Screaming "who's streets?" #nokings

No Kings march Michigan Avenue, Chicago coverage: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/18/n...

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Chicago's No Kings protest brings thousands Downtown for rally, march blockclubchi.co/3WJ4cXA

No kings Chicago

Approaching the No Kings / Hands off Chicago rally at Grant Park. This isn’t the march, this is people still streaming in from public transit. The rally started 45 minutes ago.

Huge turnout for the No Kings rally in Chicago

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There is always that one guy in the photo that refuses to smile. #hunter

Adventure time. Have a good weekend everyone!

This ruling comes just hours after Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said military officials told him they would federalize the Illinois National Guard and deploy troops to Chicago

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

With everything that is happening, I strongly suggest you wrap up work and go to the beach Chicago. #Chicago #latesummer #meltice don't let the bastards grind you down. #joyasanactofresistance

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Had an unfortunate experience last night around 11 30pm. Biking through Uptown hear "fireworks" only for a 15/16 yo woman to run out screaming she's been shot. I helped her to the firehouse at Wilson and Racine but called 911 and got no response. Not acceptable! OEMC, City, CPD not doing their job!

Here's a simpler look, just comparing zero carbon to carbon-based generation. We aren't where we need to be yet but the trends are steady.

Costs of these crashes $21,223,112 due to the deaths $13,208,587 due to the incapacitating injuries $22,538,208 due to the non-incapacitating injuries = $56,969,907 total

Rad rock and roll. Thanks #tvontheradio

NATO has scrambled aircraft.

@hickenlooper.senate.gov talking about the #IRA is infuriating. Benefits to red states, friendship with Manchin, support from billionaires. You are a dupe! What of that matters? Aren't you embarrassed? Yes it was amazing but two steps forward, three steps back. www.latitudemedia.com/news/green-b...

Water was warm. Air was cold. Waves were fun. Late summer in Chicago. #hellhole #noICE

Nighthawks are going off! Must be a dozen hunting in my backyard (Montrose and the river in Chicago)

"The demonstrations scheduled for this Saturday, August 16th are branded as 'Fight the Trump Takeover'..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Whoa-mo. Amirite?

There was a huge explosion at the country's largest coke works yesterday, killing two workers. The company that owns it has a long and significant history of maintenance failures. The US government recently took a controlling financial interest in that company. www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

Uh, the Borealis is great. And it's pretty cheap. 30 minute bus ride from st paul to Minneapolis or wherever is basically like getting from a downtown station to your final spot. Empire Builder is cool but more involved. There are a lot of crappy routes but this is not one of them.

The time has come - c*mmissions are open for stained glass Chicago dogs. Details are in the comments! Please RT to spread the word.

Genocide includes erasing cultural and indigenous heritage.

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today. Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!" It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

Global energy investment is on track to rise to $3.3 trillion in 2025 ▶️ Around $2.2 trillion is going to renewables, nuclear, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency & electrification ▶️ About $1.1 trillion is going to oil, gas & coal More 👉 iea.li/440ofFG

This’ll be my first time in Chicago since I started my channel four years ago. Glad it’s finally gonna happen — thanks to @betterstreetschicago.org for getting this one rolling!

"In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing." newrepublic.com/article/1976...

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want.. Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Hazy sky on a lovely bike ride. At sketchbook, Soul Brew Coffee, Skokie.

China calls them the "New Three" -- solar panels, EVs, and batteries -- a set of technologies the country dominates. But once, the US had a headstart. New from me and @naemas.bsky.social on how the US lost its lead in clean energy -- and how China took over. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

They think you don't understand what a battery does. Largely because of the Inflation Reduction Act & cost declines, the U.S. now how about 14 Hoover Dams worth of batteries installed on the grid. They raised taxes on clean energy & are trying to justify the blackouts & price spikes they will cause.

@chi.streetsblog.org have you see Cook County’s O’Hare Area Bike Network Study? www.cookcountyil.gov/content/ohar... They have a community survey open until August 15th.

Just found this Lil cutie on my back porch this morning. Southern flying squirrel. Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood.

Just wild stuff "empower radical organizations with unseemly ties"

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

Roughly 30–40% of U.S. corn production — about 30 million acres — is dedicated to ethanol. That same land area could support around 5,000 gigawatts of solar capacity, which is 3–4 times the total nameplate capacity of the entire U.S. electric grid. We don't have a land problem.

Next up after Trump’s order abolishing the Endangerment Finding, thereby erasing clear inarguable climate science- an order to Nasa to delete all photos of a round, not flat, earth. Watch for it.

The City of Chicago Department of Environment remains firmly committed to fighting the deregulatory actions proposed today by the US EPA. See the full statement from DOE Commissioner Angela Tovar in the image below.

Very sorry to hear about the death of Tom Lehrer at age 97. The cleverest, funniest singer/songwriter of all time, even if he lost interest in the whole business pretty quickly? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...

This is MISO's active generator interconnection queue. Only 4 types of power station will get built in the next 5 years: gas, wind, solar, batteries.Gas is only 33 GW in the queue. No one is planning on big new coal. Nukes are a blip (Duane Arnold restart in Iowa).

As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month. There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵

WBEZ had a pledge drive after the House vote on this — and so many of you responded strongly. This legislation will vaporize millions of dollars that had been approved for your local NPR station. You can do something about it at wbez.org/donate www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

A chart didn't make it into the piece — ICE has arrested >1,000 toddlers since 2023

Yeah, Douthat is right. We need to teach the opposite of environmentalist and anticolonial. SMH www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...