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“What bounty programs promised in theory—scaling enforcement through public participation—Bike Lane Uprising has achieved indirectly, through persistence, credibility, and data.”
Bike Lane Blocking Pickup Truck a Familiar Site, and How Cyclists Can Fight Back.
momentummag.com/bike-lane-bl...
momentummag.com/bike-lane-bl...
Bike Lane Blocking Pickup Truck a Familiar Site, and How Cyclists Can Fight Back
The image circulating on Reddit was depressingly familiar: a vehicle blocking a bike lane, forcing cyclists (and even cars) to merge into traffic.
momentummag.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“What bounty programs promised in theory—scaling enforcement through public participation—Bike Lane Uprising has achieved indirectly, through persistence, credibility, and data.”
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Happy Festivus to all that celebrate….is everyone ready to air out their grievances?
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Happy Festivus to all that celebrate….is everyone ready to air out their grievances?
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Per new @nikhunder.com analysis, increasing bus stop spacing "could translate into speed improvements of 14-29% depending on the route, traffic levels, and how many stops are removed. That’s a remarkable increase in speed, at minimal cost to the agency." citythatworks.substack.com/p/a-plan-for...
A plan for faster buses
We can speed up the bus at (almost) no cost
citythatworks.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Per new @nikhunder.com analysis, increasing bus stop spacing "could translate into speed improvements of 14-29% depending on the route, traffic levels, and how many stops are removed. That’s a remarkable increase in speed, at minimal cost to the agency." citythatworks.substack.com/p/a-plan-for...
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“The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.”
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www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
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www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.”
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www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
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www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...
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Late afternoon sky triptych in Chicago. Gloomy, rainy day, but then some clearing right before sunset.
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Late afternoon sky triptych in Chicago. Gloomy, rainy day, but then some clearing right before sunset.
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Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
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Another year another bond ordinance passed to pay $164M police misconduct settlements & no progressives saying this is bad form to pay principal and interest on police crimes instead of it coming from their departmental budgets. But we wanna yell for hours about $100M head tax! Woo
December 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Another year another bond ordinance passed to pay $164M police misconduct settlements & no progressives saying this is bad form to pay principal and interest on police crimes instead of it coming from their departmental budgets. But we wanna yell for hours about $100M head tax! Woo
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AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in
Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
AI is coming for the Great Lakes. The "world's most-powerful AI data center" in Wisconsin will gobble up 8.4 billion gallons. Even the average data center uses 300,000 gallons a day. Oh, and they're getting fat tax exemptions.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com
So... @support.bsky.team still hasn't given any tangible help on how we can get access to our @thetriibe.com account again.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
It's going on a week now.
Will be posting our stories from here in the meantime.
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team This is Chicago's only Black owned media outlet and a crucial part of ICE/CBP reporting during an actual emergency. Unacceptable/please free @thetriibe.com
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If your take away from the Sydney mass shooting is that gun control doesn't work, you need to realize that this is the FOURTH one in Australia since 1996.
The US had 503 in 2024.
Gun control and regulations work.
The US had 503 in 2024.
Gun control and regulations work.
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If your take away from the Sydney mass shooting is that gun control doesn't work, you need to realize that this is the FOURTH one in Australia since 1996.
The US had 503 in 2024.
Gun control and regulations work.
The US had 503 in 2024.
Gun control and regulations work.
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"Why is Chicago building protected bike lanes? Nobody rides in them 6 months a year when it's cold here."
Here's what we saw in the downtown Dearborn Street PBLs during a 4-minute bike ride on Wednesday 12/10 around 4 PM (not peak rush hour), when it was about 32F.
Here's what we saw in the downtown Dearborn Street PBLs during a 4-minute bike ride on Wednesday 12/10 around 4 PM (not peak rush hour), when it was about 32F.
December 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Why is Chicago building protected bike lanes? Nobody rides in them 6 months a year when it's cold here."
Here's what we saw in the downtown Dearborn Street PBLs during a 4-minute bike ride on Wednesday 12/10 around 4 PM (not peak rush hour), when it was about 32F.
Here's what we saw in the downtown Dearborn Street PBLs during a 4-minute bike ride on Wednesday 12/10 around 4 PM (not peak rush hour), when it was about 32F.
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Halle Berry & Samuel L. Jackson at South Park Terrace apartments 6116 S. King in "Losing Isaiah." Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright associate Harry Hale Waterman, and a near twin of Wright’s since-demo'd Francisco Terrace. A 1909 carbon copy, Washington Park Terrace, stands at 6160-6212 S. King.
December 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Halle Berry & Samuel L. Jackson at South Park Terrace apartments 6116 S. King in "Losing Isaiah." Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright associate Harry Hale Waterman, and a near twin of Wright’s since-demo'd Francisco Terrace. A 1909 carbon copy, Washington Park Terrace, stands at 6160-6212 S. King.
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What's basically a ninth 'L' line is hiding in plain sight if we simply change *how* we operate existing Metra service
Just imagine a train every 7.5 minutes here that continued through downtown and out to the North and Northwest Sides
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What's basically a ninth 'L' line is hiding in plain sight if we simply change *how* we operate existing Metra service
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Oh look, a Chicago agency plowing sidewalks. Seems like we should be able to replicate this and scale it up for streets and sans. #plowthesidewalk
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh look, a Chicago agency plowing sidewalks. Seems like we should be able to replicate this and scale it up for streets and sans. #plowthesidewalk
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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BREAKING: Hoping the third time will be the charm, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday offered to reduce his proposed corporate tax hike to spare companies with fewer than 500 employees in an effort to break the stalemate surrounding Chicago’s 2026 spending plan. @wttw.bsky.social
Third Time a Charm? Mayor Johnson Proposes New Corporate Tax Hike to Break Budget Deadlock
The current proposal would impose a $33 per employee tax on companies with 500 or more employees to generate $82 million to fund violence prevention and youth employment programs.
news.wttw.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
BREAKING: Hoping the third time will be the charm, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday offered to reduce his proposed corporate tax hike to spare companies with fewer than 500 employees in an effort to break the stalemate surrounding Chicago’s 2026 spending plan. @wttw.bsky.social
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ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
ICE(ERO) just told me it has no body camera footage from operation midway blitz in Chicago in response to my FOIA request.
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Park district staff using a sidewalk plow, need these everywhere
#PlowTheSidewalks
#PlowTheSidewalks
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Park district staff using a sidewalk plow, need these everywhere
#PlowTheSidewalks
#PlowTheSidewalks
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Plowed protected bike lanes show how transformative #PlowTheSidewalks could be.
On streets like Milwaukee with plowed protected bike lanes, there is an alternative when a business shirks their legal & moral responsibilities after a snowfall.
On streets like Milwaukee with plowed protected bike lanes, there is an alternative when a business shirks their legal & moral responsibilities after a snowfall.
December 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Plowed protected bike lanes show how transformative #PlowTheSidewalks could be.
On streets like Milwaukee with plowed protected bike lanes, there is an alternative when a business shirks their legal & moral responsibilities after a snowfall.
On streets like Milwaukee with plowed protected bike lanes, there is an alternative when a business shirks their legal & moral responsibilities after a snowfall.
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A long-tailed duck this morning in Montrose Harbor
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
A long-tailed duck this morning in Montrose Harbor
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Extend it back to Jacksonville!!!
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
‘Party time on that train’: Officials seek more Amtrak Mardi Gras train data as ridership surges
Tourism leaders want demographic information to guide future decisions after learning the ridership of the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service is far outpacing initial expectations.
www.al.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Extend it back to Jacksonville!!!
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
www.al.com/news/2025/12...
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One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
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It's BEEN time to dump Spotify. Since this article, the music platform has also started running ICE recruitment ads. Is your Wrapped really worth it? https://bit.ly/44cgegy
Time to dump Spotify - Chicago Reader
Spotify was already a blight on music, and now CEO Daniel Ek is investing in AI weaponry. Chicagoans are joining an exodus from the platform.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's BEEN time to dump Spotify. Since this article, the music platform has also started running ICE recruitment ads. Is your Wrapped really worth it? https://bit.ly/44cgegy
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NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
OPINION: The Chicago Public Library budget is under threat. Let’s remember what libraries do for us • The TRiiBE
Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources.
thetriibe.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes.
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...
Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget.
thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...