CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Cyclists who love to say stuff like “fuck cagers” but don’t believe they have any obligation to slow down or show caution around pedestrians, especially when those pedestrians are small children: Very much a thing here. 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026 What the hell is this statement!? Someone in CTU leadership actually signed off on this? 110
Reposted by CJ FentonDaniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And notably when multiple young women complained that the recently-former CTU comms director/their supervisor was harassing them, those young women were also retaliated against, fired and placed on the city’s do not hire list for completely indefensible reasons 1101
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There are a lot of Graham Platner parallels to this story. Hilario was already covered in red flags before he ran, but if you pointed that out you were a “shill for the privatizers”. If you see red flags, there’s always more red flags you aren’t seeing yet. 120
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Need to find a local spot that will let me bring it and plug it in at the bar. 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is just a condensed summary Of Hannah-Jones’s essay with a serious error: her daughter now attends a public SEHS, not a private school. 011
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Honestly kind of impressed that Robinson maintains the rights to his own IP and not Netflix. 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Let’s not act like traditional CPS schools don’t find ways to control who is or isn’t attending. It’s not like I can just enroll my kids at Audubon or Burley. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026People are ripping on Nikole Hannah-Jones but her complaint about how the principal change at her school was the start of things going downhill mirrored a lot of schools. 020
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Test scores tend to mirror demographics, but “5 Essentials“ ratings are pretty independent of that and really do show the extent a school has its shit together. Unfortunately CPS is far too tolerant of bad admin, and there’s not an easy fix for that besides voting with your feet. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As much as I’d love to say everything in CPS is going to be solved with more public money, there’s massive variability between schools (even schools in close proximity) that’s heavily dependent on admin and principal quality. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026(His own kids attending a magnet elementary then a selective program at a well-regarded HS really doesn’t help him as a spokesperson on this) 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So he did have a window to make changes. He still controls the board majority, so he theoretically still could, but it was painfully clear that they never had a coherent plan. Very on-brand for much of his education agenda, really. 110
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That, and his initial appointed board tripped over their own feet on this issue. His board and CTU started making a ton of noise about making changes to SE but got evasive when asked for specifics. That led to HB303 which Brandon had to burn a boatload of political capital to kill. 210
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Like your kid wasn’t getting homework in Junior high and you didn’t think anything was wrong with that?!?!? 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I can’t knock NHJ too hard for her initial choice of school for her kid. I know plenty of parents in Chicago and elsewhere who made similar choices to “be part of the solution” with not great results before transferring. Where this goes off the rails is how many red flags she ignores along the way. 110
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ok what about DeBerry do you like? She was one who supported the idiotic choice to leave the budget unbalanced. She was also part of the contingent of the board who supported overturning the firing of a teacher with substantiated misconduct. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When I’m on two wheels +/- a bike trailer I’m usually going N/S on Kedzie. YMMV in other directions though. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That’s really never bothered me, to be honest. An outer perimeter just subjects you to additional crossings on the “spoke” streets like Wrightwood. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A lot of cyclists just don’t want to admit they’re mad they have to slow down to avoid pedestrians. I’d love LFT-style separation, but it’s not that inconvenient to slow down for a half a block. 300
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Am I the only person who thinks it’s fine and a big improvement? Have people forgotten how bad the old version was? 120
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Perhaps consider “many people” did not apply to you personally? Though, I’ll ask then: who for school board and board president? 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Biggs is trying to walk a compromise line, but it’s also one that won’t work in practice. Communities will vigorously oppose school closings while at the same time refusing to send their own kids to the closure-threatened schools. You’ve either got to do it or don’t from the top down. 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Days like today make it obvious how many people left Twitter to avoid answering uncomfortable questions about their support for Brandon Johnson. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This is the question for 2027 and beyond. Imagine if Rahm did the same thing. 011
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A central problem is people who envisioned an elected body overseeing police accountability couldn’t envision people who like police winning elections…in a city that elected men with the name Ricard Daley twelve times. Subpar planning. 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The old one was a placeholder that I just kind of left for a year and a half, so… 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Needed a profile pic that also serves as a test to see how online someone is… 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Pour one out for Peter Daou, who I assume is still running Verrit full time. Sad to hear a computer took his job. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Yeah I’m not sure that getting more hands-on wouldn’t just be counterproductive. ILGA legislators like to think they have agency (even if they might not deserve it). 010
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026bike ride observation: you can drink the air this morning. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Goes both ways though. The no La Spata endorsement from CDSA feels like an own goal. Plus, the bigger association problem for non-centrist left candidates isn’t DSA, it’s Brandon. The charter lobby torpedoed most CTU-endorsed CPS Board candidates by tying them to him. 030
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I did seem like there was a lot of real undecided -> decided movement toward Stratton late in the race though. Plus Raja faded once he lost the name recognition advantage. 120
Reposted by CJ FentonGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"BlueSky can't read" is undefeated in these replies 91883196
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The fact that there’s not more people freaking out on BlueSky about this (and the way Johnson’s allies have been handling CPS the last 3 years) really show’s how much of Chicago progressive spaces are dominated by childless people. 041
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Making a campaign promise to do something then getting into office and saying “oops! Tuns out I don’t actually have the authority to do that thing, but the fact that I think you should makes me such a good leader!” is a hell of a bit. 010
Reposted by CJ FentonPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/07/2026if you have the capacity to be a ride-or-die fan of a politician in the year 2026, i don't think you should be allowed to drive a car 349795
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 29/06/2026 Has Daniel ever actually taken a stand against Brandon’s bass decisions (the migrant camp, the bad school board decisions, etc)? I think you may be giving him too much credit. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Was this cyclist on Webster, because holy shit I had to take evasive action to not slam into a guy with “cars suck” in his helmet who didn’t think a red light applied to him while I had the green 1240
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I’d agree if not for time spent in far less urban places where “the government shouldn’t spend money on anything” was a consistently winning platform. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Fair, but it’s also the type of thing that’s most experienced at the municipal level of govt. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026(That’s also why the best Chicago parallel to Mamdani isn’t Brandon Johnson, but Richard M. Daley, but we’re probably not ready for that conversation) 011
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026💯 Unfortunately the most effective way to win urban elections is to promise voters that operational costs of things never have to go up and let the consequences of that be someone else’s problem. 211
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Not saying that's good or bad, but trying to juice international tourism and events was basically his whole thing. 000
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is an extremely Rahm-coded idea if we’re honest about it. 100
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 18/06/2026People are getting riled up about this, but building out of public infrastructure is exactly what the TIF program is for. 110
CJ Fenton @cjfenton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026It’s been extremely funny to watch everyone call the Bears’ Indiana bluff. 110
