One of our travel bars is not in the cupboard with the other travel bar.

Chicago has a Green Infrastructure Strategy (GIS) proposal to help mitigate stormwater flooding. The portal is accepting public comment in case anyone has thoughts on stormwater:

"In many ways we are still slaves to the notion that it will never get better. But I think that there is hope." Isidore Dharma Douglass Skinner Descendants of Frederick Douglass read from ""What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" and add their thoughts. www.npr.org/2020/07/03/8...

Yes, close your blinds, don't use your oven, wear a tank top indoors!

My Con Law professor was a Jesuit priest who chose to leave the US Congress because the Church said to him: it's Us or Them, not both. Based on his opinions in that class, he'd have some pretty salty things to say right now.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

I just excitedly texted this to my Mom.

You know what? This is also true to my experience all 8ish years of living in and around DC. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/july-3-fri... (her description of the fireworks on the Mall from college also—sans wine—tracks with mine.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

I have a friend who celebrates his birthday by paying restaurant tabs/bar tabs for random tables. I love that. I have extremely mild opinions about the celebrity wedding but I like that the celebration is being marked by their making sizeable gifts to food pantries, the Imagination Library &c.

Pretty sure this is an "old man yells at cloud" opinion, but I want my invitations to stuff in my email not text. I get these partiful invites and then I never know where to find them or completely forget to go to stuff because it never made it onto my calendar. Put my out to pasture, party people.

Lawson is seeking to designate Belmont from Cambridge to Southport a "pedestrian street" which I fully support, but would rather see it designated a "transit-oriented development" street (although that's only marginally better) Developments on P Streets must "orient toward the sidewalk and street"

Manteno Illinois where the Vintage Purse Museum is having a ribbon cutting 7/15 is reachable by the River Valley Mass Transit Midway Commuter but the museum is a 3-mile walk from the Manteno Mass Transit Center. But the River Valley Mass Transit E 2nd Street bus #9 will get you there in 8 stops!

This guy who just got on the bus smells more heavily of cigarettes than my Grandma Annie's two flat. Once upon a time, society was making progress

Don't forget that aside from Chicago being the poster city for "lawlessness" since the Capone era, it's also a favorite racist dog whistle for the right.

I also vastly prefer Chicago to Winston-Salem.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Cut my first #PuffAndPencil toile today but I'm still in vacation mode. Mostly just relaxing, hanging with friends. Reminding myself which day of the week it is.

"and possible increases in traffic congestion, availability of parking and pollution." then advocate for lower parking minimums, safe pedestrian & cycling infrastructure and expanded transit. Don't want more traffic? Make it a pain to drive and easier not to, don't sue to prevent density.

If you don't care about the humanity of trans people for the sake of the humanity of trans people, what the fuck is wrong with you?

fuck 'em all, they're the dying gasps of an old world "there are two important things to remember about the coming revolutions. the first is that we will get our asses kicked. the second is that we will win."

Celebrate DC statehood with the first annual DC state fair

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

Gremlin has absolutely EMBRACED the "time has no meaning anymore" new normal.

The whiplash is crazy and also is the best argument for EXPAND THE COURT AND VOID THE LAST DECADE OF DECISIONS. YES even the "good" ones.

We should adopt a Constitutional amendment vacating all of its decisions without stopping to consider which are good and which are bad; that will only cause delay. The new expanded court can rehear whatever's in question again.

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

Balm for a bad news Monday: Great story - with lots of pics - from Crain's Dennis Rodkin on how huge pieces of stone ornament from Adler & Sullivan's Walker Warehouse, 70+ years after demolition, were discovered dumped on the Chicago shoreline. www.chicagobusiness.com/real-estate/...

Listen to Morgan Freeman discuss his upcoming collaboration with Taj and the Symphonic Blues Experience on the @todayshow.com at the link below. 🪕 www.today.com/video/morgan...

I very much do recognize the irony of volunteering to manage a social calendar *no-one^ asked for.

Gave @lizzyisi.bsky.social the honor of turning this one off. I'm off the self-inflected hook of getting up to make pre-work coffee!

The literal oldest article of clothing I own is a wool & fur cape and hood from the 1890s that my first mother-in-law gave me. But the oldest "new" clothes I have is a dress my sister got in 1986 which I immediately permanently borrowed.

I think about thing like this a lot these days.

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Anyway, this is your reminder that the Democratic Party did not win marriage equality. The tireless work of activists did.

Private money has private goals, and no matter how they might line up with public good, they aren't the same.

If any of my Chicago transit mutuals know how I could get my hands on an XL "All Aboard " tee that the CTA folks are wearing at the Pride Parade this year, I'd appreciate the answer.

When people say "bikes" they don't typically mean "just get on a bike and ride everywhere, loser." What they mean is that in a country where the more than half of all local trips are 3 miles or less, our government could do a lot more to make it safe for people to choose to bike if they want.

it wouldve been funny if goldfinger wasnt a movie and just a crazy song about a guy shirley bassey made up

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Happy Pride. I can hear someone's disco party through my windows. I feel looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove

Propose & workshop your own legislation (bills and ordinances) at our first Lab on Monday, 6/29 in Lakeview RSVP please!

Decided against the third location suggested last night b/c the W-E, diagonal transit in Chicago really really sucks, esp. after midnight and trying to games buses to go East & North after midnight is a bummer way to end the evening.

IL raising the age at which you’re required to retake a road test to renew your license but imo we should make everyone retake ever 8-12 years always cause lots of people love to yell at me about their perceived rules of the road while they drive dangerously

This is a great message for a postcard to send to the Mayor. www.chicago.gov/city/en/gene...

On a boat near where The Fire started

As I was saying, getting drivers to do the right safe thing is harder than is rational

Done.

And this is also why traffic laws & enforcement alone absolutely cannot create safety/pleasant environments near streets, nor reduce congestion/pollution/crashes. Or change any driver behavior at all. You have to make it physically difficult to speed. To change drivers, you have to change driving