Ugly Xmas sweatshirt time!

This is such a worthwhile listen: how incompetent and undisciplined the ICE agents are, how scared they are of regular people. And her message that everyone can do something: the person with the whistle maybe alerts the person who is able to get in their faces, etc.

"As a Christian conservative, it's very important to me that we starve Americans and withhold medicine to maximize the profits of our feudal kings so they can do child rapes on private islands and commit horrific genocides" This is how they sound to me

NGL given the oppositional defiant adolescent boy the-cruelty-is-the-point nature of these guys, it worries me they will ramp things up on purpose in response to this.

Dear, sweet Prudential building, that is a carrot, not a pumpkin…

While I totally agree with this statement and I understand what it's getting at.....gotta pop up from Chicago-in-the-last-month and say, "Welllllllllllllll....."

Woooooooof. If this isn't the truth: annehelen.substack.com/p/the-friend...

Best parade in the city Between #NoKings and Arts in the Dark, the streets of the Loop were used for their highest purpose today. Protest and arts, arts and protest.

Usually, I wait until a little later in the Arts in the Dark parade to get teary-eyed at the beauty of all the art in our community. But starting this year off with the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, knowing what that neighborhood has been through these last few weeks? Immediate waterworks.

Everyone hold up--this is now the most important Chicago-related news story. www.yahoo.com/news/article... (Because it's bsky, let me clarify /s but also we can all take a doomscrolling break for some fun and frivolous science?)

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Do not. DO NOT, 2025.

Pray for Dolly

Goodnight, you old war zone

Looking for examples of cancer disinformation for a case study for my students. Tried Google & got useful articles about reasons for it, but no concrete examples. Googled for what our current head of HHS says causes cancer & got plenty for my project. This is surely fine & good & not a problem! 🙃

I can’t get over how crazy this is. They’re so indiscriminate and sloppy that they literally gassed dozens of cops. Nobody is safe.

Terror today in Logan Square. “There was a gentleman over there that was vomiting. There were people in the store nearby that were trying to get water in people’s eyes as soon as they can,” he said.”

I mean… 😍

In Chicago, every time I’ve seen a reason to help someone on transit (left-behind wallet, carrying something big, etc) it’s turned into the Olympics of Who Can Help the Most amongst all the passengers. Real Hellhole, this place…

Good night, you old hellhole… #chicago

We already know how to do dibs, we can do this.

Good night, you old hellhole! #chicago

Claymation-looking too-perfect clouds….

Y’all can we please, please not “Ha ha, he tweets funny!” that unserious California governor into the nomination in 2028 (if there is such a thing) the same way we did Trump in 2016?

But I sAW a BikE Run a REd LIGHt ONCe! Meanwhile, seems like every crosswalk now looks like this lately

Had my first in-person sighting of Tom Skilling yesterday, so there are no higher Chicago celebrity sightings left for me.....😎

Republicans have tossed the rulebook out. Here in Illinois, we will do whatever it takes to preserve democracy.

The only thing that could ever make me move to TX. (j/k, I’d never move to TX but anyone in Chicago want to create this?!?) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

Oh, is Leana F-ing Wen back on the side of prevention now?!? So hard to keep track...

Ornaments for what?!? ORNAMENTS FOR WHAT?!? You’re not fooling us with calling them “fall sweaters.” Also, IT IS JULY 31.

It’s July 19th.

Just gotta look west instead of east for the fireworks tonight

Yalllll Chicago go see this

Chicago closing out pride month in style (would you expect any less?!?)

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

I just love my home….

My experience attending community board meetings tells me most people saying “great analogy!” in this context don’t actually believe the importance of power differentials in the road. traffic violence context either…… 🤔

Anyway if you're in Chicago and you see this guy tell him he's a jerk and to go home and I love him

See also: bikes on Dearborn at rush hour, especially now that State's closed. A thing of beauty.

Right now there are fascists in the White House. They haven't gotten to the Ustase stage yet, thank heavens, but that might yet come. Trump et al are set on making all of our lives as miserable as possible, and are set on shortening the lives of many of us. Make your art anyhow.

I'm in my mid-40s and still have every bit of this hard-coded in my memory youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...

I can think of one….. (But I don’t want him to leave IL!)

After musk fired so many federal workers due to "wasted American tax dollars" I feel like it should fall on the company's owner to provide security instead of wasting MY f*cking tax dollars as a display of force.

Chicago's budget problems aren't due to immigrants

Now tell me why I never installed anything like this for my actual human child but now I have to get a whole education on baby proofing for my cats….

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...