one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

If it hurts Jeff Bezos’s feelings, you’re on the right track. If it it costs him materially, bullseye.

Still thinking about how the US President had a guy accompany him as a special guest to a football game solely and specifically because he strangled a homeless black man to death, and how quickly we all moved on from that.

Someone should tell @mark-carney.bsky.social and fellow @liberalca.bsky.social - Conservative Premiers in Canada are ripping up bike lanes.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

No one uses these car lanes, we should take them away

Joabe Barbosa has run on nearly every street in Chicago since he began in 2024. An international student at Roosevelt University, his visa was set to expire, but after he completes his final mile in June, he will get to stay.

Half my job at this time of the month is spent fighting with Anthem/BCBS to get my prescription refilled while I go without it (no overlap allowed) after they cancel it, and force my doctor to recertify that I need it. Remember when we thought the government was going to have "death panels"?

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

#LegalizeStreetFood We should be helping these small businesses bring culture and life to our sidewalks and train stations — not making them jump through endless hoops and penalizing them

Some good news to start your week. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/18/g...

"Blaming increased Illinois wagering taxes..." Like the old and racist "shoplifting issue," It seems that revenue, here customers, is the problem, not the taxes. There are 15 in-person sports books in IL. And they're keeping the location, so they know it's a business model issue.

Incredible map of Smart Streets violations by @michaelmclean.me michaelmclean.me/chicago-smar...

JFC. During an oil crisis, when EVs are a lifeline, Congress is about to *put a tax on EVs*. Spectacularly stupid.

Two big stories over the weekend reminded anew of Streetsblog's important place in an ecosystem of outrage and lies. Plus all the news. buff.ly/1HE98jr

Indeed: Victorians were mostly painted all one color until the 60s and 70s; and a ton of them were painted gray with surplus battleship paint after World War Two. savingplaces.org/stories/haas...

Its pretty cool that 4 Department of Finance Vehicles just drive around and make hundreds of thousands a year in revenue for the city. Heroes!

This article by @nbcchicagopd.bsky.social has critical errors, now being shared widely. HB4948 bends over backwards for drivers, and sadly no one has bothered to ask about the epidemic of needless traffic deaths. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Staten Islanders recounted seeing NYPD cop James Giovansanti speed, tailgate, cut off other drivers, blow red lights and menace pedestrians.

Don't know how much this affects 2026 but huge for 2028.

People get used to getting away with some degree of reckless driving until changes mean they can't. Then they complain. Meanwhile, the amount of hit and run crashes and uninsured drivers is a growing crisis that hurts individuals, families and communities.

"A bicyclist was critically injured when a semi hit him Friday morning on the Southwest Side, marking at least the fourth hit-and-run crash this week, two of which have been fatal." Safety from cars is one of the more pressing issues on the SW Side.

"171 million trips were taken on shared micromobility systems across the United States in 2024, a 32 percent increase over the previous year" Thank you @repvalhoyle.bsky.social for introducing this legislation that makes shared micromobility explicitly eligible for federal funding!

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

This train stops at 35th for the Crosstown Classic this weekend 📢 We’re bringing out our 2400-series railcars to take Chicago baseball fans to Rate Field this Friday, May 15.

Subscribe to the Inquirer so you can read Will Bunch (feel free to ignore the sports section-we all feel the same ‘bout Philly sports teams)

13.1% of credit card balances, 10.3% of student loan balances, and 5.6% of car loan balances are more than 90 days delinquent

The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

Helen understood that jaywalking is bullshit. For those who don't know the history, jaywalking was created by the auto industry in the early 20th century to assert car dominance of the roads.

53-year-old man fatally struck by vehicle that fled scene in Chicago Lawn

Let this radicalize you

"Something had happened to...Ryder and Chance while they were biking to the library. He found Ryder holding a single Nike shoe—Chance’s shoe. It had flown off when he was struck and killed by a semi truck." Kids should be able to get to the library. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/12/2...

I had a conversation with a journalist the other day who was telling me how great Palantir and Alex Karp are and how surely he didn't mean that stuff about some cultures being superior, and...yeah. This is the context

Eligible voters of NEW JERSEY! TODAY (May 12) is your last chance to register to vote in the June 2 primary election. You can find the online registration link at npr.org/vote👇

The International Vinegar Museum Roslyn, SD

I cannot emphasize this enough: everything we are seeing right now with voting rights, and especially the racist gerrymandering we’re seeing in the South, makes complete sense if you remember it was all in Project 2025. This was part of the plan. It’s white supremacy and too many ignored it.

I was wondering when he’d show up

NEW: i took a look at a chevron power plant designed to power a data center that is asking for a school district tax break in texas — the plant's probable client is microsoft, which made a series of promises around tax breaks in january my dive into tax breaks for data center power:

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

"How the oilman’s president boosted a green transition" "Trump has pulled off an improbable feat: the oilman’s president has made fossil fuels both expensive and unreliable. People used to worry that addiction to oil made us dependent on Middle Eastern autocracies.... /1

This is correct, and it’s happened to me multiple times. Two things are true: 1. The Times is a massive outlet with tons of incredible reporters doing fantastic work 2. The Times is almost singularly bad about citing other reporting, to the point where it’s a recurring joke among journalists

Evergreen

There are no permanent victories in politics.

Holy cats the Chicago Public Library needs to start using this typeface again—it’s so gorgeous @chipublib.bsky.social

"If you resurrected Ulysses S. Grant...and told him, 'hey, the Supreme Court is nullifying the 15th Amendment again'...he would be like, 'yeah, that sounds right.' He'd probably be surprised it was Republicans, but that's about it." @adamserwer.bsky.social on Tennessee's redistricting grab.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.