we applied network science principles and and tools to analyze cyberbullying interactions on Instagram. #BullyBlockerLab #NSFfunded @loyolachicago.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Maddie Juarez, a Computer Science undergraduate at @loyolachicago.bsky.social and a member of the #BullyBlockerLab, was just awarded the @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Maddie joined the lab on her first day as an undergraduate student in August 2022 and has since co-authored 4 research papers!
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Manny Sandoval, one of our amazing PhD research assistants in the #BullyBlockerLab, received the Outstanding Research Poster Award at LUC's 2026 Graduate School Interdisciplinary Research Symposium! Si Se Puede, Manny!! #NSFfunded @loyolachicago.bsky.social
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We just learned that Maddie Juarez, a research assistant in the #BullyBlockerLab, has received the 2026 Loyola Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award! Congrats, Maddie! (In the picture, she appears with Manuel Sandoval, a PhD student in the lab and a great co-mentor to Maddie). #NSFfunded
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Our paper "From Moderation to Mediation: Can LLMs Serve as Mediators in Online Flame Wars?", co-authored by D. Li, A. Alnaibari, A. Bisharat, M. Sandoval, D. Hall, Y. Silva, and H. Liu, has been accepted in the 30th Pacific-Asia Conf on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining #BullyBlockerLab #NSFfunded
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Our submission "Cyberbullying Interaction Networks on Instagram" (S. Sikdar, M. Sandoval, T. Hales, C. Kilroy, M. Juarez, T. Rosario, J. Rosendo, D. Hall, and Y. Silva) has been accepted as a contributed talk at @netsciconf.bsky.social (NetSci26)! #BullyBlockerLab #NSFfunded
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Ethan Gilmore and Dylan Young represented the #BullyBlocker team at the @spspnews.bsky.social Conference in Chicago this week! It was great sharing some time with our amazing ASU/Cornell collaborators! #NSFfunded
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Interested in a fully funded PhD position applying AI, Network Science, and Data Analytics to address problems of high social relevance? Send us your application by January 31! This position is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google, and @loyolachicago.bsky.social.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/09/2025
The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods. We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
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‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious." "They are of no force and effect." "They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."
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Yas Silva @ysilva1.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
$1 Million in Linked NSF Grants to Support the BullyBlocker Project! Our proposal SaTC: CORE: Toward Well-being by Design in Social Media has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. @loyolachicago.bsky.social #NSFfunded
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Tammie Visintainer @proftv.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
As a science community, we must stand united. As we fight for illegally terminated #NSF & #NIH grants I see MANY stand together but I also see a problematic trend; some arguing my work has nothing to do with DEI. This only validates the false narrative that DEI is bad. Our unity is our power. LFG 🙌🏼💪🏼
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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 19/05/2025
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just like we need women in STEM and "Girls Who Code", we need “Men Who Nurse” and “Guys Who Teach,” pipeline programs that can offer boys pathways forward in female-typed fields. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social time.com/7286184/worr...
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I Founded Girls Who Code. Now I’m Worried About Boys
Boys and men are less likely to turn to their communities for social connection and support.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our best chance to stop this thing is in the House. Rs are trying to pass it though Budget tonight, through Rules Wednesday, and then through the full chamber on Friday. It would kick millions off Medicaid and take food assistance away from households with kids as young as 7. Please help stop it.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? 

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/05/2025
At the end of this summer, the future of U.S. science and research will be decided. From weather alerts to cancer breakthroughs, science shapes every part of our lives. We need everyone in this fight. The Summer Fight for Science starts now. Are you in? The fight starts here: bit.ly/4ddiuqU
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Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 12/05/2025
🚨 We’re hiring! Científico Latino, Inc. is looking for a Program Director to lead two national STEM mentorship programs. Fully remote, impact-driven role in higher ed 🎓👩‍🔬 📌 Apply: cientificolatino.com/job 💼 Know someone? Send it their way!
Job ad. We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time Program Director to lead two national STEM mentorship programs. Fully remote, impact-driven role creating an inclusive space in higher ed for students from underserved communities. Learn more here: www.cientificolatino.com/job
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
👏👏 Bravo to @alondra.bsky.social for her *public* resignation from the National Science Board and Library of Congress!! “The aim of my resignation is to break free of powers that seek to limit knowledge and silence voice.” Powerful piece. Recommend reading all the way through. But also… 1/3
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov · 12/05/2025
I joined 112 of my House Democratic colleagues to oppose the Trump administration's cuts to National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. This will not only disrupt ongoing research, but derail global competition in science and technology. The President needs to reinstate these funds.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
🧪 The union for NSF employees just called on Micah Cheatham, NSF's chief management officer, to resign: "Beyond his willingness to break the law, CMO Cheatham’s duplicitous cruelty and callous disregard for the people whose livelihoods are being jeopardized reveal a fundamental unfitness."
Call for Resignation of NSF Chief Management Officer 

A Statement from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3403 

This week the NSF Chief Management Officer has completely eliminated the Division of Excellence for Equity in STEM (EES), cut 84 Senior Executive Service positions, and announced the imminent elimination of almost 300 temporary employees. These actions make it clear that the Chief Management Officer has no appreciation for the complexities of the NSF. The actions taken by the CMO clearly violate federal law. Many of the functions of the EES division are required by federal statute. The Administration, and CMO Cheatham, have no legal authority to arbitrarily cancel programs that Congress authorized and funded. CMO Cheatham already has a record of illegal action at the behest of the Administration. In February, the court ruled that the firing of probationary employees, done under CMO Cheatham’s leadership, was illegal. Beyond his willingness to break the law, CMO Cheatham’s duplicitous cruelty and callous disregard for the people whose livelihoods are being jeopardized reveal a fundamental unfitness for any role overseeing the lives and work of others. CMO Cheatham is clearly more interested in appeasing the Administration than in doing the work directed and funded by Congress. NSF employees, including those represented by AFGE Local 3403, have lost confidence, faith and trust in Chief Management Officer Cheatham’s ability to perform his duties. We call for his immediate resignation so that the Agency can return to its apolitical focus on discovery, education, and entrepreneurship.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 10/05/2025
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies. TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 09/05/2025
Bears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Office of the Director (OD)	 $4 
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)	 $5 
Biological Sciences (BIO)	 $15 
Engineering (ENG)	 $25 
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)	 $34 
Geosciences (GEO)	 $34 
Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP)	 $35 
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)	 $41 
STEM Education (EDU)	 $590
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just wrapped two intense, incredible workshop days & can’t stop thinking about it. I quoted Nikita Gill: Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, but I believe in that. So grateful.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🧪 BOOM: The AAU, ACE, APLU, and 13 universities just filed suit today against NSF for slashing to 15% indirect rates. Full compliant: www.aau.edu/sites/defaul... Updates: www.aau.edu/resources-aa... A similar group of plaintiffs won a *permanent* injunction against a similar change at NIH.
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two little girls are dancing on a stage and one of them is telling the other to tell her .
Alt: Wwo little girls are dancing on a stage and one of them is telling the other to tell her.
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Rep. Haley Stevens @rephaleystevens.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Michigan leads the world in STEM research and innovation. It’s what’s powering our manufacturing comeback. Donald Trump just proposed putting an end to that. I’m fighting back for Michigan.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 05/05/2025
"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m here to tell you that @standupforscience.bsky.social is working HARD behind the scenes to fight back against Trump’s destruction of science! We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms. We are gonna save science!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
In light of the skinny budget (55.8% reduction), 6 past NSF directors and 7 NSB chairs have sent the House Committee on Appropriations a letter advising doubling the NSF budget. "We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?"
Key paragraph of letter: 
We believe these challenges can be met, but not with the draconian budget plan and staffing reductions just released
by OMB. Such a budget would thwart scientific progress, decimate the research workforce, and take a decade or
more to recover. Achieving the President’s vision requires a major enhancement of the NSF budget, ideally a doubling
of the FY25 level over the next few years and sufficient staff to execute this vision. In the current political climate, we
know this is a bold request. We make it, nonetheless, to say -- if we truly wish to realize this vision, we must commit to
a historic investment in fundamental research and education in a manner that leaves no doubt about the United
States’ intentions with our international competitors.
We face a fork in the road. Do we want to win or concede the race for new knowledge and a competitive STEM workforce?
For 75 years winning that race has been the foundation of American prosperity and national security. Adopting the proposed
cuts would fast-track China’s plans for technological dominance. As Senator Todd Young said in his March 25th Washington
Post op-ed, “…Our policymakers should lock arms with the science-and-technology dreamers and doers across the country
— from Silicon Valley to the Silicon Prairie — and recognize that basic research isn’t a federal handout to help sustain
academia. Instead, it is a vital ingredient in our innovation future, economic and geopolitical competitiveness, and national
security.”
signatures of past NSF directors and NSB chairs
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
👏💯🎯 Save the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)! “investing in scientific research is crucial for the advancement of knowledge and the betterment of society” #SaveNSF #StrongerTogether www.savensf.com
Text: “Welcome to Save The U.S.
National Science
Foundation.”

A young child stands at the edge of a complex looking marble run.

Text: “Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the
U.S. National Science Foundation.”
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
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WBEZ @wbez.org · 01/05/2025
Thousands of people from Chicago and the suburbs came out on Thursday for May Day rally and march to protest President Donald Trump’s policies. www.wbez.org/immigration/...
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Meet the Chicagoans who came out to protest Trump on May Day
Thousands joined in a rally and march on Thursday in opposition to President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants and workers.
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We are here at Union Park in Chicago! Here until noon, when we step off on our march toward Grant Park. Come join us! #MayDay #MayDayChicago
People gathering outside at a protest
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