Spooky 👻 Dane 🌈🪐

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starbucks holds more in cash assets than 85% of us banks. 🤢

A snow bunting at Montrose Point this morning

I'm still so mad at Biden for not firing dejoy and derailing his whole 'service cuts at any cost' plan... (a new book is at the Chicago distribution center as of Sat doesn't arrive until Friday!)

I hope so!

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

we're goonin now boys

5/4 time signatures:

idea: tums gummy clusters

I want food

the city saw this video and repainted the trails so quickly!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 don't pardons require acknowledgement and acceptance of commiting that crime? also none of those 'criminal defense funds' go anywhere but up

Tree-jumping coyote. Seen near Chicago, October 24, 2026.

I think car culture got so out of hand post-2020 is that so many people felt powerless in their lives and cars gave them 'liberties to be empowered.'

Chicago spends approximately half of its city budget on debt service. oof.

both having lost key cast members in the intervening years 😬😬😬

so boomers minds are so melted that they think rebooting all of the old series, some of which have only been off the air for 10 years or so, will make us stay? glee is now coming back? 😬

Elon Musk needs to feel the squeeze of universal jurisdiction.

a policy failure³

lol fuck Rahm Emanuel, but he did make a singular point. (he had a decent drain the swamp proposal). 1) ban all stock trading 2) age limit of 75 3) blind trusts for those valued at >$1m 4) ban prediction markets 5) enforce emoluments bans

boomer gets upset (at a woman nonetheless) about the lake front bike path. when she (& others) begins to push back, boomer calls them nazis.

the taller the banner height of your vendor conference, the more likely we are in a recession

Do you condemn the sisterhood of the travelling pants

jump is such an interesting word. it can mean to share electricity, to beat someone up, or just to move vertically up and down using your feet.

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #6: A typical transit route gets its ridership from lots of shorter trips that overlap each other, not from end-to-end trips. The more destinations along the way, the more of those trips it can serve, and the higher ridership is.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

(super-)heated rivalry

The new East County library is gorgeous

oh wow the diplomat is swinging for the fences this season

so a new stage and performance area! traffic is gonna be doubly bad

Goddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...

Tesla 🤝 my dog

📷 Workers using a channeling machine during construction and excavation for the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal on August 31, 1894. 🖥️ Join our virtual tour on Tuesday, November 10, at 2 p.m. to learn how the MWRD improves our water environment: mwrd.org/education/to...

Finally a film asking the correct questions!!