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NITA Chicago @nitachicago.bsky.social · 10h

Beginning today, the NITA Access Pilot Program officially expands to the CTA and Pace, allowing eligible riders experiencing low incomes to apply for reduced transit fares across Metra, CTA, and Pace. 🚇🎉 Riders can apply at GetAccess.org now.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 30/09/2026

The biggest victory here isnt even the bus lane itself. Its a victory over The Process: - make a committee - meet with The Groups - make a report - start a non-binding referendum - make a pilot - make a report - make a plan - deploy a few years later People are SICK of this.

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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 30/09/2026

One of the most flippable wards this cycle is Ward 32. Please toss some coin to the pro-housing, pro-mobility candidate @patgilsenan.bsky.social for the end of the quarter!

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What do you guys think is in there

A big ugly facade with a painted sign reading SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

really happy to see my alder @aldconway.bsky.social on the sponsor list!!

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

these might be the two most millennial fonts

a dish towel that says:

forever
thankful
always
grateful
abundantly
blessed

where each word is either the straight stick or super curly cursive millennial font

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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 22/09/2026

Worth repeating that CTA is not the barrier to bus priority in Chicago, they are very much in favor. We need Mayor Johnson, CDOT, and alders to make it a priority!

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Braden Serkas @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got kicked out of the free clinic for demanding every possible injection because I’m “vaxxmaxxing”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan

newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

reminiscing about 2012 when i was flying out of LAX and aghast at a $12 sandwich

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't really know how to navigate this tactfully because cars aren't great in general and EVs remain expensive, but through the power of paying attention, I've managed to notice that electricity costs are so much more stable than the cost of a fuel you buy constantly to set on fire.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Chicago has approximately the same number of traffic deaths every year as Oklahoma City had terrorist deaths in in 1995. 168 deaths => crash bollards on ever federal building in the country. ~100-150 deaths per year => we put up some flexiposts which get destroyed by the first plow.

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if Chicago is so much larger why does it not simply eat the smaller municipalities in Cook County

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the sudo command is just the Bene Gesserit voice for linux

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this thread is why we don’t let mobs make laws. unfortunately, all good housing ideas still have to go before the village tribunal and be debated by the same kinds of people that would have burned the witch

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Tired of being a bird?” (September 14, 2026, Argyle Street, Chicago)

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

very charmed that vancouver bolts these itty bitty traffic cones to tree stumps

an itty bitty orange traffic cone is bolted to the top of a tree stump in the street

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

maybe a little conceited of me but i’m by far the most stylish person on this plane

a woman wearing a STRONG TOWNS baseball cap, large sunglasses, a black N95 mask, and a thick red neck pillow. her brown hair spills over the sides of the pillow. not visible in the picture, she is also wearing earplugs

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the color brown? just dark orange

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Writer for NBC10 Boston fuckin HATES Mercury

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 10/09/2026

Large boulder the size of a slow news day.

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

teehee i know who did this one

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Strong Towns Chicago @strongtownschicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When state legislators passed the People Over Parking Act (POPA) last fall, they intended to make it easier to build housing and open shops. But Chicago is set to write the law into its zoning code in the most cumbersome way possible. There’s a better way. citythatworks.substack.com/p/illinois-a...

citythatworks.substack.com

Illinois already killed parking mandates. Chicago should finish the job.

The hard part is done, don't make it harder

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This whole idea that we can simply green the status quo—swapping out ICE vehicles for electric or slapping solar panels on homes built in spawl development in former forests or farmland—and make real progress in the fight against climate change just ain't it.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Broke: Bike the Drive Woke: Bike the Ike

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All of the Drives and Boulevards should be closed to motor vehicle traffic and open to pedestrians, cyclists, joggers, etc. every Sunday from Memorial Day through Labor Day.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You might think that good governance would look like letting more people live here to expand the tax base to provide better services with lower individual tax burdens. Not so! Good governance looks like inflating the home values of insane, racist property owners until the sun burns out

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Municipal Corporation @nikhunder.com · 06/09/2026

Can't make this up. An hour before Bike the Drive, there is a crash on DLSD

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

musicals kick so much ass we need an earnest big budget musical like mary poppins to save us

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Enough with mayors who whine about “local control” We didn’t let school districts decide whether or not to ban phones in classrooms. We agreed it’s a big enough issue to take action at the state level & force compliance. The same is true with housing. It’s a statewide issue with a statewide fix.

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I would settle for 4 lanes instead of 8, an average speed less than 20mph over the speed limit, and it not being the most deadly road in the city.

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Alex @acannon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ranking Chicago’s Plagues this summer 1. The smog 2. The floods 3. The flies 4. Corn Sweats 5. Library driver shortage

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s really depressing that our best and brightest and often times kindest people are being murdered in the streets because idiots in cars and capitols refuse to do anything differently

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

apathetic cyclists rise up

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chlurg @chlurg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

can someone explain to me how Slack search is so bad that when i searched “blue” it couldn’t find the channel “theblueteam”

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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After each Tiny Desk Concert, they should up the stakes and make the desk slightly smaller for the next artist

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