Joining in the Chicago catalpa love. 🌳❤️

No one knows for sure where we'll go from here. One thing we do know is the last time things were at this level, ICE shot and killed an immigrant behind the wheel of his car. Every pointing incident is a breath away from becoming another death.

It's been a brutal two weeks in Chicagoland with ICE pointing guns and tasers, multiple car crashes, violent arrests and a significant uptick in detainments overall. Feds continue to stalk courthouses across multiple counties. Today, agents were also seen at the rideshare lots at O'Hare.

Bungalow by middlebrow...cool vibes, great drinks, alright pizza. will be back!

traveling to the far reaches (Evanston) for classical guitar music

every time I think of the Bears moving: youtu.be/9e3sqtoRG-Y?...

I just got this as a "BREAKING NEWS" email from the @startribune.com lolololollllll (but can we get our $15 million back)

Found one! #CatalpaWatch26

It’s the week in Chicago when the amazing catalpa trees are in their glory! Our most beautiful native midwestern tree. #CatalpaWatch26

Catalpa on the Chicago River! #CatalpaWatch26

I mean this sincerely, as a Packer fan this absolutely sucks. I wish my rival's owners cared about their own property

I say this only bc I know my followers who are fans agree, The Bears are a joke of an organization

I would like Bike Sox to be at least one (1) visiting international soccer fan’s first tailgate. If you know people coming through Chicago for the World Cup please help make this happen

Based.

A rat wall in the 48th ward

what's the deal with all the off leash dogs? are dog owners lazy, entitled, or stupid? do all of them really think it won't happen to them? are people who don't like dogs allowed to enjoy park spaces anymore?

roll that beautiful tree footage. show me your catalpa pics. #CatalpaWatch26

incredible sequence on the timeline

Light rail tracks over 35W and the colorful Riverside Plaza near Downtown Minneapolis. Have always loved this spot!

Chicago drivers have to be some of the most privileged aggrieved peoples there's ever been

On June 4, 1977, approximately 9,000 demonstrators occupied the Museumplein in Amsterdam to commemorate the road deaths of 1976. Afterwards, they rode en masse to the Vondelpark, ignoring the taunts and jeers of motorists.

This is just to say I have driven my car into a small diner at which you were probably planning a brunch forgive me i mistook the gas pedal for the brake

If you're looking for an affordable bike, this is a good sale to check out! thriftyminnesota.com/the-umn-reus...

hey Chicago in case you haven't heard ICE is all over the place today, be on the lookout

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Yeah, don’t let the hatch close on you on your way down, fucker.

as a librarian I ask that we resist the reduction of the products of human creativity to an undifferentiated mass of “content” that gigantic media companies sell you, and your libraries, licenses for limited use. If you can, borrow and use physical books, CDs, DVDs, LPs.

re: the beg buttons on the Channel Trail -- there should just be pedestrian signals by default! now if you bike up and the car signal is green but the pedestrian signal is red you don't know if you actually do have time to cross. you can waste a ton of time or take a potentially dangerous gamble

a whole bunch of these are available at Inga on 18th street and at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social on Milwaukee Ave. there might be extra gossip written in the margins also 🖤

Just look at this (source: @blockclubchi.bsky.social) The driver who killed this person gets a “citation” and it’s ruled an accident. Died from “multiple injuries from automobile striking pedestrian.” Did the car just do that??? Where is the driver’s agency in this?

Chicago area heat pump owners! Our a/c needs to be replaced, and while our furnace is newer, I want to look into a heat pump. Your advice is welcome!

Chicago is so dope. I just walked one city block & heard 5 different languages...6, if you count English.

Ayyyyy

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Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

tomorrow is the last day of school at cps chicago police department historically sets up checkpoints at beaches after school lets out they also usually restrict access to roads leading to the beach also, parking and lake shore drive this is anti-Blackness in action and, we can counteract this

Happy World Bicycle Day.

Chicago Parks outdoor pool season is embarrassingly short. I know they rely on student lifeguards but what if they didn't?

Ald. Martin on single stair: I want people to feel a sense of urgency around this, to say with each new development that gets approved that could use [single stair] but doesn't...that we're losing the opportunity to house more families and people across Chicago

you gave me a great idea. the only way to improve this cover.

deeply offended by AI lara croft. a true lara croft design is hand crafted by expert perverts in their field

One thing we can do in Chicago: demand all-gender public bathrooms in every park and library, so trans kids (and everyone else!) have a safe place to go to the bathroom

Catalpa Watch 2026

long lost Attenborough brother voice: "and sure as spring turns to summer, the festive plumage of billboards for a new season of The Bear on Hulu sprout up on the city's bus stops"

big couple of tuesdays for yr little guy right here: tonight i’ll be hosting and toasting for @tuesdayfunk.bsky.social, next week i’ll be reading poems at the whistler! come thru for either or both imo 💖

catalpas are bloomin