WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

Good morning from Chicago City Hall, where the meeting of the City Council's Rules Committee, scheduled for 9:45 a.m., has yet to start. Nor has the City Council meeting set for 10 a.m. started. I invite you to follow along, assuming these meetings ever start. @wttw.bsky.social

Bologna lowered its speed limit to 30 km/h (19 mph). Italy’s right-wing government declared war. In Bloomberg, I explored how street safety became a political issue in Europe, much like in the US. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Today is the big day! Join us tonight 9/25 to celebrate 8 yrs +Speakers: Department of Finance, 8th & 19th Police Precinct District Council Reps, & Alder Ruth Cruz +Live performance by Badwolff +DJ Greedy +Silent auction +Reflective jackets +Portraits +🍕🧁 www.bikelaneuprising.com/events/bike-...

Semi-regular reminder that a sane country would have already impeached and removed. But then again a sane country wouldn’t have elected a maniac criminal twice in the first place.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Any distance is walkable as long as it's from a parked car.

Good to know

Imagine if VP Kamala Harris did this.

american men must be WARRIORS and do PULL UPS and drink RAW MILK and DEFEND WOMEN but ESCALATORS are TERRIFYING DEATH TRAPS, you will get KILLED on the BUS and i have NIGHTMARES about CARJACKINGS

Also I continue to be enraged by those CTA bus "step back!" announcements. CTA bus drivers regularly close pass me on Milwaukee north of Irving - those fucking announcments should play inside, to the driver.

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

Last week, thousands of volunteers knocked on more than 100,000 doors across the five boroughs — the first time we've crossed that single week milestone since June. We can't stop now: zohranfornyc.com/sixweeks

Thursday, September 25 - Hands Off Chicago 10/18 / 2025 IL Bills / Support the RACE ACT

A W for Illinois AG Kwame Raoul and 20 other AGs in one of their many, many legal fights vs the Trump administration chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

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CW: pet death 7:05 am commute via Milwaukee Ave: no idea how many people biking, because as I rode past Belle Plaine I saw the fresh remains of a beautiful orange tabby killed by a driver, inches from the curb. I sobbed for a half mile afterward. Fuck cars.

~4am today: video shared to social media by a neighbor shows an early morning raid with flash grenades on a house in Cicero. Border Patrol agents are on the scene, including one who looks a lot like Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino, seen alongside a person filming.

Perfectly said.

"These are the facts of American history. They are not distortions, nor is displaying this information at national parks ideologically motivated. These and similar facts explain much about our nation." slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is your must read of the day. "The neurogeneticist Stanley Nelson once said, 'If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.' Researchers increasingly believe the search for a cause of a singular 'autism' is misguided. There are autisms, rather than just autism."

This report on how DOGE operated and the chaos they unleashed isn't exactly new stuff, but a few months after I stopped working on the story, it is a reminder of how nuts it was: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

🧊🚨✈️ HAPPENING NOW 🐊 👉 Landing at the Everglades Concentration Camp The same Omni 767 (tail: N705KW) that was turned away from Venezuela earlier today‼️ Presumably still full of Venezuelan nationals 👀

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

Did you know? People can & do ride bikes to medical appointments (when it’s safe to do so, when density makes the trips reasonable in length & when there’s places to park bikes). Forced car dependency isn’t great for any of us.

Biking home, I watched a driver blow through a stop sign at full speed to race to a red light. No worries folks, after stopping for a few seconds the driver went right through the red light. Thank goodness they didn't let a silly traffic signal slow down their drive.

Trump couldn’t understand why “people didn’t understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time.” Wow. Wow. Wow.

Stanley Cup finals: 2.5M NCAA Men’s Final Four: 15M World Series: 15.8M NBA finals: 16.4M Oscars: 19.7M Jimmy Kimmel: 26M

American Airlines grounded all flights this morning due to a “tech glitch” otherwise known as a “Sean Duffy”. Since Duffy became FAA head delays, groundings and crashes have become commonplace. My wife and I are flying American out of Houston in the morning. Maybe. Travel sucks these days #ProudBlue

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

Wow the comments on Ald. Cruz's post about bike lanes: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CZG...

Every single American will be paying almost $59 each to bailout Argentina. Is that what you voted for? #MakeArgentinaGreatAgain

🇪🇸 A plane carrying Spanish Defense Minister suffered GPS interference near Kaliningrad, — Reuters. Also on board were relatives of Spanish pilots participating in a new NATO air defense mission on the eastern flank.

📉 Russia's national defense spending will fall from a post-Soviet high of 13.5 trillion rubles in 2025 to 12.6 trillion rubles in 2026, — Reuters. ‼️ Economic growth is expected to fall to 1% from 4.3% last year. The budget deficit will be 2.6% of national GDP.

Tick, tock. Lindsey Halligan, the newly-installed prosecutor in EDVA, has less than a week to secure an indictment against James Comey before a key statute of limitations runs out. Ben Wittes and I examine her charging options. Spoiler alert: they all suck. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Broadview officials are demanding that ICE tear down a fence it erected around its facility after high-profile protests. The fences block emergency access for local firefighters and were not permitted, the village’s acting fire chief wrote.

Please note that all the outlets now correcting their narrative re: ICE killing Silverio Villegas González since FPPD body cams have been released initially published the DHS statement now proven to be mostly false. There's never any understanding/admission of harm done. They'll just do it again.

Car dependency is an extreme ideology that destroys cities. The moderate position is prioritizing pedestrians,bikes and transit over cars.

China announces it will reduce its carbon emissions by 7 to 10% from peak levels (i.e., now) by 2035. This is the first emissions reductions pledge from the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and a hugely important step forward.

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y'all, I need more ADU petition signatures from people in the 37th Ward, and 60651, 60644, 60639, and 60624 ZIP codes if you know someone there, please text them this link! actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

for no reason in particular, just thinking about all those times cops claimed baristas wrote something offensive on their cup and it turned out the cop wrote it

“We just want things fixed and done in a timely manner. We shouldn’t have to live like this in our senior years.” Inside the Tenant Union Federation's bold new campaign ⬇️

I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

NEW: Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.

Damn the responses to this are a long chain of people with zero concept about the cost of road maintenance.

I’m beyond bored with forced car dependency. Forced car dependency is bad and we really need to interrogate & fix it. Designing our cities around cars is unsafe, expensive, bad for the climate & our own health. We can do better.