Eternal reminder: queers are not new!

Even with these high winds I just saw four people on bikes and two on scooters in Jefferson park/gladstone park within like ten minutes #BikeChi

Jesus fucking christ

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)

An entire blue line train worth of people are just walking down Milwaukee from grand after some track activity cut off service to the loop. I knew I shoulda biked lol

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

On the one hand it's not surprising that an administration as cynical, anti-science, opportunistic, corrupt, deceitful, and contemptuous of its own supporters would do so. Par for the course. But on climate and the environment it's a surprising illustration of how far America has fallen. 13/n

This EPA is soundly rejecting its mission to protect public health or the environment elpc.org/blog/500-cla...

This is quite a thread. Truly horrific on every level

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Just hop on the bus, Gus. "ELPC hosts a webinar tomorrow at noon with Depaul’s Chaddick Institute and Better Streets Chicago about the future of Chicago’s old Greyhound Station." 🚌 🔮 ❓ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @elpcenter.bsky.social @depauluniversity.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org

Happy transit equity day! Got to visit Rosa Parks’ bus stop recently & brush up on her story, what a badass

Bus drivers are heroes everyday

BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS! U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” HERE TO STAY! WI NOU KAPAB!

The Trump #climate report attempting to overturn the ruling that greenhouse gases are pollutants was grossly scientifically inaccurate. Turns out it was also illegal. #climatechange www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

Double digit temps feelin downright balmy today, I’ve got my zippers all open like it’s spring or something ☀️

Sounds like some nice big lots are going to open on the northwest side soon, as the water department moves into the old Mayfair lumber yard on Lawrence between the train tracks nadignewspapers.com/chicago-wate...

Since people are posting about all the surprising usually-non-protest related subreddits & fb groups going ham right now, I figured I’d share a glimpse of how my quilt groups are rage sewing right now

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

In the early decades of the 20th century, electric trucks were popular in American cities. Large fleets were operated by businesses like Chicago retailers Carson Pirie Scott and Jewel Tea - the second of which began in 1899 as a tea and coffee delivery service and later evolved into Jewel-Osco.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND

"'Abolish ICE' is no longer just a far-left slogan — it's good politics. God knows why Americans reelected Trump, but they clearly didn’t envision masked goons knocking down doors and disappearing people." — @playtyperguy.com

these are important

Worth every second

Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day

Want to help folks being terrorized by ICE in Minnesota? Well look at this google doc someone made. Lots of GoFundMe's that haven't met their goals yet. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This administration is determined to kill people

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about the simultaneous mainstream media erasure of Renee Good's queerness and the right wing amplification of it as a post hoc justification for her murder. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

Found ourselves on the edge of Will County this weekend. Behold! The southern birth of Western Ave

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

One of many many many neighborhood protests this weekend. Got a lot of honks and cheers from passersby

Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.

A reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.

From the June 24, 1933 bulletin of the Chicago Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism

"For a while—maybe since 1883, when the Pendleton Act created a merit-based civil service of experts—we, as a nation, thought to ourselves: Life is too short for everyone to inspect their own food. Let the govt handle this. But then along came the Trump regime to wonder: What if we didn’t?"

There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.

Merry Christmas, bicycle friends!

Time to gather around the switch heaters for a toasty yule log night.

This sidewalk block has been going strong for 116 years 💪🏽 since 1909! Pedestrian infrastructure is a good investment! 💵🚶🌇 #walkchi (as long as cars don’t drive on it) I’m sick on Xmas, so I’m gonna distract myself with a thread of old sidewalk blocks in Chicago’s Jefferson park

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Adventure day! Xmas shopping is more fun if you’re not fighting parking Also, they need to run more Metra trains on weekends lol

Holy crap

Reminder: “1% of the US population” is 3,420,000 people. That is more than the total populations of Nevada, Kansas, or Maine. Imagine telling yourself that it would be okay to criminalize the people of West Virginia because they’re “less than 1% of the population.” Fix your hearts or die.

Saw Gia Biagi @illinoisdot.bsky.social bike by on a Divvy today @divvybikes.bsky.social so that’s fun and fitting 🚲

This is why you never give an inch to the bigots. All those centrists dems (Newsom, Mayo Pete) claiming there are concerns around trans kids, you're complicit in this. This doesn't get rid of trans people, it just makes them suffer unbearably. Get your head straight: trans rights are human rights.

This is just five minutes. Please watch this and share it with anyone you think might be moved by it. And then call your US rep and tell them to vote AGAINST all of the anti-trans bills Republicans are pushing this week. Find your rep at reps.fyi

“We are on the verge of delivering a world class transportation network… that makes transit safer and more reliable. Thank you all for making that happen! Including the tenacious environmental advocates” @govpritzker.illinois.gov