Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

A good example of why we need answers about strategy: We're destroying refineries and oil production. If the goal is to immiserate the Iranians and cut off their income, fine. (Not great thinking, but understandable.) But if it's regime change...uh, they're gonna need that rebuilt. So why do that?

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Everything the US moves around needs diesel fuel to power the trucks, trains, & boats: food, goods, crops, commodities, everything. Oil products powers ~90% of US transport. It's why we should electrify transport as a national security imperative: to reduce the risk of price shocks to the economy.

External aggression on our land from outside forces is such an unknown concept to Americans that we only know how to see the world based on what we actually experience: rising gas prices

The least efficient mode of transportation is killing us all.

How have I not also had this dream? I LOVE ramen.

if you gave amtrak 5% of the military budget every year it would have received more money in two years than it has in its entire existence up to that point

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

Thursday night fog report from Michigan Ave downtown Chicago

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Average price for a CTA/Pace 24-Hour Pass holds steady at $5

As I like to say, cars in cities are a geometry problem. Or, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net says even better, "Geometry hates cars."

Damn JB 😂

Wednesday night's fog made for some moody vibes at the Metra station last night

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

From this set, 4 would be my go to pen

👀 that's an insane difference in turnout especially in CD 28 and 34.

Somehow this didn’t post this morning. Happy 189th birthday to Chicago.

Imagine if Democrats had done this to a veteran....24/7 news and outrage on right-wing channels.

Illinois let's do this to Raja, as well

The administration is setting up the idea that anyone opposing Trump is engaging in "domestic terrorism," as Trump's EO set out. (This is a way to get around the specific definition of "domestic terrorist" in U.S. law.)

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a paxton v. talarico match with gas prices at a high and a new war feels like the best chance for a democratic senator texans have seen in a very long time

Maybe - and I know this is so crazy - but maybe Democrats should just go out and campaign against Trump and his policies bc they are massively unpopular and start worrying more about being seen as insufficiently tough and less about how to be a somewhat Republicany Democrat. Just a thought.

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive. Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

the greatest sentence ever composed

Yeah, Tillis voted for Noem and these other shitbirds and he owns part of this mess. But for people who still have a shred of a conscience, that's going to make them more invested in righting what's gone wrong. We should all encourage that.

Everything is going just great 👍 🫠

Remember that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi — and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market. Meanwhile, Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight any state that attempts to regulate prediction markets. Always follow the money.

Favorability: 🟢 Adaptive reuse: +67 🟢 "Database of pre-approved housing plans": +57 🟢 Expanding ADUs: +47 🟢 Permitting more prefab housing: +46 🟢 "More modern building materials": +34 🔴 Higher fees for deconversions: -18 🔴 RETT increase: -29 🔴 Aldermanic prerogative: -32

This is correct. The rationale that Hegseth advances for war against Iran—to the extent you can call it a rationale at all—is completely contradictory to the claims he makes to reject support for Ukraine.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

In the gov's State of the State speech, he championed a "missing middle" zoning reform bill that would legalize at least two units on any 2500+ sqft parcel allowing single-family homes. By my calculation, that'd increase the by-right zoning capacity in Chicago by at least 775,000 units. Some notes:

The question that very easily blows up all this double-talk is: “Would it be an act of war if another country did this to us?” Because OF COURSE it would.

Among my *many* questions and concerns about the state of Texas, the fact the Shamwow guy is running for Congress is now added to the list

Lots to say about antirenter prejudice, how it serves to bundle & obscure deeper biases re race & class & age, and about the electoral assumptions required for a councilor of a majority renter city to take this stance, but the thing I keep coming back to is just: what an absolute dick thing to say

They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge. They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership. We do not have serious people running our country.

Spring came early as if in apology for the fierce winter... For a few days in spring and fall Chicago seems almost fit for human habitation. - Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat By The Door #sundaysentence #booksky #books

Trump’s war affects Americans throughout the world. I feel this woman’s frustration, and she’s handling it a lot calmer than I would. She’s from Chicago and currently stuck in Dubai. I’m worried about our brothers and sisters stuck in the Middle East, and I pray she makes it home safe and sound. 🙏🏽

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

Weiss has critiqued traditional media for its biases - most famously in her resignation letter from the Times - so it seems reasonable to ask how her views are shaping CBS (and potentially CNN) or is "history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative"?

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Well, looks like we gave into the peer pressure. 🫠