If your name was Richard and you preferred to go by Ricky, but a group of bullies at school decided to make your life a living hell by calling you a dick and incessantly chanting “dick dick dick” you’d want the school to step in and stop the bullying. The Supreme Court is unleashing torment

In case you needed even MORE evidence how bad at business and the economy Trump and right-wing ideologues are.

I love that the ruling is “Chicago fucking rules, fuck the liars and the haters”

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Now that is the kind of victory announcement I appreciate, hell yeah New York, nice work

Moline-Chicago Amtrak passenger rail funding approved by Illinois General Assembly! “Today is a day for celebrating because we have secured funding for our train,” Moline Mayor Sangeetha Rayapati said. www.wqad.com/article/news...

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NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Over 100 people rallied in Brighton Park Saturday to support tamalero Fausto Valladares Alvarez, who was taken by federal agents. “My dad is not a criminal,” his daughter said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/01/b...

That was a hell of a last 2 minutes holy crap #beardown

Chicago transit-to-trails hot tip: Take the Metra MD-N line to Forest Glen to access the north branch trail - biking & hiking fall beauty. Also pretty close to the Foster bus at LeClaire!

Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

Babe what's wrong you haven't touched your *senate passed transit bill* in months

🚨 Welcome to the last day of veto session, where Illinois lawmakers do NOT have an agreed funding package ready to vote on! If they don’t get it done today, they’ll send us hurtling towards the first steps of enacting service cuts. This is not a drill! Call your reps TODAY. 📲 call.savetransit.org

Beautiful thread from a great writer. Please get her book www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

The Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act just passed the Illinois House 70/37. It’s off to the Senate now. If it passes the Senate CRGA becomes law and Illinois will double down on the clean energy transition.

Senator David Reed, coauthor of the 1924 national origins quotas immigration act, on where the Border Patrol should be allowed to police: "they have no right to go into an interior city and pick up aliens in the street and arrest them"

I’ve been having a great #transit day. 🚉 Trains arrived right as I hit the station 💺 I got to sit 🤝 Ran into a friend to ride/chat with. 💅 Lady on the platform said she liked my outfit! When transit works it works. Everyone deserves more great transit days secure.everyaction.com/R2w3AjTVD0Cr...

Standing with advocates for transit at the capitol as we lobby for funding and reform.

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

Once again, @mcsweeneys.net does not miss. ------------------------------------------------ "In 2004, you saw some college guy using me and thought, 'What a lazy cheater.' Now you’d think, 'At least he’s not asking Gemini.' In a few years, you’ll say, 'Wow, look, a human being who can read.'"

Hell yeah to the woman who just brought a tree on the bus #TransitOrientedGreenery #transitisessential

I see cis women in fitness subreddits taking T to aid in muscle definition and they get no hate or backlash. I take estrogen cream to ease some perimenopause symptoms and it was practically thrown at me. It’s such a double standard against trans people to get care they need. It’s so unfair

The Trump administration plans to reduce funding for homelessness assistance by more than 50% www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Find your local food bank using this link 👇🏽

The huge gap between rider and non-rider responses on safety should be big news, while the overall response should be smaller news. *Of course* ppl who don't use transit don't think it's safe. Scary stories in the media are their only info source! 3/

We are compiling a list of scientific societies with public statements denouncing bioessentialist claims that sex and gender are strict binaries If your organization has publicly shown support for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, please let us know! Below is a thread of statements:

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Looking for something cool to do in Chicago on a cold and rainy Sunday? Come check out some cool art! West loop contemporary fine art expo Plumber’s Hall - 1350 w Washington www.westloopartexpos.com

A thread of assorted Chicago #NoKings signs

No Kings Day in Paris #nokings #nokingsday #paris #usa #freedom #patriots #antifa

Nice little crowd in Berlin at the US Embasy/Brandenburg Gate. #NoKings

Hey Springfield! Let’s talk #transit #transitisessential #climateaction @abundanthousingil.bsky.social @accessliving.bsky.social @elpcenter.bsky.social

I didn’t know he was a chef at one of our favorite local places. So heartbreaking, he was part of our community and they treated him like nothing In protests Chicagoans now chant “somos todos Silverio”

Heartless fucking monsters

Here's the TOTAL budgets of some other agencies that are being cut so the Admin can send $20B your tax dollars to their ideological friends: - EPA (clean air and water): $9.1B - NOAA (weather forecasts, warn if hurricane coming): $6.8B - DOE EERE (energy efficiency & renewable energy): $3.4B

stand for the flag / kneel for the cross

Not as powerful as cans of soup, depending on the volume, but in the right hands. 📚

Chicago’s Irving park road is becoming a real hub of fiber arts these days! #knitting #weaving #spinning #dyeing studios, galleries, and more. When the world is full of horrors we need community & the arts more than ever. Check out some of these new spots

The transit reform bill gives communities more tools to shape their communities around their transit stations. We need more people living and working near transit so more people can ride it. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/08/o...

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

There are 284.6 million registered cars in the US alone. I don’t think it is worth talking about something that has 0.17% of the impact.

The Chicago suburbs need better transit too! Let's get transit governance reform and funding done during October veto session. open.substack.com/pub/citythat...

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

We have ample research showing not only that conversion therapy DOES NOT WORK, but that it DOES DO HARM. This isn't just a question of whether it's effective; the bans are there to protect youth who cannot personally consent to the treatment from the documented harm. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

Oh my god. The way they treat him is absolutely inhumane and evil. Accountability will come for these nazis But the fact that they let him go is thanks to the bravery and solidarity of this community. 💪🏽🙏🏼