Damn near half of my career consists of tracking Republican challenges to the ACA and I’m twenty years in the game

I am not the only person slightly tired of being in the Evanston city council meeting apparently. (Jokes, I assume this was scheduled)

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Just witnessed a driver run through THREE red lights along Sheridan. It's going to be really hard to convince me we don't need ticketing capabilities on every traffic light.

New Argyle station looking beautiful in the snow www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/c...

Ok my bad Kelly did this and the proposed program seems problematic at best

Aight I am NOT at Evanston city council currently. On the agenda today: 605 davis Maybe some initial discussion of a housing subsidy for homeowners with high property taxes

Good news: I rushed up the stairs and caught my train on time! Bad news: it's been standing since Worse news: someone reported online their train had been standing for 40 minutes

Oh wow triplex -> 12 plex conversion goes hard

Edgewater NIMBYs tried exactly this plan to stop the upzoning along Broadway in Edgewater & Uptown Chicago, and I'm incredibly grateful that we had enough organized & independent pushback on their bullshit that the upzoning did successfully pass.

BURRY won’t let up — now arguing that Oracle and Meta are overstating earnings by understating depreciation: “.. By 2028, $ORCL will overstate earnings 26.9%, $META by 20.8%, etc.”

The city of Evanston is looking at 1% real estate transfer tax to fund a property tax circuit breaker program. ~63% of their housing cost burdened residents are renters. To qualify, residents will need to have lived in their home for 15+ yrs and spend 5% or more of their income on property tax

"the median age of new homebuyers now is higher than the median age of repeat homebuyers in the 80s" is a crazy stat and also goes a good way towards explaining the huge age difference between your average YIMBY and average NIMBYs

1) This post is fake news 2) I have a great idea for saving money on train control systems

Trying to calm myself down and not go on a yard sign vandalism rampage. Btw this is the "affordable housing" they wanted to save from being developed into an apartment building on A St

“Cities are good, people want to live in dense walkable neighborhoods, and urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience” remains a genuinely radical political program in America.

Talarico is playing an impressive level of Texas politics. If y'all haven't seen him before, watch some of his floor speeches.

Hello @katmabu.bsky.social, @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social, and @danielbiss.bsky.social, I am a voter in IL-09, and I am rapidly becoming a single-issue voter. The one issue is dismantling ICE, dissolving the DHS, and seeking the death penalty for the perpetrators of atrocious 8th Amendment violations.

Ray Lee is one of 43 people who received an incapacitating injury in a car crash last week. 246 people had non-incapacitating injuries last week. this is a weekly phenomenon in Chicago. 🧵

The Eric adams Ziwe interview is wild y'all youtu.be/-9CmFvGEXXk

Just met somebody with maybe the most insane keyboard I've ever seen

Oh my god

Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Just got news that my previous city is finally discussing acting on an affordable housing policy loophole/oversight that I fed to a reporter like a year ago. God this rips

Brendan Gill doing the “ I don’t even think anyone lives in these new apartments“ song and dance, 38 years ago

The red bull winter edition is good but it's no summer edition

I'm in the top level of my building so I am continuing to leave my windows open (it's hot up here) and that means I still get to hear the train (aka my wife, who I love) every 3-5 minutes. This rules. I love hearing her go by.

There was a differences of opinion among local news outlets this morning about whether or not CTA, Metra, and Pace fares will be going up next year in the wake of the transit bill passage. Here's the answer, straight from the horse's mouth. 🚌 🚃 🚉 🐎 @rtachicago.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

Rip to the guy last night sexually harassing this woman who immediately got rolled up on by a trans woman and a dude in a dress who chewed him the fuck out. He threatened us with a gun (didn't brandish) but never once called us faggots or anything so I think he was like scared scared

Love my neighborhood

Wanna feel old? Check the account name for this "TikTok dj"

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Chicago transit getting funded and Zohran Mamdani comfortably winning election is probably the best week in big city American politics in a long time.

The bar is doing several malort for mamdani shots tn

Please check all that apply

the mainstream taking betting and gambling companies as seriously as journalism is one of the greatest evils of modern society

In the 2 weeks after Mamdani won in June, 10k ppl signed up with @runforsomething.net to consider a run for local office - our biggest surge *ever*. Like it or not (& I do!!) he's shaping the future of the Democratic Party. If you want something different, get other people to run.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

“Step back or I’m going to shoot you” An Evanston resident is alleging a DHS agent said that to him while pointing his gun, which attorneys say violates the TRO issued by Judge Sara Ellis More here: evanstonnow.com/feds-accused...

Saw an Instagram video of a guy running alongside a brown line at Fullerton or Belmont or some red + brown corridor station. Comments were confused why both trains were going the same way. Gotta imagine highways confuse the hell out of em.

Thanks to the NITA Act, and a city ordinance from @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social, Chicago has the highest population of any city in America that live on property that does not require vehicle parking

The main problem with Bluesky is that some of you aren't posting enough Chicago content. This is the premiere Chicago-centered social website, please act accordingly.

Just received an invitation to apply for a job that describes itself as "cult-like"

Oh thank God

New graffiti art in my Rogers Park, Chicago, neighborhood.