Think much of the over-parenting we despise stems from the early on fear of the driver. If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.

RIP to a legend

Breaking News: Frank Gehry, a titan of architecture, has died at 96. He designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings — many widely regarded as masterpieces. nyti.ms/4rGCYiE

CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine. The change is likely to increase the number of people who develop chronic infections and liver cancer www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

Spending my bus ride to work reporting uncleared sidewalks I see out the window #PlowTheSidewalks

It’s a fleece-gaiter-under-a-scarf day in Chicago 🥶

Extremely rude of it to become an Orange line train when it was timed to take me home, but I got a good video

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The Xfinity store on Ashland at Belmont still hasn’t shoveled after Saturday’s snow #PlowTheSidewalks

My husband’s idea for #PlowTheSidewalks: “Let’s kidnap the burrito scooters and put little shovels on them”

RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks

My residential neighbors did a mostly great job shoveling after this storm, but the strip mall with a gym, post office, swimming pool school, and restaurants nearby is completely uncleared more than 24 hours after the snow stopped. #PlowTheSidewalks

so you're telling the system of asking every individual homeowner to shovel their sidewalk promptly doesn't scale??

For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org

No time like the present (during a winter storm warning with the potential for 9 inches) to drop my bike off for winter storage ☃️

Horrible news tonight... Colorado state senator killed in multi-vehicle crash south of Denver coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f... #copolitics #coleg

Bought the stupid safer upgraded battery from Rad I hope they are happy because I’m not 😒

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

This is a helpful tool to understand just how different a car is from a bicycle A crossover SUV does *149,483 times as much damage* as a bike per trip 150,000x the damage.

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Just watched one of Chicago’s unhinged dog owners crash out in my local custard place when the employees politely informed her of health code and said they’d serve her through the walk up window outside. She’s never going there again!!

This was me, and it’s the one thing I try to express if people ask for my thoughts:

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Almost just hit in an all-way stop intersection, notably less than a block from my child’s school. The driver with the right of way was waiting for me to cross, and another driver decided to go—into me. Don’t worry, she didn’t notice bc she was staring at her phone while turning thru a crosswalk.

Proud of this! I credit a long Metra commute for 5 months of this year as well as deleting Instagram in February.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

Not biking to work is really bumming me out

Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

UPS “verify you are human” holiday commercial is clever, sweet, and anti-AI. 👌🏼

It’s really just barely better than nothing, but I took a last-minute Amtrak to Michigan for less than $100 round trip. Imagine if we had a real, functioning train system in this country!!

When you leave in a car you’re thinking “what’s the fastest way to get there?” When I leave on my bike I’m thinking “what’s the safest way to get there?” We are not the same

No great aurora photo yet tonight, but I just saw a shooting star!!!

The worst Aurora photo you’ll see, taken from my alley 🩷

I saw @petersagal.bsky.social getting lunch today. Too nervous to say hi. My first Chicago celebrity sighting!

Chicago when?!

This sucks! I know my RadWagon is far from the top of the line, but it allowed my family to replace car trips in suburban Detroit, and we love it so much.

I call it “Snow Fall.”

Found a Lions bar (brewery) in a Chicago and everyone booed Tr*mp every time he was on the screen and the bar turned the game audio off until the extended presidential bit had ended 🙌🏻

These thugs have a lust for violence and they are slobbering at the opportunity to open fire on US residents.

The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Opinion | Actually, don’t let them eat cake

I’m 5’11” and the hood of this truck comes up to the top of my ears (and is taller than the roof of the entire sedan in front).

It's a good thing we have a robust network of high speed trains as a travel redundancy or else we'd really be in trouble with this airport slowdown.

The bike lane on Roscoe at Ashland leaves something to be desired (space for a bike)

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Can’t tell you guys how much I hate the term “wine moms”

Heated bike seat powered by the battery already on my bike (does this exist?)