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Chicagoans, please sign this. And keep Wrigleyville from getting even more ridiculous.
More bikes and buses.

Noooo

Screenshot of headline that reads “A judge finds the Trump administration’s third-country deportations unlawful.” Full text linked in reply.

BLOCKED. A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt its illegal and aggressive third-country deportations. It is inhumane for the Administration to send immigrants, without a shred of due process, to countries where they lack ties and may face torture or persecution.

I'm S Gronkiewicz-Doran, and I'm running for Alderperson of Chicago's 45th Ward. I can't wait to meet you, and to organize together to bring new leadership to the Far Northwest Side.

Hey NW Side/45h!

Let’s go, @sgdfor45.bsky.social!

Is ‘snowflake’ too apt, or just right, for this?

How Illinois became the bicycling center of the nation: A Q&A with Christopher Sweet | Active Transportation Alliance Illinois lays claim to one of the great episodes in American cycling history, and historian Christopher Sweet brings that era […]

“Chicago is the bicycle center of the United States,” the Chicago Tribune confidently declared in 1896, backing up the claim with nearly a full page of bicycle-related statistics and stories. The paper estimated that Chicago had 200,000 riders, including 40,000 women and 2,000 children."

Fascinating history of the historical (and prominent) role of bikes in Illinois, and Chicago. Interesting class and gender lenses, too! Thx, @atalliance.bsky.social

Cc: @sharrows.bsky.social @chicritmass.bsky.social @chiwho.bike @bikegridnow.org @betterstreetschicago.org

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

It’s beautiful. Based on a true story, and featuring amateur actors (who lived the story being told).

Oh, and might I also suggest adding “The Rider,” another gem of a sleeper film (about a bronco rider), that far too few people saw.

I would 100% take this course, for Eephus, but also for Breaking Away and for Hanif Abduuraqib. (Maybe add a piece about Major Taylor?)

Reporter here. Most local / regional papers charge an initial 99 cents for a digital subscription. Try it for a year. Aim to be an engaged and informed member of the public. Democracy is counting on you.

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Many truths in two grafs. From @fotoole.bsky.social in @nybooks.com.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

wgntv.com/news/chicago... Chicago bicyclists hit 😢 on the near Northside

This.

You really can live without Amazon. You really can.

Study: Fox News smeared Alex Pretti dozens of times following his killing by federal agents On January 24, Customs and Border Protection agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minnesota intensive care nurse, during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In the week tha...

During the week after Pretti was killed by DHS, Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

American Visionary Art Museum Welcome to the nation's museum for self-taught, intuitive artistry.

@sorenspicknall.bsky.social Do not sleep on: Atomic Books. And the American Visionary Arts Musem, a fantastic collection of folk/outsider art. www.avam.org

Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the moneyed power elite.

It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.
https://bit.ly/3ZPQUKt

With WaPo locked into a death spiral, CBS effectively an arm of state news, and public media facing massive budget cuts, it's more important than ever to follow and support independent media.

Watching as we speak. Didn’t realize it was multi-part… that brought me joy! (Raised on Blazing Saddles and History of the World, Pt. 1)

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: ‘I am their voice’ In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Incredible interview by @wbez.org’s @adrianacardmag.bsky.social with Marimar Martinez — who was shot, charged, vindicated in Trump’s deportation blitz in Chicago
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Once again, a massive gap between the official story — and what the facts are

1-28-26 Fulton Warrant

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document.

Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Swalwell: "The masks has to come off. These guys, the don't just wear these masks for their own anonymity. They wear it for moral cover. They hide their identities from us and their humanity from themselves. So their masks have to come off. Period."