It's a Chicago holiday

"Cities are corrupt & morally bankrupt, so instead of living in a city, we should get lots of people together to move to a single place where we can all live close to one another in community, and provide services and support to one another. I haven't come up with a name for this kind of place yet."

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From Ald. Matt. Martin: "Join us Monday 6pm at Begyle Brewing to celebrate this good news and to find out about the bill... We'll be joined by activists and officials to debrief the situation."
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🚨 Transit funding bill SB2111 has been assigned to committee and we need folks to file witness slips as PROPONENT immediately! How to submit a witness slip: 1. Follow the link and fill out your contact information 3. Under "firm/business" put "self" (or your workplace if authorized) 4. Under "representation" put "self" again 5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent" 6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only" 7. Then agree to the terms and click "Submit" https://mbl.ms/mKgZnW7m-BQ

Just got this action alert, I think from @betterstreetschicago.org

Sign a witness slip immediately for the transit funding bill. Info in alt text

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our reserves are cleared out and the high school drop off point is also cleared out

people are staring down the choice to pay rent or eat food and are taking big risks to go to jobs

we are also looking for diapers — specifically size 4, 5 and 6

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It should be acknowledged at some point that part of the reason ICE is able to operate so easily in Chicago is because by design our streets were already full of massive vehicles driven way too fast by sociopathic freaks

People all over the country need to understand that federal agents are not in Chicago to prevent violence – they're in Chicago to cause violence.

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

This is located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, close to Fullerton and Sheffield. It's a densely populated area near DePaul University. I'm pleased to see the community standing up against these despicable individuals.

All morning was spent chasing ICE out of my neighborhood in Chicago (Avondale) and meeting other neighbors who were out patrolling on foot, on bikes, and in cars. A caravan of ICE SUVs got within a half block of my house. I finally had to use my whistle. It works. It drew others out to the street.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

the webpage i linked

Offbeat bikes in Chicago now offers cargo ebike rentals

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We need 100,000 people in Chicago to show up at the next No Kings protest on 10/18. They can’t arrest 100,000 people, yes this means YOU

A thing I think it’s important for USians not in currently-occupied cities to grasp is that the normal and everyday goes on alongside the violent and unprecedented.

In Chicago right now you can be forced off teargas-soaked streets in the morning and have a peaceful evening picnic on the lake.

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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

Standing on the edge of the fiscal cliff: "Save Chicago Transit" shines a light on the public transportation budget crisis, in a funny way - Streetsblog Chicago “Save Chicago Transit: The Show”, presented by Funny You Should Care, is a production that combines sketch comedy, improv, and interviews. It takes place Tuesdays in September at 7 p.m. at Donny’s Sky...

Background on the "Save Chicago Transit" comedy show at Second City in Chicago. Running Tuesday evenings through September. chi.streetsblog.org/2025/09/12/s...

Meanwhile the most effective government services like the CFPB must be gutted specifically because they are too effective, and even more specifically because they are too effective at combatting the corporate excess at the heart of the country's seemingly endless rot

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Crowd of people with bikes in Grant Park

Crowd of people with bikes

Bike the drive '25 is in the books!

ETSC: Mutual recognition deal with U.S. will cost lives on Europe’s roads By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.

“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”

This will kill people.

Labor Day March Planned To Protest Trump And Possible National Guard Deployment Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday the Chicago Police Department has "strategically placed a plan" if President Donald Trump follows through on threats to deploy thousands of federal troops in the cit...

Chicagoans will rally and march on Labor Day starting at 11 a.m. at the Haymarket Memorial to protest Trump's threat of a military occupation of the city.
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🧵 Voting reform is a paradigmatic issue in US politics, in the following way: Republicans have been accusing Democrats of cheating on voting for *years*. Consistently, day after day, for years.

Now, importantly, *at no point have they produced evidence of voter fraud*. Not then, not now, not ever.

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."