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ajp @popkulturekills.bsky.social · Feb 26
last year, we stumbled upon chicago factbooks - the only source of historic chicago rent data, going back to 1930. without the resources for a larger digitization project, we took the simplest approach: manual data entry. once we adjusted the rents for inflation, the facts really came to life… 🧵
uhm not good not good
June 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
i knew that new orleans is cool but i didn’t know that it’s “ride in 100 year old streetcars that are 1 of 2 moving national historical landmarks” cool
June 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
got to new orleans early today, so had a bit of time to hack this together - @ire.org IRE 2025 conference custom schedule app :) you can filter + create your own itinerary that will save locally on your device. apadejski-24.github.io/ire-2025-sch...
IRE 2025 Schedule
apadejski-24.github.io
June 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
we also published a guide to chicago + suburbs farmers markets! love guides season 🌞🌻 chicago.suntimes.com/food-drink/2...
Here’s your 2025 guide to farmers markets throughout Chicago
Our big list of 100-plus markets across the metro Chicago area — freshly updated for 2025.
chicago.suntimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
published something fun last week 👀 curated guide to chicago summer concerts!
www.wbez.org/interactive/...
100 Days of Summer Concerts | WBEZ
Our 100 Days of Concerts guide will help you find the best shows to go to all summer long.
www.wbez.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
anyone know what this is about? saw one on my gate and all around my NW chicago neighborhood
April 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
tune in at 7pm central 😇
April 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
& let’s not forget it’s nonviolent, despite numerous attempts by the govt to incite aggression. the people, led by the student activists, checked each other to ensure peace. i can’t explain how healing it is to see a national identity transform so radically during my (relatively short) lifetime
March 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
in a country of 6.7 million…
still waiting on full count - the highest reliable estimate i saw was 325k on streets of Belgrade. by far the largest turnout in Serbia capital’s history. in awe
maks23.bsky.social MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Mar 15
More and more from Serbia! 🇷🇸
March 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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blbalthaser.bsky.social
This is how both the first and second red scares began: deporting legal permanent residents for nothing other than their (also legal) political beliefs

apnews.com/article/colu...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
apnews.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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#ICYMI: We previously reported on Illinois’ “no-schoolers,” children pulled from public school who receive almost no education in homeschool.

One 9-year-old told authorities he was beaten and denied food once his parents decided to be his teachers.
March 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the saddest thing about this is the idea they’re cutting government spending. the american government is not a household - they have a sovereign fiat currency monopoly - they spend first and tax second. our (federal) taxes don’t pay for shit. it’s just the ticket price to the american economy.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 1
Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA.

Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @deldeib.bsky.social
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left…
propub.li
March 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this is the mindset we should start from - to transform the internet back into a public good. open source, design for the commons
macloo.bsky.social Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · Feb 28
Sometimes I remember how Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP — and gave it all away for free. Kind of makes me want to cry, every time. Remember there is good in the world.
March 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
not buying for a day won’t do much… however - a nationwide rent strike could really make an impact, especially as blackrock is the biggest landlord.
March 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
scrolling through bluesky trying to find a voice of reason (my mom)
djurdjapadejski.bsky.social Djurdja Padejski @djurdjapadejski.bsky.social · Mar 1
Omg you are abstaining from shopping ONE DAY, stop making it a fucking revolution. They are preparing the stage for very serious things. We can’t afford your innocence anymore and it’s not cute.
March 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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amyqin.bsky.social
From a story we published earlier this week on @wbez.org:

We collected ~100 years worth of rent data to find that for thousands of low and middle income renters, Chicago now is likely the most unaffordable its been in nearly a century w/ @popkulturekills.bsky.social

www.wbez.org/interactive/...
Chicago rents are climbing fast. For many, there’s nowhere left to go. | WBEZ
Letonia Robinson has spent two years searching for an affordable home. She’s not alone — rents in Chicago are rising faster than incomes, squeezing thousands of families.
www.wbez.org
February 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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mdoukmas.bsky.social
New in @injusticewatch.org today: my colleague @danhinkel.bsky.social takes a hard look at the track record of the nation's most prolific conviction integrity unit
www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-cou...
Cook County’s conviction integrity unit repeatedly denied freedom to prisoners who were later cleared
Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit
www.injusticewatch.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
can we tax their jets tho
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Feb 26
The Republican budget plan:

-Cut SNAP by $230 billion
-Cut Medicaid by $880 billion
-Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%
Title: House Republican Plan Would Take Health Care and food Assistance Away from People to Pay for Tax Cuts for Wealthy Subtitle: House Republican plan could cut Medicaid by $880 billion and SNAP by $230 billion while giving wealthy people $1.1 trillion in tax cuts Bar graph showing cuts to Medicaid ($880 billion) and cuts to SNAP ($230 billion) on left in yellow, and taxt cuts for people with incomes in the top 1% ($1.1 trillion) on right in red Note: People with incomes in the top 1% have $743,000 or more in annual income. All estimates are through 2034. Source: Department of Treasury Office of Tax Analysis, the Cost and Distributio of Extending Expiring Provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 Graphic from Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
February 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
last year, we stumbled upon chicago factbooks - the only source of historic chicago rent data, going back to 1930. without the resources for a larger digitization project, we took the simplest approach: manual data entry. once we adjusted the rents for inflation, the facts really came to life… 🧵
February 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM