The University of Iowa has a long history of expanding access and advancing intellectual freedom. Closing the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and African American Studies departments undermines that legacy. UI alumni: add your name to this open letter and share it widely. #HandsoffGWSS

On my commute into work this morning, I noticed a woman outside the bus window struggling along an unshoveled sidewalk while pushing a stroller.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

This is exceptionally good news to wake up to.

We saved transit.

Chicago has *more* households than *ever*—but 900,000 *fewer* residents than it had at its peak in 1950!

Another day, another 4500 word anti trans scree from the New York Times.

Chicago Pride Parade 2025 🌈 Here’s what you need to know: blockclubchi.co/4nqEdk8

Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American. 🧵1/

It’s transgender day of visibility but visibility as a means to security and safety is a lie. Solidarity must be built from a foundation that surpasses the visual/understandable. #tdov #tdov2025 #transartist

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

So apparently the AP Human Geography site is culling some of its "daily videos" for class use. A teacher tells me the videos on redlining and white flight are gone. In the screenshot below, you can see the Daily Videos start with no. 2 (no. 1 on this page was redlining, and it's gone now).

Love #BikeTheDrive? Join our team and help us make it another unforgettable experience for thousands of cyclists! We're also are hiring for two paid internships. activetrans.org/about-us/our...

As a transportation policy analyst and regional planner, I’ve found @cnt.org to be an invaluable resource for research, tools, and solutions to create sustainable and equitable communities. Now they’re on BlueSky! If you’re not already following them, you should!

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Elon Musk's claim that federal workers who ignore a mass email will lose their job isn't supported by the email's request — or OPM guidance that says responses to its mass emails are "voluntary."

Defeating the authoritarian threat demands that we rise to the challenge of solidarity and refuse to bend to efforts to break apart our coalition by attacking our most vulnerable allies. Trans and nonbinary Americans — and our democracy — depend on it.

Super Bowl ad drives home the critical point: When it comes to acting on climate change #lateristoolate. But SOLUTIONS EXIST. If we act now, we can help protect the people and places we love. Bravo Science Moms & Potential Energy Coalition 🌏🏈

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025) We will keep up the good work. Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece can’t erase the scale of what they’ve done.

"But maybe the biggest reason for Trump’s desire to kill the congestion charge is a phenomenon I identified the last time I wrote about this: the rage some Americans obviously feel at any suggestion that people should change their behavior for the common good." Via @pkrugman.bsky.social

He's weak. Most people don’t approve of him. MAGA majority in Congress is slim. He’s losing in the courts. So he wants you to believe he is a king. #DontBelieveHim He wants you exhausted. Don't let him overwhelm you. #resist #rest #persist Worth the 13 minutes. By @ezraklein.bsky.social

Credit: @domandink on Instagram

As governor of Illinois, I’ve made it my mission to make our state the best to call home including for our LGBTQ+ community. No matter who you are or who you love, everyone deserves dignity and equality. Hate has no home here.

NEW: We pulled together briefings for civil servants to provide them with news, resources, and analysis of the Trump Administration's attacks on the federal workforce including ways to plan for what happens next. Read our Dear Civil Servant series here: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/separating-t…

Exactly.

NEWS: A Census employee tells me that the National Crime Victimization Survey—conducted for DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics—and National Health Interview Survey—conducted for the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics—have already been altered to fit with Trump's anti-trans censorship.

Wow, I didn't know this.

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov" The national archives is still doing its job for now.

Look out for your friends

The Trump administration purports to talk about ‘biological realities,’ but demonstrates that they lack any understanding of the relevant science. www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/t...

Newly launched, starting in Chicago: Landlord Mapper, an ambitious resource meant to aid tenant organizing and increase transparency of rental property ownership. The site combines rote ownership info with network graphs of likely related entities, building violation info, etc. landlordmapper.org

Trumps executive orders "could imperil billions of dollars in funding for projects that states have already begun working on... for everything from roads and bridges to broadband and withstanding the effects of climate change." This could get messy. h/t @yfreemark.bsky.social

I’m continually impressed by my sister-in-law’s insight and advocacy. Her latest article is a must-read for anyone looking to be a genuine ally to trans and nonbinary people. I encourage everyone to take a moment to read, reflect, and share this important message!

NEW: When the 1st Trump admin proposed a rule allowing homeless shelters to turn trans people away, congressional Dems were furious Now, it’s unclear how much Dems would push back if it happens again It’s “a complicated issue,” one senior House Dem told me www.notus.org/policy/trans...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

"The goal of targeting trans women’s participation in sports is to create a federal law that declares trans women are men. Once that precedent is established, then the laws can become more restrictive until it’s no longer legally viable to exist as a trans person under federal law." 👇

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

I wrote about regulations today, and how courts took SCOTUS's message that they're free to do with them what they want now. The reason we know this: Judge Richard Griffin said so. "Applying Loper Bright means we can end the FCC’s vacillations,"he wrote in striking down the net-neutrality rule.

Americans are ~2.5x more likely to die in a crash than a Canadian, ~3.5x more likely than a Spaniard, and ~5x more likely than a Japanese person. Here are a few of the articles I wrote in 2024 trying to understand why the US is uniquely terrible at road safety. 🧵

Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said that federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is about how the undermining of public goods for private profit is willfully destructive to communities

Just read the response from Costco to shareholders requesting it back down from DEI. It was glorious. It begins "Our Board has considered this proposal and believes … an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary." and gets better. A happy investor #diversityandinclusion

I think about this tweet all the time