Somehow I still have 26 states to go and I have no idea where they are. This is a very organized event full of very fun activities like Going Into Booths and Taking Pictures In Front Of the Temu Arch

If you’re tripping over concrete protected bike lane curbs when you’re crossing the street it’s because you’re not crossing at the corner. If you’re annoyed that cyclists are yelling at you for walking in their bike lanes during the winter because they’re plowed: Support #PlowTheSidewalks

Co-signed in "I put Chicago as my nationality on the census"

Ok it was funny for a while but now I wish images *weren't* down on bsky because now I just have to imagine the thumbnail?!?

Al Jazeera says police "sparked a confrontation with Egypt’s national team director Ibrahim Hassan, as players posed for a photo with a young fan at their hotel in Dallas." The one thing DPD had to do was not cause an international incident. And yet. Here we are.

Post a random picture for a better July

Holiday weekends are great for reminding me that yes, I really like my job but mostly Being a person is not all about going to work, being at work, working. Being a person is about having sufficient material circumstances in which to build and nurture healthy social relationships.

🎧CPL’s July Book of the Month is “Chicago House Music: Culture and Community” by Marguerite L. Harrold! Learn about the icons who shaped the genre and how they transformed social and political turmoil into a worldwide phenomenon. Place a hold: chi.gov/HouseMusic

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

god i feel SO ALIVE okay so here's why this has absolutely sent me to the moon the bishops were already "latae sententiae" excommunicated, which means they knowingly did a thing for which that's the automatic result. the Dicastery COULD have quietly left it at that

OK so Chinese Cooking Demystified has got me all riled up about cooking with lard. But. Must I render??? I live in a Goya neighborhood and there's manteca on the shelves of basically every store nearby. Is the storebought stuff somehow seriously lacking? www.seriouseats.com/this-centuri...

Someone please put me down like a dog if this is what national pride looks like

3 years ago, scientists took samples of air in New York on July 4th and found the amount of fine particulates (that can be inhaled and enter the bloodstream) shot up from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to more than 1,000. The safe range is 35.

Anybody else in the Albany Park area lose Comcast service?

The normal thing to do if you see one is to share this link with your friend, so they too are aware of the danger: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202... The power move is to safely extinguish the fire there and then and loudly and immediately throw the tabletop fire pit into the trash.

We’re living at a time when both women at large and trans people specifically are under attack. But blanket bans like this don’t help anyone.    Kids should be able to play the sports they want, when they want. #LetKidsPlay www.axios.com/2026/06/30/s...

Good luck out there! Motorists will do basically anything EXCEPT stay alert, so. Please don't get hit by a car or swallowed by a sinkhole, y'all.

I’m demanding immediate oversight of Moms.gov to ensure every family receives medically accurate, evidence-based information—not misleading referrals to propaganda pushers.

RFK Jr.’s Moms.gov website is pushing people to seek help from unlicensed, anti-abortion centers. These ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ aren’t healthcare providers—they’re unregulated places pushing an anti-abortion agenda.

first poems in POETRY in like nine years!

"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Society of St. Pius X, but I will say that hat fucks severely

all deep fried coney dog pierogi deep fried red bean ice cream

I would 100% go to a fondue place called The Great Melting Pot, where different regional foods get dipped in cheese or chocolate or both in horrifying delicious ways

Fried jollof onigiri?

We're really wasting the concept of a Great American State Fair because a REAL Great American State Fair would have fried foods even God didn't dare to imagine.

”After many of those uses of force, agents filed reports with narratives that were contradicted by their own body-camera footage, showing they lied about what they did.” Exceptional work by @cplhouse.bsky.social and @blockclubchi.bsky.social to document Midway Blitz in ICE's own words.

WE GOT! A murder of crows flying gloriously in front of a nearly full Moon as they head off to roost for the night! I've been trying to get this for years, you really only get one chance a month Hell yeah nature! Go log off, set a meaningless personal goal, achieve it, then go do it again! Joy!!🪶

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

New CDC map highlights dramatic expansion of lone star tick's range. Wherever lone star ticks are established, they tend to outcompete and replace black-legged ticks. This is going to change the face of tick-borne disease in North America. 1/

Lone-star ticks don’t just pursue and bite people. The affliction they’re spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Unsolicited nonfiction recommendation: "... not only sparks an overdue conversation on beauty and body image, she provides inspiration and practical solutions to help today's generations fight back against beauty sickness, leaving them more able to turn their energies toward changing the world."

You do not have to reach for cultural explanations for the lack of AC in Europe. It didn't used to be hot and now it is hot!

This is awkward, I posted before adding alt text. Image copy: Raising Funds to support mutual aid efforts in Caracas. $600 Venmo: @ducksfloat

I’m trying to raise a few hundred dollars to support mutual aid efforts in my home city after this week’s devastating earthquake. Feel free to reach out for more details!

Smells like corn sweat

Stay cool this week in Chicago. Temps above 90 the next few days.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

I’m convinced this is also why federal covid support was ended so abruptly People were realizing that government can actually help people for free and without making them jump through hoops first

Funnily enough, an article linked in the Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day email today had the perfect word for this: palter. (Screenshot from here: www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/7-w...)

Was taught this (or a variant of it) by a very favorite producer. She said, “Look to see who gives you notes and is paying you the most money. Give them maybe 10% of what they want. Ignore everybody else’s notes, but pretend you’re not.” …Has always worked. 😄

Please follow the instructions to contact your representative and tell them to vote NO on the KIDS Act. The US House will vote on it at 6:30 PM on Monday. There is no time to waste. The free internet is at stake. See replies for how to look up your representative.

Supporters claim this bill protects minors online, but this “protection” comes at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of ALL ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data. (3/10)

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will 🪪Push online services to verify users’ ages 🏛️Require government-directed moderation policies for online speech 🔐Create new rules about private and encrypted communications (2/10)