i chose to start my thanksgiving day the way my forefathers intended: by making this video, for some reason try my product 🥺

come hang at a (BI)cy(Cle)cross event Sat at Big Marsh Park! A thing to do w/ bikes on maybe a fine fall day! sort of sporty? probably wacky! shorturl.at/D0tuD @femnthembikechi.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social @chicagobikesox.com @chiwho.bike @westtownbikes.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social

If cops can’t do their jobs anymore why is there still so much work product?

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody. Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org). And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

For all your winter storm lakefront trail status needs, follow the @lakefronttrail.bsky.social status bot. Help out by using #chiLFT to report trail conditions and remember that the Park District tends not to post trail closures or block unsafe trail sections until after the morning commute

32° of winter biking day one: 32°

Healow is an electronic health record system that someone hired their nephew to build in order to avoid paying for MyChart and one thing that nephew has done is introduce the letter T as an abbreviation for “Thursday”

Fuuuuuuuuck ICE. We bought out 5 vendors this morning in Little Village and ICE is out there terrorizing the community. We also pass out whistles thanks to a supporter who 3D printed a ton for us. We keep us safe. ✊🏽

Cross is really fun. Signed, a guy who doesn’t even like racing

anyway on that note: Chicago! looking for a cool bike thing? come out on nov 22 to this! we want fun and inclusion and access and raising $$ and community! www.bikesignup.com/Race/IL/Chic... cc @femnthembikechi.bsky.social @chiwho.bike @chicagobikesox.com lol what are other bike bsky accounts??

This app has unfollowed @nikhunder.com for me twice in the last 24 hours, why does Bluesky not want me to know what is happening? (Thank you for your service Nik)

a facebook video recorded around 9:45 am shows federal agents detaining at least one person near lawrence/kedzie. video shows multiple chicago police on scene to help ~10 feds clear a path through community members who had gathered. after the feds leave, a person in an elmo onesie berates a cop.

And we've got CPD clearing the way for federal agents to abduct people. And state police protecting their federal facilities in the suburbs. City 🤝 feds 🤝 state

A fall morning in Chicago now: biking down Lawrence through Albany Park, which looks like a relative ghost town compared to its usual foot traffic, watching as street vendors scramble to pack up and flee because ICE just grabbed someone. Folks screaming and whistling at every intersection.

Our neighborhood org leadership also internally agrees on the group’s position regardless of what happens in meetings and lies about it to electeds and in the newsletter. Yours probably does to.

I got so excited when a thing I read moved from substack to patreon because I assumed it’d be something other than an enshitiffied blog over there but it’s just another enshitiffied blog

Patreon really doesn’t have RSS for posts?

It's fucking wild. Everyday on reddit there is a video that just defies any kind of I have no idea but the NYT is like "very normal president is flying to China, and here are some renderings of the Epstein Ballroom"

Agree 100%. Especially since Chicago media—local TV affiliates, Sun-Times/Tribune, local NPR, Block Club, Triibe, college newspapers like Loyola, independent journalists, even some Chicago bureaus of national media outlets—have done terrific work We’re under assault, & it should matter to everyone

Have you ever had an entire discharge room full of people who “love you” yell at you after surgery because you asked one little question about riding your bike? (I’m fine!)

Brave

hey meta I can’t read either screen right in front of me

Seeing a lot of “what about cars” dunks on this, which of course mentions cars first among “bigger culprits,” but actually it’s story about a promising intervention to reduce our climate impact that our shitty healthcare system largely does not cover. Europe, and our VA, are already making the shift

@1password.bsky.social @beeper.com figure it out @signal.org you're cool

Currently on an email thread where half of the participants are sharing paragraphs-long introductions and the other half are trying to explain that they are emailing (many?) thousands of people who may have attended a massive conference any time in the last decade

Electron apps are slowing down Tahoe (the latest OS) Macs. Check yours before you update, or if you’re seeing slowdowns: furbo.org/2025/10/06/t...

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

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...

Ald. Brendan Reilly is running for Cook County Board President and his base is people who’d beat him in broad daylight if he said “showing a warrant before detention is not optional” or “due process is not negotiable”

I've shared multiple articles about the ICE raid at 75th & South Shore Drive because no one of them captures everything important: -simmering tensions over Venezuelan migrants into a Black neighborhood that is the eviction capital of Chicago -prior deplorable conditions & lack of maintenance

Taylor says bring in the light

Did Athlete Intelligence tell them to do this?

Meanwhile they’re cutting funding for permanent supportive housing by two thirds www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I’m out, I'm sore. I'll have more later, but right now I have to say a couple of things. First, walking out of there to learn about the kindness, support, and quick action from so many of you all has meant the world to me, my wife, and co-founder, Raven. Thank you.

So this two-person shop has become a load-bearing element of Chicago's coverage of what's happening with the ICE raids. The least you can do is support em: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

Shout out to Mariano’s for not putting that scoundrel Bob Mariano’s name on my arm. If you’re looking for Novavax, they have it. My doctor (who is not your doctor) recommended it last year after I had a bad time with the Pfizer/Moderna mRNA shots. It works differently & it’s been much better for me

Cool new way for cars to kill people

It’s lunch time, post hoagie

@bikegridnow.org spotted

Why are you, a Chicagoan, calling a hot dog a glizzy?

Bridgeport Kidical Mass rules. If you missed Chicago Family Bike Sox, they’ve got a couple more this fall. Check out their full schedule or find a ride near you: @chifamilybiking.bsky.social or Bridgeport Kidical Mass on fb. Thanks for a great season, we’ll see you in the spring!

I have read this five times and I can’t find any reference to the clause where if your dog misbehaves in a restaurant (once) you have to move to a different city.

Amazing mashup of Call Me Maybe with NIN’s Head Like a Hole. So so good. [kottke.org]

The two jesuses

federal agents are getting increasingly violent as the morning goes on and the crowd of protesters outside the broadview ice facility grows. i’ve seen multiple people pushed and thrown to the ground. dhs is now playing a dispersal order warning of arrests and the use of chemical munitions.

Today Raven Geary of @unraveledpress.com reports on the spate of kidnappings and violence against immigrants in the Chicago area over the past week or so including a man who was shot to death by ICE on Friday. www.welcometohellworld.com/theyre-kidna...

Bike Sox x Bridgeport Critical Mass x Chicago Family Biking. 11:30am at McGuane Park. Roll at 12, Tailgate at 12:30. Beer from Marz, juice from Jewel. All ages welcome. Tickets, map, tracker at chicagobikesox.com

A fun @chicagobikesox.com ride yesterday. Woohoo 🎉 #Chicago Find yourself bike peeps.

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