I bought 1,500 ladybugs to try to take care of the aphid problem in our apple tree. The ladybug army is on the move 🐞🐞🐞

“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

Evanston’s bike lanes are frequently blocked by illegally parked vehicles. Paint/flex posts are not protection, and as this video shows, enforcement is inconsistent and temporary. Church and Davis need concrete barriers before someone on bike- like a child going to the library- is injured or killed.

Shocking video today in Evanston of an EPD officer responding to a cyclist reporting a truck blocking a bike lane in a tow zone area. He asked the cyclist “would you rather have him block the street?” YES! Bike lanes are streets for bikes, streets are streets for trucks and cars. It’s unacceptable.

Absolutely amazing student reporting here by @thedailynu.bsky.social on Evanston Police violating city ordinances to go out of their way to assist ICE.

The @chicagotribune.com editorial board has a pointed message to Evanston and Wilmette residents still distraught by Northwestern's new Ryan Field

Still incomplete and still not perfect but the new Brooklyn Bridge-Centre Street bikeway link is a symbol of the no issue too small, can-do spirit of the mayoral new administration. #BikeNYC

The conduct of US Attorney Andrew Boutros in the Broadview Six case has raised serious concerns about the integrity of the office he leads. Prosecutorial credibility is based on public trust — and Boutros has shattered that trust. He should resign.

We don't need to choose between protecting tenants and building more housing. Between fighting for NYCHA residents and homeowners. Between leading with the values that got us here and addressing the housing crisis.   Block by block, we can do it all.

This is some incredible and troubling reporting by NU students!

NEW: For the last 7 months, I've been digging into how Evanston police responded to federal immigration enforcement. I found EPD's behavior — as one activist put it — to be "distressing." Read my full investigation, "Out of Bounds," in our web interactive: apps.dailynorthwestern.com/outofbounds/

I hope their lawyers charged them a huge amount for this inarguable logic: “City law … unambiguously includes the mayor in its definition of ‘the Council’ as a body of ten members,” plaintiffs write in their arguments. “Thus, under inarguable arithmetic, a ‘majority of the council’ is six people.”

the real permanent underclass is being born after 1970

What if taxing the rich works?

Expanding Yellow Line service in Evanston with new infill station(s) is the subject of this article from the Daily Northwestern, featuring supportive quotes from 8th and 9th Ward Council Members Matt Rodgers and Juan Geracaris, as well as ETA’s own Rob Keding! dailynorthwestern.com/2026/05/25/c...

I remember when people told me 100% affordable housing at Emmet St, or the Banco Popular site were unrealistic and impossible. I remember when I was told Community Land Trusts and demolition impact surcharges were unrealistic. Same people who tell me an equitable version of BUILD is unrealistic.

Single-family & other zoning rules fueled segregation BUT deregulation without significant $$ and tools for equity inadequate on affordability for the lowest income & racial equity. Insights from @tonydamiano.bsky.social on supply realism (limits of zoning reform alone) doi.org/10.1080/1051...

Our Chicago pope quoting Tolkien is among the most Chicago pope things he’s done.

The YIMBY movement needs more productive conversations like this about displacement in order to succeed, otherwise it’s Libertarianism by another name. Aaron’s suggestions are all good. The anti-displacement policies Evanston is discussing include vacancy taxes, targeted demolition surcharges…

@mayor.nyc.gov: “I have thought often of the "Margeret Thatcher quote: ‘the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess."

We need a quadrant graph of left/right YIMBY/NIMBY. Up until recently I thought all YIMBY was left, so it didn’t occur to me there was a divide.

enjoying the nithya raman vertical drama ads so much

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

Rest In Poverty GyG. Australians doing brownface in the US should face worse penalties than losing $30m

Anti-Popeyes protesters successfully fought off a Popeyes from opening at Dempster & Dodge last fall, led by an alternative medicine practitioner/religious nonprofit that ended up buying the building while pitching a 'healthier' option with a budding restaurateur That too has now fallen through

building an ADU in a liminal space does anyone need anything

A judge in California ruled the Kars4Kids jingle can no longer be broadcast there, finding the nonprofit violated false advertising laws. The funds don’t go to needy children. Instead, the organization bought a $6.5 million building in Israel and uses the donations to send Jewish teenagers there.

Hundreds of millions of $$$ of our tax dollars but we can’t fund the basics.

$5+ gas in Evanston, Illinois. Woof.

More material for the Popeyes oral history @alexhairysun.bsky.social @mattheweadie.bsky.social

As bad as your community may be, imagine having to face the NIMBY Mick Jagger.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

As Skokie once again discusses extending the Yellow Line to Old Orchard (a great idea- which ETA strongly supports), rebuilding stations along the existing rail line in South Evanston has never seemed more timely. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/12/s...

AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO PAY HIS OWN WAY THROUGH THE U OF C WITH STUDENT LOANS this is great and I approve www.wbez.org/education/20...

It shouldn’t be difficult to pair zoning reform with anti-displacement policy. Given what happened with HB1814 last year, it would’ve been wise for Pritzker’s team to have addressed it in SB4060. Hopefully they can work with allies like Omar Aquino to come up with an amended version.

Meg Stalter Oh Mary get me OUTTA HERE this is not a drill!!

Congrats and thanks to the tremendous zoning reform advocates in Evanston on this monumental win! The 7-2 vote on our SHP will likely lead to us being the first in IL to legalize multi-family housing next year. Real housing reform takes a large amount of time and energy. Hopefully IL will follow!

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender. AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

regarding IML's counterproposal to the BUILD plan (the Illinois Municipal League version of the initialism)...

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

At Rep. Lauren Underwood’s brunch on the river today, Rep. AOC and IL-9 nominee and Evanston mayor Daniel Biss with a brief conversation Lots of big names in attendance, as you can see from this table alone

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

“I’m done with the responsibility of having a big house,” said Barbara Bird, a longtime Evanston resident. Currently living in an ADU behind her daughter’s house, Bird said ADUs and small homes show “Evanston is on the right path with housing, trying to make more options for people like me to stay.”

Who doesn’t love a bike bus? 👁️ 💜 🚲 🚌 @evanstoneta.bsky.social

Time’s up for bad landlords Karan Singh & Rajmattie Persaud.

Leveling the power dynamics

New from me: Turns out we can move parking meters en masse w/o violating the terms of a 2008 sale of our meters. The deal's terms are restrictive, loopholes are closed, and city council mismanagement has led to $161M in costs. I have a way to fix that. citythatworks.substack.com/p/lets-move-...