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after unimaginable loss looking to help create safe streets
🥰 it’s so cute 🥰😍🥰

Clark St bike lanes have been plowed
January 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
sometimes when the news of the day gets a bit big it’s nice to play around with textiles

pair of favourite pants starting to show some age, why not a new hem from a remnant bought ages ago
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Breeders
Liz Phair
Salt&Pepper
Melissa Etheridge
10000 Maniacs
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers

The Distillers
P!nk
Blood People
Sincere Engineer
Shania Twain
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers

Alabama Shakes
CSS
Sleigh Bells
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Straight Line Stitch
January 24, 2026 at 4:29 PM
“people could die this weekend because of the threat of ICE in their area!”

is this the kind of thing that would get interdepartmental demands that they downplay the severity of a storm… just like the attempt to downplay the severity of their kidnapping racket?

you can’t make this stuff up
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 2:33 PM
anise and pepperoni / broccoli and crushed red pepper flakes…

friday night is home made pizza night over here… Lily and i made it a tradition, her memory is why it continues
January 24, 2026 at 12:44 AM
ski goggles FTW this AM, consistently surprised by the lack of proper clothes you see during weather events

no such thing as bad weather, just poor clothing choices

so many folks underdressed this morning, has car dependency tricked folks into believing that weather has been tamed?
January 23, 2026 at 3:12 PM
waiting for Metra home chilling in a car watching NB train pull in, while stopped the Bears got the tying TD, windows of excitement erupted across the train. small celebrations framed in green

transit travel is community building
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 AM
being asked if i have children by those in opposition to safe streets who didn’t know about the project public meetings over two years shows a lack of curiosity into the actual project, or willful ignorance.
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
nice conversation with an Alder office where they said nothing is going to be changed, project moving forward, despite the SM anger and push back they are receiving a lot more support.

keep up the public support, call the Alders office, they like to hear the support
January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
“i engage the city on my time, not when they tell me they are holding public meetings.

this is why i am demanding hyper specific numbers from the city before i can approve the project i am most definitely not trying to stop”

it’s a new one for me
January 4, 2026 at 1:10 AM
every time an Alder caves and gives into the angry FB mobs that didn’t show up to public meetings and waters down Complete Streets projects rather than taking time to explain to constituents what is being done they make the city less safe. it also emboldens pro car folks making these projects harder
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
i want my kid to

walk to a park
walk to school
walk to friends

ride a bike

take transit

childhood independence is a hugely underrated thing that car dependency & unsafe roads prevents, it’s sad how hard some go to the paint to protect this really bad trade off

for alleged freedom for parents
January 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
demanding that drivers, truckers convenience/freedom to park has to be considered before we can talk about plans for more housing, transit efficiency, pedestrian/cyclist safety is such a fool’s errand.
December 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
why is it now after bike infra installed, regardless if pedestrian/transit infra is built too, that it’s acceptable for drivers/avid cyclists to immediately say now more people are going to be killed, illegal behaviour by drivers has to be forgiven because of the bike lanes

REMOVE IT!

new tactic
December 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
was building a great tradition of cooking with Lily, she was a pretty great Sous

❤️ that my wife gave me this cookbook

E is a smidge young to help at the moment but enjoys hanging in his chair while i cook, always ready to taste test. look forward to many hours in the kitchen with him
December 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
the level of discourse by those against Complete Streets Initiatives has devolved into a great mirror for Alders that are on the fence or against it

look at the threats against 🚲 riders & 🧒👦 where drivers say because CDOT is attempting to calm traffic drivers will be enraged & maybe kill them
December 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#MAHA is so dumb, not only the anti science silliness, but the Admin is actively cutting off easy ways to be healthy, both physical and mental, by threatening to not fund transit, ped, and cycling infrastructure

like come on my dudes you are missing an easy health multiplier in the simplest way
December 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
loving the weeman does not like car seat travel.

active traveling kids don’t understand the confinement of car travel due to it’s dangers.
December 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
i used to have a pretty long commute on Metra, two doodles from that time
December 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
two days I should be happy, birthday/Christmas.

found out i was to be a dad 7 years ago on my bday

she ❤️ Christmas 🤶

the loss of a child reverberates in ways that are hard to explain

heading into the holidays the memories are warm, but hard

happy for our wee man, he will bridge to a future
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
when do we get to the point of, CDOT has determined this to be an unsafe road they are making changes to save lives, and that is a generally accepted policy position of the public.

present the plan, modify with feedback but the general public understands that these are good projects
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
is the BP fight against Complete Streets more of a visceral reaction to ICE sweeps of the area, where they have no control, so this is a place to focus anger and attack?

i know i have picked fights with my dad when a bill is delayed or shelved. i want to lash out & fight no matter how misapplied
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“just admit it you just want to ban all cars” is far more of an indictment of your position than mine

like the gun debate

or DEI debate

claiming your oppo wants to take all rather than understand the debate says you fear a complete takeover against you because you know it’s what you enjoy
December 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
💸💸💸 fancy Carbage

at a corner in a bedroom community on Chicago’s NS. i walk this street to and from the office, drivers rarely stop for 🛑
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM