I'm surprised to see Israel so explicitly drop the fig leaf of supporting a two state solution, the only plan that separates what they're doing now from textbook apartheid.

bringing my bike home caked in ice and salt and hanging it above my couch

I've started getting an email like this every hour or so. wtf.

It's only legal to build ADUs (coach houses) in certain areas, approved by certain Alderman, using a labor category that literally doesn't exist.

Why isn’t Metra electrifying the lines it owns? Caltrain almost doubled its ridership.

This is so stupid. You can build a house with non union labor, but if you want to build a small coach house in the back you must use union labor?

📍 Roosevelt #BuildTheTunnel

Bologna lowered its speed limit to 30 km/h (19 mph). Italy’s right-wing government declared war. In Bloomberg, I explored how street safety became a political issue in Europe, much like in the US. 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Spotted in the wild in Hyde Park! #BuildTheTunnel @starlinechicago.bsky.social

Soy milk and tofu is going to become right-coded.

South side a bit lacking here

Bring your lights and make sure you get here so we can do a special thing 👀. Already downtown? Meet our organizers at Daley Plaza (Picasso Statue) starting at 5:30!

We will have a high trust left typified by church-going monogamous gays with kids at a low trust right typified by a weirdo racist polycules.

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

The phrase “active shooter situation” is so weird. Obviously the shooter was active. They aren’t anymore (they’re dead). Does it just mean “a white person shot strangers in an unexpected location”?

we should replace horse cops with tall bike cops

I'm not as excited with the result as I thought I would be. 20 exposures of 20 stop signs on 4x5 film. #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #photography #blackandwhitephotos #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky #pnw #analogandfilmphoto

Autumn is coming.

Are European health systems recommending the annual Covid booster for everyone?

Why would MAGA be offended by a show where white supremacists are the bad guys?

Raw footage found here Audio: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Body cam: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Dash cam: wetransfer.com/downloads/dc... Police report: drive.google.com/file/d/18Ur_...

Tag yourself.

People are dunking on this, but having worked in the field of police oversight for the last four years, listening to residents from every part of a major U.S. city, it doesn't surprise me at all. A few points 🧵

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

How they deliver packages on our rue piétonne (pedestrian street)

Yes, someone in a hot dog costume just hand-delivered Councilor Green a hot dog before starting today's council chat on sidewalk vending.

American Transit: recreating the mistakes of the past for no reason whatsoever.

Doesn't this just move the protest a few yards?

Xuzhou: 60 mile automated underground subway with platform doors for $200m / km. 6 years. Chicago: 5 mile elevated extension, not automated, no platform doors for $600m / km. 6 years.

It's funnier without the second line.

Incredible animation. No notes. [from Reddit]

Kick👏them👏out👏

Lucy "in good spirits" prior to football game.

Supreme Court is increasingly pre-empting, rather than overruling, lower courts. It’s similar in structure to the President firing mid-level bureaucrats or the Secretary of State personally ordering someone deported. A dangerous concentration of power.

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

Revisiting a 90 year old precedent is extremely unusual and probably bad, but allowing the stay pending appeal is just dumb and very bad.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

First day of autumn or last day of the year? In this essay, I will

Wavy GAZ Paris #ManholeCoverMonday

Almost every court outside of SCOTUS did sick of this admin now, so as a state, might as well push the envelope as much as you can.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Stockyards, Chicago undated

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Bruce Sagan purchased the Hyde Park Herald in 1953 and ran it until he handed it off to essentially merge with the non profit South Side Weekly in 2021. What a run.

The striking thing about MAGA’s spectacular death drive is how unilateral is it. There is no equivalent bombast on the left - no scenario where a totem figure of our movement gets a WWE burial.

Do you regularly (at least a couple times a year) drink non-alcoholic beer? Click “like” on the reply that most closely matches your answer

There's a great turnout at the Chicago River Swim, the first time people are swimming in the open river in a hundred years! Here are some phone photos before I get home

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Most of the time when people are complaining about the media not covering something the actual problem is that the coverage is being ignored by most readers/viewers. This is something that foreign correspondents have known for decades but now nobody reads it the news any more it applies domestically

Something I've noticed is that many conservatives think conservatism is the base state of man, except when warped by education (derogatory) while many left/libs think conservativism is the base state of man (derogatory) except as saved by education.