Michael Hulburt

I guess we’re back to vigilant N95 use at the airport territory

welcome to my life! That’s why I bike to work whenever I can. The FP leg of the blue line from Racine↔️Forest Park is the slowest section of the CTA and it’s not even close

The actual solution is just right there! Put all the money in one pot (Medicare), cut out the private insurers (no Medicare Advantage), and boom—cost savings and better healthcare. Then CMS can play “entrepreneur” and negotiate all the drug prices down

Too many Israeli atrocities to keep up, but this hits home as a transplantation pro. for the past 10+ yrs

This violates every ethical principle upon which our organ transplant systems are built and shows a horrifying disrespect for human lives. Israel’s disdain for Palestinians knows no bounds

No. If anything, we’re underreacting

Folks. If you love your city and the people in it and feel helpless in the face of the fascist forces roaming your neighborhoods, read this piece and find some way to resist or to keep resisting or to support others who are. Be like Chicago. City of Broad Shoulders indeed.

Well if they can’t lower prices for just SNAP customers, they could just lower the prices for ✨all customers✨

Tbf if I was having a stroke that might be my reaction

Phone screenshot of Spark email app with two emails from MOHELA with subject line “Your Student Loans Have Been Forgiven…” and body text beginning “? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?”

Anyway, it wouldn’t have been a Halloween update without this bizarre visual in my inbox. MOHELA, incompetent in all things, including email formatting

Like, I knew this day would come when I took out those loans in 2012-13, but I wasn’t sure /this year/ that they’d actually go away. Turns out it’s harder to undo actual laws than the orange guy thinks

Screenshot from MOHELA website account summary showing student loan balance $0 for 3 loans as of 10/31/25

Quite the treat this year for Halloween (and my birthday), my PSLF went through and my loan balance is now a goose egg

I canceled this weekend and you can too! Pick a reason: underpaid musician rates, AI slop music, CEO funding AI war machine Palantir, ICE ads, paying Joe Rogan…

The guy who literally picked up a tear gas canister from his CBP truck and set in on the dashboard for later as he was leaving the courthouse today

I hope that it’s just an insane version of Homeward Bound

Plates already changed anyway

Chicago No Kings

From that heavy downpour overnight

New block list just dropped

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Hopefully you don’t have one of these, but if you do, please Office Space-style stomp on it and send it to the landfill

@alt-text.bsky.social

Basement bike trainer setup from rider POV. Zwift on laptop screen, Il Lombardía chase group on TV screen above. Nerds gummy clusters and two tall water bottles for fuel.

On call today so I’m riding in the basement again, watching yesterday’s Il Lombardia. Legs feel like rocks today 😩

A Royal Crown Victoria

We will be super fucked when the next pandemic rolls around at this rate

Tonight! Looking like my work life just might line up for me to go!

FlightRadar24 app screenshot of helicopter flight path over western Chicago suburbs. Helicopter belongs to US Customs and Border Protection. Flight originated at DuPage Airport

👀 ICE/CBP helicopter doing circles in Cicero this morning

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He’s literally in front of the building in the video (as close as local/state police will let anyone go)

This week’s reminder that Gavin Newsom still sucks and doesn’t care about vulnerable people at all.