CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

Been listening to a lot of Massive Attack recently and now whenever this "debate" rears its heads, I think of Tricky rapping in a full West Country accent, "English upbringing, background Caribbean"

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc The strategy has run out of road A 🧵 on what happens next.

If only there was a more reliable and functional search engine people can switch to ...

While covering a protest at Delaney Hall, photographer Angelina Katsanis had her camera bag stolen. The bag contained roughly $10K in equipment, and an AirTag, which later began pinging from the home of a New Jersey police sergeant. He is now facing criminal charges. apnews.com/article/dela...

Breaking monopolies is good

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

economist.com/culture/2026... “…the proliferation of agents…has something to do with the proliferation of mediocre books. Many should have never have been printed.” The Economist culture writers always make feel better re the amount of time it takes me to find a promising book, as I browse :)

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

what a chart www.ft.com/content/368d...

I am the son of two police officers so I admit I am hardly unbiased here but I feel like the fact British policing has been hollowed out by massive budget cuts over a decade ought to be a larger part of the discussion than "DEI"

Is Iran-US deal week the new Infrastructure Week?

The drop in support for marriage equality last year was not a blip, it has declined further, dropping 6 points from its high of 71. Whether or not gay or lesbian relations were "morally acceptable" dropped 9 points. Support for LGBTQ rights broadly is diminishing. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

Very good piece that should be read by as many people as possible www.ft.com/content/aa94...

When I was on my way to a job interview in Arlington in July of 2023, I picked up a copy of The Economist that had a cover story about Trumps plans for a second term, which basically enumerated the main points of Project 2025. And no media picked up on it for a year www.economist.com/weeklyeditio...

An absolutely insane story from @telliotter.bsky.social about a US government employee who exposed Elon Musk's DOGE for accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data. Days after he went public, he was driving his car and discovered his brakes had been cut.... www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

Turek winning big. Zach Wahls we hardly knew ya

Hate to break it to these advertisers on my Instagram...

Thoughts about this TIPP poll since certain lazybones know-it-alls don't know the ground in Michigan, aren't reading through the details of the poll, and are just looking for confirmation of their priors. /1

Eesh

This is a real thing: Much of the coverage of the most intense moments (videos you have seen go viral, etc.) of the past year has come from freelancers or tiny, like, 3-person outlets that are deeply under-resourced. It's incredible they are out there doing this work at all.

Maybe the best chance to flip a governor's seat in a red state is in Iowa, which holds its primary tomorrow. This is a really interesting portrait of Rob Sand, who is often typecast as a moderate good-government crusader but who Justin H. Vassallo says exhibits qualities of prairie populists of old.

The thing about this is Jordan doesn't even seem to understand what trips we're trying to serve with bike lanes. The priority is not commuting. It's converting lots of trips that don't show up in commute stats: deliveries, grocery runs, and short social trips, from car to bicycle.

Extraordinarily good reporting www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill called for the shutdown of the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility on Twitter earlier today. There are also allegations that guards at Delaney Hall have beaten detainees inside the facility. Reporting by @aryasundaram.bsky.social and others with the Gothamist:

again, the 'most Americans can't even afford an unexpected expense' stuff comes from *online surveys by payday loan companies*. it is a publicity stunt *by one of the most exploitative parts of the financial industry* that is nevertheless spread enthusiastically by online communists.

I don't think this data is conclusive proof that Shotspotter slowed 911 responses, but it is suggestive of it. When I wrote about this, and interviewed Shotspotter people, they really didn't have a good answer to the false positive question (on which statistics are key and tricky to show)

My piece on the Trump administration's new attempts to restrict green cards: www.economist.com/united-state...

This is a really important story @nytimes.com about powerful industry capturing government officials and harming the public to benefit insiders: How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

@mattcameron.bsky.social hi! If you're able to discuss your latest substack post with me for The Economist it would be super helpful - I am on danielknowles @ economist.com

Trump is acting like Congress didn't write INA 245. The memo is cobbled together nonsense and it should die a swift death in court.

This policy is not "closing a loophole", Congress specifically allows adjustment of status and several work visas are formally designated as "dual intent" meaning you can come with the intent to apply for a green card on arrival. This BBC reporting is a mess

In the next few weeks, we'll hopefully learn more, including whether the new policy is as radical as it seems on paper. There also WILL be legal challenges. A 1997 effort by INS to categorically restrict some adjustments led to a circuit split. Summary in Brito v. Mukasey:

Literally just among my closest friends I know *five* US/UK married couples living in the US who would have been screwed by this

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

I'm proud and profoundly sad to have been at the editor's helm and co-authored the last useable Lonely Planet guides to China. It is not an easy place to get around or understand and I'm incredibly proud to have made books made by travellers and for travellers in real life.

Trying to plan a trip (tourism to be clear) to China, where I've never been, and it is *mad* how guidebooks simply do not exist any more. The last Rough Guides written on China came out in 2017 and it's still $100+ for a second hand copy now

This seems like it would ban speed cameras, which would be incredibly bad for street safety.

Perry: "I'm not ruling at this point on the release of the grand jury transcripts."

#BREAKING: Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is ending his independent campaign for Michigan governor, citing shifting political winds. bit.ly/3PBsOBF

From Mike Duggan's letter announcing the end of the independent bid for Michigan Governor: "our internal polling showed the intense anger over gas prices and Iran was boosting Democrats in every office nationally." www.wxyz.com/news/former-...

Fascinated by this Paul Krugman piece on European versus American GDP/productivity decline, and whether it is actually as bad for Europe as it seems: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/challengin...

"They can come in, but they have to come in legally", unless of course they're from one of the 75 countries where America has suspended immigration visa processing

Wrote about the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, which is shaping up to be the Democratic Party's internal debates in microcosm: www.economist.com/united-state...

I saw the headline on this story and thought, my god my editors have screwed up here, I reported on the last Ebola outbreak in Congo just a few years ago. And then I realised that was in 2018... www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Andrew Paul Johnson was arraigned in a Florida court in October on multiple charges, including molesting a child as young as 11 years old. Johnson dangled the prospect that one of the children could receive money bc...he was entitled to $10 million as part of reparations for his January 6 arrest.

A bald eagle I saw today on Chicago's South Side

Here’s another thing folks might not know, a truck does about 10,000 times the damage to a road than a car does. blog.ucs.org/dave-cooke/t...