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Jacob E. Peters

@archijake.bsky.social
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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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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4h
The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 3h
This was a main suggestion of the Red Line Extension Transit Supportive Development Plan I worked on 5-6 years ago
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Protect Bridgeport Bicyclists @stevevance.net · 9h
Bingo.
A classic example of such counterproductive pandering is the tired, yet oft repeated pledge to not increase property taxes. Sure, everyone hates property taxes, but think about it: corporate fund revenue doesn’t grow with the economy, thereby diminishing Chicago’s capacity to maintain service levels over time. The property tax is the largest revenue source available to Chicago, clocking in at $1.8 billion this year. The vast majority of those dollars cover Chicago’s pension contribution, which will total over $2.94 billion next year, when the advance pension payment is added to the required payment under the back-loaded amortization schedule. Not increasing property taxes would effectively force Chicago to divert even more corporate fund revenue to cover its pension debt — further constraining the city’s capacity to fund core services. That’s not solving problems — it’s making them worse.

Ralph Martire is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a nonpartisan fiscal policy think tank, and the Arthur Rubloff professor of public policy at Roosevelt University.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 10h
So we’re talking about Backpack’s fat pack for outlasting the snow pack?
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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 19h
it truly is just perfect that a republican — you know, the party that so badly wants to protect women athletes — used a senate hearing to confidently, and falsely, accuse a lawyer of perjury because he and his entire staff forgot that women’s sports exists
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Time for this classic again.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 21h
Hawks: Black Sea eyes Winter Harrelson
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 21h
Just saw a whole ass semitruck make an illegal left hand turn at an intersection with clear signage disallowing a left hand turn. The way it held up traffic & limited sight lines for pedestrians made it very clear why this dangerous turning movement was banned.
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oof
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When a foamer gets an email with the subject line “Two New Switchyards in Chicago” but it ends up being about some stupid coworking club.
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Hide The Pain Harold Harold
Alt: Hide The Pain Harold Harold who is happy at the beginning & then ends up sad
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Begging someone to take this abomination, renovate & construct additions in order to turn this into 2 or 3 homes.
chicagobusiness.com
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wearing head to toe Cardinals gear in Chicago on the first day of playoff baseball for the Cubs is a form of toxic attention seeking (AKA wanting to fight)
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is extremely common in Chicago. Amazing, but common. And it’s not just one group rotating amongst the teams, there are a number of them.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Waking home 4 blocks from the bus & I’ve seen a car go the wrong way down a 1 way street; 4 SUVs, 2 cars, & a delivery van run stop signs w/o a slowing down (2 of them failing to yield to the same mother & child in a crosswalk); & 1 car speed 40 mph down a dead end side street to pull into an alley
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rape and pedophile party specifically use transphobia as a wedge to make *all* their intended victims more vulnerable, and Jeff Epstein literally advised them in many, many, many barely literate emails to do this.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rex is right: this sounds an awful lot like that Foxconn deal in Wisconsin when Trump promised a $4B deal with 13K jobs. Of course, that never happened...
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every protected turn arrow along a PBL should have a red light camera, it’s a slam-dunk ticket every single time with zero credible argument against it
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reminder: this Saturday is our next crawl, and we’ll be on the MED. If you’re in town for APTA, feel free to tag along
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would love if drivers who break the law faced any consequences for the danger they impose on literally everyone else in society (since people have been killed inside buildings by such reckless a-holes)
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A vigil was held for cyclist Juan Martin Márquez after he was killed in a Southwest Side hit-and-run. buff.ly/dzydFqz
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. I’ll start: The Truman Shower
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See if you can spot the car (the exception to the rule)
Meet me on Milwaukee open street event in Wicker Park
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
It's just after 1pm on another picture perfect fall day in Chicago. So far today, masked federal agents have taken people from Brighton Park and suburban Aurora. ~1 year after the "Blitz" began, the alerts haven't subsided. ICE is still breaking windows and destroying worlds.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#cf97
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day: September 26, 1986, the Jayhawks played a record release show for their debut album during an absolutely phenomenal week of Minneapolis music at the Uptown Bar.
AT THE UPTOWN

CURTISS A
Sea Night 50° Cocktalls 9-12
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GEAR DADDIES
with M
IDS THAT FADE
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RHOORD RELBASE PARTY JAYHAWKS
with SUNSHINE ON YOUR SHOULDER
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X BOYS
with ONE LUMP SUM
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TRIP SHAKESPEARE
with THUNDERBATS
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THE CLAMS
wih MORTICIA
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PROCESS BLUE ROCK MY DOG

3018 Hennepin, Mpis. 823-5704
Now boolding number: 874-1576
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
nytimes.com
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It is the most corrupt administration to rule over these lands since before independence. Jail, impeachment, and sanctions are going to be required to make examples of them so that no future administrations can even entertain the idea of being this brazenly contempt of the constitution.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
RFK and everyone in the MAHA movement are monsters.
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#cf97 game is tomorrow
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Dan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder to Check Your Judges with our nonpartisan guide to the Cook County judicial election, out now!
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you for <censored> riding Metra.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/09/2026
pretty much every conversation here is about mitigating the devastation from losing international students It’s not just students who can’t get visas—international applications are way down across the board It’s a generational self own—deliberately killing a (literally) world-renowned industry
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Canadian schools are going to avoid the cuts from the drop in college age students (Gen Z is smaller than Millennials) by inheriting a portion of the students who otherwise would’ve studied in the states.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Racist ass administration.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean southern women basically perfected passive aggression, so this gem is not unexpected.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is wild to me that in 1985 a route connecting Alberta’s 2 largest cities was discontinued in, & that in 1990 a service was discontinued that used to serve Canada’s 5 largest metros. How has the country gone the better part of 4 decades without ANY rail service to its 3rd largest city?
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s not a “Break with Trump” until they vote to impeach him on the countless violations of the emoluments, taxing & spending, & appropriations clauses of the constitution, or the violations of the first, fourth, & fifth amendments in the Bill of Rights executed by his corrupt administration.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bike trail open house where the bike lane outside the venue is blocked by cars parked in it is always ironic.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t need robots to replace humans if they’re going to make the same deadly mistakes that some humans do, but instead intentionally do it 100% of the time.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fundamentally, it appears very difficult for people to recognize 'hey it's good that the person i don't like is saying this' because they seem to understand it as 'this person is good'
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@chicagostars.com
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
crimes prosecuted =/= crimes committed so that "IL is the most corrupt state" business is not necessarily true but every time I think I have a handle on it someone unlocks a few new levels I didn't see coming
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
German just sounding like someone doing a bad Schwarzenegger impersonation.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My shirt has reached peak relevance
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026
Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide.
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Section 8 Chicago @section8chicago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔥 It’s a CF97 Homecoming! 🔥 Celebrate 29 years of our @chicagofire.bsky.social on Friday 10/9 at @soccerhouse.com with special appearances by former #cf97 players, silent auction, and more! Spots are limited! With proceeds benefiting #FireForFood and the CJ Brown Foundation bit.ly/2026FireAlumni
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