Chris

i am not some wild radical, i am the most boring mainstream parent you could possibly meet that spends most of my life driving my kids to hockey practise - we've fucked up our streets so bad and the narrative so bad that wanting BASIC SAFETY FOR CHILDREN is considered fucking radical.

every campaign, every look both ways, every be seen, every teach our kids, every be alert, every fucking thing is performative when we refuse to do what we all know works and especially when we refuse to protect what is working.

Listen am I saying we're heroes just because we put a mirror up on a dangerous corner in our neighborhood? Yes I am! And that means you can be one too. Time to get up and create the world we want to live in.

Everyone come to this. Beermiscuous is one of the best joints in this town and they got done dirty.

THE SECRET IS THAT THE PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CRAVE CAR-FREE SPACES TO SPEND EVEN AN HOUR OF THEIR OTHERWISE COMPLETELY CAR-DOMINATED LIVES

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Just finished a Roscoe Village canvas for @patgilsenan.bsky.social and there's a lot of enthusiasm for change in the 32nd ward! More and more affordable housing, safer streets for all, and participatory budgeting. Couldn't be more excited!

So, what to do? USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN. THINK: “Would I give this information to someone who wants to make money off my ideas without giving me credit?” Don’t outsource your brilliance to these people. They are NOT good actors. It’s not rocket science; have a drop of self-preservation instinct!

I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

🚨NOT A DRILL🚨 We are thrilled to announce that State @senmikesimmons.bsky.social in partnership with Bike Grid Now, has secured a $300,000 planning grant to design 450 miles of the bike grid in Chicago and on 10% of roads in bordering communities, to be completed by the end of 2028.

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

Dine Out on Broadway is coming to Lakeview this weekend! We used to have it every other weekend, but now it’s only once a month. When I’m alderman, I’ll make it more frequent and expand open streets to other places in the ward.

the longer i cycle, the more i engage in the kinds of behaviour that piss motorists off, because i've found the most dangerous position i can be in as a cyclist is trying to follow rules not made with my safety in mind

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

“The only reasonable solution to this is to remove some of the car lanes from the street, and replace them with safe, protected travel lanes for people to ride bikes and e-scooters, so we can begin to liberate ourselves from the death grip of cars and traffic”

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

You do not engage in these kinds of actions to change the world overnight. You do it to change one person's world, over and over, until eventually, the tide is too much and the world must change.

We’ve officially kicked off! Thanks to everyone who came to launch my campaign for 44th Ward! We filled this room with amazing people building community together! Come join us as we build a Lakeview for all! Volunteer: www.mobilize.us/palsinforkal... Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/kalen...

Dooring has taken so many lives now that it should trigger a full scale design revision that no longer makes door zone bike lanes legal to build. We know how to build safe infrastructure. Our elected leaders make a conscious choice not to do so. It's that simple.

USA v Belgium is a tough one for me because on the one hand I’m American and on the other hand…

Letter to the Editor: There is a glaring absence of designated bike lanes running north and south through the midsection of Chicago. Please consider adding safe bike lanes, however configured, along a major north-south corridor, such as Pulaski Road.

Consistent with a theme I've noticed in progressive policymaking, where advocates/policymakers assume that the only acceptable policy intervention is one that carries no possible tradeoffs, and that there are surely no tradeoffs associated with leaving a horrendous status quo in place.

Taking stock of where America stands one month after the end of the voting rights era: The country is facing an escalating representation crisis, a spiraling crisis of legitimacy, and an accelerating disintegration into two incompatible Americas. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

… and remember to let your operator know that you’ll be removing your bike when you exit the bus 😉

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Yeah these people don't actually love Chicago. In every case they just want to selfishly extract from Chicago while having as little to do with it as possible

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To be blunt, I think the fundamental disconnect here is that when leftists and liberals (to include conservative liberals) say 'western civilization,' they are referring to a complex cultural and intellectual tradition with fuzzy boundaries. When MAGA says it, they are misspelling 'the white race.'

Rewatch Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That’s it. That’s the post. …. Ok it’s not quite the whole post. The movie doesn’t have to be based on a provable conspiracy, since those are really hard to prove, & it’s a movie with cartoons! But there’s plenty of evidence of dark money attacking public transit.

Once Illinois passes the BUILD plan we can have courtyard and similar building types again

if you want your housing costs to go down, support the BUILD plan and let your state representative and senator know

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”