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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 2d

Having Sweet Mandarin Positive Energy tea in one of my Star Trek mugs with my #HIV medication at work.

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 3d

Some yogurt, lots of fruit and my #HIV medication.

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 4d

Cinnamon roll with my #HIV medication? Yes, please!

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 4d

Over 500 PrEP users & #HIV PrEP advocates sent a letter sent to the CEOs of CVS Health and drugmaker Gilead Sciences, urging their 2 companies to get Gilead’s twice-yearly PrEP drug, Yeztugo, onto the pharmacy benefits manager’s list of drugs covered by insurance.
positivelyaware.com/prep-advocat...

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 5d

“I worry about people that aren’t that angry,” says Martina Clark.
“...The damage is done and [we] will have to start over again…the way they’re doing it is evil.”

Read more: positivelyaware.com/articles/channeling-rage

Channeling rage

positivelyaware.com

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 6d

Started my Monday with a little self-indulgence and my #HIV medication.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 6d

Sunday was like the best of both worlds—my favorite lavender latte and yogurt parfait from Dulce de Leche on Bryn Mawr in Edgewater and having it with my favorite sea salt chocolate chip cookie while at pHlour Bakery & Cafe as I took my #HIV medication. I was stuffed!

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 6d

The Chicago Sun-Times and NPR station WBEZ are collecting photos from the public of federal agents in the greater Chicago area, recorded since Trump announced his “blitz” campaign. (Images are added after they are reviewed and approved for publication.)
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Map: Where ICE was seen in Chicago

We’re collecting photos from the public of federal agents in the greater Chicago area, recorded since Trump announced his “blitz” campaign. We’re adding images after they are reviewed and approved for...

chicago.suntimes.com

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 6d

Given Chicago events in the news, I haven’t felt like being on social media lately, but I’m still taking my #HIV medication. Saturday, I was up at the crack of noon, having chicken #tacos for lunch. “Special order” the waiter said with a sly smile when I told him I wanted flour tortillas.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 9d

Candidly, it wasn’t until I’d gotten home after a long and nonstop busy day that I remembered to take my #HIV medication. If you forget, don’t fret. Just take it as soon as you remember, as long as it’s at least 12 hours before your next regular dose.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 12d

A central question is whether Colorado’s law impermissibly interferes with free speech or is a legal regulation on professional conduct.
Medical organizations began to speak out against the practice in the late 1990s, citing a growing body of research.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Highlights of the Conversion Therapy Argument at the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 12d

Reaching for a bottle of my #HIV medication that I keep in my desk drawer at work, alongside some of stuff I keep for dealing with other issues I live with.

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 13d

When I was in college during the Reagan years, many of liberal classmates believed that only “older generations” were conservative and that Republicans would eventually die out.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 14d

You work hard as a journalist. You lead with empathy, and you sweat details. You operate in good faith. You believe in honesty and truth. You get yelled at by the president of the United States. You worry that you'll get laid off. Again and again.

And then you see this. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s the Free Press for $150 Million

Weiss, who once said she was done with legacy media, is to take control of CBS News’s editorial vision, aiming for “news that reflects reality.”

www.wsj.com

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 13d

A masked guy in a baseball cap, t-shirt and jeans trying to help arrest/detain/kidnap someone and throwing them into a private vehicle on Chicago’s Southwest Side. What part of this is legal?

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 14d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 13d

Don’t let this picture fool you. I’m taking my #HIV medication, like any other day, but it’s not any other day. I spent most of the morning listening to @wbez.org, Chicago’s #NPR station, reporting on the occupation of my city by federal agents and the National Guard.

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 14d

Sunday brunch with my friend Charlie, Sunday #HIV medication!

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 16d

Nazis didn’t cease to exist just because World War II ended.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 16d

Fruity yogurt parfait has become an occasional treat to go with my #HIV medication.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 17d

After a 7a. Zoom webinar (it was mostly out of Europe), I was ready to get to the office. I added some fresh squeezed lemon and honey to the water that I had with my #HIV medication.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 19d

“...we’re going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room,” he said in a speech to military leaders. “That’s a war too. It’s a war from within.”

time.com/7321940/hegs...

Trump Signals Greater Use of Military in U.S. Cities

In a deeply political address to top generals, Trump warned he would make greater use of the U.S. military in American cities.

time.com

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 19d

Working from home today. My desk is set up identically at home and at TPAN, right down to my #HIV medication.

Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 20d

Difficult as the day’s news is, one thing I can do is take my #HIV medication while staying informed.

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Rick Guasco @rickguasco.bsky.social · 20d

If you look “white” enough, you’ll probably be OK.

Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the border force, contrasted the people being arrested with a white WBEZ reporter, saying agents consider a person’s appearance before taking them into custody.

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’

U.S. Border Patrol agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of inti...

www.wbez.org