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archijake.bsky.social

Lifelong Chicagoan, lived other places, & it just reinforced my desire to live here. My opinions are mine alone. Find me on the other sites, w/ the same handle.

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Is “rubber duckie” Ernie’s pet name for Bert?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Time to call Doug Ford’s office again, cite this as (yet another) reason to tear up that stupid Starlink contract. 416-325-1941

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Smart @alonlevy.bsky.social post on why building code reform is important, but zoning reform is more urgent for getting family size apartments. Seattle allows six-story single-stair buildings, but they’re mostly full of studios: pedestrianobservations.com/2025/02/21/y...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 150 comments

This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 12 hours ago • 45 comments

Safe streets advocate and skilled cartographer @jgrantglover.bsky.social put together an elegant map and chart showing that most alders of who voted against 25 mph represent high-crash wards.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s not meritocracy it’s unabashed white male supremacy

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 543 comments

A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Oh, you fucking know I am rescinding my alumni donation over this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A pretty clear cut example of leopard face eating.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 2595 comments

A multifamily building on a side street having to rezone to RM-5 just to allow an existing structure to be rehabbed, really shows how screwed up our current zoning code is compared to pre war.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

The White Sox may want us to — but we are not whitewashing Mike Clevinger If the club we cover won’t make the call, we will Yes, sadly, we have to publish this AGAIN www.sbnation.com/e/24134078

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

An impeachable offense in front of witnesses because the GOP has corrupted itself into a pro monarchy anti constitution treasonous conspiracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The Anjanette Young wrong raid rocked Chicago politics and policing. Six years later, she's still fighting for reforms that Mayor Brandon Johnson embraced as a candidate but that haven't happened yet. A good story by @wbez.org www.wbez.org/city-hall/20...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments