Reposted by Jacob E. PetersJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4hThe "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. 6454111
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 3hThis was a main suggestion of the Red Line Extension Transit Supportive Development Plan I worked on 5-6 years ago 260
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 10hSo we’re talking about Backpack’s fat pack for outlasting the snow pack? 150
Reposted by Jacob E. Petersandré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 19hit 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 660195
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19hTime for this classic again. 129136724626
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 21hJust 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. 020
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When a foamer gets an email with the subject line “Two New Switchyards in Chicago” but it ends up being about some stupid coworking club.static.klipy.comHide The Pain Harold HaroldAlt: Hide The Pain Harold Harold who is happy at the beginning & then ends up sad 060
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Begging someone to take this abomination, renovate & construct additions in order to turn this into 2 or 3 homes.chicagobusiness.com 000
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wearing 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) 131
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This 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. 190
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Waking 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 163
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The 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. 0310133
Reposted by Jacob E. Peters@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rex 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... 921268
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every 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 1514
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersStar:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reminder: 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 171
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Would 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) 010
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersBlock Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A vigil was held for cyclist Juan Martin Márquez after he was killed in a Southwest Side hit-and-run. buff.ly/dzydFqz 0195
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. I’ll start: The Truman Shower 020
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 27/09/2026See if you can spot the car (the exception to the rule) 180
Reposted by Jacob E. Petersunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026It'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. 9319191
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026Meta'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...hollywoodreporter.comThe 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. 411159513
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersMpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On 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. 3457
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersHeather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>nytimes.comRahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 PlayThe 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. 28980198
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha 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:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147371723
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It 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. 011
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026RFK and everyone in the MAHA movement are monsters. 17718
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersJeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum. 362974913
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersDan Hinkel @danhinkel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder to Check Your Judges with our nonpartisan guide to the Cook County judicial election, out now! 073
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026Look, 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. 222257518
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/09/2026pretty 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 413633
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Canadian 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. 020
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I mean southern women basically perfected passive aggression, so this gem is not unexpected. 190
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It 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? 3135
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’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. 26319
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bike trail open house where the bike lane outside the venue is blocked by cars parked in it is always ironic. 0101
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I 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. 022
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026fundamentally, 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' 2868981
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersStephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 23/09/2026crimes 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 1114
Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 23/09/2026German just sounding like someone doing a bad Schwarzenegger impersonation. 040
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23/09/2026Regulators should shut this down before it leads to a wave of predictable, preventable deaths by suicide. 25908131
Reposted by Jacob E. PetersSection 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 084