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I was born to hippies and will die to hippies. I am into biking, brunching, urbanism, liberalism, good movies, board games and turn based strategy video games. I am a YIMBY, a cat dad, and a proud resident of the city of Chicago. Data Scientist.
Who gave mayoral hopeful Susana Mendoza the idea to trash the Archer protected bike lanes on WBEZ? Let's wrangle over that question for a spell. 🤠
Who gave mayoral hopeful Susana Mendoza the idea to trash the Archer protected lanes on WBEZ? - Streetsblog Chicago
Let's wrangle over that question for a spell.
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Anyone heard anything about someone running vs. the incumbents in the 40th or 47th ward?
Brought to you by city council being asleep at the wheel when it comes to housing policy — $2300/mo in Lakeview for a 1 bed is crazy — expect rents to be 7% higher by the time we have elections in February.
So the CTU-controlled CPS just passed a budget built on a fauly premise (funds from the state are incoming when it has made its budget already) to avoid making any cuts. Their reasoning is ridiculous. This is why I can't support CTU (or CPD, really) candiates to any office. Not serious people.
Chicago School Board approves budget that reverses layoffs, but counts on shaky state funds
In a shocking move, a majority of school board members rejected the school district’s spending plan that would have made deep cuts to classrooms to close a deficit, and instead approved a budget that ...
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"I never would and never will criticize Mao Zedong… one of the great leaders of this world... who changed the entire universe … There was a lot of fucking excess... but China would not exist without Mao." Mao’s rule resulted in 40M deaths.
Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest of @collegedemocrats.bsky.social Our party having a normal one.
ah so this is the plan, claim that while Platner really wants to take responsibility and drop out, morally he just can't because the evil establishment isn't "anti-genocide" and so regretfully he must solider on because after all whats a little rape against GENOCIDE!
Today I learned that we should vote blue no matter who if someone is a Nazi, but if they're a rapist, you should not, in fact, vote blue no matter who.
Yup, vote blue no matter who, no matter who says it, even if that person is a hypocritical asshole.
I’m on the whole neutral to positive on Waymo but this is utter bullshit.
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.
Too often, Hasan Piker's commentary is a mirror image of what it claims to oppose: If Washington’s jingoists downplay or rationalize the crimes of America and Israel, Piker does their adversaries the same favor www.vox.com/politics/486...
The real problem with Hasan Piker
Spoiler: It’s not about Israel.
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yet another chance to deploy this stupid meme I made
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression
The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.
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Dunno who needs to hear it but the Holodomor was very much a genocide perpetrated by Stalin on behalf of the Soviet version of the Russian Empire against the Ukrainian nation. Half the replies seem to think it didn't happen.
I don't even know what to say about this...
Four years from speaking at a conference with Nick Fuentes and having no regrets to being invited to build a coalition with the left. It gets worse every day! No coalition building with Nazis!
Brittany Page@brittanyepage.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust four years from a special invite from Nick Fuentes to being invited to build a coalition with the left!
Yes, definitely a great idea to protest the party out of power for something the party in power is doing. apnews.com/article/chuc...
Dozens arrested as protesters demand Schumer and Gillibrand block sale of bombs to Israel
Dozens of protesters were arrested at a demonstration urging Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen.
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Winners from a Magyar/Tisza victory in Hungary: ✅ Hungarian people ✅ Democracy ✅ European Union ✅ Ukraine Losers from a Magyar/Tisza victory in Hungary: ❌ Authoritarianism ❌ Corruption ❌ Donald Trump ❌ Vladimir Putin ❌ Xi Jinping
With 30% of the votes processed, Tisza is indeed right on the cusp of a supermajority (133 seats needed). And the results from Budapest and larger cities are usually underrepresented at this point.
Zselyke Csaky@zecsaky.bsky.social · 6mo agoWith Hungary’s elections only 2 months away, let’s look at what the opposition promises when it comes to the EU, rule of law & Hungary’s alliances. Media coverage highlighted euro adoption and independence from RU energy by 2035 but there's much more in the program www.reuters.com/business/hun...
I mean... they are right? Like impeachment is going to go nowhere right now with us in the minority in the House and Senate. We win the 2026 election then we can persue articles of impeachment. Right now it is just a waste of time and a distraction.
"donald trump started and lost a war. why this is the democrats' fault" --jacobin, for some reason anyways read @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social instead:
Trump Surrenders to Iran
Donald Trump started and now has lost a humiliating, illegal, and stupid war with Iran.
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Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Iran war was such a fiasco that Donald Trump had no choice but to find a way out. Whether it sticks will partly depend on Democrats resisting the urge to irresponsibly goad him back into it.
Why are we talking about the 25th Amendment? In no reality should we lay the responsibility here on JD Vance to act. He's a sycophant who's complicit. He'll do nothing. Congress needs to reconvene and vote to impeach and convict. This is their Constitutional obligation.
Gonna be honest, I am fully distracted from the Epstein files