Less than 2 miles away from here a driver murdered a man this morning by deliberately driving up on the sidewalk and running him over. But “bike activists” need to stop “demonizing” drivers?…..

The Trib editorial boards finding new and creative ways to be pro death and anti human.

OOPS: Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley caught on hot mic asking staff in a hearing why Trump's judicial nominees won't admit he lost in 2020, the same Q he's been criticizing Dems for asking at all. “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...

The city hates us and doesn’t care if we die.

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

Meanwhile, in Chicago @illinoisdot.bsky.social is doubling down on a lakefront expressway largely because they’ve spent 13 years designing it and dismissing public opinion and would rather be done than do the right thing.

At a time when the president is starting wars, sniping boats, taking bribes, gutting vaccines and decimating foreign aid, The Atlantic publishes two (2) articles decrying a New York Times podcast where a Twitch streamer says shoplifting isn't a huge deal.

wild how easily this shit takes off. a NYT interviewer mentions that he has seen people on social media framing their shoplifting as a form of protest, his interviewees say they aren't aware of this, and then chatterton writes up a whole pearl-clutching piece about it without any further research.

Then late last week, the coalition pointed to an August email in which O'Neill Burke's office declined to criticize the Trump administration in order to maintain her working relationships with the feds: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“RFK is a eugenicist who believes that people with chronic health conditions deserve to die preventable deaths” is a plain fact that the news media cannot or will not tell the public.

One thing NIMBYs have in common with the MAGA crowd — more than they care to admit — is that they can't imagine people volunteering their time and energy to organize for something they believe in. Everyone has to be a paid lobbyist or part of some hidden conspiracy to pull the strings of government.

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Rich guy grievance is so pathetic. Retaliating against my unprovoked abuse is the real abuse. Lashing out and then crying as official national policy

the Illinois Senate will have their first hearing about BUILD on Thursday and I'm looking for a few good Illinoisans to submit their first "witness slip" in the next 36 hours Open this page and follow the instructions in this thread: bit.ly/BUILDWitness...

"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.

I read Opinion as Onion and this made sense. Realizing now that it is not satire, it makes no sense.

Tell CMAP to pump the brakes on 'Redefine the Drive!' No highway on our lakefront! act.betterstreetschicago.org/cmap-dlsd-ac...

a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure

“DoorDash grandma you have been betrayed, will you join in defending the Pope?” is a sentence that is insane but also seems pretty much exactly where we’d be at a year and a half into Trump’s second term

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Welfare helps people participate in society. It also moves money around the economy, keeping it healthy. They call it a “cost”. AI cuts jobs, makes useless un-copyrightable content, raises the energy bills of anyone living near them, and makes no money. They call it an “investment”. 🙃

Cue the worlds smallest violin “unelected neighborhood groups or power brokers can no longer wheel and deal. Local litigants cannot tie up projects in court.”

Amtrak are soliciting public feedback on this project. Please write them at [email protected] to say that we need at least hourly train service. 2 trains a day (their current proposal) is not sufficient!

A viral clip posted to X on Thursday showed Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback blowing up at a Black voter and telling him he should be "lynched" for asking about the allegations of inappropriate behavior with teenagers.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

I've divorced myself of all emotional attachments to CAHSR (e.g. I want to ride it one day/I believe in it) and shifted wholly to looking as a world-historic experiment: the first high-speed rail system under construction despite vehement opposition from the State and its Elites (majority at least)

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

LAPD shoved someone, he dropped a beer bottle in his hand, went to grab it, they shot him with less lethals are near point blank and arrested him. Shit’s getting chaotic again, will post when able

The NYT purposefully mischaracterized the position of the AMA to make it seem like they changed policy and opposed gender affirming care on trans youth. It appears they have rejected efforts by the AMA to correct the record.

President Donald Trump spent five minutes of Thursday’s Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies. The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened.

Received this lovely, bad-faith email from the Mayor of Del Mar after writing in support of the Crest Canyon alignment as a transit advocate. This is what they're dealing with, so please reach write to SANDAG in support!

“It's unclear what legal authority the president has over the issue.” Ya don’t say!

Manhattan's congestion pricing program has been a stunning success. Other US cities have noticed. Could Chicago go next? In @bloomberg.com, I explored. 🧵

In 1992, Barq's ran a Soviet Union "going out of business" promotion. They bought a warehouse full of soviet war medals, patches, buttons, flags etc and gave it all away to folks that bought their soda. This has to be a strong contender for the weirdest promo of all time.

Eileen O'Neill Burke is the Cook County State's Attorney. Her number is 312-603-1880 The contact form is here: www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/form/contact...

the vibe i’m getting from this elon quote

Guest post by Kalen Luciano from Lakeview Urbanists: Stop the Cubs parking lot expansion: The team’s proposal to add more car storage to Wrigleyville would just make it harder for everyone to get around. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/03/23/s... @cubsbot.bsky.social

oh my god dude

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

There are not enough walkable communities. 44% of Americans want to live in one but <10% do. Drives the prices to live in such areas sky high.

That preference for more urban-style living (44%) is massively over the actual share of population in urban communities (~31%), a percentage that has remained flat over ~20 years -- www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

Ok if Chicago pope burns Peter thiel at the stake I’ll go back to church

The greatest trial in American history.

Mary Fong Lau, the 80 year old woman who killed four people including a baby and a toddler after crashing into a bus stop going 75mph the wrong way down a 25mph street, has been sentenced to probation and will not permanently lose her drivers' license. This is a despicable miscarriage of justice.