Imo Chicago infill architects are getting pretty good at these historicist brick facades

I have ex, AFAB, who *might* want to have children one day and they're in a Ph. D. Program, and tbh their ability to be employed is gonna be factor in if they have children and what has Trump been doing to universities of late?

I’m sure people much smarter than me about this kind of stuff will tell my why I’m wrong, but it does seem that progressives need to knock it off with trying to come up with elaborate RCV strategies to win elections, and just run a single, good candidate.

Hahahhahaha

I know that in the grand scheme of things there are far more important issues and pain this administration has caused, but as a scholar this is the kind of stuff that makes my blood boil. Someone trying to understand what happened a long time from now will still be furious about it too.

Get. Their. Motherfucking. Fascist. Asses. This is our city—and the world’s. But not theirs!

Every neighborhood in Chicago needs a town square like this for hanging out, and for anti-fascist protests It used to be a road

tbh I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with human society "stagnating" at human development indices of ~0.9+ -- insofar as everyone in the world, both in between countries and within them, can share in such living standards

All time post

In terms of improving daily human life probably not. I have said this every time it comes up but the historian of everyday life Ruth Goodman, who has lived like historical people of multiple periods, said she could get used to every task but laundry, which was just miserable.

I have the half-remebered sense that 'unintentional injury' (a top 4 cause of death for every age bracket to 64) here means car collisions. We must win The War On Cars. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK600...

remember all those 'project 2025 isn't actually real, you fools, you naifs' media pieces.

lol

trump 🤝 "paektu bloodline" (kims in north korea) -- fondness for tacky gilded monumental shit

Sun Yat-sen's "Three Principles of the People" cited on the stamp (nationalism, democracy, livelihood) are often said to be inspired by the ending passage in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and are also included in the Constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan) --

something that I wish was interrogated further (aligned with @sharonk.bsky.social's notion of china and the US as bretheren nations) is the tension between the traditional venertion of agriculture and rurality in china, versus the (arguably historic inevitability) of industrial urbanisation

I can't help noticing the Supreme Court conservatives expressing the first doubt of a Trump assertion in oral arguments the day after the election day where every Republican running lost by 20 points. But they would never be swayed by such worldly things in their consideration of The Law, right?

No island has been this completely cooked since the nuclear tests in the Marshalls

which way, western man? 🤔🤔

lol, lmao even

If Her truly is committed to listening to St. Paulers who have “often been left out of the conversation about the future of the city” she’ll have to ignore her core constituency, rich white folks

Vancouver recently adopted a plan to create simplified apartment zones in parts of the city (broadway and cambie mostly). We've started looking at what might be possible with single-stair buildings. Here's an R3 zoned site comprised of two 33x100 lots. The zoning allows ~2.2FSR and six storeys.

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

notably, putnam speculated that it would be netflix slop and VR-helmet immersions that would be our ultimate undoing, which seem almost quaint now in the face of the delusions that can be manufactured with AI muse.jhu.edu/article/16643

I’m forever grateful for the work that Mayor @melvincarter.bsky.social has done to build a better Saint Paul. In spite of all of the challenges in the last eight years, he’s moved our city forward in ways big and small, and our community is better off for it.

if mamdani was threatening to nationalize like every grocer in NYC, that would be a coherent argument against it. but this is basically just a grocery crown corp that has a lower markup on goods

For those trying to figure out where to invest, the answer is reviving and sustaining community-based groups. Even more than that, we need more training to help people sustain them. So many people burn themselves out taking over groups, and eventually the flame burns out.

evergreen

mike johnson_irl

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

...that this nation (she/they/it) shall not perish from the earth

this says a lot about society 👀 sahanjournal.com/democracy-po...

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

in honor of his heroic choice to help Cuomo go down in flames i vote we continue to allow Sliwa to wear his very funny beret

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

Americans admire Singaporean governance but then wonder why they can't get the same level of skilled governance while considering everyone who works for the state evil and unworthy of their salary. Telling!

we got our cake in the transit bill chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/04/e...

A crow flew nearby. “Hello, Crow,” shouted Toad.

Happy election day! Local elections matter, especially if you want to see more infrastructure work for everyone. We hope you take time to vote your values! Civic duty is a reward itself, but it's also a great excuse for tacos too! Vote for bikes, bike to tacos! 🌮🚲 #bikemn #votebikes #votetacos

Mister President, we cannot permit a twink death gap

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada.

CDC Figures It Easier To Start Tracking People Without Measles

She step on my insurrection until my I nationalize my guard

I don't know how you can look at the trajectory of the GOP over the past 15 years and conclude that parties suffer significant electoral penalties for failure to moderate

you ever think about how much *more* doomed we would be if they weren't the stupidest people alive

This should be a completely noncontroversial starting point.