This news story needs to be in the toolkit for all #bikenyc and national #bicycling advocates and organizations.

I'm furious that RFK Jr & his Great Barrington Declaration/Brownstone/anti-vaxx wrecking crew have the HPV vaccine next in their sights; HPV causes many cancers (e.g., cervical & oral) Australia launched a national HPV vaccination program in 2007 & is on track to ELIMINATE cervical cancer by 2035

The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Evil.

There has been no debate here among constitutional scholars, historians, political scientists, anyone with a pulse really. Any telling you that this very straightforward point, one that has been universally accepted for a century and a half, is now an "abstruse" issue is just a liar and a hack.

It’s almost as if leaving the top ranks of DOJ and the FBI totally void of judgment, integrity, and experience has consequences.

"This constant fundraising diverts enormous time and energy away from the actual work of governing. But the damage is deeper. It filters for a specific personality type: not necessarily the most thoughtful public servant but the one most comfortable with relentless solicitation."

A reminder: Gregory Bovino may be gone and a bunch of his men aren't here anymore but Border Patrol is still in Chicagoland, randomly stopping folks at Home Depots and chasing people through the snow.

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

We have Aldermen here in Chicago override the installation of protected bike lanes after they're already partially installed, costing additional money to rip them out, and it's nuts this is even a possibility, let alone standard practice

Maybe a hot take, but I don’t think it’s appropriate for the mayor of a large city to weigh in on individual multifamily project, period. The appropriate time to weigh in is when you’re designing or revising the land use rules that determine what can get built.

Frank Gehry was a Jewish man who changed his name because he thought it was the only way he could get work as an architect in America.

The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy. Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality. John Roberts > Roger Taney. Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.

Chicagoans are paying about $40 apiece just for lawsuits tied to disgraced former cop Reynaldo Guevara Jr. So far this year, the city is on the hook for some $285M in police misconduct settlements—roughly $100 per resident

"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something

City of Boston's traffic counts show a significant increase in bike trips alongside a modest decrease in motor vehicle traffic on streets where Mayor Wu's administration built new bikeways in 2024 mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/05/b...

This is an incredible statistic

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

The funny thing is that he used to be way more timid about doing shit like this. And not just him. SCOTUS Republicans have been brain-poisoning themselves on insane weird far-right shit, in all likelihood (and even Thomas and Alito's preexisting cases of this accelerated horribly in the past decade)

At every level of courts, it’s always too late to stop a Republican gerrymander & always too late to implement anti-gerrymander rulings that will benefit Democrats & democrats. It’s been this way in Wisconsin & nationwide for at least two decades now.

I'm not sure if future generations will have historians as we understand the term today, but if so, I wonder if they will view Western Democracies as an odd two-century historical blip, like we do with the Hyksos Period in ancient Egypt.

I've said it before, I'll say it again--these sons of bitches on the Court piss me off w this 'presume the legislature acted in good faith and wasn't being racist' thing why on Earth would I presume that?! what on Earth does it take to overcome that presumption?! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so." This Court is undermining that.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge. They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

I actually read the district court's 160-page opinion. That seems to be more than what SCOTUS did. It's an extremely impressive opinion, by the way—all the more so given the very short timetable. And even though there's a lot of dense legal discussion, it's a model of clarity. Worth your time.

if Texas declaring that it is doing a racial gerrymander in response to an order by the Trump DOJ to do a racial gerrymander isn't "substantial direct evidence" of the act, then nothing is. This is no different than the Supreme Court throwing out a murder conviction by ignoring a tape of the murder.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

You can't kill someone for *possible* future noncombatant activity Another issue is that drug-trafficking is a crime, not an act of warfare

National political elites in a polarized age act in a purely partisan manner

This is really important. The problem with the Roberts Court is not that they are conservative. It's that they are bad judges.

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

*thanks to concerns raised by law-breakers.

This is obviously true, but I think there's something more at work on a deeper level that goes beyond Kelly, Gutfeld and the others echoing this sadistic stuff. Stripping it of all its context, this is simply a rejection of the dignity and sanctity of the human body at the core of human rights law.

What an embarrassment Hakeem Jeffries is. The charges against Cuellar were so "thin" that two of his assistants had already pleaded guilty and were set to testify against him. Jeffries has got to go.

"That's one hell of an act. What do you call it?" "The Kleptocrats!"

Gosh, who'da thunk it

Woke Bill Kristol is flogging the Dems again.

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

You’ll Be OK

Time and time again, Dem Leadership has protected corrupt representatives on both sides of the aisle, rather than taking a stand for the American people. In 2022, establishment Dems rallied the troops to fend off Cuellar's pro-choice challenger as the Supreme Court destroyed Roe vs Wade.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

In fact the crime rate among Somalis is lower than that of the US population as a whole, while Somalis figure disproportionately as crime victims.

The thing about immigration is that xenophobia and racism are the elite centrist position. Here's a senior fellow at Brookings, spouse of CRFP head Maya MacGuineas, explaining the mere presence of foreigners in Germany is a "problem" that someone must solve with "speed and determination."