Jim Gruman
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🚵♀️ RAGBRAI and 5 Boros Chicago burbs Ally 🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/jgruman
Go get 'em. This is important.
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Brent Toderian
5 days ago
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT
@davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dillon Causby's piece yesterday on Gramsci and his influence on the far-right, on taking exclusive ownership of "common sense" & "normal," dovetails nicely with this
@schuylermitchell.bsky.social
piece Catholics, long obsessed with porn, have another scapegoat.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything
MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/gender-ideology-mother-tongue-keyword-judith-butler-trump-terfs/
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
3 days ago
This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️⚧️
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Every year this happens somewhere not far from me and every year it's a blast. I have volunteered in a couple of the towns and have handed out water, manned a booth, or just came out to cheer folks on. Rain or shine, hot or cold -- RAGBRAI will happen.
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RAGBRAI - More than a Ride
YouTube video by RAGBRAI
https://youtu.be/6YEuunw_7a8?si=lCzp-JP2px6Fnt8i
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Riding the Western suburbs of Chicago
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Philip Bump
5 days ago
This week's newsletter looks at a new book on mapping — and includes some maps I made that put economic disparities into an interesting perspective.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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Putting the real world down on paper
This week's newsletter looks at how we use maps. I review a new book on the subject, interview a mapmaker and show how maps can reshape our assumptions about borders. It's all topped off with what I t...
https://www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-real-world-down-on-paper/
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Damie Pak
6 days ago
What's up everyone! I'm doing a Workshop for Ukraine in
#rstats
, I finally finished up a flyer. We'll be working on the Lotka-Volterra predator prey model. Just doing some math, coding, and making some nice visualizations. Some thoughts (1/n)
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For seven years, journalist Steve Hartman has documented the empty bedrooms of children lost to school shootings in the United States:
youtu.be/JhpJ8INsR0g?...
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All The Empty Rooms | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
https://youtu.be/JhpJ8INsR0g?si=tvAMnYJTp_3PqPVy
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Ending Trans Panic
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
https://youtu.be/LvVlBXeowWQ?si=_GA0vWIfRA32l1oO
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Barry Butler Photography
8 days ago
Panoramic View of the Northern Lights last night over the Chicago Skyline.
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Don Moynihan (@donmoynihan)
https://substack.com/@donmoynihan/note/c-173851875?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=38t6z
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Sharon Machlis
9 days ago
Interested in using your data skills for public service locally? My 5-minute
#PositConf2025
lightning talk aims to give you some ideas for inspiration! Now on YouTube:
youtu.be/fSAoCcZD--Y?...
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Use Your Data Skills for Good (Sharon Machlis) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://youtu.be/fSAoCcZD--Y?si=Y2MLNtmjKqJ1yz_1
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Don Moynihan
9 days ago
Ah yes, the thing to revitalize your downtown is to fill it with masked and armed man who routinely pepper spray random people. Everyone loves that.
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Andrew Heiss
10 days ago
My posit::conf(2025) talk with
@gosterhout.bsky.social
on election reporting with
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and
#QuartoPub
is up on YouTube now! See the slides here:
andrewheiss.github.io/election-des...
And see a whole example/tutorial site here:
andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/
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Election Night Reporting Using R & Quarto (Andrew Heiss & Gabe Osterhout) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCloM4GcfVY
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Aaron Cynic
10 days ago
They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.
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Thomas Lumley
11 days ago
#rstats
Vectorisation is urbanism
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I've got a when_any() use case right now. Let's do this
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
14 days ago
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city: It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying.
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Mr. Dan Kelly
14 days ago
Shit just got real. Chicago scripture.
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Oh the humanity!
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Let's hope that this trend continues
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My cat looking out the window. Also, soybean farmers.
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Power to the People: Aurora
https://action.aclu.org/event/power-people-aurora
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Willy Porter - “Humans In a Room” release starts soon
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DuPage County, IL
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Pwnallthethings
18 days ago
I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
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The Onion
21 days ago
Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers
https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/
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Radley Balko
22 days ago
Most people who actually live next to immigrants are just fine. It’s the people never exposed to anyone different from them who get angriest — and to whom Vance is appealing here. Also, Vance is a sociopathic ghoul whose nativist bullshit would have prevented his own children from existing.
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Alejandra Caraballo
23 days ago
"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.
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Radley Balko
23 days ago
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
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what events should I be booking for 2026? 3 years of RAGBRAI was nice. Next?
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Matthew Dowd
25 days ago
Today is Intersex Awareness Day. This marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in the United States. "It seeks to raise awareness about intersex people and the struggles that they face in society."
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Bridget O’Brien
26 days ago
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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Puff the Magic Hater
26 days ago
A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
26 days ago
it's hard to Nazi what's going on here
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Dave Byrnes
26 days ago
If the Trump admin's goal is to foment a Chicago nationalist movement that prioritizes Chicagoan identity above and increasingly at odds with American identity, they're succeedding.
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Ryan Goodman, with an LGBTQ perspective inside the cattle industry
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When the Table Turns
Speak up even when it's not about you
https://open.substack.com/pub/prideinag/p/when-the-table-turns?r=38t6z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Claus Wilke
29 days ago
We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...
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If your random seed is 42 I will come to your office and set your computer on fire🔥
Figuratively. More likely you'll get a stern talking to.
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-random-seed-is-42-i-will
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Colin Boyle
about 1 month ago
The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight.
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