Commentary: If we approve the transfer without a serious plan, we will have missed what may be our last meaningful chance to ask a larger question: Can Chicago create a better investment policy for its own future?

The pope was talking about getting lost with GPS (a metaphor for depending too much on tech) and he say it happened many times in Peru, Italy, and Europe but “once” in the US. You guys… The pope lost his way on Lower Wacker.

Orland Park grasslands are putting on a show

"So, what's your take?" "This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full, and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within." "100% disagree."

sorry to christopher nolan but this is the best adaptation of the odyssey

Hundreds of Beavers

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

@nathalieisonline.bsky.social sent me this today and it has brought me endless delight. Clown event still possible.

I love how disparaging and demeaning she is to the concerns her constituents when a mere 1,571 voters decided her last primary election

I've been working on this for ages and it's finally up today! I was p. baffled by AI friendship, until I realized: AI is a logical, if extreme, extension of the kind of friendship our culture already values: individualistic friendship that is on your own terms www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

I help write a hyperlocal almanac for @avondalegardeners.bsky.social every year and right now I am in the midst of seed starting, so anyway yeah I love Gardening in Chicago

DON'T: Yell "Free Palestine" at random Jews on the street DO: Wear a "Free Palestine" shirt/hat combo. Holler it from the rooftops. Text it to your friends and family. Call your reps and yell it at them. Fly a flag from your house. Put a sticker on your car. Knock on doors. Free fucking Palestine!

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This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

I know that St. Patrick is anti-pagan and Not Cool but still, I had to take my beautiful son to the Chief O'Neill's Parade today ☘️🌈

Hello! Even if you have not yet voted, you may not be thinking a lot about the Board of Review. But they are one of the most important bodies for determining how property tax burden is distributed! We did what seems to be the only survey for Board of Review candidates and published it here:

DataMade is hiring a junior developer! $81K | 35h/week | good benefits | remote, but must be based in Chicagoland Apply by Mar 27! datamade.us/blog/hiring/...

NEW: Seeking special prosecutor to target ICE, coalition says Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke turned 'blind eye' to feds' violence Reporting w/ @sophiesherry.bsky.social via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Hi Dr. Jey! In my 5 years in the State Senate and the first and only openly LGBTQIA2S+ senator in the state’s history, I fought to pass legislation that protects access to gender-affirming care in Illinois which became law in 2023. I worked in coalition with advocacy groups to push complacent Dems.

"Suggested for you"

ICE abducted six colleagues on a work trip and claimed they held them for just 90min before letting them go, but in actuality held them for 30hours with little food or water before releasing them at 5am 140 miles away, forcing them to hitchhike to a hotel where they could call their families.

Great way to ring in my late thirties:

The "Chicago Progressive Partnership" 30s attack ad on @katmabu.bsky.social, which is limited to YouTube and has instructions to only air to 18-34yos, is out. In @thedailynu.bsky.social soon.

It’s been heartbreaking over the past couple years to see political attacks on trans people escalating with so little pushback and often facilitated by the media and democratic politicians. The fact that trans people are now being essentially criminalized for existing in KS is a five alarm moment.

We are about three weeks away from election day! Feeling the pressure? Then join us to decompress and vent while crafting with community. Craft Night, tomorrow, Wednesday, 6:30-8:00PM! While you're here, pick up a window or yard sign for @miguelfor40.bsky.social ! RSVP: bit.ly/33wfCraftNights

If you live in Ravenswood or Buena Park, go to your local coffee shop and pick up an @injusticewatch.org guide because i dropped a ton off today!

State senator and current congressional candidate Mike Simmons was reported to Chicago police while canvassing for votes in the North Side Buena Park neighborhood Friday.

This is me again calling on god wherever she is to abolish the Board of Review. Let Fritz cook.

your award is in the mail

New week, new (and repeat) bills to slip for. By 4pm, Tuesday 2/24 at 3:30pm: - Please sign as "Self" in the firms/business field; - "Proponent; (unless noted)" and - "Record of Appearance only" See below on how to file a wtiness slips. Bills and links follow in this thread. (1/8)

This [soon to be] bar owner signed a witness slip in support.

Every candidate on stage tonight had the opportunity to condemn genocide in Gaza. I’m the only one who did.

Gov. Pritzker: "Let's start with housing. The problem is clear: Rent is too high, and home ownership is too far out of reach. The cause is clear too. We are not building enough homes fast enough...we will need to build 227,000 more homes by 2030 to keep up with demand."

Fill out an OPPOSITION witness slip for this bill, which would REQUIRE developers to build excessive parking for housing and commercial developments near train stations. (Without this law, develops can build as much or little parking as they think is appropriate)

I love Minnesota

🚨IT’S HERE🚨: @injusticewatch.org’s guide to the 2026 Cook County judicial primary elections is live! With detailed info on all the judicial candidates on your ballot, from their legal experience, to bar ratings, top campaign donors, and more. #checkyourjudges injusticewatch.org/checkyourjudges

Splitsville is on Hulu now and I’m begging you: PLEASE watch it, it’s so funny and good

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week. Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

No excuse but inertia – have had a ring cam that came with the house when we moved in. Opted out of data sharing agreements as soon as we set it up but I don’t think that actually matters!!! Throwing that shit into Mount Doom

AIPAC candidates in IL- Miller, 2nd dist: Chicago S lakefront and SE side, S suburbs, Kankakee Conyears-Irvin, 7th: Chicago W side, Loop, inland S side, Oak Park, W Cook County Bean, 8th: N DuPage, NW Cook and N Kane Counties Fine, 9th: Chicago far N side, Evanston, near N and far NW burbs

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

A critique based on class. The aim: enslavement of the masses.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

For $36/year not only do *I* not have to shovel the sidewalk but that means *everywhere* I'd walk in the entire city would be shoveled too?? Feels like a deal to me...

Raise your hand if you have been personally victimized by private equity firms open.substack.com/pub/yourbrai...

He didn't even call me back when I left a message asking him to support bills to decriminalize psychedelics and sex work.