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So, this happened😱 no one is talking about it.

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A group of kids shushing each other is one of the loudest things I’ve ever heard 😂

Chicago last weekend. Love to see it.

The Ultimate Guide To Shopping Local In Chicago For The Holidays In 2025 blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/17/t...

I guess I’m a Bohemian Revolutionary. I believe in beauty, freedom, truth and love. I just discovered that one of my favorites, Moulin Rouge, is on Netflix!!! I will be watching, singing, and crying on repeat for the next few weeks 😊😍

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve. No contract? NO COFFEE!

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

ICYMI, an avid driver and his posse say the City should paint bus lanes on Grand (0.3 miles S. of bus lanes on Chicago) instead of installing protected lanes. We used lots of maps, renderings, photos to show why that would be very silly. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/11/12/c... @chicritmass.bsky.social

How do millions of professed followers of Jesus reach a point where they harbor predators, willfully abandon survivors, and redact the truth in order to shield the monsters from the raking light of accountability? How do Christians align with r*pists? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-christ...

Finally! Some national coverage of the surprising early-morning 10/31 passage of Illinois' robust transit reform/funding bill, the "Halloween Miracle," in Governing. 🚌 🚃 🚉 💰 🎃 🙌 @chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org @atalliance.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @atalliance.bsky.social

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

NITA celebrate? Hailing a historic win: the Northern Illinois Transit Authority and $1.5B in funding to save and upgrade service.

If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

Things are pretty grim here in Chicago, but we at least have the advantage of getting a lot of national coverage. There are other places that aren't... like this case in Durango, CO. coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

All right, now let's check what our siblings in local transportation advocacy are up to. @betterstreetschicago.org is doing the deity's work, trying to get as many constituents as possible to nudge their senators and reps to support the transit bill. 👍

Stay around please 💜

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Next week is our last chance to fix and fund our public transit system before 40% service cuts begin. Have you called your lawmakers yet? They need to hear from YOU that it’s time to #FixItFundIt! Transit can’t wait! Find their phone # and give them a call today: ilga.gov

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ALL HANDS ON DECK! Chicagoland region - call your legislators, vote for proper funding for public transit - essential to the functioning of the seven county region and far beyond.

I somehow missed the passing of D’Angelo…one of those formative albums of my HS years…I LOVED cruisin with you 💜 rest in peace and comfort. Source: YouTube share.google/7ta4ZQ0LEC0M...

The Illinois Policy think tank's whiny attitude towards transit funding reminds us of an Oscar Wilde quote: "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." @mclean.bsky.social @ctaction.org @chicagocta.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @jbpritzker.bsky.social

Energy, my friends, must now turn into action - day after day, acts big and small. Marching is only the public gathering. Make sure you’re standing up for your neighbors and your own rights EVERY DAY.

This is our “leader”

Far more meaningful life guidance for me than WWJD? lol.

#NOKINGS 100K+ in Chicago

For your Saturday ~ Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale June —Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

Right-wing Illinois Policy: "The 2026 CTA budget is the latest in years of poor fiscal management." www.illinoispolicy.org/cta-proposes... Not mentioned: CTA's chronic underfunding by the state, paying only 17% of operations cost. Peer systems get up to 50% paid. www.rtachicago.org/about-rta/pr...

This is what is actually happening in my city - standing up for neighbors, mutual aid and support networks, neighborhood alert groups - this is what and who Chicago really is. 👆🏻✊🏻 Look For The Helpers: How Chicagoans Are Supporting Their Neighbors Amid ICE Raids blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/l...

Climate Action Day at the state capitol, focusing on passing a transit reform/funding bill, was a who's who of Chicago sustainable transportation advocates, including reps from @equiticity.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org @atalliance.bsky.social CNT and more. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/10/15/l...

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Hot take: IPhone users are so brand blinded that they don’t know what they are missing…this thing is awful. That you cannot assign different ring tones and notifications to different people is kinda boggling my mind right now. Ugh. Am I going back to Galaxy?!

This is what Democracy looks like. Headed down to Springfield today to advocate for funding for public transit for the 7 county Chicago-land region. Special thanks to State Rep. Megan Cassidy and State Sen. Mike Simmons for your time and attention today!

Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Illinois Black Advocacy Initiative: Chicago would sustain a big blow if the feds succeed in clawing back Red Line Extension funding. @chicagocta.bsky.social @yonahfreemark.com @nikhunder.com @betterstreetschicago.org @atalliance.bsky.social @kateontransport.bsky.social @ctaction.org

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If you don't fear for what awaits the world's children ... you haven't been paying attention. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

White Evangelical Christians, you are the predators, you are the danger, you are the Nazis and fascists here.

Feelin Fall, finally…

Not as powerful as cans of soup, depending on the volume, but in the right hands. 📚