Lena G R
@lenagr.bsky.social
Chicagoan for sustainability, cultural diversity, & queer rights. She/her/hers 🚲🐶🌳🌻🌈🌊🍻🚉🏕️♻️
Tried an Also ebike today in lakeview, a spinoff cousin of @rivianofficial.bsky.social. It was nifty, with automatic shifting, built-in navigation, and turn signals. But the regenerative braking felt abrupt and the back rack worries me. Will be curious to see these roll out for real
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
They want you to forget that you took care of yourselves and others im 2020 because they want you to be helpless and frightened in the face of the violence and robbery theyre doing
It’s so easy to forget, in retrospect, what public opinion looked like contemporaneously in 2020–21, especially when the frothing right-wingers were and are so loud bsky.app/profile/saba...
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆@sababausa.bsky.social · last yr.Public opinion moved a lot during 2021 in a way that ppl really forget Polls taken in Feb.-Mar. 2021 asking whether in-person school should resume faster was emphatically ‘no’, except we allow Republicans to set the national discourse agenda so their opinion becomes remembered as “public opinion”
Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.
Electrifying!
Environmental Law & Policy Center@elpcenter.bsky.social · 2w agoChicago’s Clean Transportation: Days of future past. ⚡🚍🚆 Thanks @chicagocta.bsky.social for hosting our staff and interns at your electric bus facilities, where we heard from the people making cleaner transportation possible every day.
The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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An increasingly hostile climate in the United States of America (2026) as foreseen in “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” (1978)
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 3w agoCool cool cool cool cool cool cool
This is yet another way the Trump Administration is dismantling the legal immigration system, potentially creating a larger undocumented population and ultimately undermining the very economic and security foundations the Administration claims to protect.
Policy Brief: It Was Never About Unlawful Migration—Attacks on Legal Immigration Harm America
The Administration has dismantled lawful immigration pathways wholesale, severely damaging our economy and national security, upending lives, and growing the undocumented population. This brief explor...
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Heavens to Betsy wear your masks or just stay inside y’all
TomTom@tomtomchi.bsky.social · 3w agoMy god…
Testosterone is a hormone surrounded in myths and misconceptions, which the Right loves to use to both demonize trans people as well as to fuel their weird beliefs about masculinity. Today, Jules Sherred dives into the science of testosterone and the reality of the effects it can have on the body.
Pete Hegseth is Obsessed With Testosterone. Here’s All the Neat Science the Manosphere’s Not Talking About - Assigned Media
Hegseth says, "It's well-established science that as we age, testosterone levels, often, naturally drop." But that's not the full story.
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The draft RTP proposes only 0.6% of funding to improve walking and biking transportation infrastructure in the region, which are low-emission modes that also help people connect to transit service. Active transportation is deemed an "enhancement," not integral part. cmap.illinois.gov/wp-content/u...
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soyb...
Two Minnesota solar farms planted 66 native species under their panels. Five years of counting revealed a staggering result that nobody had written into the engineering plan.
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ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:
The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world
mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 3y agoposting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
Sidewalk sadness: look how much width we lost at Irving & keeler! Today, right by the highway, blue line, UPNW Irving stop, no way could you fit a bigass awning over that skimpy sidewalk. Back in the day the whistle stop cafe had a nice broad expanse out front
Hey #bikechi, do you ride the north branch trail? Do you hate having to cross 6 lanes plus a high-speed slip lane at Devon? Come join me tonight to call for better/safer! At Edgebrook elementary from 5:30-7:30pm, there’s a CDOT meeting on improving this monstrosity!
Iowa City made all bus rides free – and ridership skyrocketed while people drove millions fewer miles.
Iowa City’s free buses are getting people out of cars » Yale Climate Connections
Transit ridership jumped more than 40% after the city eliminated fares.
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The soccer announcers trying to encourage the US audience being like "check out your local team, don't wait four years for the next world cup" Um hello! What about the women's team? They play a world cup next year, and have historically rocked the shit out of it!
Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.
It’s a really funny runner how every issue in American history that apologists claim “no one” knew was wrong has a corresponding Quaker going “this is wrong”
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · last mo.Some folks will be like "what about women's rights?" Paine landed right on that too! Raised a Quaker, Paine essayed against the "enslavement and oppression of women," partnered with Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argued for state maternity support and civil suffrage.
Pride month may be over, but if you have the means, please support Margie’s Hope which runs a trans-affirming clothing store in my area! They’re only 45% of their goal right now. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/06/22/w...
'We’re broke, but determined.' Ohio trans-affirming organization makes plea for support to keep their doors open
Margie’s Hope was founded in 2011 and opened Margie's Closet, a trans-affirming Cleveland clothing store, in 2021.
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Chicago transportation folks, that’s as many people as the riders who use our greyhound station!
Christian Christensen@chrchristensen.bsky.social · last mo.Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.
Every agency gutted by DOGE has a version of this problem. But inaccurate weather forecasting is a particularly visible one to the average person.
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · last mo.Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...
Reminder that there is actual scientific research debunking the claim that trans women have any advantages in sports. But it’s not like SCOTUS cares; they just want to be hateful. 🧪
'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports
A meta-analysis of 52 studies that included over 5,000 transgender people suggests that transgender women's physical fitness after hormone therapy is comparable to that of cisgender women.
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This girl is such a hero, she is more courageous and strong than any of those asshats on the bench who so can so Willy nilly gut the constitution and strip away our rights. My heart just breaks for the young people who can’t even play with their friends because of this country’s toxic bigotry.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃
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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to ...
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I got an op-ed in the Tribune! We saved Chicago’s intercity bus station, and it’s a win-win all around
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last mo.Commentary: Here are three reasons why this is a good deal for the city and for riders.
"Plane, train, and cruise ship passengers arrive at public facilities when they reach our city. Bus riders deserve the same support." @lenagr.bsky.social speaks out at Chicago's City Council in support of bringing the intercity bus terminal under city ownership.
