Pooja Ravindran

Planning a 10 year college reunion w my college roommate 10/10 would recommend bc the tea on everyone's life updates is piping hot y'all

They have a set of exceptions. Also, my hunch is that the averages will hit in Q3 so at least we should be able to see them in the transfers report. See initial statement here (share.google/dl4CjASUz0hh... )on what we see missing; we'll do a deeper dive in another blog post since i've done a mockup!

Being a gym bro is working for me!!!!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!

FOIA exemptions.

Strange Cargo printed 1,000 free "F— ICE’ shirts. There’s still time to get yours. blockclubchi.co/40GoyDt

Chicago has a market for parking reform The city’s new reforms will help build more units

Zak and I coded over 900 upzoning requests introduced in Chicago to analyze how home builders responded to the city’s parking reform (part of the Connected Communities ordinance)

Guess what: they responded by building less car parking 👏

New calculation of the Disability Tax just dropped.

STOP

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

How Elon Musk Ate NASA - The Atlantic share.google/w0BEssaQHSDu... an essay really on govt contracting to transnational company hegemony pipeline

CPD’s second-in-command gets dramatically different responsibilities in shakeup The second-in-command of the Chicago Police Department appears to have been stripped of virtually all of her duties related to the department’s daily operations, according to a new organizational c…

Significant shuffling of command staff responsibilities at Chicago Police Department - First Deputy Supt. Yolanda Talley, whose connections to scandals wouldn't fit the character limit here, stripped of most day-to-day responsibilities. #chicago

@ckubzansky.bsky.social + @samjcharles.bsky.social

Mid Year Budget Report from Council Office of Financial Analysis is also now out share.google/UC5uLV4COEpp... ! COFA is council's advisory body on all city financial matters. We have ways to go in improving their utility to council's decision-making and understanding of municipal finance but trying!

A North Park homeless encampment will be shut down after recent fires. blockclubchi.co/4lMa7WS

Like the format and the info...not the ass-hat actions

This is so cool!

Executive Order to Lock up People Experiencing Homelessness and People with Mental Illness On Thursday, Trump signed a new EO that aims to put people experiencing homelessness and/or people with mental illness in jail or institutions. It plans to do so through several ways: To provide assistance and funding to States who seek to relax laws on involuntary “civil commitment, institutional treatment, and step-down treatment standards” for people with serious mental illness who “pose a danger to others or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.” The definition of what poses a danger to others is completely subjective and will be left up to law enforcement to decide. To prioritize funding to states who “enforce prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting.” It will prioritize funding to municipalities which take steps to remove homeless people from public places and put them into institutions under the guise of “mental health and substance use treatment.” What this means is they mean to take funding from states which don't criminalize homelessness and shift funding to states who are willing to arrest people experiencing homelessness. Note the use of “urban” which is directly aimed at Democratic cities. Homelessness looks much different in rural areas. Eliminating the “Housing First” model. The Housing First model works by assuming that shelter or housing should be the first step for a person in need of services. Once the person is housed, then they can have the opportunity to engage in whatever other services they need to achieve long term housing stability. Would you be able to focus on your mental health or maintain a job if you were sleeping outside? No. Housing First is the model because IT WORKS. Instead of following this research backed model, the Trump Administration wants to tie funding to the requirement that someone enter treatment “as a condition” of participation in a housing program.

Call your Senators and Representatives Tell them to sign on as a sponsor for the Housing, Not Handcuffs legislation introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Rep. Maxwell Frost https://housingnothandcuffs.org/hnhact/ Protest through strategic non-cooperation Indivisible is training people across the country on what this looks like and how to build it into your fight against authoritarianism. https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/?utm_source=indivisible&utm_medium=homepage Learn more about the causes and solutions to homelessness The US Interagency Council on Homelessness has been disbanded by the Trump administration but they information is still available on their website. This council was established by Congress and yet, the Federal government is now going against its own recommendations and research with this new executive order. https://usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends Donate to your local homeless shelter Even in the best of times, homeless shelters are vastly underfunded. With the cuts to rental assistance and low income housing programs, the number of people experiencing homelessness is going to increase substantially. They need your help. https://www.hud.gov/findshelter

🗣️ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK - July 14-27

Please share this flyer far and wide! Print and post them everywhere - hand them out at your next Tesla Takedown, at your church, at your grocery store!

We are all we’ve got! And everyone has something to give. 💜

if you are the kind of person who gets excited about municipal budget data, i have great news

Vision Zero is achievable in an urban context.

We know how, we just have to do it.

A plea to city council to do everything it can to avoid service cuts | Active Transportation Alliance With a looming transit crisis facing the city of Chicago, we recently delivered a plea to the Chicago City Council’s […]

🚆🚍With a looming transit crisis facing the city of Chicago, today we delivered a plea to the Chicago City Council’s main transportation committee, urging them to do whatever is needed to prevent possible devastating cuts to our transit system. 🙏 activetrans.org/blog/a-plea-...

Lmao

Journalist Discovers Google Vulnerability That Allowed People to Disappear Specific Pages From Search Negative articles about a tech CEO vanished from Google after someone made fraudulent requests using the Refresh Outdated Content Tool.

This is extremely bad: Journalist Jack Poulson discovered a vulnerability in Google that was being exploited to get his reporting about a CEO deleted off of the search rankings.

This is a wet dream for reputation management companies, censorious regimes, etc

www.404media.co/journalist-d...

Time to see if any of this information provided by OBM is helpful in further understanding Chicago's net position reality prior to the FY2026 budget recommendations and final ordinances passage. Hope to hear from @bettergov.bsky.social @civicfederation.bsky.social CTBA and others on this!

The Mid Year Budget Report for the City of Chicago that @andrefor40th.bsky.social got added to the municipal code during last budget season is now live! Text:
www.chicago.gov/content/dam/... with associated data dashboard:
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

EPA to revoke 2009 finding that climate pollution endangers humans The repeal of the finding on the dangers greenhouse gases pose to human health and welfare will face fierce legal challenges.

NEW: EPA to revoke 2009 finding that climate pollution endangers humans.

It's election season in IL. Everyone's endorsement questionnaires from local to federal should include hard questions on divesting from Israel, AI, surveillance technology and the carceral state. No easy endorsements. The electorate needs to demand more from politicians.

Honestly if there are sniper holes in the foreheads of children, I don’t care if your own reasoning allows you to sidestep the G-word, there is no logical parsing that can justify these acts, there is no gentlemanly symmetrical warfare based on some colonial guideline, this is mass human hunting.

At 1st City Council Hearing on Consent Decree in 15 Months, No Sign of Urgency Around Reform Push None of the alderpeople at the sparsely attended committee hearing pressed CPD officials about why the department had fully complied with just 16% of the court order known as the consent decree by the...

At the first Chicago City Council hearing into CPD’s efforts to comply with a court order requiring officers to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights in 15 months, there was no sign any urgency surrounds the reform effort. @wttw.bsky.social

At 1st City Council Hearing on Consent Decree in 15 Months, No Sign of Urgency Around Reform Push None of the alderpeople at the sparsely attended committee hearing pressed CPD officials about why the department had fully complied with just 16% of the court order known as the consent decree by the...

At the first Chicago City Council hearing into CPD’s efforts to comply with a court order requiring officers to stop routinely violating Black and Latino residents’ constitutional rights in 15 months, there was no sign of urgency surrounding reform.

to.wttw.com/4o33P6G

Someone has started to vape in my face

3 trains in the opposite direction and the pan flute artist has begun over backing track i am deeply overstimulated and under public transported