If this were an ebike, the community would be alarmed.

centrists love to be like “when are you socialists going to win regions and states that we centrists currently also don’t win”

trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends

I saw a landlord saying that freezing the rent is GOOD because it will keep tenants in their apartments for longer and that this actually SAVES him money. When tenants move out frequently because they can't afford rent, it costs him to repaint, fix the apartments up again. Time means lost income.

for those of us old enough to remember, the difference in the vibes between then and now simply cannot be described

Every residential intersection should look like this

“Just put the bike lanes on side roads where there’s less traffic.” If the side roads are just as convenient, why can’t drivers use them?

With what you spend on a new car, you could buy a new cargo bike every year and still have money left over. N+1

Me on the North Branch Trail at Touhy.

Car drivers will say “it’s not that long to wait” … so make *them* wait with air conditioning and filtered air and music and a cup holder with their favorite beverage and all their heavy baggage effortlessly stowed. But then they are still incredibly angry about any waiting at all aren’t they?

The corruption is generational and over the top. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

FT: What will Europe’s heatwave cost? Previous heatwaves reduced Europe’s annual GDP by as much as 0.5%, and by more than 1% in southern regions. The current event could be worse, since losses intensify sharply after a critical threshold around 30C... www.ft.com/content/ed26...

You know who doesn't dismiss the impacts of climate change? The insurance industry. 14 years of no claims & yet our home insurance premium quote is 21% higher than last year. UK article but applicable elsewhere #ClimateActionNow www.theguardian.com/business/202...

An early estimate for excess deaths in this heat wave - 1,000 people died in France in just a few days.

I will curse former alderperson Ramirez-Rosa every time I ride Milwaukee through Logan Square, until protected bike lanes are installed between Belmont & Logan. Not one driver leaves 3' of space when passing on that stretch.

Dislike Bill Maher more than ever. Newly hating Van Jones.

Amazing how the tent is big enough for everyone until people who want real progress try to join. They back incumbents who are against abortion but someone who believes the ultra wealthy should be taxed fairly is the enemy. They can't even pretend they care about anything but corporations anymore.

Thinking I'm not going to give business to a restaurant that shits on public transportation in their marketing.

Dangerous to record setting heat will expand across the eastern two-thirds of the nation this week. Be sure to follow your local forecast information from weather.gov and heat.gov

Whenever I speak to a European, it's obvious that they understand the truth of climate change. I think the main difference between them and Americans is that they don't have a Citizens United that allows oil companies to essentially buy a political party (and affiliated networks) to lie to folks

President has been building concentration camps and raping children but this is what finally gets the Democrats out of bed.

Happy Pride Chicago! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ See this page for info on CTA access and detours for the parade. Unfortunately they don't include graphics for the bus detours but affected buses include the 8, 22, 36, 76, 77, 78, 80, 151, and 152. www.transitchicago.com/prideparade/

Chicago has been putting off building a bike grid for over 14 years (since 1999, 27 years).

Loop- bound 🟫 Brown Line trains are standing at Addison due to a sick rider. Crews working to restore service.

Hundreds of thousands of people will line Halsted Street, Belmont Avenue, Broadway, and Diversey Parkway on Sunday for the 55th annual Chicago Pride Parade.

Props to all the people we saw biking on Talcott thos morning, including someone on an Urban Arrow! It's so great to see people biking on the far NW side.

If Chicago were truly the leftist "hellhole" some claim it is, we would have a network of protected bike lanes & shelters for unhoused persons throughout the city.

We know how to stop traffic violence but our elected officials lack the will to effect the change. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills

I'm working on an article about how Week Without Driving has been useful for disability organizations and advocates. If you've got a story to share, l'd like to talk!

The truth is most tradespeople don’t need to drive a van for most jobs. The shrewd ones aren’t complaining about LTNs, they’re getting ahead & reducing costs using cheap agile cargo bikes.

GCN’s output over the last few years has been really interesting. I can’t help feeling that it’s been since the team started having children and trying to get places in what’s fundamentally a hostile environment with them.

From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see.

If you are an old rich actor who wants to give back then you should contact your local Habitat for Humanity chapter and give them one million dollars plus as much of your time as they can make use of.

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

every month most Chicago alderpersons are not aware of or doing anything about Chicago's leadership in housing cost increases

I was on a Zoom call with advocates from Springfield and elsewhere in Ohio yesterday afternoon, and it’s absolutely horrifying and inexcusable what this administration is doing to this community and the lie that Sam Alito told to OK this.

Notice this every time I'm in Europe.

This should result in a lifetime driving ban. This person is a danger to society and shouldn't be allowed to operate a deadly machine.

On Tuesday, a turning SUV driver and a cyclist collided at Irving/Damen/Lincoln. Witnesses, including the 47th Ward infrastructure specialist, say the crash happened around 5:20 PM, when turns from Lincoln are banned. Why wasn't the motorist ticketed? CPD said it happened at 6:34.

To folks running for election or re-election this year: Bike Lane Uprising is *NOT* a non profit. This means we can be as political as we need to be. For folks running and interested in making it safer to bike in Chicago please reach out.

To give perspective on how fast they were removed, the protected bike lanes weren't even up long enough to show up on Google Streetview.

Great piece by @paparidesabike.bsky.social. Too often, our leaders act like change is outside their control when really, it's simply outside their imagination. We have to expand our thinking about what's possible & what can work. We don't have to live this way. chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/...

I rode my bike to the fast-casual shrimp restaurant so I could max out my elitism

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

Enforced bike dependency would limit a lot of disabled people's mobility, it's true. But so does enforced car dependency. A key difference is that enforced car dependency is a thing that is real now & enforced bike dependency is a thing that is hypothetical & has no credible prospect of happening.

Need some help with #content, Milwaukee. What's the best bubbler in/around MKE? Posh/fancy, great flow, some kind of gimmic, whatever. (This pic is not it)

The operative word being "explicitly." They--and for that matter, post-Goldwater Republicans in the U.S. writ large--have always believed these things, and always been this racist (as have a good many Democrats). They just knew there'd be consequences if you got caught. Now, there just ain't.

Trump claimed a saboteur armed with a box cutter caused a 350-foot gash in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool. But the manufacturer behind the project says the issue was simply "finish coat separation" and makes no mention of vandalism, sabotage, or criminal activity.