THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Highlights of the new bike parking that CDOT just installed in/around Montrose Beach! They're already getting a ton of usage. The City is happy to be bringing this much needed amenity to the lake front!

Indigenous leaders say that in the Trump administration's rush to build border walls, contractors are desecrating Native American sacred places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace. https://to.pbs.org/4us64Dt

“Civic engagement is not a lesson confined to textbooks but rather, it is lived, often bravely, by students who speak out against injustice. The time is now for school leaders to protect young people who are organizing and participating in school walkouts, and to affirm that their voices matter.”

It's incredibly powerful, but I also think it runs the risk of distancing us from our own history. What we are seeing with the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act is part of the history of the United States and a story that predates the Civil War and the Confederacy. #CivilWarMemory

Mayor Johnson should be more diplomatic and give Da Pope a Cubs/Sox hat, à la Ray Rayner. IYKYK.

“The Sun-Times & WBEZ contacted all 12 public universities in the state and a dozen community college systems in the Chicago area & found that most don’t spell out protocols for documenting interactions with immigration agents & notifying students & staff if immigration agents are looking for them.”

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

Say the words — say the barrier he had to break! 🌈

BREAKING: Chicago should pay $3.5 million to the family of a Little Village vendor who was struck and killed by a driver being chased by Chicago police, city lawyers recommended, the latest massive settlement prompted by a police pursuit. @wttw.bsky.social

In the founding era, ”the new U.S. shredded treaties and treated Indigenous communities as obstacles that we needed to have erased.” Kimberlé W. Crenshaw (of @aapf.org) explains why she supports ZEP's Teach Truth About the American Revolution campaign: 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/kimberl...

Immigrants detained in Chicago military-style raid are seeking millions in damages. Propublica reports: blockclubchi.co/42AmJbG

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the notorious Chicago apartment raid last fall have filed claims against the federal government for trauma, injuries and lost property. The 18 tenants, including children, are seeking $5 million each. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

Chicago cloud show. Meteorologists/weather nerds? Are some/all of these mammatus?

Piping plovers Sea Rocket and Imani this morning at Montrose Beach. (Filmed from a distance with my 800 mm lens.)

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Happening now: Cook County officials, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and other immigrant advocacy groups are holding a presser outside the county's Domestic Violence Court in Chicago, re: federal immigration agents being spotted at 4 separate Cook County courthouses today.

Jeff Pk so needs a progressive to oust the terrible and mean Ald. Gardiner Chicago’s first trans alderperson could come from Northwest Side race windycitytimes.com/2026/04/28/c...

Years in the making, congratulations to the young people who made this happen. Can easily be replicated in cities across the country including NYC - thetriibe.com/reshape/chic...

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Bike the Drive returns September 6 with 30 miles of glory on DuSable Lake Shore Drive! 🚲 Register today for the lowest price of the season! Head to bikethedrive.org to register

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

Long overdue - these charges were bogus from the start and any Chicago jury would see through the Trump Administration’s lies.

🖤🤍 See you on May 26th!

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

The Supreme Court's goal: Make Jim Crow Great Again.

Why did we even need a Voting Rights Act anyway? Well, maybe because a sitting U.S. senator in 1948 called on white Mississippians to use "whatever means are necessary" to deny the vote to Black people. To today's Republicans, those were the good old days. 1/2🧵

This! Protected bike lanes make everyone safer, regardless of mode of travel.

Important read from LaGarrett King on U.S. 250th. "If we restrict our definition to those founders, we ignore the contributions of women, Native Americans, the poor, and Black people who were excluded from these gatherings by racism, sexism, and classism." www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Want to help out with Bike Sox? We're looking for volunteers to help marshal (cork or caboose) our rides. Our route is pretty low key so this is a great way to get into marshaling. If you’re down to help, please fill out this short form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Boosts appreciated too.

Chicago! Like baseball? Like bikes? There’s an intersecting Venn Diagram of baseball bike awesomeness with @chicagobikesox.com. Check their schedule out. Come ride to the game. Much chill group fun to be had.

We’re back on Tuesday, April 28th. Full schedule at chicagobikesox.com 🔊

Pedal for the Planet 2026 is ON! On Saturday, April 25th, join @ctulocal1.bsky.social's Climate Justice Committee and BGN to close out Earth Week in motion. 🚲 Bikes will roll out from Lakeview, Hyde Park, and Wicker Park, all meeting at Douglass Park for birding, trash pickup, and a picnic. 🌱

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Very excited to see them at the Vic on 4/18!

This is sad www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/02/a...

The Hideout has been sold to a new owner who pledges to "continue the legacy." blockclubchi.co/4bvdVI8

Social studies teachers: How are you planning on addressing the Cesar Chavez sexual abuse story breaking in the NYT? How can we help students confront this difficult past, but also better understand that one person does not make a movement? #sschat #edusky

Civics, history, ethnic studies K-12 lessons from the Dolores Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing. Practical, powerful & “designed to inspire action and community engagement“ ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾 #sschat doloreshuerta.org/about-us/les...

Love to Dolores Huerta and survivors everywhere❤️

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

These histories need to be taught and talked about. Their legacies are still greatly a part of our current experience.

Popping Chi Sky, post-storm.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. https://to.pbs.org/47ug2uu