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Love accidentally starting with the hardest category! Connections Puzzle #626 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1191 comments

map of ev charging stations in chicago in 1916

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I know I quote Hannah Arendt too much but this passage about edgy avant-garde anti-semitism in Nazi-era Europe seems relevant

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 5 days ago • 2509 comments

Finally caught S3E1 of White Lotus 👀

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Today, the Chicago Plan Commission approved the Broadway Land Use Framework, which includes a recommendation to rezone both sides of Broadway to B3-5. This means thousands of new, transit-oriented homes can be built by-right! 🥳🏗️🚇 Huge shout-out to our members for speaking in favor of the plan. 👏

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

Becoming increasingly Pritzker-pilled with every passing day.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Prairie Style Polycule

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

NIMBYs are pushing back HARD against the Broadway rezoning, so it's time to make your voice heard! Send a letter to Ciere Boatright (DPD Commissioner) and Laura Flores (Chicago Plan Commission Chair) to let them know you support the Broadway Land Use Framework. secure.everyaction.com/J4fb-l-pHk2Z...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

As a private citizen, I submitted a comment to the Plan Commission in support of the Broadway rezoning--on both sides of Broadway medium.com/@DanielKayHe...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

HHS Secretary Dr. Leo Spacemen

submitted 13 days ago • 130 comments

Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part of a political strategy to sow division and expand authoritarian control.

submitted 20 days ago • 164 comments

This is genuinely an important article. The two main lessons from Hungary appear to be: DO NOT WAIT DO NOT UNDERREACT Authoritarians like Orban and Trump rely on opposition being unwilling to believe that what is happening is actually happening. That’s their window. www.vox.com/politics/398...

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

submitted 21 days ago • 252 comments

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

An important, essential column. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

I just subscribed to Wired today. They have a killer deal going right now: a full year for $5 www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

submitted 22 days ago • 39 comments

What's everyone up to at lunch tomorrow? Wanna go to Duckworth and Durbin's Chicago offices and let them know a coup ain't it? www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I have a (personal) letter to the editor in the Sun-Times on the Broadway rezoning. Short version: Yes! chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-t...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The Senate takes 3 votes this afternoon: 1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director 2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General 3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

Opinion: The GOP's Transphobia Is As Much of A "Distraction" As Hitler's Anti-Semitism Was. Will Democrats Learn From History? www.madycast.com/p/t... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 26 days ago • 4414 comments

I turn 60 tomorrow. I have a lot. 1) All the cliches are true: your lifetime is composed of what you do each day. It’s over before you know it. Friends and family are better than things and money. Yes: even Live, Laugh, Love.

submitted 27 days ago • 72 comments

Just saying that pressuring senators in both parties to take down Russ Vought’s nomination is a tangible “something” people can “do” to send a clear signal that this has to stop

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

the number of calls needed to make the point that a given vote will cost them is lower than we think, a powerful argument in favor of focusing our energies. you take issue A. I take B. someone else takes C. we make our weekly rounds. no one has to deal with the whole firehose at once

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

submitted 29 days ago • 65 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.

submitted 29 days ago • 111 comments

I just called both my senators and my congressional rep and it took like five minutes. Please call!

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Brief break for a non-political energy wonk observation. (I contain multitudes). There is something really interesting about the fact that Georgia is RAISING electric rates for data centers... www.ajc.com/news/busines...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

In November the CTA Red Line averaged 4,684 passengers per hour on an average weekday. That’s not max capacity, that’s actual riders, averaged over 24 hours. Elon’s full of shit, obviously

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said. Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz

submitted 33 days ago • 297 comments

It’s been single digits or lower for the last few days. Ready to go back to PV with @italy55115500.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I keep an informal little equation in my head at all times: irony-poisoned → low trust → fascism I don’t care if it’s cringe. You have to believe in things, earnestly, to acknowledge that progress is happening and better things yet remain. Your “lol, lmao” at every little thing is death.

submitted 57 days ago • 52 comments

Worth a read.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

We took 100+ hours of footage of Lexington Ave in Manhattan, capturing some 75,000 vehicles before and after congestion pricing started, and found the drop in vehicles appears to be coming entirely from fewer personal cars. Also no change in avg car value. Congestion pricing is working (for now).

submitted 40 days ago • 53 comments

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

submitted 44 days ago • 165 comments

Can’t get enough of these congestion pricing anecdotes via @dodai.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/01/11/nyregion/new-york-congestion-pricing-reaction.html

submitted 46 days ago • 16 comments

Sunny sunroom day + haircut!

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

"Neighbors at the open houses were divided on the proposal, with some saying the rezoning could bring needed housing to the area while others said it could impact the character of Edgewater’s less dense areas." The character:

submitted 69 days ago • 7 comments

I guess y’all are my online mental health team 🤪

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Took a cold but pretty walk to the lakefront today - downside of WFH for me is sometimes I forget to go outside, but it’s important!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

It's going to be truly wild if we start transporting electricity around the country on trains because we can't build any f'ing transmission lines. coloradosun.com/2024/12/05/c...

submitted 83 days ago • 28 comments