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Garrett

@garrettinchi.bsky.social
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YIMBY. Leftist. ADHD. InfoSec Leader. Not a work profile. Car Free. eBike Owner. Tear down that highway.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 06/08/2026
Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just listened to Susana Mendoza taking caller questions on In The Loop. Somebody asked about traffic congestion and the first thing she did was blame bike lanes. The second was to blame crime on CTA, as opposed to bad service. Disqualifying.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I have zero patience, less than zero patience, for any kind of “you’re not even FROM HERE” discourse. It’s exhausting. Every place in this enormous country thinks they’re the most special star in the universe but we all have to share a country and a planet. So grow the fuck up and be welcoming.
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maybe none of this matters @noneofthismatters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
People will continue to be hit by cars and die because Chicago's government has decided that cyclists and pedestrians dying is preferable to having to listen to drivers whine about how they feel inconvenienced
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Robert Vargas @robvargas.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
THE TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST. THAT'S WHY IT'S "TAKING SO LONG." THE THING YOU WANT IS FICTIONAL.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I don't know about the rest of you but I have basically given up on my bingo card at this point
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Obsessed with this 1918 Program for IWW’s “GRAND PICNIC AND RE-UNION Of All the Radicals of the City of Chicago” H/T to @gldivittorio.bsky.social for sharing elsewhere
GRAND PICNIC
AND RE-UNION
Of All the Radicals of the City of Chicago
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
100 Yard Dash
Fat Men's Race
Boys Race
Skinny Men Race
All Fours Race
Girls Race
Sack Kace
Fat Women Race
3 Legged Race
Egg and Spoon

SPEAKERS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
WM. D. HAY WOOD
English
VLADIMIR LOSSIEF
Russian
LEO LAUKKI
Finnish
RAGNAR JOHANSON
Swedish
CHAS. ROTHFISHER
Hungarian
FRANK KATZ
Yiddish

[Photograph labeled as] Class War Prisoners

TWELVE BIG SWEDES TUG-O-WAR TWELVE DARING FINKS

KOLZE'S ELECTRIC PARK, on Decoration Day, May 30th, 1918
6355 IRVING PARK BLVD.
Tickets 25 cents
•..
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At Gate 35 cents
DANCING PAVILLION FREE TO ALL
DIRECTION-Take any Car North, Transfer Irving Park West to the Grounds.
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kyle tear down that highway lucas 🏳️‍🌈 @itskylelucas.com · 27/03/2026
Now do CTA. Nora Leerhsen has not only proved she can do the job, she's made massive progress on rebuilding trust in the system, marked improvements and expansions to service, and has successfully guided the agency through political attacks from the federal government.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
"Annoying children keep wanting to bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous."
kid biking with backpack in painted dotted lane 
Annoying children keep wanting to bike to school despite city's best efforts to make it too dangerous.
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
They said it. We’re all thinking it.
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batski @babski.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
choosing to drive in Chicago everyday should be in the DSM
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Zak Yudhishthu @zyudhishthu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Pritzker’s office says the measure will call for relaxed restrictions on the development of multi-unit housing, allowing homeowners to build “granny flats” and cutting other forms of red tape that have slowed homebuilding in recent years.” capitolnewsillinois.com/news/pritzke...
capitolnewsillinois.com
Pritzker to propose statewide zoning laws to spur homebuilding, limit local control
Article Summary JB Pritzker will propose a plan during his State of the State address to drastically limit local governments’
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batski @babski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
don't want to alarm anyone but we are 2 days away from our first 5pm sunset for the year in Chicago
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo
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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Keep up the pressure, keep up the protests. #abolishice
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brooke bikes mke @brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
How in the hell do we still have a full week of January? This is the longest month in the history of the world. My god.
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If you’re feeling extra lonely this weekend, turn off that pop-up blocker, playboy
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 23/01/2026
So true.
Photo of stairs up from an indoor train platform with a red sign that reads The North Pole. People are walking up the stairs.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
i've seen enough: greg bovino is a bitch.
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If MBJ ended Chicago’s Century of Humiliation early he would be written down as as a successful mayor despite his many steppings on rakes.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.
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Garrett @garrettinchi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
@chicagocta.bsky.social love 15 minute headway on the red line 🫶🏻😭
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I need them to take Saturdays off from dreaming up new atrocities to perpetrate so I can catch up on laundry instead of war crimes in progress
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Now THAT is Progress. The Spirit of Progress statue returns to its home today after being under repair since last December. This morning in River North, Chicago.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.
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Garrett @garrettinchi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@aldermanlaspata.bsky.social Will Fullerton ever be anything other than an awful, dangerous car sewer? 😭
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
If you fear for your life in the street, ride your bike on the sidewalk. In 2025 given all we know about the threats from vehicular violence, these shouldn't be the only two choices available.
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Mr. Bea Arthur, Batshit Crazy™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
*mouthful of asbestos Fuck, it’s good to be alive.
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🅱️oofessor Killosk 👻🔪 @professorkiosk.wtf · 25/08/2025
how many licks to get to the center of the earth
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
the complete lack of leaks from ICE, CBP etc, to me reinforces how they’re entirely staffed by true believers who are willing to do almost anything for the cause.
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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
On pace to have the fewest homicides in a decade, but you certainly wouldn’t know based on the coverage.
Chart showing Chicago homicides in 2025 compared with recent years
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Teens shouldn’t need a tech company and a 2-ton machine just to move through their own city. The way we build our streets should give them the freedom to "ride solo" under their own power.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The hearse that carried Lincoln's body through Springfield, Illinois. It featured a panel that showcased 36 stars (one for each state of the Union) as well as a silver laurel wreath and two inverted torches, representing the life extinguished. Sadly, the hearse was destroyed in a fire in 1887.
A black and white photo of a black carriage, ornately decorated with Lincoln's funeral.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?” “sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”
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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
andrew cuomo resigned to a quiet life harassing women in the lobbying industry
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 24/06/2025
Republicans really see places like this and think what a perfect location for a new data center or mining operation
A photo of red wildflowers in the foreground, in the background are the Three Sisters mountains of Central Oregon. A landscape photo of a very snowy hillside with ski tracks and trees. A landscape photo of a very densely forested part of the CascadesA landscape photo with a lake in the foreground and two large mountains in the background
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Garrett @garrettinchi.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Red line operator just loudly and firmly called out someone smoking. 👑👑👑
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Nearly 100 years ago, Marion Mahony Griffin returned from Australia for a long visit with her Chicago family. While here, she stood on a table in a corridor at the school where her sister taught & created magic. Exquisitely detailed & inimitably Marion, the murals she painted in 1931 are still there
Wide angle color photo of two murals on either side of an incongruously placed door in the middle of a wall. In the foreground is blue and yellow elementary school linoleum and immediately beneath the murals a ramp.Color detail of a portion of a mural. Shown here are several fairies -- each of them quite distinct and boasting their own exuberantly designed wings --  alighting on a nest of baby herons located high up in an incredibly detailed tree.Color detail of two fairies with resplendent wings working together to transport food back to the nestlings. Color detail of an incredibly detailed heron flying over mountains and back towards the nest, food in its beak.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The law must always be grounded in fundamental principles such as equal rights and due process, or it becomes a tool of oppression.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I can’t compete with this
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 07/06/2025
THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
CDOT will say with a straight face, “go use our new bike way, it’s safe” and then this is the bikeway
A meat grinder
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.
Ro Khanna @RoKhanna
If Biden had a big supporter criticize him, Trump would have hugged him the next day. When we refused to meet with @RobertKennedyJr, Trump embraced him & won. We can be the party of sanctimonious lectures, or the party of FDR that knows how to win & build a progressive majority.
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Jesse Raber @jraber.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How tf does an electric bike rental from Divvy cost more than an Uber to go the same distance. Brilliant public health initiative we got here.
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