Go get 'em. This is important.

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...

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...

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🏳️‍⚧️

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.

Riding the Western suburbs of Chicago

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-...

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) #academicsky

For seven years, journalist Steve Hartman has documented the empty bedrooms of children lost to school shootings in the United States: youtu.be/JhpJ8INsR0g?...

Panoramic View of the Northern Lights last night over the Chicago Skyline.

Aurora, IL

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?...

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.

My posit::conf(2025) talk with @gosterhout.bsky.social on election reporting with #rstats 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/

They invaded my city (and others) with goon squads that have been kidnapping my neighbors and terrorizing us on a daily basis.

#rstats Vectorisation is urbanism

I've got a when_any() use case right now. Let's do this

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. #chicago

Shit just got real. Chicago scripture.

Oh the humanity!

Let's hope that this trend continues

My cat looking out the window. Also, soybean farmers.

Willy Porter - “Humans In a Room” release starts soon

DuPage County, IL

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

💯 on board with this.

Chicago ICE Raids By The Numbers https://theonion.com/chicago-ice-raids-by-the-numbers/

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.

"We would have cheaper groceries if we let 40 million people including children starve" is a hell of take.

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.”

gnight everybody

what events should I be booking for 2026? 3 years of RAGBRAI was nice. Next?

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."

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.

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.

it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

Go Jays

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.

Ryan Goodman, with an LGBTQ perspective inside the cattle industry open.substack.com/pub/prideina...

We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

LFG

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. @blockclubchi.bsky.social