@brandon4chicago.bsky.social @mayorofchicago.bsky.social was surrounded by experts in their field ready to work while campaigning. They worked tireless to put him in the Fifth Floor on a progressive platform. After he got elected they all got sidelined. The result is terrible outcomes for residents.

What gets me the most about the @chicagocta.bsky.social is the inconsistency. Yesterday the Red Line was maintaining 5 min headways. It’s a Sunday and now there isn’t a tracked Red Line for … over 20 min. Super Bowl Sunday can’t be the reason I hope.

@chicagosmayor.bsky.social has demonstrated a truly insane incapacity to lead. The @ctulocal1.bsky.social and United Working Families should be absolutely horrified by this. Sadly I feel like two of the biggest progressive political orgs in Chicago also don’t care.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

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Building dense housing near transit is THE most green thing a local politician has immediate power to implement, after maybe just funding transit.

With the most robust rail network in the American Midwest, Chicago has the 2nd largest number of car-free households of any metro area (behind only NYC) Most of those households live around the L, especially the Red Line and western parts of the Blue & Green Lines

The eastern shore of Lake Michigan - between South and Grand Haven - is loaded with mountain ranges of ice 😱

One of my favorite things about Madison is how much people love gathering outdoors. This is 17 degrees atop an ice-covered lake for the Frozen Assets Festival.

It’s wild that Kamala Harris is trying to Jerry rig her failed presidential campaign back together while her running mate’s state is under attack by the Feds. I haven’t seen shit from her about the attack. Why isn’t she in MSP being the opposition? It reeks of the emptiness of Dem leadership.

Is there a potential role for the never-built express tracks the line was originally designed to include? Can we move stations to eliminate those awful open-air ramps? Can we add a proper turn back facility at Western so today’s UIC short-turns can also serve the hospitals and a future Western BRT?

NYC and LA definitely have two of the best city hall buildings in the USA. I tried to visit LA’s once and was kept out. I cannot wait to stop by NYC’s on my next visit!

Walking and biking around seems like a great way for kids to burn off energy.

Many, many municipalities in the Midwest have made these kinds of third spaces illegal. And while we’re lucky to have so many left, it’s often next to impossible to re-open them once they’re closed. Urbanists need to have serious conversations about bars and nightlife if we want to save cities.

If people don’t feel safe using transit, sidewalks, or biking then people will drive. But the health and vibrancy of our communities, and the need to lower emissions, is dependent on us making more transportation choices viable. That can’t happen with ICE and DHS terrorizing communities.

#GVerse #Chicago It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti- #FuckICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Really is both vindicating and infuriating how people have been telling us for the past two years that it would never snow in Chicago again. #PlowTheSidewalks

Catherine O’Hara wardrobe polaroids from Second City, 1983. RIP an absolute legend & icon💔

Documentary calls U.S. military world’s worst polluter. "...carbon pollution isn’t the only kind of pollution the military generates. ....it’s ...the dumping of toxic waste, the legacy contamination, that... is... killing people every day.’” www.commondreams.org/news/us-mili...

Honestly, shout out to @glamourcadaver.bsky.social and @clubchow.bsky.social: their sets have driven some of the most impactful transportation policy work in Chicago in… decades(?). Give em a listen. Honorable mention to Madeline and Jacob Meehan (who don’t have bsky).

Notably, NOT Eileen O’Niel Burke! Who apparently is just fine with all of this.

When it snows, it stings. #PlowTheSidewalks was a bread & butter issue that would’ve improved quality of life on Chicago, and Brandon Johnson ran on. Unfortunately @chicagosmayor.bsky.social surrounded himself by dipshit bros once in office. It could’ve tone shift, but Johnson fucked it up. 1/

@chicagosmayor.bsky.social, look Zorhan is out doing you again! And NYC isn’t the winter weather city Chicago is. This could’ve been you. This is why people love him and not you. @ctulocal1.bsky.social how did you squander this mayoralty? Simple things to win hearts and minds, lost. #PlowTheSidwalks

Any snow or ice on the sidewalks that isn’t shoveled today will be with us for at least a week if not longer. This is why we said #PlowTheSidewalks. It’s why @chicagosmayor.bsky.social ran on it. Why he chose not to implement the pilot is a real question. @ctulocal1.bsky.social do you know!? 🤔🤔🤔

Toni Preckwinkle has called for the abolition of ICE.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.

Now, we're hearing from @michealpodgers.bsky.social on the game-changing Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act, signed by @govpritzker.illinois.gov - a model for the country.

A hope-affirming 🧵 I’m in awe of the Minnesotans

Ah, 23 years old! Last year we can call this baddie a ‘twink’ before it entered mid-20s territory.

Stop using ring cameras! Ffs. futurism.com/future-socie...

🚨 Metra will run a Saturday-ish schedule this Friday due to the extreme cold. HC, SWS, and NCS will have limited service. Check your schedules here: metra.com/schedules

I stepped outside today and went “woah it’s so warm.” It’s 31 degrees. The Midwest really does make a hell of a human.

Dear neighbor, We are seeing an increase in immigration enforcement and federal agents across South Minneapolis. This includes the sighting of Bovino at 34th and Cedar. There’s definitely an uptick compared to the last few days. 1/

Growing up with access to robust transit, a bike, relatively safe streets, and a connected sidewalk network I can say this is absolutely a game changer. Independence from basically 12 years old on made my life richer and more fulfilling. I know that’s not the case for most teens—they deserve better

Extremely underrated reason to support a robust evening and night economy: by drawing people out, it means more transit riders at down times. It’s a good thing to have an active and public community. It brings people together, improves quality of life, and keeps people safe.

The far-right has an incredibly poor understanding of history, which is clouded by the belief in “might is right.” Might only allows you to be a bully. Even if your opponent is smaller, technically weaker, and unprepared eventually they punch back. And enough punches eventually takes you down.

Take down your fucking ring cameras. You’re not catching the person who stole your Amazon package, but you are feeding the surveillance state.

Making a pot of tea to prepare for my ritual reading of Letter from Birmingham Jail (Reposting with better link) www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.

70% of all Harris voters in 2024 and 65% of all self identified Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide 60% of Democrats believe Israel kills children intentionally and whopping 77% overall have a negative view of Israel.

Hmmmmm so we have machines narrow enough to #PlowTheSidewalks. Wild.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

I don’t understand how all these professional and college athletes can continue to accept invitations to Trump’s White House. I don’t care if it’s cause they won something, attendance is complicity and they and their teams need to be shamed and boycotted.

My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for a dramatic change of tactics by major media to produce "radically truthful” news that defeats the right-wing disinformation industry. Right now, the media are getting slam-dunked by fascist liars. Here’s a thread with my 10 main points. 🧵🧵🧵

Combined Divvy + Lime exceeded 60K trips/day on dozens of summer Fridays & Saturdays in 2025, with two days topping 70K+! Weekend peaks are where system limits show up fastest: full/empty stations & rebalancing pressure. That data is guiding where we add stations and bike parking in 2026.