just read this so you don't have to. the answer is no

Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our September issue is here! And the cover story asks: Is it time to start a parking revolt in Chicago? https://mrf.lu/2RjKS

"'If government can do the things that materially improve the lives of New Yorkers, we can be trusted to do more,' says Julie Su, New York City deputy mayor for economic justice. It's pocketbook pothole politics."

Business Insider@businessinsider.com · yesterday

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is targeting small issues like junk fees, petty scams, and red tape in a strategy to prove his government can deliver. https://bit.ly/4hFQhgO

Completing a Better Streets for Buses project on Western Avenue, according to CMAP's 2026 project benefits appendix, would increase ridership by a number greater than the Orange, Pink, or Green-Lake branches of the L. If we do Western and Pulaski, it would exceed the Brown line's ridership.

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · yesterday

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

By the way, Chicago Big Tent Urbanists are real, and they’re spectacular

The housing people are hanging out with the transit people, the transit people are hanging out with the bike people, the bike people are hanging out with the housing people… we are getting dangerously close to a movement

Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists@stevevance.net · 6d ago

it’s pretty cool that “big tent urbanism” is politically popular in Chicago We had a summer party and 7 incumbents and 7 challengers (mostly for different wards than the incumbent) showed up

Logo drop

Military families and Congress members are sounding the alarm about an intensifying mental health crisis onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, as its 5,000 sailors and marines endure a record-breaking deployment at sea tied to the war with Iran. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports

Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

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ICYMI, @bikegridnow.org held an informative Getting the Grid event last week. Notably, organizer Chris Buie-Gentry said, "Our preference is for speed-softened Neighborhood Greenways," but acknowledged that protected bike lanes are sometimes needed on main streets. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/08/09/d...

I think an important piece of this is also that Crowley is a pretty conventional center-left Dem rather than an ostentatious centrist like Stevens.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · last wk.

breaking: sometimes the left wins and sometimes the centrists wins: stunning new evidence that voters use more than one criterion to judge candidates

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

The only thing I'd like to see us borrow from the bad guys is the ability to say "Yeah I said that, and it was good" because the scary unearthed tweet is usually something like "The police shouldn't be allowed to kill you anytime they feel like it"

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · last wk.

Not going to pretend that I know who the best candidate for Wisconsin governor is but it does seem pretty rich that a tweet from seven years ago is apparently a big political scandal given the shit we see posted every single day by everyone in power

Advocacy works! After CMAP received 1,800 comments opposed to rebuilding North DLSD as an 8-lane highway, the planning organization removed language stating that car-centric scenario for the lakefront road is the "preferred alternative."

CMAP will update North DuSable Lake Shore Drive project language after receiving more than 1,800 comments - Streetsblog Chicago

The agency will revise outdated language in Appendix E of its regional transportation plan, but North DuSable Lake Shore Drive will remain positioned to compete for future funding.

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Abolish this agency. Burn it to the ground. Scatter the ashes. Imprison those involved.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · last wk.

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Q: If you're elected governor, what's the first thing you want to do? FRANCESCA HONG: We want to make sure we call a special session for the legislation on a moratorium on data centers

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.

A very different 36 Hours in Chicago in the New York Times, courtesy of Natalie Y. Moore of the Sun-Times, one that skips the usual downtown staples for taking in the fantastic richness of the city's often overlooked South Side. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

36 Hours in Chicago (Gift Article)

The city shines in the summertime — and this year’s light is especially bright, thanks in part to a new presidential center.

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visual evidence of me doing a bit for my public comment to CMAP to make Lake Shore Drive suck less

Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱@chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 2w ago

next speaker, Dr. Chloe Groom (?) has a simple question - wearing a sundress and a wide sun hat - "do i look like i want to cross 8 lanes of traffic?" highlights rogers park - lake shore doesn't extend there, and it let her walk down the street from a coffee shop straight to the beach

Happy anniversary to the CHIPS and Science Act! The University of Illinois and our Regional Tech Hub are proof that when we invest in research, workforce, and innovation, it pays off — for workers, for businesses, and for communities like ours.

I've never really been a bicyclist, but Chicago is going to make me into a bicyclist. There's a Divvy station slated to open in the near future just steps from my apartment on the Glenwood Greenway. Build the proper infrastructure and people will use it!

David Powe@davidpowe.bsky.social · last wk.

Divvy keeps breaking its own ridership records! Yesterday, riders took 47,700+ trips. Divvy is adding hundreds of new stations this year to support record growth, including the newest and IMHO most iconic station in Chicago at North Avenue Beach! 🚲🌊🏙️

This presidential campaign brochure is a reminder of how far to the right the political center has shifted in 50 years. US Rep. Mo Udall, a leading Democratic candidate in 1976, called for universal health care, taxing the rich, breaking up Big Oil, and passing the ERA. We got Jimmy Carter instead.

I fixed IDOT's road jurisdiction tool for them since they didn't when I asked. If you want to know who controls each section of roadway in Illinois, this tool will tell you. nikhunder.github.io/Illinois-Roa...

Today is National Lighthouse Day. This is Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. Help light the way to the restorations of this landmark along Chicago’s lakeshore, SaveTheLighthouse.org

The courts keep striking down various Trump bids to block renewable energy, but billions of dollars in economic development are getting squandered in the meantime. It ought to be a bigger story.

The Pentagon's wind farm blockade is over — for now

A federal judge issued yet another blow to Trump’s war on wind, ruling that the Defense Department must resume its review of onshore wind permit…

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Chicanes are a street design that slows car traffic to safe speeds without using speed bumps, adds permeable planters that prevent flooding, and makes parking easier with angled spaces. Ask your alderman if a Chicane is right for you!

SideStreets@sidestreets.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Chicanes: they do exist!

At the CMAP meeting today. First public commenter says lake shore drive should prioritize transit, walking, biking, and safety, and that a reconstruction of Lakeshore needs to not prioritize cars, a "20th century approach"

Is Third Way even relevant any more among moderate dems? Their leadership whines a lot on social media and to the press, but a 15 million dollar commitment to fighting progressives nationally seems pretty pathetic. AIPAC sunk more than twice that into one primary race.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...