Guys I think it's possible some people on bsky are annoying, has anyone covered this

When I write about how urbanism is about restoring a body of wisdom and practice about how to build places, I’m not being “unironic” or trying to appeal to conservatives or whatever. I just mean it and think it is the most accurate way to state the case. www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/silver-spr...

I think this is directionally correct and honestly I'm less concerned about what it means for the left's take on AI than I am for the left's ability to metabolize new information and changing circumstances generally www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

I just published a new version of the People over Parking Act map that includes a bunch of cities that will have parking mandates removed around transit. It was kind of complex to implement the statute using gtfs, would definitely appreciate some peer review! misterclean.github.io/illinois-peo...

Hey, I haven't always included the source of a historic photo/image that I've posted on social media, but I do now. Maybe you haven't either. That's okay! We are figuring a lot of this stuff out in real time, which includes developing best practices as we are presented with new challenges.

I have a new piece out today in Phenomenal World, on the economics of a freeze in NYC regulated rents. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

Some data viz with CC-- One way of looking at shifting patterns of segregation: In 1990, something like 1/3 of Census tracts in the city of Chicago were >~95% Black. In 2023, there were virtually zero tracts at that level. Otoh, 2000 tracts that were <10% Black have seen virtually no increase

not to belittle how cool this is but they essentially took a modern townhouse plan and slapped a 1BR where the garage would be. who'da thunk?! if you stack a bunch of these in a larger building I think they're called maisonettes h/t @holz-bau.bsky.social

This is an incredibly cool new construction two-flat in Woodlawn--rather than the usual two stacked full-floor units, there's a duplexed quasi-SFH and a smaller studio-type unit that acts like an ADU.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

Three days after finally installing claude code, it is hard to express how thoroughly I am sold Installing was the most intimidating part--it's shockingly easy to use once you've got it. Social science people who are afraid of code, I really encourage you to try it!

This is a bold position for a voter guide to take

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Chicago is actually really bad at building TOD. There are only 34 'L' stations in the entire city where the average surrounding building height is greater than 30 feet, and 16 of them are in the Loop.

My time with The Washington Post is up. I was laid off with hundreds of folks I am so honored to call my colleagues. I covered it all at The Post (really), so now I'm looking for my next adventure. ➡️ kbellware [at] gmail dot com Website update coming soon @postguild.bsky.social forever

The *reason* people like Paris is that it's pretty, and that it has the entire population of Chicago in like 1/5 the area

God bless a post on reforming EDSs

Good evening, today it is faster to drive in Chicago. Here is how much time you could have saved by: Kennedy: driving, 17 min Stevenson: the train, 6 min NDLSD: the train, 3 min Eisenhower: the train, 0 min Dan Ryan: the train, 5 min

coming soon to @chicagocityscape.com: this chart showing new construction homes permitted per ward per year the * asterisk indicates that the ward saw fewer than 100 homes in the 8-year period shown

The fact that the ERRD "compromise" was just "do it over on the east side" is telling

Explains why ERRD supporters said they "dont want another winthrop or kenmore" - they don't want to live near poor people

When I moved back to Chicago in 2011 with the (ill-advised for me personally) goal of making it as a freelance writer, getting published in the Reader seemed like the definition of making it www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/c...

Just reposting this - my story this week is part of this week's cover package on Minneapolis and the rise of what we call "America's paramilitary peril." www.economist.com/united-state...

I too 💚 Galewood

The sharp high income-low income border running N-S through Edgewater and Uptown just east of the lake is Broadway. That's the context for the furor over the Broadway rezoning, which has come 90% from the dark blue tracts

The rate of growth slowed down considerably last year. For rail, the O'Hare branch was the only line making big YoY gains.

as they say, whoa if true (re: sizeable population increases in North Lawndale and Englewood)

Crazy that if the rest of the city's population had just stayed at 2000 figures while downtown grew like this we'd be flirting with 3,000,000 Chicagoans again right now.

What a great visualization--while ridership is still far below 2019, it's notable that, especially ex-winter, 2025 saw meaningful growth over 2024

2024 ACS updates for Chicago Population. Pulled zip codes so there is some fuzzyness around the edges here. Downtown (including West Loop) population is up ~100,000 since 2000. Total change from 2023 to 2024 is a slight gain.

People are reading this way wrong. Schumer detached DHS from the other five bills in return for a two week CR on the DHS bill. Now Democrats can make demands on DHS spending without having to shut down agencies covered in the other five bills. They have way more leverage to get real concessions.

An incredible victory for federal housing advocates that the HUD appropriations turned out as well as they did nlihc.org/sites/defaul...

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I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky Could see every farm and every town I could see all the people in this whole wide world That's the union that'll tear the fascists down, down, down That's the union that'll tear the fascists down www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKVn...

"As of Feb. 1, people up to age 64 will have to work or volunteer at least 80 hours per month to remain eligible for food assistance. The work rules also expanded to include people who are homeless, veterans and parents of teens 14 and older."

We are going to win

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

The campaign against apartments and affordable housing in Edgewater as part of the Broadway rezoning has opened a new front: Attacking a widely praised and effective property tax program that supports mixed-income and affordable housing. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/26/o...

Here are four photos I took this weekend without leaving the boundaries of Minneapolis:

I am very dumb, can someone explain for a non-coder why I should use Claude Code and not just Opus 4.5 in the web app

A bunch of nice Minnesotans doing an impromptu Tiananmen Square bit reminds me of the quote (I forget from who) about how the Confederates and Nazis thought small-d democrats were cowardly and weak and easy to destroy, and go look for them now

This is one of the most amazing videos yet. Every single person willing to risk death

People literally putting themselves in front of a tank and giving ICE the finger

Chicago. Now. Ice out of everywhere. Snow and cold not slowing folks.

Not the main point of this but I do think the fairly open misogyny of the anti-anti-Trumpers on both the left and right in the early and middle periods of Trumpism is something I wish I saw more reckoning of. Was there an equivalent in anti-"Nazi hysteria"? www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

no yeah something is happening