We have been living through Ferguson Missouri for the last ten years of our lives

NEWS: Ricardo Hernandez-Navarrete is coming home. The Chicago Public Schools senior who was arrested by ICE agents at a routine check-in in March was released Tuesday after a bond hearing in immigration court, a spokeswoman for his attorneys told the Tribune.

where to buy Thing in person store that sells Thing near me place within walking distance that I can find Thing how can I buy Thing that I used to be able to buy at a store without using inhumane immediate shipping/delivery services let me shop In Person

is it not deeply disturbing that elected politicians are able to talk about citizens, the people they’re elected and paid to represent, like this

Reminder: Abolish DHS.

What fresh hell is this? TuneUp in Avondale wanted to scan my face to go inside? No thanks, 4EG. Easybar, Getaway, Remedy, aliveOne, Central Park, Owl, Estelles all owned by this group. Plenty of wonderful taverns in Chicago, no way in hell am I serving up my biometrics to buy a $10 beer.

Just think, some people have to drive their child around in a car to put them to sleep.

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

If you accept the industrial revolution as a good analogy for AI (I'm not sure I do), then you should also advocate from the start for strict government regulation, worker protections, perhaps UBI, and definitely environmental controls. Not later, now.

Folks worried about overpopulation are not in the climate movement. They are in…another movement (derogatory).

Misappropriated spending by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office includes $4,070 to train and test whether to buy a horse, $3,259 for car washes and $1,261 in travel expenses to research buying a boat — for deputies who work in the desert. With @azluminaria.org

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

Logan Square!

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Driving in the city should feel like you're actively asking to borrow some space. Because you are. Only on the limited network of boulevards should some space be pre-allocated for you. The rest of the time you should feel like you're borrowing space from all the people outside. Because you are.

You have to understand that nepotism is something done by bad people, whereas I am good, so the fact that my children have opportunities others don't is Not nepotism, due to my goodness.

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

classic, we need money for tech that will “help teachers” but in reality that same money could have funded better paid humans doing a better job

Immigration is a very good thing, and we should be facilitating it on a massive scale.

imagine your dad says he’s too busy to make your wedding and then he posts this

drivers are so jealous that I can zip zoom between cars stopped in traffic and then just hop off and walk where ever I want tbh

Part of the magic about riding bikes is that you can in fact often be both a pedestrian and vehicle. One of my favorite "hacks" about riding is how easy it is to hop off and use a crosswalk if you want.

Harsh: "riders found guilty of violating the proposed ordinance, penalties could include the aforementioned up to $500 fine, imprisonment of no more than 15 days, or both" BTW - A $500 fine is $200 more than the fine for a 3rd offense for failing to stop for a school bus patch.com/new-york/lon...

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Thurgood Marshall Saw It Coming by @dennycarter.bsky.social for @liberalcurrents.com The supercharged bad faith of “constitutional originalism” threatens everything we hold dear. www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...

listening to @heathercampbell.bsky.social and @mattapodaca.bsky.social talk about what a paradise Chicago would be if we actually put money into public infrastructure as I bike in my unprotected bike lane next to an empty parking lot. Chicago Mamdani save us!!!!!!!!

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the united neighbors IPO in my ward is opposing a new development because it only has 6 units of affordable housing, but the site they’re building on is currently a parking lot :/

Why can a normal car even reach 137 mph? I'm not a car guy, so maybe there's a mechanical reason I don't understand. But I feel like car speeds should be capped for safety similar to how water heating systems cap temperatures for safety.

Gen X: I love it when I drank from the hose and rode my bicycle in the street with my friends Me: Oh well then you’d love to use an e-bike! Gen X: BUT WHERE WILL I PARK IT?!?!

"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...

i now live in fear of the Brain Damage That Makes You Republican

old woman possibly damp? faster than an old woman should be

Chicago’s emergency mental health response program is expanding to serve all of the city, and In the Loop learns more about what this expansion actually means for residents, emergency response times and mental health care in the area.

They’re trying to normalize the idea of a national sales tax to end progressive taxation, and I’m already sick about the number of people who are going to fall for it because they hate the idea of other people enjoying anything.

it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.

I can feel myself becoming this…at night I go to sleep and think annoying thoughts about the intersection near my house and how no one stops at the stop sign

Imagine if Congressional Democrats had been adhering to the Constitution and pushing for impeachment and removal this entire time. Imagine the pressure they could've been putting on Republicans. They could have had several break rank by now.

doing everything in my power to eat as many meals outside as possible this summer

Google is transforming Search from something accurate to something inaccurate that hopefully you’ll be more addicted to

it's always jarring to encounter a guy who's big worried about Chinese hegemony. feels like they just long for the moral and ideological simplicity of the Cold War

my PCP’s soonest appointment is October, literally what is the point of having a doctor

"Only Republicans' opinions count" is usually just subtext in our political media, but sometimes they put it right in the headline

Absolutely horrified at this planned study from my own institution: www.404media.co/researchers-... >>

In April 1971, following temporary closings to motor traffic, pedestrian traffic on Madison Avenue soared. New York City’s Office of Midtown Planning and Development then proposed Madison Mall: closing Madison Avenue from 42nd to 57th streets to all motor traffic except buses and emergency vehicles.