Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

Join us on Sunday, December 7th at the West Loop branch for a community meeting to go over what happened to #PlowTheSidewalks and discuss where we go next. 📍West Loop Branch (122 N Aberdeen) 🗓️ December 7th ⏰ 2-4pm RSVP ➡️ mobilize.us/s/qqb6u8

Protected bike lanes are shit if not cleared after snow. Five days after our most recent Chicago snowstorm, I couldn't even ride in the Kinzie bike lane. In some cases, snow has been pushed *into* the bike lanes. Meanwhile, #PlowTheSidewalks was killed by @mayorofchicago.bsky.social.

Northwestern leaders capitulated and have trampled on their own people in the process.

A world without transgender people has never existed and never will. To all transgender people out there: You are not alone.

"I’m not interested in pressuring women to carry their babies with Down syndrome to term. I am interested in providing a counter-narrative about Down syndrome."

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

This is a disgusting lie and an unacceptable use of official capacity.

TIL: Women were commonly relied upon to hand color the images of early medical texts. Their work is rarely credited, and yet, we can appreciate the immense impact coloration had on training physicians before color printers were available. #BEDMED2025 @galterlibrary.bsky.social

Day 2 of #BEDMED2025 began with grounding remarks from Abraham Verghese: "Story is as inherent in medicine as it is in raising our children." @bedsidemednu.bsky.social

The scale of Alice Wong's @sfdirewolf.bsky.social legacy is one we can't yet measure, but it's already immense. Her force exceeded every expectation set out for her, and she shared so many gifts with the world - not least of which was her unapologetic pride in disability.

This is a victory for our organizers, our lawyers, our activists, our documentarians. It’s nowhere near enough, and, devastatingly, it’s too late for some, who chose to leave the U.S. rather than face the inhumane conditions at Broadview or elsewhere. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

From Brian Garibaldi #BEDMED2025: The most common mistake in a physical exam is failure to do the exam.

It's a breath of fresh air to spend the day with a medical community dedicated to humanity and humility in medicine. #BEDMED2025 @bedsidemednu.bsky.social

Stephen Colbert tonight is also a must-watch on Kimmel’s firing (and the gutless corporations and people who did it, and why) as part of Trump’s blatant slashing of Freedom Of Speech (and any criticism or dissent) in the United States. Please watch and share. #Kimmel #Colbert #Trump

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Still can’t believe the city removed the profitable pedestrian street in River North to allow for 3 lanes of unprofitable traffic instead

Next Friday, May 16, join us at Access Living for the Disability Reproductive Equity Day Celebration! 🎉✨ The event will feature panels, stories of lived experience, & shared health resources—all centering disabled voices. 🕐 1–4PM | 📍115 W. Chicago Ave #DisabilityJustice #ReproductiveEquity

Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

Thank you to the new President of Cornell: “Cornell is not a business. We are a university. And universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/o...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

You cannot negotiate with terrorists. If the Ivies give in to any regime demands, the goal posts will move. If the massive ivy endowments aren’t deployed to preserve institutional integrity and academic freedom, what on earth are they for?

They went after the Civil Rights branch of the Department of Education first. apnews.com/article/trum...

We already told you all these names are just ways to hide Medicaid cuts that we KNOW are unpopular. Want to learn more about why each of these terms will negatively impact beneficiaries? Keep reading. Tell Congress: NO CUTS by any name. secure.everyaction.com/tZYmQsJTmUCS...

Let's gather & organize for health justice! ARCC Community Research Learning Exchange: 3/20 👀 topics/presenters below & at bit.ly/Mar20arcc Connect w/ARCC grantees & '25 Award Winner: PrEP4Teens Learn more abt Community Organizing w/ SWOrganizing Project Palenque LSNA @christiandiaz.bsky.social

Today, 1 in 3 women live in states with abortion bans. The fight for reproductive rights is as urgent as ever. That's what I'm thinking about this International Women's Day.

Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."

Help protect Section 504! If your AG is an ally, urge them to file an amicus brief. If your AG is on the lawsuit, insist they stop this attack. Thank you @dredf.bsky.social for your advocacy and guidance! Dredf.org/protect-504/

Do not give away your power.

The real problem in most cities isn’t that the density of people or the density of buildings is “too high.” It’s that the density of cars is too high.

It takes curiosity to learn. It takes courage to unlearn. Learning requires the humility to admit what you don't know today. Unlearning requires the integrity to admit that you were wrong yesterday. Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves.

Thank you @nprjoeshapiro.bsky.social for setting the record straight! www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

a lot happened today, but it has not gone unnoticed that apparently someone has to be reminded of this 👀

HEINOUS & CRIMINAL and the FREEZE is too! www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Paper on the (lack) of disability education in us medical school is out in @journalgim.bsky.social !

“Increasingly, what we’re hearing from doctors is that they know very little about what they’re supposed to do. Who determines what a reasonable accommodation is, and how that should be paid for?” says @cehaywood.bsky.social in a new @journalgim.bsky.social publication — bit.ly/4h28Ys0