AES (actually existing Sayed) defeating $62 million in AIPAC and centrist money is a huge victory, but we should have no illusions. There will be no realignment of the Democrats as long as the donor class rules www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

El-Sayed wins critical Michigan Senate primary: Live results, updates

Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens for the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan, NBC News and Decision Desk HQ have projected.

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Most people do not know the name of this bridge in the South Loop in Chicago. It's been around for 127 years and it was designated a Chicago landmark in 2007. It's called the St. Charles Air Line Bridge. Image at sunrise last Friday.

This morning between 7:30-8:30a I’ll be out and about talking to Edgewater neighbors at Sheridan and Glenlake. Come thru and say hi! [alt: CC’s morning head scratch]

Watched a multi-acre fire break out before my very eyes and then watched a bunch of helicopters show up and put it out. Government was a good idea, it should do more things like that instead of evil and corruption

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

Lightning-Palooza. Without a doubt, the craziest lightning image I've ever captured. This is one image, not those ridiculous composite images you see too often. Captured on this day in Chicago three years ago.

I'm CRYING Rose ordered a pancake meal from the kids menu at IHOP but she wanted it to be "more adult" so they made her a frowny face and gave it eye bags

🚨BREAKING: In a voting rights victory, the Kansas Court of Appeals Monday rejected Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) emergency bid to reinstate a rule that could have thrown out lawfully cast mail ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kansas court rejects last-minute GOP bid to toss late-arriving mail ballots

The ruling keeps Kansas’ mail ballot grace period in place for the August primary. That means voters’ ballots can still count if they are postmarked by Election Day but received up to three days after...

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E-Scooters Are Now Blocked On Busy Stretch Of Sheridan Road In Edgewater share.google/mNNpE6VrHh8G... Thank you @leniann.bsky.social. As someone who lives & walks on this stretch of Sheridan Rd, it is quite hazardous for pedestrians being overtaken by bikes, scooters and Loyola x-country runners

E-Scooters Are Now Blocked On Busy Stretch Of Sheridan Road In Edgewater

The city enacted geofencing on Sheridan Road that prevents e-scooters from being used due to safety concerns. Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth is working to get e-bikes restricted in the area, too.

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Coming along nicely: Second raised crosswalk on the Glenwood greenway by Senn HS. This one at Ardmore

Don’t forget Mike Waltz is the guy who accidentally added the editor of the Atlantic to a top secret Signal group chat about US strikes in Yemen. 🤡

Alex Pettis’ mom’s message. 💚 We can’t believe it’s already been six months.

Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.

This is how democracies begin to slide toward authoritarianism. Former 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega says that after new leadership took over at CBS News, she and her team were repeatedly pressured to include claims they could not verify.

Chicago is OUT IN THE STREETS! Rallies demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, killed in ICE traffic stops, and the total abolition of ICE. People are fed up with federal agents terrorizing communities. End the violence NOW!

AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......

A new WNBA All-Star game attendance record: 19,783. The NBA’s largest venue — United Center — is completely filled.

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

The Odyssey cost $250 million to make. Guess who got a tax break worth more than 30x that last year? Amazon—after firing 30,000 workers.

Reclaim the streets

"I think if you talk to most mayors and city councils, they would say, we'd love to have more housing. But then they trip over themselves cuz of regulations they've got in place that no one's willing to do anything about because they're buried under 7 other regulations." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Missed the Governor, but loved seeing @drakefor10.bsky.social and other pro-City of Chicago, friends at @yimbyaction.bsky.social last night

A new YIMBY Action report finds that of 232 state legislators who sponsored pro-housing bill and then ran for reelection, 95% of them won: yimbyaction.org/blog/pro-hou...

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.

It’s important to celebrate the little wins on the way to safer streets for all.

New green paint and concrete barrier at 18th and Wabash 🚴

A key Chicago City Council committee advanced a package of proposals on Tuesday designed to build more housing along Broadway in Edgewater and Uptown in an effort to make it more affordable to live along the CTA’s Red Line. https://to.wttw.com/495eDfv

Key City Panel OKs Plan Designed to Build More Housing in Edgewater

Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th Ward) said the proposals will revitalize Broadway, which has not seen any new housing built on its west side for two decades, by making the commercial district more a...

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