A single three-mile downtown tunnel could directly connect the new Quantum Park to Union Station, Ogilvie, five different CTA ‘L’ lines, and create a fully integrated single-transfer trip to both airports in under an hour. That’s the power of regional rail. That’s why we need to #BuildTheTunnel.

The "Gaza ceasefire" is a period of reduced intensity in terms of Israeli attacks. For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing. Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

Not to sound like a stuck record, but '400 jobs to be lost in city as car plant/steel works/aerospace facility closes' would be treated somewhat differently, I suspect.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Elite media could publish on CUNY or UMBC and not even have to leave town.

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Astonishing finds excavated at Berenike in Egypt include Buddha images & other artifacts from India and some made locally in Indian style, plus a bilingual Sanskrit & Greek dedicatory inscription found near a marble Buddha head in an Isis temple courtyard. publications.dainst.org/journals/jdi...

CNN ANCHOR: As President Trump's approval ratings drop, how can Democrats harness the protest movements we see today? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Well I call him President Parachute Pants ok? Too much ballroom. Yet he's fumbling the ball of protecting healthcare. So I urge all Americans to obey federal agents.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

jeffries not only knows that this is a lie—he's demonstrated that he knows it's a lie because when a backbencher dem tried to introduce articles of impeachment it caused a panic in dem leadership who immediately bullied the guy into dropping the impeachment motion

It’s exhausting to keep demanding better from establishment Dems too beholden to capital to ever challenge the billionaire elite’s GOP puppets. We’re wasting time as our democracy crumbles into dust. Instead, we should vote them out & replace them with reps who WILL vote to impeach Hegseth

Not only do Dems need to make sure Trump admin lawbreakers get punished, but offering to give people like this their old jobs back (with bonuses/extra compensation for being illegally fired) will be essential to the #2ndreconstruction.

Felt very Left Hand of Darkness pulling my package wagon along this expanse of ice. I lost my balance a couple times but never fell!

#Plowthesidewalks because northwest side landlords do a half-assed job

Now imagine if the train came every 7.5 minutes because we took four existing Metra lines, ran them half-hourly, coordinated their schedules, and connected them down the same corridor. That’s CrossTowner regional rail. And that’s why we need to #BuildTheTunnel. 🔗 www.yard-social.com/crosstowners

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

So no actually I never heard of any of those reindeer until you started singing about Rudolph.

I REMEMBER. In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly. I remember weeping. I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS". I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP. And finally the miracle of modern therapy. Rise up for World AIDS day.

Get from the Chicago Loop to Hyde Park in 11 minutes with this one weird trick.

Whether Chicago takes on municipal-level responsibility for sidewalk plowing or not, why do they not plow their own sidewalks today? Milwaukee Ave overpass over the Kennedy, Sunday afternoon.

Can you use AI to do your drawings? Sure, in the sense that anything is edible once.

Who is more likely to be unemployed 15 months after graduation the Philosopher or the Physicist? The answer may not be what you think

they panicked for a bit, after losing on gay marriage, and just tried every other iteration of every wedge issue they could think of, so it's very much on the liberals for choosing to fall for the one that targets me and mine for abuse and elimination fucking idiots, learn one lesson

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

cta is planning on making the orange line run 24 hours a day!! imo they should take the opportunity to through-run brown & orange line trains (at least overnight) so that everything from kimball to midway can be 24 hour. they already run occasional rush hour trains like that!!

This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868. A young black former Union soldier named John Henry was among a group of convicts sent from Richmond to West Virginia to blast a railroad tunnel, where he would soon die. Let's talk about the real John Henry!!!

Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU! Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling... What's up first? CHESS! December 1 (1/24) Here's last year's extra-shiny offering: bsky.app/profile/drka...

The T’s dedication to slow zone removal has led to pretty dramatic ridership improvements. It’s a model that should be emulated elsewhere. Picture unrelated

And to be clear, the mayor's 2026 proposal is not just a "no police cuts" budget -- it's a budget in which CPD (already the city's most expensive dept. by far) received a larger year-over-year net increase of non-grant funds than any other dept. Larger than most other departments' entire budgets!

Thank god we stopped cancel culture

It was taazeh-gu'i wasn't it

The manufactured AI-craze is a case where, actually, a little stigmatization is a good thing. Was in a meeting recently & someone admitted (w/ a look-how-clever-I-am vibe) that they had used ChatG*T for something. Several of us became visibly uncomfortable, & the person quickly started backtracking.

Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.

Just saw a mother with several small children and a stroller struggling to get through the snow. If we were to #PlowTheSidewalks it would benefit everyone, no matter how they get around.

"Why don't kids go outside anymore?!" Kids outside:

Shout-out to CTA for not shoving Christmas stuff in our faces until after Thanksgiving.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild. Snapping turtle (US) Alligator (US) Soft shelled turtle (US) Weasel (Egypt) Hippopotamus (Niger)

Two vast and trunkless legs (only one unpacked)

I do exactly that, every single semester. Most of my students appreciate it, but the ones that don't, hoo boy. Also doesn't help that I'm actively at odds with many of my colleagues, too.

Well that's... metal. ما بهِ قَتْلُ أعاديهِ ولكِنْ يَتّقي إخلافَ ما ترْجو الذّئابُ He doesn't have it in him to kill his foes, but then, he doesn't want to let the [vultures] down. Little tidbit I ran into reading Lara Harb's Arabic Poetics. (I replaced wolves w/ vultures b/c that's easier to get in English.)

Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?

James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars. Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.

PSA: there was a real person named Lancelot Capability Brown, who designed landscape gardens, in case you're moping around the Wednesday before Thanksgiving not sure what to do with yourself.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Randomly remembered this gem from Reddit

We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now. "Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.

I actually like New York pizza better but if I didn't live where this stuff is freely available I'd take every opportunity to get some.

I think I come at this film from a very different direction.