Thanks to the Illinois’ massive investment in transit, Chicago has a bright transit future, with the dawn coming next year: —50% increase in every-10-min bus routes to 30 citywide —8-minute midday headways on rail lines —24-hour Orange Line service (Red & Blue already have it)

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

There is no reason to fund this government as it starves millions of Americans, invades U.S. cities, disappears people, strangles universities, acts as a pay-for-pay operation for the president, guts environmental rules, commits war crimes, kills foreign aid, and dismantles public health.

They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!

nature is so beatiful and just awesome

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

These operations would be unlawful even if those murdered had all been criminals. But it's important to show just how much deception is involved from start to finish in this gruesome charade.

Dems have the wind at our backs, America clearly knows the GOP owns the shutdown and inflation, and THIS is how Schumer makes the most of it? How about demanding the military leave blue cities and ICE stop terrorizing Americans? I can't with this guy anymore.

“Ok, 700% of what you’re asking for, but that is my LATEST offer. Take it or leave it and I’ll offer you 800%, and that is IT unless you ask.”

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

From a 2022 piece by Gledhill, Shay, & @allardduursma.bsky.social: "campaigns that are more creative, humorous, cathartic, and/or fun are also more likely to be large-scale" civil resistance campaigns bc of the "feelings of empowerment, solidarity, catharsis, or glee that accompany these events."

My response to the NYT’s “moderate to win” argument: The data shows the strategy is tapped out. Being seen as moderate by voters doesn’t boost votes, replacing every progressive with moderates would net 0 seats, and the graveyard of defeated D incumbents if full of moderates, not progressives.

Is the big tent approach to strengthening US democracy working? Yes! Check out how The Horizons Project approaches the task--in the latest Democracy Without Exception piece ⬇️ democracywithoutexception.substack.com/p/the-big-te...

Great discussion between @staceyabrams.com & @chenoweth.bsky.social on the power of peaceful resistance.

OPINION by @staceyabrams.com: “The Deep South’s story is one of persistence against unaccountable power.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.

“At City Hall, all 150 seats were filled as people began to stand and gather along the back and side walls…” elginobserver.com/23645/news/c...

Intuit, parent company of TurboTax, donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration. Always follow the money.

Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."

She wants an order from the First Circuit upholding the trial court. That would give the liberal minority a foothold to argue the Supreme Court should do so as well. a strategic stay to increase chance of restarting SNAP benefits.

The only thing we can count on is each other. Get to know your neighbors, see what support they need. Connect with mutual aid & give how you can — donate, volunteer, learn from them & replicate that work in your own community.

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I need to emphasize what I say down-thread: this is a temporary, procedural move known as an administrative stay issued in haste by Justice Jackson. Little to nothing should be read into this ruling for how SCOTUS might ultimately rule on SNAP—either way.

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains. That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

The extent to which shitty centrist journalism rests on the same thing as Trump, the never-identified "some people say, everyone says" etc. including "critics say" here is a zombie move, lifeless yet vengeful.

Yay! More states New York, Kansas, and Pennsylvania have announced they’ve started sending out full SNAP benefits. Meanwhile, Trump was apparently too busy napping to help make sure people got the assistance they need.

yes. by design.

The states that funded SNAP immediately so that their citizens wouldn’t starve: They should deduct/withold all payments/federal tax revenue to this tyrannical fascist regime. It’s call a soft secession and it should happen now.

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

LET'S GET LOUD! 🗣️ On Starbucks's busiest sales day of the year, workers are holding rallies in 16 cities. And we need YOU there! When customers and community members speak out, the company listens. Let's stand together against corporate greed and union-busting! RSVP: bit.ly/redcuprallies

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

Zohran wasn’t the only big winner yesterday. Housing has a great day at the ballot box. my latest for @dwell.bsky.social www.dwell.com/article/affo...

VICTORY: Judge Ellis granted the most powerful rebuke of the Trump admin’s immigration enforcement tactics yet — a preliminary injunction to more permanently stop the violent and lawless tactics federal agents have deployed against protestors, press, and clergy in the Chicago area.

A lot of discourse hasn't caught up with how the strong/somewhat breakdown is even more brutal. His core base of strong support is already falling below a quarter of voters! Even what approval he has is increasingly soft and halfhearted. Whereas disapprovers are much firmer in really hating the man.

Even with a terrible SCOTUS abusing the shadow docket, we're seeing how when you have the combination of a constitutional crime spree throwing up so many cases, and the district judges including a good chunk of Rs in near-open revolt, they can functionally swamp SCOTUS faster than they can catch up.

Americans are so much more open to paradigm-shifting electoral reform than almost anyone in Washington understands

Your grandchildren are going to learn about this period in history class. It won’t be pretty. Then they’re going to ask you what you did about it.

Okay Starbucks has started the huge ass strike so if you weren't already boycotting, now is the time! No Starbucks for the holiday season! Yeeehaaawww I love collective action

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]

CBP has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

EXCLUSIVE: “Up to 50 people killed in U.S. drone strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific remain publicly unknown two months after the Trump admin. began attacking suspected drug boats, according to MSNBC interviews.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Gov. Wes Moore unveiled a second round of no-interest loans, free transit access and energy assistance for unpaid federal workers.

"Boyd was 22 when she was shot by an off-duty police officer in 2012. The officer, Dante Servin, was later acquitted, and that verdict became a rallying point for the #SayHerName movement and a reckoning over how the city values the lives of Black women and girls." www.wbez.org/arts/2025/11...