Fix the sidewalks

Why Is The Cook County State's Attorney Prosecuting Nonviolent ICE Protesters? A Block Club investigation found dozens of protesters arrested by state police are still facing criminal charges for minor infractions, such as sitting on a concrete barrier — even after Gov. JB Pritz...

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You just won the gold medal on Sunday and now you have to sit through a boring work meeting and it's not even your job. Incredible punishment. I couldn't have orchestrated it better

Cook County contractor: Pappas abused, bullied executives in profane ‘tirades’

BREAKING: The chief executive of a major Cook County contractor alleged longtime county Treasurer Maria Pappas repeatedly subjected company executives to bullying, threats and “obscenity-filled tirades,” according to a copy of a letter obtained by WBEZ.

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Recurring pattern: The US makes policy choices that have massive policy consequences for other countries, but rate at best a couple days of domestic news coverage. Then a decade or two later we’re utterly baffled that people in those places despise us. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Join us TOMORROW for a happy hour meet-and-greet with transportation champs that are running for office in the 2026 midterms!

🗓️ Wednesday, February 18th
⏰ 6-8pm
📍Half Sour (755 S Clark)

RSVP ➡️ act.bscactionfund.org/transportation-champs-happy-hour

Specifically, buses.

Chicago's encampment closures are ‘unconscionable’ - Chicago Reader Public encampments provide resources and community for people experiencing homelessness, but city crews repeatedly evict residents.

Last year, I emailed Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, Sendy Soto, as well as spokespeople for both Soto & Mayor Johnson, six times. I wanted to understand their approach to evicting unhoused Chicagoans from the shelters they build to survive. No response.

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Great work guys. That’s the sort of ratio you want to see.

NEWS: Illinois investigating allegation that South Shore apartment owner and management tipped federal officials about the presence of Venezuelan immigrants in the building in order to intimidate and coerce the building’s Black and Hispanic tenants into leaving.

A Bluesky thread by Musicology Duck: I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place they switched drivers at a rest stop and the new driver is telling everyone that they're the ones on the wrong bus?? he's refusing to talk to anyone while he's driving and is now just driving really fast people are calling the police I think I might end up in Vienna Virginia but I'm ... not sure??? two big guys just went up and said we're going to Union station!! and he said no we're not

This is a WILD thread—that is still ongoing bsky.app/profile/musi...

It's important for everyone to see this

Opinion | ICE Is a Virtual Secret Police

"During the first Trump administration, left-wing activists demanded that the nation abolish ICE. They were right then, and they are right now." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

"i asked chatgpt" well I asked amy klobuchar and she threw a stapler at my head

Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.

“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”

Don’t be fooled: you can’t both claim this was simply the execution of an arrest warrant AND say the U.S. is now "running" Venezuela & grabbing its oil resources.

Trump just admitted this was a clear regime-change play to enrich U.S. oil companies & his billionaire buddies.

jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office

There also need to be elected Democrats, particularly anyone considering a 2028 run, out in public post haste making it clear that a Democratic administration will aggressively prosecute those who carry out illegal orders.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

It is very important that your federal electeds hear not only from you on social media, but through direct contact as well. Tag them and then

Call and email. Do both. Tell them to move to immediately impeach and remove for an unconstitutional war of aggression.

also open to chatting with any transit-savvy Chicago or Chicagoland people about the infrastructural funding Arlington Heights and the Bears were discussing

you should read this story. they should run this fuckin guy through an electronics shredder

The flu vaccine doesn't always prevent infection, but it reduces severity.

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

Safe streets are under attack right now — including from moneyed interests with nefarious political intent.

We have much work to do to defend and grow our movement in the coming year.

And we have much to do to elect better leaders and hold those in power accountable.

Are you with us?

They gassed up, a good dozen cars, then zoomed through red lights, "dodging in and out of traffic."

Gregory Bovino's caravan just exited DuSable-Lake Shore Drive at Broadway: my neighborhood. Helicopter hovering above Broadway. Police escort, which pulled over a rapid-resoonder. Watch this space.

Chicago is a winter city & I think residents pride themselves in navigating the brutal winters. As much as the cold and winter is part of our identity, the city itself doesn’t manage winter & snow well. Right now, our sidewalks are intermittently icy w/ many alleys looking like ice rinks.

Tell the city NO to 70% cuts to safe streets funding! Mayor Johnson's bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure to the tune of 70% – directly putting our communities' safety in jeopardy. Take a moment to email him and your Alderperson to tell the...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED:

Mayor Johnson's 2026 bond proposal defunds safe streets infrastructure by a whopping 70% – putting our communities in jeopardy by threatening the progress we've made in preventative infrastructure.

Email him and your alderperson today and tell them to reverse course!