busyizzi.bsky.social
blocking with abandon | nyc ➡️ chi, she/her
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- Most insurers will require the SSN to add the child to your insurance within 30 days
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AML usually skates through deregulatory pushes on ‘national security’ grounds, but here we are now, of course. But nothing surprises me anymore.
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That’s not saying that’s the only stretch that would benefit 🤷🏽♀️
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Why would only the Logan Square portion benefit from a road diet?
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I will also admit I grew up in a very dense and especially transit connected part of NYC, so I recognize that my bar is probably high. A politically empowered 50% still results in places that, even in terms of just physical design choices, feel extremely car centric by comparison.
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Also true, and then hard to build goodwill with opponents on other streets, who won’t be able to directly see and learn from the benefits on your street, or don’t see the full potential because the network is still so patchwork, or believe it’s different where they are, or …
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I know - I didn’t say it was a pro generally!
It’s depressing that Chicago is actually better than much of the US when it’s still so incredibly driver centric.
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annoying drivers is usually a “pro” for me :)
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I also find many stretches of Ashland feel equally perilous and terrible, so crossing planted medians off doesn’t feel like a big loss to me. Wider sidewalks is compatible with what’s been done east of Orchard, at least.
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We used to live on it near Kedzie, absolute nightmare street
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The placement of "trans issues" here is, without exaggeration, one of the most depraved things I've ever seen in the pages of this publication.
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(including the lads who are Colorado bound, thank you for your service 🫡🥲)
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😭😭😭 I thought of you immediately
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immersion program
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The SSA is already at a 50-year low for staffing, and cuts would delay and disrupt benefit delivery.
"'Not touching Social Security' is not the reality of this administration... Looking for government to fail & be replaced by private industry appears to be the goal."
prospect.org/health/socia...
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I feel very certain we played pass the pigs in elementary school somehow?? these are so familiar
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🤪
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yeah genuinely … better off not