How many Texas voters is Ken Paxton hoping to reach in Chicago with these TV ads?!? Make. It. Stop.
Brian McCammack
@mccammack.bsky.social
Environmental historian. Rogers Park, Chicago resident. Dog lover.
OMG this is the worst umpiring I’ve seen all postseason
Huge that so many of these walks getting the Sox into jams have come with 2 out
Tax-increment financing is opaque and complicated, arguably by design. So last year, we had an idea: what if we could show the actual impact of TIFs on all of our tax bills? Today, we've published the result: 🧵
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
prospect.org
I’ve had the pleasure of reading Noah’s work and it is top-notch environmental history. Check it out!
Noah Blan@noahwblan.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m thrilled to share that my book Carolingian Ecological Sovereignty is out now with @archumanities.bsky.social ! You can order physical copies now, and the open access versions will be available sometime in early October. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270283... Keep an eye out for updates here 📚
Um did Davis Martin spill nacho cheese all over his jersey or something? What’s with the generic #21 tonight?
We are so excited to announce the launch of a brand new tool for getting engaged with biking in Chicago - our new ward biking map! It'll show you bike routes in your ward, which ones were built this latest aldermanic term, and more. Let's break it down 🧵
Ward Map | Chicagoans Who Bike
A photo project documenting the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city
chiwho.bike
I’m excited to finally see this collaboration with @postcolsandwich.bsky.social in print in this Plant Humanities volume! We researched and wrote our dissertations together, and we’re sharing space with writers I admire like Sumana Roy, Judith Carney, Romita Ray, Gary Paul Nahban, and Yota Batsaki.
In case you were wondering how far into the dystopia we are in America
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
The stadium would sit alongside the Chicago River stretching from Roosevelt Road in the North to 18th Street in the South, and bordered with the river on its east side and Canal Street to its West. The company currently has the land under contract.
New Sox Park? Future owner announces proposal for riverside stadium at 'The Railyards'
chicago.suntimes.com
not lost on a lot of us that someone got ejected from a game because of a hat that wasn’t violating any MLB rules while multiple Giants earlier this year did violate written MLB rules pertaining to uniforms and were allowed to stay in the game (and received zero discipline from the league later)
Will Harris@sandwichpick.bsky.social · last mo.Good summary and clip of what happened in the 6th inning of last night's Cardinals Rockies game
In fairness I have not seen a bigger one
starch mogul@posts-cards.bsky.social · last mo.…the big bean?
Here's one of the reasons I'm building out a ward by ward bike lane map - so you can see how many miles were built in an alder's last term. In Ward 43, Ald. Knudsen? Just 1 mile of bike lane was built since 2023! In Ward 40, under Ald. Vasquez? Nearly 7 miles were built!
Viktor Köves@viktorkoves.com · last mo.G'morning and thank you to the amazing folks who replied with info! I've been cooking up a bike map for @chiwho.bike that makes it easier to view ward-by-ward, and not quite ready (so I haven't double checked those stats!), but here's a sneak peek What would you like to see?
fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results
Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · last mo.To think that we live among idiots who think that "elite institutions" have been "captured by leftist ideologues" lmao
Think of this like a mass shooting at a senior center, or your grandparents’ favorite social venue. Because everything in Organ Pipe grows very slowly. This is a massacre of the ancients.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.New footage of bulldozers plowing through Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to construct a border wall.
This is not the sick burn you think it is dipshit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.JD Vance on the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "As you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure we'll have many many intense intellectual conversations. We'll have a great time."
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · last mo.Rahm Emanuel: ‘You Don’t Like My Ideas? Show Me Yours’ The always pugnacious Democrat is ready to fight Republicans, the DSA, and Bibi Netanyahu. And maybe run for president.
A heads' up that at least one university press is doing this, in violation of the infringement clause. Check your contracts, write to your publisher, and upload your documentation to the settlement administrator's site.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last mo.New Q: what do you do if your publisher claims 100% of the proceeds rather than just their 50%? First of all: yuck, gross. Second: PLEASE report this to @victoriastrauss because she is collecting data and this will help show a pattern and practice of behavior.
""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
theguardian.com
This is a must watch, laying out what's at stake. And we call bullshit on this statement "These closures address the growing volume of underutilized space resulting from the federal government's transition to electronic recordkeeping." A fraction of the materials are digitized.
Kheir Fakhreldin@kheir.bsky.social · last mo.ABC7 Chicago story about the potential closure of the Chicago facility of the National Archives and Records Administration. abc7chicago.com/post/nationa...
every outlet that runs a glossy profile on Rahm should have to do a similar level of coverage of police violence in Chicago and the long term outcomes of the school closures
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · last mo.The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
My latest story for WBEZ's Curious City: Why is the island in Washington Park behind a locked gate? (Also look for it in the Curious City podcast feed.)
Why is the island in Washington Park behind a locked gate?
Bynum Island once bustled with park activity, but over the years, the playground fell into disrepair and the land wasn’t maintained.
wbez.org
ICE continues to be active in Chicago. Community members in Little Village recorded ICE in the area of 26th & Drake this morning, and photos shared online show a masked fed chasing someone down an alley off Leland and Ashland in Ravenswood. Reports of activity in Bronzeville, Bridgeport, Hermosa.
