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Alli DeJong

@allidejong.bsky.social

climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account) also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc. chicago via new orleans via chicago

9,284 Followers  |  500 Following  |  5,824 Posts  |  Joined: 29.06.2023  |  2.44

Latest posts by allidejong.bsky.social on Bluesky

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

08.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 2228    🔁 309    💬 39    📌 21

absolutely incredible piece, and do not skip the beautiful photos of the maps

08.10.2025 00:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Just a colossal self own ceding 21st manufacturing to other nations we compete with. Unbelievably short sighted.

07.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 193    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 1

Thank you Coach

07.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

South burbs 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

07.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

06.10.2025 22:49 — 👍 28225    🔁 13425    💬 578    📌 553

boy dinner

06.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re in a moment where a huge part of resisting is just helping your neighbors and watching the block while vulnerable people are outside. I wish every keyboard warrior would take their phone to their front step and just be a visible presence.

06.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

this cannot stand

06.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

how can you not love extension!!! bringing science to the people 💪🏼

05.10.2025 23:30 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

you don’t deserve that and i’m grateful for your excellent public service to our city and our neighbors

05.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this is really upsetting

05.10.2025 02:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we can only hope

04.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Jake Elwood ass car and driver

Jake Elwood ass car and driver

Just Chicago Things

04.10.2025 15:44 — 👍 45    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 2

I gotta be real it is extremely doing a number on my mental well-being that mr. cato institue here is taking a stronger stand than the majority of the democratic party. the anti-DHS coalition is uhhhh a bunch of socialists, the cato institute and the neocons as led by bill kristol???

03.10.2025 04:18 — 👍 1247    🔁 231    💬 10    📌 23

i’ll throw down with you on this, good lord

03.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this looks so good

03.10.2025 23:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

think tanker (complimentary)

03.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@govpritzker.illinois.gov in case you’re wondering, this is what “you come for my people, you come through me” actually means.

03.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 106    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 0
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I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

03.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 494    🔁 300    💬 35    📌 46

If you’re in Illinois and you’re disturbed by the images that you’re seeing of the Illinois State Police in Broadview this morning, please call now. It will honestly take 30 seconds. I spoke to a real person.

Here are the phone numbers:

312-814-2121

312-814-2122

217-782-6830

217-782-6831

03.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 709    🔁 516    💬 13    📌 41

Happy birthday! I’m a couple months ahead of you and it’s fine here (except for all the fascism)

03.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Then why are state troopers arresting protesters?? Do they work for you or not??

03.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 114    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

My real team (Tigers) and my fake team (Cubs) are both moving on 😊

03.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes some kind of rudbeckia I believe! This is at the park and is lovingly stewarded by my neighbors

02.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

reset

02.10.2025 23:20 — 👍 31    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

02.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 4597    🔁 1738    💬 106    📌 46

Any idea why a CPD helicopter is circling Lincoln Square/Ravenswood?

02.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

02.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 8762    🔁 5541    💬 233    📌 221

it used to be colder and rainier in early october in chicagoland

02.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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