Cait Hakala
@caithakala.bsky.social
Chicago ILGA witness slips aficionado and Nora Leerhsen stan account
This is heartbreaking. @kenjennings.bsky.social did so much damage and his actions caused a cascade that chased an innocent trans woman off the internet The fact that she has suffered all the consequences from his actions should make everyone stop and think about how privilege played out here
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 8h agoGwen deactivated 😔
I'm so tired of news like this. When are we going to design thoroughfares for people instead of cars? My hottest take is that tucks shouldn't be in the city period.
Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 10h ago“A 16-year-old boy riding an e-scooter was fatally struck by a truck driver in North Center on Monday, the third teenager to be killed in traffic on e-scooters this year.“
Of course Mendoza opposes the Archer bike lanes--she's a scofflaw and a dangerous driver.
Cait Hakala@caithakala.bsky.social · 2mo agoGroup chat coming in hot with an incredible Mendoza-is-a-carbrain-idiot lore drop.
Susana Mendoza, incapable of hiding what a whiny little asshole she is even for the first month of her ultimately wasted mayoral campaign.
Papa Rides a Bike@paparidesabike.bsky.social · yesterdaySusana Mendoza just slammed the Archer Av. bike lanes as a debacle that has made traffic worse, saying that Archer used to be a great shortcut & a fast thoroughfare. On @wbez.org with @sashaannsimons.bsky.social Anyone who has ever traveled on Archer knows this is BS. It's always been a car sewer
the ratio will continue until trans discourse improves and Ken has to listen to me because he thanked me by name in the acknowledgements of a book once.
Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 6d agoThis may be true of others but I actually got express permission from the trans community to keep NYT games and recipes. I also have a news subscription, which is arguably worse, so I had to specifically send in a written request. Took 30 days but I got approved.
This is the dumbest menu survey I've ever seen. I've seen better and more thoughtful, comprehensive surveys made in google docs from alders.
Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 6d agoChicagoans can vote on how the Park District should spend $500,000. Here’s how to cast your ballot: blockclubchi.co/45vzJ3L
Chicagoans can vote on how the Park District should spend $500,000. Here’s how to cast your ballot: blockclubchi.co/45vzJ3L
My mom had a massive tree come down in the storm the other day so my office today is a backyard. My laptop is a chainsaw. I am a lumberjill.
Divvy Bike 765-9766 is vandalized but divvy will never know because I waited to report it until I got home and apparently they only let you scan them???? But also people who take the faceplate off of divvys so others can't rent them are going to the same circle of hell as Rahm Emanuel.
Good news for more treatment options, but I think we can all thank Draft kings/Poly market/Kalshi for this being necessary. Online betting is a public health crisis.
Illinois Recognizes Gambling Addiction, Allowing New Treatment Options
A new Illinois law classifies compulsive gambling under the same umbrella as alcohol and drug disorders.
news.wttw.com
tried to drive out to visit my aunt and had to turn right back around, this weather is nuts.
Almost got hit by a car in a crosswalk that was turning left. I yelled and he has the audacity to roll his window down and say "I saw you eventually." What a lunatic.
we need to stop sanitizing this man's career fr. The fact that all good press he gets involved dressing up so that he's unrecognizable is telling.
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 2w agoIf you looked closely amid the cosplayers walking the streets of San Diego this afternoon, you might have found a familiar face hidden under old-age makeup.
no better way to start a friday than a lake jump off of Chicago's world-renowned concrete beach
Illinoisians, if you are not receiving @iltreasurer.bsky.social Michael Frerichs' emails, you are missing out. They are sometimes bizarre and always charming. Today he compares raising his twins to running a small business because both give you no rest and are always on your mind 😂
Every email I get from the Salt Shed is one act I know and then curtains for zoosha for everything else.
Just read some random opinions about how millennials don't value fine china the way previous generations did because it can't go in the dishwasher. Meanwhile, my grandma gifted me a fine china that sat in a closet for 30+ years and told me to use it like regular dishes. So that's what I do.
does anyone know what these are for? seems like a waste of taxpayer dollers
big propaganda doesn't want you to know, dozens of us are immune with this One Cool Trick
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2w agoMy post about propaganda is attracting a lot of engagement from the immune to propaganda community
it's called The Atlantic because you can simply throw it into the ocean
NU Alums--did you just get a fat settlement check thanks to the university's financial aid book cooking? After all the nastiness NU put student protestors through, consider a donation to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (or any Palestinian charity of your choice).
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are group chats still happening because I was correct and no one added me to any
Cait Hakala@caithakala.bsky.social · 2mo agofuck no one is going to add me to any group chats this is middle school all over again
New from me: Mayor Brandon Johnson's top criteria for NITA is not relevant skills. It's better to be a friend than be an expert. He makes a mockery of the positions advocates spent years fighting for. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/19/o...
Nik Hunder: Brandon Johnson shows us again that he doesn’t value transit but rather cronyism
Two of Chicago’s representatives on the Northern Illinois Transit Authority don’t ride the system enough to know its problems.
chicagotribune.com
Once again, any person running for mayor that runs on a platform of removing the fencing around Millennium Park gets my vote. There are now metal detectors to visit THE BEAN. Fuck OFF. That's MY legume.
This list fucking sucks. DSA-adjacent candidate when?
Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social · 3w ago2027 Chicago Mayor Money Race End of Q2 2026 fundraising: 1. Alexi Giannoulias — $21.85M 💰🤑 2. John Kelly Jr. — $2.05M 3. Susana Mendoza — $1.63M 4. Bill Conway — $1.14M 5. Joe Holberg — $1.04M 6. Brandon Johnson — $631K The rest are under $400K
