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Mr. Cardio @ticketmasterceo.com · 07/08/2025
This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen
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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What are we doing here www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/cta...
Construction of the Red Line Extension (RLE) is set to begin in 2026, funded in part with $2 billion in federal dollars that the Trump administration is likely to claw back unless work proceeds. But to secure that $2 billion, local taxpayers are now on the hook to spend for another $3.77 billion - and the biggest share of that must come from the cash-strapped CTA itself.
Under a deal crafted in the final months of the Biden administration, the CTA promised to pay $2.25 billion out of its own pocket, mostly in the form of bonds that will take decades to pay off - this at a time when the CTA says a funding shortfall could force it to slash service 40% next year. Some transportation experts fear CTA will be so burdened by debt that it will have difficulty undertaking essential maintenance, in particular reconstruction of the Blue Line Forest Park branch, which runs 75% of its trackage in slow
zones."The staggering budget overrun, with a billion-dollar cost per mile, puts the Red Line Extension on a par with the most expensive transit projects in the world," said state Rep. Kam Buckner, a leader in negotiations on transit reform legislation now under consideration by the Illinois General Assembly. "We should have had a conversation a long time ago on how to serve the South Side better for less, with things that would have been more cost-effective solutions."
Or, as another transit expert put it: "$1 billion per mile is almost a world record for an elevated line,' notes Alon Levy, a research scholar with the NYU Marron Institute's Transit Costs Project and a leading authority on the subject. "There is no reason this should be the cost."• CTA appears to have ignored a red flag in the
RLE bidding. Documents show the single biggest factor contributing to RLE's cost runup was professional services - engineering, project management, and so on — that the winning team, Walsh-VINCI, bid at nearly a billion dollars higher than CTA's estimate. Professional services accounted for 21% of RLE's budget compared to 14% on the more complicated Red-Purple Modernization project on the North Side.
Transportation experts consulted by Crain's had no explanation for the disparity but said prudence would have suggested investigating before proceeding.• While documents indicate that $317 million of the $1.7 billion cost runup was due to rising interest rates, the bulk of the hike was professional services - engineering, program management, and the like. Initially budgeted at $280 million, this cost came in at $1.24 billion, a difference of nearly a billion dollars.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
You don't need to strip search & detain & deport too many white European tourists to crush the tourist industry.
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Taxpayers should pay $32 million to the family of a St. Louis man who was struck by a driver being chased by CPD and lost both legs, city lawyers recommended, the latest massive settlement prompted by a police pursuit. to.wttw.com/3EgYTt0
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Pay Man Who Lost Both Legs After Being Struck by Driver Being Chased by Police $32M, City Lawyers Recommend
The City Council’s Finance Committee on Friday is set to consider the proposed settlement, which calls for taxpayers to pay $20 million and the city’s insurance company to pay $12 million. A final vot...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one
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Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A $75M plan to modernize Cook County & Illinois court systems ballooned to $250M+ with years of delays, tech failures & finger-pointing. Tyler Technologies landed big contracts despite red flags — now taxpayers are paying the price. @adquig.bsky.social @injusticewatch.org
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Costs triple, delays mount in vital tech contracts
This investigation was reported in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It’s great that The Onion is based in Chicago
CTA Announces Significant Delays Due To An Unconscious Fear Of Success Manifesting Through Self-SabotageLori Lightfoot Unveils Plan To Replace Chicago’s Public Transit System With Police
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025
pete hegseth carrying out his effort to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Marines with Skin Condition Affecting Mostly Black Men Could Now Be Booted Under New Policy
A new Marine Corps policy says troops with a genetic skin condition that can cause pain and scarring from shaving and mainly affects Black men can be separated if the health issue persists.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Here's the thing y'all. We gotta make our own fun right now. There was a period of like three months when I was in Dave Brat's House district that I called his office and gave him a performance rating of between one and five stars on a weekly basis.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Steampunk is a niche market in austin that is not satisfied
Steampunk is a niche market in austin that is not satisfied
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.

On Tuesday, Schmidt was transported to the regional headquarters for ICE in Burlington, Massachusetts, and then transferred to the Wyatt facility. The family, including his partner, who is a cardiologist in Nashua, have acquired attorneys and been working with the German consulate in hopes to have him released on bail.
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Eliza P @eliza-p.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
How do we make Dick Durbin resign? How miserable can we make his life? He should not be able to fly into O’Hare without being spat on
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/03/2025
the downfall of the united states and the targeting of minority groups is on the hands of democrats like @durbin.senate.gov
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Shannon Conder @shannonconder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Durbin voted yes on cloture. Someone primary him please.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
get your shit together and put up a tangible opposition to the lawless thugs in the White House or fucking resign already you useless fucker @durbin.senate.gov
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
FBI telling Citibank to freeze accounts of Habitat for Humanity, the United Way, and the State of NY Dept of Taxation, among a few dozen others.
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
has a single other person even remotely close to that awful campaign said expressed a shred of self-accountability like this since the election
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 03/03/2025
Dune 2 really Dune well 2nite
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Nick Lutsko @nicklutsko.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ahem
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Taking unintended meaning from a street sign that seems to encourage humping can provide an amusing game of word association, via homonyms, for those with a sophomoric sense of humor.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/02/2025
for some reason i've just been listening to this on repeat all week m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mA...
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Political Science (Remastered)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
i try not to complain about joke thieves but i’ve spent years cultivating a shtick of posting dispensable bullshit that’s of use to nobody and it sucks to see people stealing it
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." My story of what happened to one family. www.propublica.org/article/shak...
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He Frantically Called 911 to Revive His Infant Son. Now He Could Face 12 Years in Prison.
Exonerations and new science continue to raise questions about shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis that lives on under a different name: “abusive head trauma.” Critics say the name deflects scrutiny whi...
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
CTA Transit News, 1961
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 12/12/2024
Why don't we actually make it part of the law that police can't engage in these reckless chases at all?? It seems so obvious how dangerous and stupid these are, and the current vague department policy will do jack shit to prevent this in the future
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 11/12/2024
I had to reread this to be sure I understood since it is so Kafkaesque: hospitals are giving medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for *the same medications the hospital just gave them*
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
NEW: CPD officers have pulled over Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability President Anthony Driver, Jr., 5 times in less than a year, even as he works to craft new rules that would limit the ability of officers to make certain kinds of stops. @wttw.bsky.social
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Chicago Police Oversight Board President: I’ve Been Pulled Over 5 Times in 2024 by CPD
Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability President Anthony Driver, Jr., said he had no doubt that he was stopped because he is a 6-foot-3-inch Black man who weighs more than 200 pound...
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 07/12/2024
the real budget opportunity is to install thousands of cameras, and reduce the police force by a fifth, while increasing safety and justice though uniformity. treating these cameras as primarily revenue generators is small-minded and ultimately cynical.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show
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ITYSL memes 💦🥩 @ityslmemes.com · 28/11/2024
me at the family Thanksgiving:
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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/11/2024
while dating: my beauotiful girlfriend, while engaged: my perfect fiancee, 5 minutes into being married: my bitch wife,
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 26/11/2024
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
how do some of you post so much
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 17/11/2024
Why on earth do we need to be "winning" the space race?? Space is cool, but why would we frame it as a game that can be won? And EVs would've become pravlent regardless of Tesla (a company Elon didn't actually create and which has benefitted wildly from government funded research and subsidies!!)
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 16/11/2024
This aspect of Bluesky is REALLY going to push my domain name purchasing addiction to its limit
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
i swear to god circles are some of the roundest shit i've ever seen in my life
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 15/11/2024
Just found out that Domino's UK sells a "Christmas" pizza which has stuffing, turkey, and a cranberry sauce drizzle. The fact that Domino's US isn't taking big swings like this says VOLUMES about the end of American supremacy
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bidet enjoyer @bigbutthole.biz · 13/11/2024
Setting up Bluesky from the toilet, as God intended 😤🙏
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