Listen, I know the housing shortage is killing a great American city, but that really is one of our most historically significant Safeways www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

boooooooooooooooooooo

fraudsters stick together

Christkindlmarket in its true element - snow!

Arrakis, a desert, planet, can you believe it? Some people call it Dune, I call it Arrakis. The SPICE must flow, and quite frankly, it will be flowing much faster than under the failed DUKE LETO. Maybe he was a nice guy, maybe not,I think he was jealous of me! We're looking into that very strongly.

Crucial work highlighting an issue that makes Chicago a smaller, less vibrant, and more segregated place than it could or should be.

What happens when you downzone? Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago. Findings: —Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas; —Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.

Great news! Removal of US DOT/FTA grant provision trying to force cooperation with immigration enforcement based on court ruling.

KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...

All I want for Christmas is a complete set of the Maria Pappas calendars.

This is incredible stuff. Should be the focus of transit agencies nationwide.

Major announcement in just-posted board documents: DC's Metro is moving fast toward automation. Over 15 years, Metro plans full automation & platform screen doors, which the agency says will improve safety, reliability, & travel times—at reduced costs. www.wmata.com/about/board/...

Vile.

We must amend the constitution to constrain the pardon power. This is not compatible with a democratic government or the peaceful transfer of power.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Utter fecklessness. What a way to undermine everyone fighting against the decline of our democracy.

I wish this were parody. We are not governed by serious people. Sadly, we all will pay the price for it.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

What the fuck are we doing here?

Shameful. And in our name.

Those granted use of the state’s monopoly on violence should never glory in it. These thugs need to get out of our city. www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

A message from CTA Acting President Nora Leerhsen: "No service cuts. No layoffs. In fact, CTA will grow."

Live Laugh Love

On Halloween, ‘state-sponsored terror’ in Chicago and the north suburbs www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/31/c...

It actually happened! Oh my! (I’m not crying, you’re crying!)

It’s witness slip time! 🚨 Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately! The attached graphic provides guidance for submitting a slip. mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

Easy to miss given transit news today, but the ILGA also advanced SB1937 through the House executive committee. This would tremendously increase unfunded pension liabilities. Good op-ed about it here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/o...

My story on what is happening in Chicago - Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third largest city www.economist.com/united-state...

1000 pages is a lot of pages. Especially when you’ve already read earlier versions of them 5 times!

"Kids dressed in halloween costumes walking to a parade" do not present an immediate threat to law enforcement officer and riot control measures may not be used, Ellis says.

Bleak. The sad reality of living in Chicago in 2025.

One day, when this national nightmare is over and speaking up has no consequences, everyone will claim they were against this.

Saying (or in this case wearing) the quiet part out loud.

They’re always worried about protestors “blocking the sidewalk” but have no problem blocking the sidewalk with Jersey barriers for weeks.

In Chicago, masked federal agents drive around in unmarked vehicles grabbing mostly brown people off the street. When others object, they’re met with violence and tear gas. Here an agent shoved a woman at full force to the ground

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

I wrote a little bit about what it feels like to live in Chicago right now lauriemerrell.com/posts/dispat...

Beyond parody.

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

chartering a prop plane to fly in circles around dc with a banner that reads “what about the anti deficiency act”

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

Video from witness here from the moment CBP gassed neighbors who had gathered outside after the kidnapping. Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.

The New York Times is bothsidesing the illegal destruction of half of the White House beyond parody

The price of the ballroom has increased by 50% since July, to $300 million. Seems that Trump, too, suffers from the US’s massive construction cost overrun problem… at an accelerated speed.

Lawless and unconstitutional, not "reprogramming"

Density is conservation.

Not sure why this image is so shocking, given everything he’s done but: it’s shocking! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Incredible photo from yesterday's #nokings protests by Olga Fedorova for AP